Holiday Soy Candle Making for Birthday Favors
For Preschool Mom Friends of Laon & Ethan
For my second son’s birthday party this year, I made a plan for preschool mom friends I have. We’ve met few times though I just wanted to express how thankful I am with those kids in kindergarten with my babies.
Anyway, I bought this Golden Brands 464 Scentless Wax over Amazon, and I am planning only making 48 tin cases for my best friends and families as well.
Through the candle making process, this soy wax dye was killing me. I will try use these as soon as possible and buy something else. It doesn’t melt well on 185 F either, it needs exceeding amount of dye. I’d rather buy real color block for candle, than these cheap made dye.
Anyway, here I go.
I need tin cases, I bought 48 of them through Amazon again, fast shipping makes me happy :)
And I got these heavy weight wick centering devices, 20 wasn’t enough, but I will only make 12 batches at a time. So it works.
And for 4 oz. candle tin cases, I got Eco 10 6 inch pre-tabbed wicks. It was suggested to use in 2" — 2 3/4" diameter containers which was perfect because 4 oz tin cases have only 2.5 inch diameter.
For wick stickers, I bought this one at Amazon. The size was just perfect.
Ok, enough for supply list. I got 12 cases for Christmas scent. So I measured only 36 lb for 12 tin cases this time.
I am using my induction, but yesterday it died. So I’m using my kitchen, I do not use my kitchen for candle making, but yesterday I had no choice.
While I was waiting for my wax gets soft, I got tin cases ready for pouring. I think it would be easier for you to install that wick centering devices after you’ve done with pouring, I just did everything.
It reached almost 185, I turned off the heat and added color dye. Soy wax needs more than what we use for paraffin wax.
So add more… and more…
Anyway, I got a lot of dyes in to the wax, still I didn’t get red color I wanted. I stopped adding more red dye, thinking ‘pink is actually not a bad idea’.
And it was around mid night. My kiddos got awake, and started crying for me. So I just left everything there, wishing my wax doesn’t get too cold.
There! I came back. I measured my scent, Christmas something. Christmas Wreath.
And I think I should get other brand next time. The scent was great, not so much ‘oh I hate this it smells too strong’ but, I had to pour more than 50% of its bottle to make 2.5 lb out of it.
I think I need more… scents with higher flash point and less benzyl benzoate in it. Scents are too expensive for when it’s for candle making.
But yeah, scent was great. I poured the scent to my wax, now it’s time for actual pour to tins.
It’s real show time now.
I should have warmed up my tin cases while I was waiting for my wax to cool down… But oh well. Too much work.
I expect them to be turned out as sweet pink color, but let us see.
Wicks were moving around, I had to set them up straight again. And I moved them to the place where my kids cannot see.
If they see these, oh, I don’t think I can imagine what would happen.
Ohh I’m so ready to go home and take a look at my candles!
In this morning I took a picture, it looked okay to me.
Of course some of them I need to re heat the top, and make it pretty, but most of them turned out nice.
I will put the label stickers on tonight, and show you how it worked out nicely. :)
I’m thinking of my next candle project already… Haha.
