Make candles yourself: It's that easy

Here you can find out step by step how you can make candles yourself - from the tealight to the fragrance candle. With professional tips for the correct burning of the DIY candles.

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With a few candles in the apartment, the cold and dark season looks a bit friendlier. But even in summer we like to relax on the balcony with a flickering candlelight. And because candles are so cozy, we can never have enough of it.

But even the large tealight family pack is used up at some point. It is better than buying supplies to make the candles yourself. This is particularly favorable and sustainable if you use old candlestick. A new candle can easily be watered from the melted wax.

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For first-hand professional tricks, we asked Miriam, the creative head behind Shadow in the Woods. Here, among other things, it offers fragrant candles in the glass. She was ready to give us a few insider tips with which you can also make delicious fragrance candles at home.

We also tell you how to burn your DIY candles evenly, so that you can pour less and the candle can be durable for longer.

By the way:You can also make candles with your children. In small children in particular, however, you should be careful not to get in touch with the hot candle wax.

Paraffin or Stearin: Which wax pour to candles?

The most important ingredient in pouring candles is the wax of candle. If you want to make a new candle, it is best to use small wax spellets. The granulate melts evenly and is easy to dose.

Here you usually have the choice betweenStear and paraffin wax. For the sake of the environment, we would recommend Stearin to you. Stearin wax is more expensive than paraffin, but the candles burn for longer. Stearin is also vegetable and completely degradable. However, make sure that the stearin was obtained from coconut oil and not from questionable palm oil.

For sustainable candles you can also on pellets from naturalBeeswax or vegan soy waxfall back. The high -quality wax alternatives are quite expensive, but the candles are rushing less, which also speaks for a good ecological balance. You canShop here at Amazon*.

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Make candles out of wax residues yourself

It is even more sustainable to pour candles out of wax residues. Instead of throwing away old candles or overflowed candle wax, you collect the wax until you have enough of a color to create a "new" candle.

So that the candle is not contaminated, you should remove the old wisdest from it. It is very easy when the wax has melted. Afterwards you can filter the candle wax through a sieve.

You need that for homemade candles

For a candle with a volume of 100 ml, you need 100 g of wax - whether fresh wax spellets or collected wax residues.

In addition, you need the following accessories:

  • Pot with water
  • Melt the conservation can to wax
  • optional:Colorful candle wax color(here at Amazon*)
  • Wooden rod to stir
  • Candle of cotton
  • Mother's heads
  • Glass or watering shape

Professional tip:

The bigger the candle is to be, the thicker the wick should be. Alternatively, you can use several wicks so that the candle burns evenly later. Ready waxes with a metal foot are particularly practical(here at Amazon*).

Pour candles: step-by-step instructions

1. Prepare candle:You can hang a pre -waxed wick directly in the middle of the cast shape or candle glass. If available, stick the metal foot on the glass floor with a drop of wax. Hold the wick up and fix on the open glass edge with a clothes peg.

You first have to grow a wick made from cotton threads. Melt some candle wax in advance and dip the wick into it until he has soaked himself up with wax. You repeat that 3-4 times. Place the candle of the form vertically as described.

2. Melt candle wax:Heat the pot with water on the stove and put the container with the wax residues or wax spellets. Melt the wax in a water bath. Stir carefully with a wooden stick - not too wild, otherwise you will work in air bubbles. Also make sure that no water injects into the wax.

3. Color candle wax (optional):For colorful candles you can put a few waxpastilles in the melted wax. White wax in particular absorbs the color. Take the can with the candle wax from the fire. Stir slowly again.

Tipp:To dye candle wax, you can alternatively use colorful wax pens. Scraps something with a knife into the liquid wax. Important: The wax pencils must contain a part of beeswax(here at Amazon*).

4. Pour candles:Pour the melted wax into your shape quickly. Hold the watering shape with one hand - preferably with a kitchen glove because the container can get warm. Incidentally, candles in mason jars or tinted glass gases with a lid are currently particularly popular.

Tipp:You often get creative watering shapes in craft sets(here at Amazon*). If you want to spend little money, you can also sustainably your candle Make yourself in a toilet paper roll. Place the cardboard roll in a bucket with sand before you put the hot wax in it.

5. Let the candle dry:Your homemade candle takes 24 hours to harden. You shouldn't touch the wick for so long either. Only when the wax has dried completely can you loosen the clothes clover. Now shorten the outer wick with scissors to 1 cm.

Professional tip:Depending on the variety, the wax contracts differently. So that no crater is created, you should pour in some candle wax before the first layer of wax has dried.

6. Place the candle from the shape (optional):You can overthrow candles that should not stay in the glass after drying. If the candle does not want to loosen from the mold, you simply put it in the freezer for half an hour. A homemade candle in a toilet paper roll frees her by tearing off the cardboard.

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Make colorful shift candles yourself

If solid color candles are too boring for you, you can try colorful shift candles. To do this, you melt smaller wax quantities one after the other, which colored her differently. Pour the candle wax into the shape layer. So that the colors do not mix, you should let every single layer dry for 1–2 hours.

In this way, for example, you can make a summer watermelon candle yourself. You also achieve cool effects if you put the container at an angle to dry the layers, for example based on a towel.

Make swimming candles and tea lights yourself

Just like large candles, small tea lights can be made yourself. Accordingly, you need less wax and a shorter wick.

Instead of pouring the candles into old tealight shapes made of environmentally harmful aluminum, we recommend small glass vessels or mussels. To transform tealights into swimming candles, you can simply let the candle wax freeze into ice cubes or cookie shapes.

Make anti-mosquito candles and fragrance candles yourself

To make fragrance candles yourself, put some liquid fragrance or perfume oil in the wax. Before that, you should take the vessel off the stove with the wax and let it cool slightly.

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Professional tip:Add a maximum of 10 percent essential oil per wax quantity. Also note that fragrance oils can influence the color of the candle.

You can just as easily make anti-mosquito candles yourself. For this you flavor your candles with citronella oil(here at Amazon*). Either you then pour the candles into pretty glasses or you fill the wax as a tea lights in empty lemon peels.

Pour beeswax candles or turn yourself

You can use the suitable pellets(here at Amazon*)Asch as normal stearin or soy wax candles. Shorty beeswax candles represent a special feature.

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You need for a twisted beeswax candle:

  • Rundly in the desired candle length
  • Beeswax plates(here at Amazon*)
  • Cuttermesser
  • Old newspaper as a base

This is how it works:

First heat the beeswax plate over the heater so that it does not break so easily when bending. Now put the round with the edge and wrap it firmly into the beeswax plate.

If the candle is thick enough, you cut the edge as an oblique line and knock the plate around. Shorten the wick to 1 cm. If the beeswax candle is not exactly, grind the underside with grinding paper.

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So your homemade candles burn longer

So that you have something from your homemade candle for as long as possible, eight tips from our expert come here:

1. As beautiful as it also looks, there is too much decoration with flowers, glitter and spices. The small parts pollute the wax and let your candle rip out more.

2. The ideal wick length is 1 cm. If a piece of the wick falls off, you should immediately fish it out of the wax. To save a wick that is too short, you liquefy the candle wax around it, pour it out and pick the candle back with your fingers again.

3. Large candles in the glass should be burned for at least 2 hours at a time. The candle surface liquefies evenly. Otherwise there is a tunnel around the wick and the wax on the edge no longer melts. Never leave the candle unattended when burning.

4. You should delete fragrance candles after a maximum of 4 hours. They smell stronger again when it was founded. Also use the break to shorten the wick to 1 cm again.

5. The flame with a candle bell(here at Amazon*)suffocate - do not blow out. Then dip the wick briefly into the liquid wax and straighten up again. So he doesn't glow so quickly the next time it is lighted.

6. If you want to set up several candles next to each other, you should consider a minimum distance of 5 cm between the candles so that they do not melt each other.

7. To extend the burning time of the candles, you can store them in the fridge for a few weeks. So that fragrance candles do not lose their aroma, it is best to put them in a freezer bag.

8. Candles also burn longer if the liquid wax around the wick sprinkles with a little salt. Salt binds the wax so that the candles last longer.