Here you can learn how to make beautiful ice ball candles from soy wax. Optionally, you can colour them and/or use fragrance. We chose a mango and a mint dessert candle..
Important! "The Dangerous Imitations Directive prohibits the manufacture, importation and placing on the market of non-edible products that look like food." This includes candles. You are allowed to make them for private use though.
What you need:
- Soywax C-3
- Candle Color Yellow
- Fragrance Mango Blossom
- Candle color Green
- fragrance Liptus Mint
- BWR wick
Also: water bath, hot air dryer, needle, transparent/frosted candle glass
1. Melting
Heat the soy wax C3 to a temperature of 70 to max. 90 °C. When melting, stir regularly, but not too vigorously/quickly. This works best in a water bath. While the wax is melting, fix the wick with adhesive wax plates and centre it with a wick holder..
2. Add colour and/or fragrance
If desired, melt the colour (0.1 - 0.2 %) or fragrance (max. 6%) completely in the liquid wax at approx. 80°C and stir. Important: Always colour the wax first before adding fragrance. When colouring, a little trial and error is necessary to achieve the desired colour result. The colour becomes less intense as the wax cools down. By the way, our wax colours are also very suitable for mixing! We used our candle colour yellow with our Mango Blossom fragrance and our colour green with the fragrance Liptus Mint.
3. Pouring the base
Let the wax cool down to about 50°C and meanwhile preheat the jars (e.g. with the hot air blower or simply on the heater). Then slowly pour the soy wax into the jars about 3/4 (depending on which jars you are using).
4. Eiskugeln vorbereiten
Let the wax cool down to about 50°C and meanwhile preheat the jars (e.g. with the hot air blower or simply on the heater). Then slowly pour the soy wax into the jars about 3/4 (depending on which jars you are using).
5. Prepare the Ice cream scoops
When the wax mixture has reached the right consistency, form balls with the ice cream scoop. The right consistency is reached when the tip of the wax remains stable when you take out the whisk and turn it over (again, similar to cream, but a little firmer). Place the wax ice cream balls on a silicone mat or baking paper to harden. The bowl & portioner can be cleaned with a heat gun and kitchen paper. Please also clean thoroughly (preferably in the dishwasher) before coming into contact with food again.
6. Assemble the Candle
When the wax in the glass and the ice balls have cooled down, you can assemble the candle. Carefully poke a hole through the ice ball with a hot needle. Then melt the surface of the glass candle with a hot air blower, thread the ball onto the wick and press it firmly. You can melt a little more so that the ice ball sinks a little into the coloured wax.
7. Give away or light
It's super easy to make someone else happy with your homemade candles, or you can light them for yourself for your own enjoyment.
Videotutorial will follow shortly!
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