Who doesn't love a good candle? You use candles to scent your home or office, to unwind or even to take away smells of food and cigar or cigarette smoke. But have you thought of trying your hand at making your own candles? It's super easy and fun for the whole family. There are easy accessible kits at both your local department and craft stores, see this episode here , where I used a candle making kit from Walmart! With kits you can not control the type of wax you have but you can definitely get the wax you need and that I personally prefer from a craft section from the discount department stores or from the craft store online or in store. First, you need soy wax, eight ounce candle tins, candle wicks, color, fragrance, glue dots or a glue gun and glue sticks ( I prefer the latter )...all these items are very affordable. Once you have everything you need, you're going to measure out one pound which is about sixteen ounces. This will give you three 8 ounce candles. The math
Here we go again! Picture it, it's Valentine's Day and all you're trying to do is make beautiful soap to sell for the upcoming Spring season, but instead your left with a seized mess. Both fortunate and unfortunately, your almost stuck trying to figure out a way to save these expensive ingredients you've just used to make this soap! So you pull out your crockpot. If you start your soap hot process that's one thing, but to rebatch is a whole other beast. Melting and mixing beyond compare. Your arm hurts, your shoulder is tense and you're absolutely frustrated! When the hell does it end? To your horror, none of your colors want to mix properly because the soap base is no longer white or cream so you have to over compensate and once the pour happens utter relief...should you get to that point lol. In the video below watch how I struggle with putting back to what I initially thought in my mind was going to be a magnificently gorgeous soap. Instead you'