Treat yourself or a loved one with these gorgeous heart shaped bath gems.  Made from relaxing bath salts, these little gems are perfect for throwing into your tub to create the perfect, relaxing bath experience. Equipment 55 mini hearts silicone mould Large mixing bowl Large spoon Tray with baking paper Ingredients 85gms Epsom salt 100gms Dead Sea salt  110gms Bicarb soda 5gms Sweet Almond oil 1ml Fragrance / Essential oil Mica 5gms Polysorbate 80 1 teaspoon distilled water Directions 1. Weigh out your dry ingredients.  If your dead sea salt has large granules ground them in a m ..read more

These bath salt cakes are absolutely gorgeous and are the perfect addition to a relaxing spa experience at home. Easy to make, the ingredients in our cakes are easily substituted to whatever salts or carrier oils you would prefer.  Our cakes are make with chunky pink himalayan salts, which give the salt flowers a beautiful textured look and feel.  If you prefer, you can grind down any salt to a finer consistency or substitute the pink himalayan salt for dead sea salt which is white in colour and less noticeable. We have left our salt cakes uncoloured however you can also add mica in ..read more

What is an IFRA certificate? An IFRA is a specific document supplied by a fragrance manufacturer, that states the safe percentages that the fragrance can be used at in different products. Typically there are around 11 categories or classes in an IFRA, with most consumer products slotting into at least one IFRA category. Understanding percentages of an IFRA Each IFRA for each different fragrance, will show a 'level of use' percentage.  It is this percentage that causes a lot of confusion.   In a nut shell, the 'level of use' percentage means 'how much of that fragrance you can sa ..read more

So you have all these different sizes and shapes of glassware and you want to make candles.  How do you know how much wax you need to melt to fill them? Watch our short helpful video that goes through this process step by step.   ..read more

Although making soy candles can be fun and very rewarding, sometimes it can be the most frustrating and stressful hobby or business. An ideal candle will have a smooth finish to the top, no wet spots, no frosting and smell amazing.  Many times this can be achieved purely by luck and accident, but it’s when it starts to go wrong, that your experience and knowledge as a candle maker comes into play.  A lumpy, pitted, holey, or rough curdled top on your candle can be due to a number of factors.                          &nb ..read more

In a nutshell, no! It is not safe to add dried flowers or herbs to your candles. Candle safety is a very important part of candle making.  It involves everything from using the correct wick, double wicking, trimming wicks to adding foreign materials to your candles. The number one reason for trimming your wick is to do with candle safety .  Mushrooming wicks cause debris in the candle and melt pool which then becomes a secondary ignition source.   A candle is a naked flame. Extremely hot and made to burn.  If removing your mushroom and also more importantly, removing mushro ..read more

   Bath Salt Recipe Base Baths salts are and easy and fun product to make at home and can be customised in so many different ways.  Start with our basic base recipe and substitute your favourite oils, fragrances and botanicals to whatever suits your needs. Ingredients 100gms Epsom Salts 100gms Pink Himalayan Salt 100gms Dead Sea Bath Salt 90gms Bicarbonate Soda 20 ml carrier oil (optional) Essential oils Botanicals (optional) Epsom Salts  Epsom salts are widely used in bath preparations for their detoxifying properties and ability to soften water.  These salts releas ..read more

  It’s a very underrated and extremely misunderstood, but the humble wick tab is a very piece of candle equipment. The wick tab plays a really important role in the safety of your candles.  If you have ever taken the time to actually look at and compare your wicks, you would have noticed the wick tab changes size depending on the size of your wick. At ACS we use three main sizes - 15mm x 3mm neck, 20mm x 3mm neck and a 20mm with a 6mm neck. It’s really the neck size we want to focus on. Tabs are designed not only to hold your wick in the bottom of your jar, but also to stop your cand ..read more

There are two main reasons for trimming your wick. The first is safety and the second is efficiency . Carbon balls are a result of several factors and with a lot of testing and patience they can be virtually eliminated.   If your candle does have a carbon ball or ‘mushroom’ it is important to remove this mushroom before relighting your candle for several reasons. When testing, I sometimes purposefully leave the carbon ball on the wick to see what happens, and it can get pretty messy.  Most of the time this ugly little ball ‘mini’ explodes and pops everywhere on lighting.  Y ..read more

Creammaker BTMS 25 Description: Creammaker BTMS 25 is a naturally derived, cationic self-emulsifying wax & conditioner consisting of 75% of cetearyl alcohol and 25% of behentrimonium methosulfate (derived from colza oil of the natural plant Colza). Insoluble, but dispersible in water & oil. INCI name:  Behentrimonium methosulfate, cetearyl alcohol CAS number: 67762-27-0, 8005-44-5, 81646-13-1 HLB Value:  HLB Value: approx. 15 (gives oil-in-water emulsions). pH Value: 4.5-7 (2% solution). Use:  2-10% and warm or melt the wax before use. Not suitable for cleansing formula ..read more