How To Make Floating Candles

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Floating candles add charm in their own way to our homes. Their soft glow lights up one's spirits and their fragrance makes the air in your home scented and pleasant. Here is how you go about to make floating candles.

Things Needed

Paraffin Waxes
Wick

Wick tab

Wooden Spoons
Double Boilers
Ice Pick/Hammer
Candle moulds (Pudding dishes, muffin trays and the like)
Stearic acid
Candle Dye
Silicon spray/Vegetable oil

Method

Make a double boiler by filling half of a saucepan with water and by placing a smaller one or a coffee can and the like inside it. There should be no water in the smaller can.

Break the paraffin wax with a hammer or a ice pick and make them into smaller pieces.

Put the wax pieces into the top of the double bolier and start heating it. The heat should be set on high.

Keep stirring in the process of heating.

Make use of a candy thermometer to check the temperature of the wax.

Turn the heat off when the temperature reaches 180 degrees F if the mould you have chosen is a metal one. If you are to use glass, rubber, paper cartons moulds etc, the temperature should be 130 to 150 degree.

Add about 4tbsps of Stearic acid per pound of paraffin into the melted wax.

Add candle dye of the desired colour and stir the melted wax well.

Add a little undiluted candle scent for fragrance and stir to distribute evenly.

Lubricate the inner part of the mould with vegetable oil or silicon spray.

Measure the length of the mould and cut the wick accordingly about two to three inches longer than your requirement.

Fasten one end of a wick to a wick tab .

Pour the melted wax into the mould and wait until it forms a skin like layer.

Insert the wick by pressing the tab into the middle bottom of the mould with a skewer or a spoon.

Top off the candle and let it cool.

When done, pop it out of the mould and trim the wick to ' an inch.

The floating candle is now ready to burn.