Make Your Own Beeswax Candles!

We’ve made a lot of fun candle DIYs on the blog, and since I’ve been increasingly intentional well-nigh having natural-based products in my home, I thought I’d try making beeswax candles.

These beeswax candles are really easy to make yourself, non-toxic, and have a succulent honey smell. I love them!

Supplies for Beeswax Candles:

-1/2 pound beeswax pellets (filtered beeswax is best)
-1/4 cup coconut oil
–cotton candle wicks
–wick stickers
–4 ounces glass or ceramic jars for the candles
–large glass jar
–bamboo skewers (or something to stir the wax with)

How to Make Them:

First, you’ll want to put your beeswax pellets into your large glass jar.

Fill a large pot with unbearable water to imbricate the height of the beeswax (but won’t spill out when the water starts to boil). Place your jar into the pot and heat the water until it reaches a low and gentle boil.

Allow the heat from the water to melt the beeswax, giving it a stir with a wooden skewer every few minutes. Beeswax is potentially flammable, so alimony an eye on it while it’s melting, and make sure no wax pellets have scattered onto your hot stovetop.

One sign the wax is getting too hot in the jar is that it will start to smoke, so watch for that, too.

While your wax is melting, prepare your candle jars by subtracting a wick sticker to the marrow of your wick and placing it in the part-way of the marrow of your jar.

You could moreover use a wood wick for these. Wrap the wick virtually a skewer and lay it wideness the top of your jar to alimony the wick in an upright position. You can tape the skewer in place (if needed) while it sets.

Once the wax is melted, turn off the heat and add in your coconut oil, stirring to combine. Adding some coconut oil to your beeswax helps the candle shrivel increasingly consistently, and stave tunneling. But, you can moreover make a 100% beeswax candle by omitting it.

Pour the wax and coconut oil into your candle containers and let them set for 1-2 days surpassing using. Trim the wicks to 1/2″ long, and you’re ready to use your candle!

Yay!! They work! Depending on the kind of beeswax you use, the size of the wick, and the size of the jar, you may have to do some troubleshooting the first few times you make your candle.

How Do I Alimony My Candle From Sinking in the Middle?

If you have a candle that tunnels lanugo the middle and never reaches the sides, try a larger/thicker wick to get increasingly heat to melt the wax increasingly evenly.

Depending on how bad your candle is sinking (especially if it’s only doing it a little bit), you may decide to leave your recipe as is. You can scoop out and reuse the leftover wax virtually the edges each time.

If your candle is melting too fast and your flame won’t stay lit considering the wax is drowning out the flame, try a smaller wick instead.

What if My Candle Cracks?

Some people report cracking problems at the top of their beeswax candles, or the candle might fall a bit in the part-way as it cools.

If that happens, you can reserve a bit of the wax/oil to remelt later and pour flipside thin layer (once it has cooled) for a smooth looking top.

If you want all the beeswax candle benefits without the work, you can buy some and support flipside candlemaker. It’s moreover fun to get some pretty candle accessories, and they make unconfined gifts with a candle.

Can I Add Essential Oils to My Candle?

While the beeswax does have a light and pleasant honey smell when burning, it’s rather faint. So you can experiment with subtracting essential oils to your candles if you want a increasingly noticeable scent.

Try 1/2-1 ounce of a stronger essential oil (like lavender or vetiver) per 8 ounces of melted wax, or plane increasingly for a lighter scented essential oil. I left my candles unscented, but I love the warm glow they put off and the faint honey smell.

Hope you have fun making your own beeswax candles! xo. Laura

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