Scented candles increase the ambience of any room in your home. If you are a romantic person, you will enjoy the warm aroma of scented candles. Treat your guests to a touch of mystique and a sense of calm. Also, the warm glow of just about any candle enhances the elegance of a room.

The subtle fragrance of scented candles will pep you up, even while the candle is unlit. So when you come home tired and worn out from the day, the presence of the perfumed candles tend to unwind you and make you feel uplifted.

Aromatic candles serve as wonderful gifts for all occasions and every season, and they are particularily meaningful when crafted by your own hands.

1. Select Your Candle Making Fragrance

Fragrance oil is available in most craft shops. You can also look for it on the internet. Select a good quality fragrance oil instead of going whth a cheap water or alcohol based fragrances. Since your wax mix will be oil based, use a fragrance that is also be oil based. Why? Oil and water do not mix so a water based perfume will not mix properly with the oil based wax.

2. Select Your Wax

The basics of making a scented candle are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Begin by choosing your wax type. The current day market offers a versatile range of wax starting with beeswax, palm or soy & moving on to gel or paraffin wax. It is important that you decide on the fragrance intensity for your candles before picking the kind of wax. For example, lower density wax holds less fragrance than wax of a higher density.

3. The Process of Making Scented Candles

Now that we’ve talked about waxes, let’s discuss the method for creating scented candles.

The first step is to melt your wax. Use a double boiler for this purpose. That means put the wax in a small pot. Now place that container into a slightly larger pot partially filled with water. Next step - heat the water. Use a thermometer so as not to burn the wax. The temperature should be kept at 170-180 degrees Fahrenheit.

Once the wax has melted, put a wick in the mold and remove your wax from the source of heat. Next add the fragrance oil that you’ve selected. A mixture of 1 ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will produce a fragrance that permeates your candle up to 6% of its density. Be aware that greater amounts of fragrance will cause the candle to burn out sooner owing to higher liquid density of the candle.

Next pour the melted wax/fragrance mixture into it’s mold. The only job left is to let it cool before removing your candle from it’s mold.

Congratulations! You’re finished!

4. Experiment as You Go

You will gain expertise in all phases of candle making when you start experimenting. By using different fragrances and colors, you will perfect the art of candle making and thoroughly enjoy the process.

It’s a great feeling to gift your loved ones with a scented candle that is homemade knowing that they will find the fragrance both relaxing and invigorating.