Beeswax Candle Recipe Essential Oils

This wax also helps keep your candle sturdy as coconut oil and soy wax are known to produce softer candles.

Beeswax candle recipe essential oils.

Essential oils you can use single oils or blends large pot or double boiler. Beeswax pellets as a guide use 1 5 times the size of your container. How to make essential oil candles. For these candles i ve used sweet orange essential oil.

So if you haven t had much luck making candles that actually smell like anything your ingredients might be to blame. Like with most things the quality of your candles depends heavily on the quality of your ingredients. Be sure that the water doesn t splash into the beeswax container. Diy beeswax candles with essential oils recipe equipment and ingredients.

For a cool gift set make one 12 ounce one 8 ounce and one 4 ounce candle and scent each one using different essential oils. Here s a beautiful recipe for a woodsy floral beeswax candle with essential oils. Secondly essential oils in short don t love high temperatures and commonly have a poor hot throw compared to other candle fragrance choices. This is the point where you will want to add your luxurious essential oils.

Even though their cold throw is amazing. You ll want to add around 6 of the weight of your wax. Beeswax can be difficult to remove from the container. Adding a little solid coconut oil into your candle improves consistency.

If you prefer to make smaller candles either for yourself or to give away as gifts use smaller jars to make three 8 ounce or six 4 ounce candles. No worries the beeswax in your recipe will prevent the. Anyhow adding coconut oil to beeswax candles can help give the scent of essential oils a boost when it comes to candle making. Slowly pour your wax into your jars.

Stir until the coconut oil is melted and incorporated. You ll need 8 10 ounces of hardened beeswax a small mason jar and essential oils of bergamot and cedarwood. Make sure to adjust the drop counts according to how much beeswax you re using. Add in 30 50 drops of essential oils of choice if you want to make a scented candle.

You may find your prewaxed. Glass or ceramic jug preferably with a handle. About 25 drops for every 1 oz 28 g of beeswax 9 drops cedarwood essential oil juniperus virginiana 9 drops vetiver essential oil vetiveria zizanoides. Misc items scissors spoon spatula.

With this recipe you can make two large 12 ounce candles. So repurpose oui yogurt jars. Adding coconut oil to your diy candle recipe smoothes out these impurities. Sometimes soy wax creates candles with wet looking and frosty patches.

Pencil or chopstick to support wicks while beeswax hardens. 25 drops of norway pine pinus resinosa 25 drops of frankincense boswellia carterii 15 drops of black spruce picea mariana. Place your wick tie your cotton wick to a bamboo skewer with about five inches to spare on one end. In this case we re making an eight ounce beeswax candle in a decorative mason jar.

To 4 ounces of melted beeswax add the following essential oils.