How To Make Soy Wax Tea Light Candles — Free PDF Tutorial
To kick off the new site, I am proud to present my newest PDF, which is about how to hack up basic soy candle tea lights. Yes, hack up — as in, quick and dirty, for the people who just want to try soy candle making without investing in a lot of materials.
The tutorial is 17 pages, but most of them are photos. I cover a lot of topics very lightly:
- What you need for ingredients and equipment
- Prep and process
- Cleanup and storage of your candles
- What fragrances to start with, if you have no ideas
- Friendly suppliers with low minimum orders and reasonable shipping
- Special recommendations for seasonal scents (and what not to do…)
Can you also make jar candles or candle tins with this method?
In response to the most common question: you can easily adapt this tutorial to making candle tins, votive candles, or glass jar candles, but there are additional techniques involved. Feel free to experiment, though! You can use an old tin can or jelly jar to start — that’s what I did, and it worked out great.
How to download the instructions:
To get the instructions sent as an attachment, just fill out the form below to join the Soy Candle Members. If I make any significant changes to the tutorial or find out some more good resources for candle making, I’ll send out an email to the members. I’ve already had requests for more information on making wax tarts (flameless candles), and I’m scouting out at least a good website on it.
Don’t worry — I only mail out when I have something to say. Usually, this is about once every two weeks, if that, and the emails are pretty short. But if you just want the PDF and don’t want to get email, you can always just unsubscribe from the membership list as soon as you get it.
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great tutorial…i know a great supplier in Australia if you are interested in making soy tea lights.
If you would like to buy them made up, we have a great range of soy tea lights, soy wax jars, palm wax pillar candles and much more.
Look us up at http://www.misteek.com.au or contact us info@misteek.com.au
Agreed, great tutorial. I would like to try and adjust it to work for a glass jar candle but I’m not sure I’m capable. ha! Thanks for sharing your “how to!”
It’s not that hard, but there are issues involved in using glass. I would look for another good tutorial on that, one that is much more advanced than mine!