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Natural beauty and fragrance for your home
Discover how easy it is to pour your own beeswax candles into jars and fill your home with a natural, warm fragrance. In our DIY guide, you will learn step by step how to create beautiful candles using pure beeswax and just a few materials. Beeswax burns longer and cleaner than many other types of wax and exudes a delicate, honey-like fragrance. Whether for yourself or as a special, handmade gift - these beeswax candle jars are not only decorative, but also environmentally friendly and long-lasting.
That's what it takes:
- Hotplate
- Beeswax
- Pan with water, can
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- Wooden sticks
- Straw
- Adhesive pads for stand plate wicks
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- Glasses
- Thermometer
- Wick:
for large jars
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for small jars
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- clothes peg
- Hotplate
- Beeswax
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- Wooden sticks
- Straw
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- Glasses
- Thermometer
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- Clothes peg
Melting wax properly
You can easily melt the beeswax in the handy entry-level wax melting pot for home use (Art. 9469). The double wall of the pot is filled with water - the wax does not overheat. Or you can simply use an old tin and a saucepan. This allows you to melt the wax safely in a water bath and avoid overheating.
Step-by-step instructions
Pour the beeswax into jars:
Step 1
Do not overfill the wax melter with water. Follow the appliance instructions. Heat the water to a low temperature. Water must not boil, otherwise it will splash out of the filler opening. It is essential to avoid splashing water into the wax.
Step 2
Rub any drops of water dry before placing the wax in the container. Melt the beeswax in a water bath. Temperature approx. 70-80 °C. This takes approx. one hour for one kilogramme of beeswax.
Step 3
While the wax is slowly melting, the wicks can be attached to the jars. Use the adhesive pads to stick the wick in the centre of the base of the jar (make sure it is in the middle!) and press it down firmly with the help of a straw.
Step 4
Use the clothes peg to centre the wick and secure it so that there is tension on the wick so that it does not slip later when casting.
Step 5
Allow the wax to cool to around 70 °C - the optimum pouring temperature so that there are no "craters" in the centre of the candles that need to be poured. The temperature can be measured with a kitchen thermometer.
Step 6
Slowly pour the liquid wax into the prepared jar with the wick until it is half full. Do not fill the entire jar at once, otherwise craters and cavities may form. In order to avoid air pockets on the glass wall during cooling, it is advisable to preheat the jars in the oven at 20 to 30 °C.
Step 7
About an hour later, refill the second half of the jar with liquid wax at approx. 70 °C. Make sure that you only fill the jars to about 1.5 cm below the top rim.
Step 8
When the candle has cooled down after about 20 minutes, remove the clothes peg and trim the wick to 1 cm. If the surface of the candle is uneven, you can use a hairdryer to heat the top layer so that the wax liquefies. Leave the candle to rest for a further 48 hours before lighting.
Step 9
Decorate the glasses as you wish.
Let yourself be inspired by how to decorate...
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