Nothing screams relaxation like a potential botanical bonfire in your living room! Who needs a regular, non-threatening candle when you can have one with dried flowers, leaves, herbs, and wood waiting to turn your cozy night in into an episode of "Botanical Blaze"?    Forget about the soothing ambience – let's crank up the excitement with a side of potential fire hazard! Why settle for a classic, safe candle when you can play Russian roulette with your home decor? It's like, "Will my relaxation time end in a gentle flicker or a full-blown botanical explosion?" Because who wouldn't w ..read more

Here’s a fun challenge… You already know how to make a candle with one wick, but are you ready for the next level? Perhaps you’ve seen candles with more than one wick and scratched your head wondering - exactly HOW did the candle maker decide how many to use and where to place them?   Let’s explore this! The goal in candle making is always to make your candle burn more efficiently. This means achieving the best wick to wax distribution. The bigger the size a candle is, the more wicks it needs to perform! Why? Because a single wick can only melt so much wax. And watching your be ..read more

Picture This You’re rushing around your kitchen opening windows and doors to air out the pungent smell. You've somehow managed to burning your melt and pour soap base in the microwave! The bubbling soap has burned a hole right through the bottom of your microwaveable jug. A steaming, thick brown substance that was once soap seeps onto the turntable and you throw the jug of congealed muck into the sink. You hold your breath to avoid inhaling the acrid smell of burning plastic mingled with burned soap. Only ten minutes prior, you were lovingly chopping your fresh soap into small uniform chu ..read more

Exact measurements are vital in candle making. But what kind of measurements should you rely on (mass ie: weight / kilos or volume ie litres / mls)? A candle is comprised of combined ingredients: wax for candle making, fragrance, a wick, a vessel / glass, and maybe dye. You need to figure out how much of each ingredient you require for best performance, and then replicate that result in the future. Any good candle maker must have an accurate instrument of measurement, being a digital scale. Consistency is key!   Let's delve in to the quandry: When testing candles … should you us ..read more

You’re having fun creating candles at home and are speculating about making it more than a hobby. Perhaps you could bring in some extra cash.    But can you produce a living from it?   Let’s look closely at how you would approach answering this question via arithmetic.   First, you will need to invest capital to purchase supplies in order to make money from your venture. Perhaps you have completed a candle making workshop, and have committed to selling at a local market. You would need to purchase supplies such as candle wax, candle glass, wicks and frag ..read more

Fragrance is a substantial part of what will sell your candles, soaps and cosmetics. Adding fragrances to your range is an exciting journey! Fragrances will trigger powerful reactions, vivid memories and spontaneously unlock intense emotion. This process relies on a part of the brain named the olfactory bulb, which is connected to the amygdala - responsible for processing emotion. You will be drawn to or disgusted by certain fragrances because of experiences. But how will your clients react to those fragrances? You despise cooking type scents perhaps, but your consumers might worship them.&nbs ..read more

Female friendships are special. Remember those teenage sleepovers in family lounges where you whispered into the wee hours about dreams and troubled hearts? Maybe the first girl in the group who fell asleep would wake to find her bra in the freezer and the other girls in hysterics. You’d see each other at school all day and then get home and tie up the family phone line all night deconstructing the day’s events. Talking about your crush who you walked past in the hall and what he said, and what it meant. Then we climb into our twenties. Some girls partner up and friendships fall ..read more

Who doesn’t love the recognisable smell of vanilla? Even if you don’t, I bet your clients do! It’s one of the most popular and comforting scents in a home fragrance, bath and body range, making people feel relaxed and joyful. The scent of vanilla is also regularly integrated into many other fragrance oils as a fixative, rounding out non-vanilla scents nicely. Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil—Madagascar Edition is one of our best-selling fragrance oils for candle making, soap making and lotion making.   History of Vanilla Vanilla is a member of the orchid family (V, plantifolia) that grows ..read more

Lighting a scented candle at the end of a long day brings a soothing vibration to the room. There's nothing better than relaxing at home, wrapped in the scent of great smelling candle! But is it good for you? What if your family home is being filled with a fragrance oil that is hazardous to human health?   What Are Phthalates? Phthalates (pronounced tha-lates) are a group of chemical compounds. There are hundreds of phthalates used across many industries. Some are used as solvents in plastics manufacturing to make plastic more flexible. They are also used in pharmaceuticals ..read more

If you’re new to candle making, cosmetic making or soap making, you might be wondering... What is the maximum amount of fragrance I can use in my product?  It’s imperative to understand how safe your product is before selling it. How we do that is via industry standards. Transparency is key.    Industry Safety Standards Anyone can create fragrance products, and every bottle of fragrance will vary considerably. One fragrance oil could be super concentrated, for example. Adding just 1%  would, be more than sufficient for a strong candle scent throw. The next bottle ..read more