Recipe for Making a Soy Candle

Recipe for Making a Soy Candle
For Expert Village.com, this is Matt Friedman, owner of the Blue Creek Candle Company. In this clip we will be talking about today’s candle recipe. To find out more about my candles please visit my website. Today we are going to be making a 16 ounce soy candle and what we are going to need for that is 16 ounces of soy wax and that is going to come in flakes. You will need to measure out the amount of soy wax you are going to need. There we go, that is 1 pound of soy wax right there. What we are going to do is add that to our melting pot and make sure you are not spilling any onto your stove. Once you have that all in there go ahead and turn your stove on. All right, you want to use a low medium heat that way your wax will not melt too quickly and this will allow you time to go ahead and prep your mold to your containers and do anything else you need to do in order to have everything ready once your wax is melted. Again you are never leaving your melting pot unattended. You are always close by to that. So what I tend to do once I got my wax all poured and melting is grab my container. When you first begin you might want to use a ruler to actually measure out your wick. A little short cut that I found to that is that I just get a length of it and really just use an estimate to the bottom of your jar and add a little extra to that so that you can actually maneuver the wick around in the candle as it is drying so that it always maintains its center. You are going to go ahead and snip that off and take your wick and you are going to thread it through your wick tab. There are different types of wick tabs available out there. This is a high colored wick tab and once you have your wick threaded through that, go ahead and pinch that collar around your wick and that is going to hold it in place for you so that your wick won’t come out of the wick tab. Then what you need to do is take a glue dot. It’s just a little sticky dot, kind of rubbery. You are going to attach that to the bottom of your wick tab. As you can this is going to hold everything in place on the bottom of the jar so that the wick tab and wick don’t float away once your hot wax is poured into there.