More Ways to Make a Soy Candle

More Ways to Make a Soy Candle
For Expertvillage.com, this is Matt Freedman owner of The Blue Creek Candle Company. In this clip we’ll be talking about today’s candle recipe. To find out more about my candles please visit my website. Okay well while we’re waiting for this to cool down what we’re actually going to do is go ahead and add some of our scent and some of our color and during that process it will help the wax cool down while we’re doing that stuff. Now usually I have these little one ounce bottles set aside that are empty, what I’ll tend to do is take my larger bottle and squeeze exactly one ounce of scent into the bottle and dump that in. today I don’t have that as a measuring device so I’m just going to go ahead and squeeze approximately one ounce of scent into our one pound of wax. Once we’ve added that I’m going to give that a quick little stir, just get it all nice and mixed up, give it a smell – it smells great. Next we’re going to add our dye, we’re going to start out with one drop of golden yellow and remember this stuff is very concentrated and you don’t want to get it on you, so go ahead and add one drop and go ahead and mix that in. alright so our wax has finally cooled down to 160 degrees, that’s the temperature that we’re going to want to pore this at. When you remove your thermometer from the wax, always give it a quick wipe off, it makes it easier and you won’t have any left over residue on that when you need to use it again and the same with your stirring spoon when you’re all set with that. But before we pore, we’re going to check the color on this and make sure it’s what we want, and just dip a little in there and try to cluster it all together in one nice puddle on your wax paper. We’re going to let that cool for probably about a minute, you can blow on it to help it along. What I found is that giving it about a minute to cool, you’ll see the true color that your candle is going to be after you’ve poured and that’s had time to cool as well. So the color came out great and remember when you pore your candle that it’s a melted liquid so it’s going to be darker than the finished product is going to be and that’s why we tested it just as we did just a moment ago.