Making homemade candles

[MilkNoSugarPlease]

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Thats where you lot come in :o

Is it really expensive, and therefore cheaper to spend £10 on a ready made one?!

TIA

Whoops!

i did that last year, oh my grating wax is hard work thats why dp did it, however it was fun, and i watched kirtsy do it on telly and put shells in it and i may do it again this year.

Noo! I dont want to hear hard work! :o

may I ask how did you do it?

There is a MAHOOOSIVE candle making thread on here if you just go back a page or two.

Oh goodness, I didn't find it hard work at all. I didn't grate my wax and they came out great. I think financially, only worth doing if you are making a batch of them. You need wax, containers, scent, colour flakes, thermometer. I have made 8 today, they look gorgeous. Made mine in Bonne Maman jam jars and put fabric over the top so they look like homemade jam.

I only want to make 3!

Do you think it's not worth it for just 3?

:) thanks

Probably not, from a cost-wise point of view. Have you got birthdays coming up? But I'm doing some for teachers and our neighbours, who we always spend at least a fiver each on. And I have a few birthdays in December and January, so have done those as well. So quickly makes it worthwhile.

Actually it's easy peasy and the raw materials will keep for ages. If you can afford the initial outlay (£30 maybe?) to buy in bulk you could be making them whenever a special occasion comes up and they'd work out cheaply overall. I totally recommend the HUGE thread on candlemaking which was started by Lauriefairycake, I think.

Lauriefairycake's infamous thread is here