How to make a scented candle with essential oils

 If candles were once used for lighting, today their main use is to give our interior a warm, cozy and intimate atmosphere. Choosing to make them yourself and to perfume them with essential oils is a guarantee of quality and allows you to avoid the diffusion of chemicals and dangerous in the atmosphere of your rooms. Discover the recipe for scented candles with essential oils for your well-being.

How to make a scented candle with essential oils: the recipe

Choose the right ingredients

To make your scented candle with essential oils, you will need simple ingredients.

Wax: 450 g of wax shavings

This is the main component of your candle. The wax gives it its shape, its hardness and it melts more or less quickly depending on its composition. Today there are three types of waxes that will allow you to make your candle: wax of vegetable origin, wax of animal origin and wax of mineral origin.

Wax of vegetable origin: soy wax is the most frequently used. It is ideal for making all types of candles. It can be used alone, without oils or vegetable butters, which facilitates its use. In addition, it heats less strongly than others and it cools quickly after its extinction. Finally, it is easy to clean, but the soybeans generally come from the American continent where it is often GMO and cultivated with pesticides.

Wax of animal origin: beeswax is appreciated for its sweet, bewitching smell and its slow combustion. For making candles, it should be mixed with 10 to 20% vegetable oil to prevent it from shrinking. It is ecological.

Wax of mineral origin: Paraffin was very popular for making candles because of its very low price and ease of use. On the other hand, it has lost some of its success due to its unnatural, non-renewable, synthetic and unhealthy design. It is better not to choose this wax for the creation of your candle.

Essential oils: 5 to 10% of the mixture

To scent your candle with essential oils, choose suitable essences and make sure that their flash point is above 65 ° C (so that your candle does not ignite in its entirety). Do not use any gasoline containing alcohol and limit yourself to a total of 5-10% essential oils per candle.

Your possibilities are endless: Anise, Tropical Basil, Rosewood, German Chamomile , Cinnamon bark, Atlas Cedar, Lemongrass , Lemon Eucalyptus, Egyptian Geranium, True Lavender , Lemongrass, Peppermint , Palmarosa, Patchouli, Vetiver, Ylang-ylang, etc. .

Vegetable oils and butters (optional): 10 to 20% of the mixture

Vegetable oils and butters are useful to facilitate the melting of the candle by softening the wax and giving a more beautiful appearance to the whole. It is not necessary to add it to the soy wax, but 10 to 20% will be used in a beeswax candle.

The choice of oils and vegetable butters is made according to the use of the candle. For a good smell, choose vanilla or hazelnut for example. But you can also choose these ingredients according to their color, their skin benefits if you want to make a massage candle or according to their cost.

Colorants (optional)

If you want to color your candle naturally, you can use some ecological and natural processes:

colored vegetable oils

colored essential oils

plant powders

tea bag

The other materials

heat-resistant glass container, measuring cup type

aluminum film

microwave

manique

wooden spoon

50 cl capacity jar

cotton candle wick

How to make a scented candle with essential oils: the different steps

Step 1: wax

Weigh 450 g of wax shavings and pour them into a measuring cup-type glass container capable of withstanding heat. The jar must not be full in order to allow the wax to rise without overflowing.