VIDEO: Make candle wax yourself

You can only make the candle wax completely yourself with vegetable fats or with animal fats that harden firmly.

Make candle wax from coconut oil yourself

1. If you want to make candle wax from coconut oil yourself, then you have to melt the coconut oil or the hardened palm oil in a saucepan.
2. So that the coconut or palm oil does not get too hot for you, you have to warm the fat in a water bath. Palm oil or coconut oil that is heated too high cannot be used as candle wax and gives off an unpleasant burning smell.
3. Mix the heated, liquid palm oil or coconut oil with the scented oils of your choice if you want to make a scented candle yourself. All scented candles that you get in stores are made from this stearin base.
4. Tie the wick to a wooden stick and place the wick in the center of the heat-resistant glass. Place the wooden stick in the middle of the glass on the edge of the glass.


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5. Fill the candle wax into the glass and let the stearin cool down.
6. Instead of a wick, you can also tie a pure cotton strip to the stick. The capillary effect works with a piece of cotton fabric in exactly the same way as with a standard wick.

Make candle wax from beeswax yourself

1. To make candle wax from beeswax yourself, you only need wax sheets from the beekeeper, which you roll up around a wick.
2. You can also buy beeswax pieces from the beekeeper, which you can heat up in a water bath just like the stearin and then pour into a heat-resistant glass with a wick. The preparation of these candles from candle wax that you make yourself is identical to the preparation of candle wax from stearin.

You can also enrich candle wax made from pure beeswax with essential oils. Cinnamon oil or clove oil, also orange oil or lemon oil, go very well with the homely scent of real beeswax candles.