Soy Wax Candles

Info_lover | May 16, 2010 |

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A soy wax candle can be described as a natural product that is made from hydrogenated soybean oil. It is much cheaper to use soy wax as than to use beeswax, and soy wax can create a long and clean burning candle. Soy wax candles are often combined with different fragrances and essential oils, and they come in all sorts of colors and shapes. Natural soy wax candles are becoming so popular as there are many benefits to using soy wax when you are trying to learn how to make candles on your own. Creating soy wax candles is a very fun and rewarding hobby.

Some of the benefits of using soy wax candles include:

Clean burning - One of the biggest benefits of soy candles is how clean they burn. Burning candles made from soy wax does not produce the black soot like paraffin does and they do not increase the level of carbon dioxide in the air. Also, the amount of smoke released from soy wax is so minimal that there are very few people who will notice it.
Cost effective - You may be surprised at this point, but there are so many cases in which soy wax candles are much more cost effective than candles made from paraffin. Typically a soy candle can last twice as long than paraffin and in some cases even more!
Wonder scent smell - Scented soy wax candles have a great scent smell as well as a cleaner smell. It is widely known that burning of paraffin wax can cause headaches due to the additional chemicals the paraffin is emitting out. As a scented soy wax candle burns so clean, you will get a cleaner scent too.

Making soy wax candles

You can find accessories for your entire candle making needs at a handicraft store that sells wholesale soy wax candle supplies. There are many online merchants which will supply you with everything you need to know about how to make soy candles and how to use the supplies. There are plenty of books that come with all kinds of recipes to help you get started. Soy jar candles are probably the easiest to make. The accessories you need to make these soy candles are as follows:

1 pound of soy wax
1 jar (an ordinary mason jar will do just fine)
1 ounce of fragrance oil if you want to make scented soy candles
1 wick suitable for use with soy.

If you wish to have your soy wax candles emit special scents, then you need to try experimenting with the various fragrance oils. Combining them will give you the unique scent you want, but it can also give you an odor in your soy candles and this is something you probably don't want to have. Before you add the fragrance oils to the soy wax, it is best that you mix the oils so that you will not have to throw out the entire pot of melted wax.