Handmade scented candles

From time immemorial, handmade products have always been considered rare and rare, since not everyone is given the opportunity to do something with their own hands. For this, certain skills and hints are needed, and most importantly, that a person has a little thinking and imagination. In our times, manual work also remains very valuable and exclusive. Here, for example, you are going to go to some event to close people or a certain person, and there’s a dead end. What to give? And to like it? To be useful and memorable ... etc. Well, we are trying to present a gift so that you and the hero of the occasion rejoice, so that you both enjoy, and then it will be a real valuable and necessary gift, even if it turns out to be a small thing, but necessary in life, and most importantly, it will be done with a pure soul. These gifts include: handmade soap, candles, cosmetics, notebooks, cards, etc. This is especially easy to do at the present time, since there are simply a lot of shops for different creativity, where you can buy absolutely the most diverse goods for needlework, and already add your quick wit and ingenuity and you will get a very valuable surprise. Today we will be engaged in the process of making one such necessary gift. This master class will help us learn the lessons of making handmade candles with different scents.
The master class will require the following:
• Vegetable paraffin of Russian production (consists of environmentally friendly raw materials);
• Glass cups instead of forms;
• Plate for a water bath;
• Toothpicks;
• Wick holders;
• Wick;
• scissors;
• Liquid fragrance "Orchid";
• Thin floristic ribbon of red color for decor;
• Several paper napkins;
• Water bath.
Glass cups are approximately both with a capacity of 70 grams, so the candles will turn out to be about the same mass. We rinse the glasses well, remove all greases and stains on them and wipe them dry. Cut off about 140 grams of paraffin from a large piece.
Grind it, now put it in a metal plate, put it on the prepared hot water bath. We melt the paraffin until completely parted, do not boil. Now we cut off the wick, two pieces of height a little more than the height of the cups.
In the center of each cup, put two toothpicks. Now we insert the wick into the holder and carefully now we put everything together in the center of the toothpicks. We make sure that the thread drops exactly in the center.
Remove the plate from the water bath with dissolved paraffin and add the following. Two or three drops of Orchid flavoring and a few drops of any vegetable essential oil, in this case we add a few drops of orange oil. We mix everything well and pour this mass into the prepared molds so that the wick thread touches the bottom evenly and is in the center of the glass container. We try to pour the already melted paraffin in the tank so that they do not disturb them for about two full hours. Accordingly, the curing time of candles is approximately two hours.
Now we put the glass containers with candles in the refrigerator for about twenty minutes, so that the candles easily fall out of the containers. A small note: you should not immediately put containers with liquid mass, because the effect of candles is not at all the same. They should harden in a natural way, and already literally for 15-20 minutes they need to be put in order to easily get out of forms.
We spread the candles on a napkin and cut two pieces of tape of 20-25 cm each.
Now we tie each candle with a strip of ribbon and we tie bows. Candles are ready and smell pleasantly of orchid. You can pack them in transparent packaging and give them to all your loved ones. A nice and most important gift you need! Thank you very much for your attention and creations to everyone!