How to Make Dipped Candles with Beeswax
Learn how to make dipped candles with beeswax, wicking and a couple of pots in your own home.
Yield: 12
Cost: $10
Equipment
- Old pot
- Two tall empty tin cans or another metal container like a candle pitcher
- Scissors
- Knife
- Small piece of wood or a pencil
- Wood stick
- 4 paint cans or similar size for drying station
Materials
- Beeswax pellets
- Wicking
Instructions
- Cut a piece of wicking. Twice the length of your can's height and a few inches more. Mine was about 20 inches long.
- Melt the beeswax in a tall can set in an old pot of hot simmering water creating a double boiler on the stove.
- Wrap the middle of the wick around a wooden stick or pencil making sure the lengths of the wick are even on each side.
- Once the wax has melted take the second can and fill it with cold water.
- Place the melted wax next to the can with water.
- Then dip the two ends of the wick into the melted wax.
- Lift up and let the wax drip a little before placing the wicks into the cold water can.
- Continue placing the wicks into the wax and then the water until you build up enough layers of wax to create the size candle you like.
- Allow the candles to cool on a drying rack made up of two stacked cans and a wooden stick across the top.
- Once they have a chance to cool and harden trim the wax ends to create a nice neat bottom. Then trim the candle wicks if desired.
Notes
You can make the taper candles thicker by dipping them more.
You can only make the candles as long as the can is tall so you might look around for something taller for longer candles.
If you want to place them in candle holders but they are a little small light one, and let the wax drip into the holder then set the candle in holding with your hand until it sets up.
You can also make these with soy wax or paraffin wax.
You could add scent to the candles with essential oils or fragrance oils but the natural beeswax has a nice light scent of its own.
You could also add a bit of color by adding in bits of old colored candles you no longer use.
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