Something to do during this endless winter…make homemade soy candles? Why not?

Materials needed:

  • Natural Soy Wax: 10 pound bag
  • Natural Candle Wick, Large
  • Mason Jars

In true Jenny fashion, I read a whole bunch of articles and posts about how to make soy candles, measure the right amount, wait for a certain temperature etc…and then ignored the advice. Well, I tried for the first one…heating to a certain temperature then waiting for it to cool. Not sure why I need to do that, but I didn’t have the patience to do that today so I did the melt wax and pour method. We’ll see right?

In the end I had almost 12 pint Mason Jars filled with candles (I wasted a wee bit of the wax.) Total cost per candle was about $3. This was an experiment batch so we will see what I need to improve on in the future.

Nine of the candles I added lemon geranium and lemon balm leaves to the wax hoping for a sort of citronella type candle. I had these plants on the porch all season and they grew like crazy cakes in the greenhouse this winter so I wanted to do something with the leaves.

The additional three I just used a melted candy corn candle that I had leftover and added it to the wax, I’m sure the scent will be faint but it did make it a pretty orange, at least for now until it dries.

A fun time. I look forward to doing more. I have big plans of recycling all those Fancy Feast Cat Food cans we use each night (um, we have five cats!) and making lots and lots of larger tea lights.

Stay tuned to see how they burn in a few days!

Do you make soy candles? Any advice for this novice?

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