| Make scented candles the eco-friendly way, and you | | | | dyes used to make scented candles must be oil |
| will be amazed by each new candle making fragrance | | | | soluble, so it will not work to extract color with |
| you create. You will amaze friends and customers, | | | | water or alcohol. |
| too, with your fresh, natural bouquet of creations. | | | | - Fragrances: Make scented candles the |
| People will gather at craft shows to breathe in the | | | | nature-friendly way and then add anything other than |
| aroma of each pillar, taper, and votive. Online | | | | biological fragrances - and your efforts have been |
| customers will return to replenish their favorite | | | | wasted. Why bother? Candle making crafts that |
| fragrances. We who like to make scented candles | | | | consider the environment will consider not only the |
| the eco-friendly way, as well as those who buy our | | | | waxes, wicks, and dyes, but also the aroma oils that |
| creations, appreciate the "green" benefits of this | | | | they put into that environment. They will choose only |
| candle making craft. | | | | those oils that are created from nature's renewable |
| Make scented candles the eco-friendly way and you | | | | sources. |
| open up a whole new realm of unique possibilities. | | | | You will be intrigued by the wonderful fragrances you |
| Beside soy pillars featuring the natural soy aroma, | | | | can use when you make scented candles. Imagine |
| you can offer soy pillars with the heady scent of | | | | filling your room with fresh lavender. Think about the |
| caramel and rich maple blended with chestnut. When | | | | lemony sweet smell of lemon grass! |
| making beeswax luminaries, you can leave some | | | | Fragrance is the aromatic compound of flowers and |
| unscented, and add a real hot apple pie candle making | | | | plants. It takes a lot of flowers or other types of |
| fragrance to others. All will be nature friendly. | | | | plant life to produce fragrance oils, of course, and |
| When you make scented candles the eco-friendly | | | | that is simply not cost effective. That is why |
| way, you create them with minimal or no harm to | | | | manufacturers use synthetic chemicals made from |
| our environment. You use natural waxes, wicks, | | | | such things as petrochemicals, coal, and coal tars. You |
| dyes, and fragrances. | | | | will get a sense of satisfaction when you make |
| - Waxes: Begin an eco-friendly candle making craft | | | | scented candles that contain no synthetic chemicals |
| with a natural wax such as beeswax or soy wax. | | | | that try to mirror nature's scents. |
| Some argue that paraffin is natural, since it comes | | | | You will create, instead, your own biologically-based |
| from petroleum, but we prefer a more "renewable" | | | | fragrances to make scented candles. You can use |
| meaning of the word. We like renewable beeswax | | | | original oils right from the plant source. You can |
| that can be produced fresh every year by worker | | | | produce your oils using the conventional "hot |
| bees. We also like renewable soy wax that comes | | | | enfleurage" process. Although this article cannot |
| from a new crop of soy beans each season. | | | | stretch to include a full description of that process, |
| - Wicks: When you decide to make scented candles | | | | you can find detailed information in other articles and |
| the eco-friendly way, you decide against wicks that | | | | eBooks. |
| have metal cores. Instead, you choose biological, | | | | If you want to use a unique, multi-note mixture of |
| 100% cotton wicks, or cotton wicks with paper | | | | fragrances when you make scented candles, or you |
| cores. You may even want to use 100% biological | | | | would like to create a more potent, unique scent |
| hemp wicks. | | | | than you get from your homemade oils, visit an |
| - Dyes: Another must for those who make scented | | | | organic aromatherapy shop locally or online. Purchase |
| candles the eco-friendly way is to use only biological | | | | two or three bottles of biological essential oils of your |
| dyes. Aniline dyes that are often used in candle | | | | preference, and mix your own aromas to use when |
| making crafts are derived from coal tar. Again, this is | | | | you make scented candles. You might also try adding |
| a non-biological, non-renewable product. A | | | | a few drops of your purchased oils to the infused oil |
| nature-friendly choice is dye made from vegetable | | | | you created with the "hot enfleurage" process |
| matter. Try steeping things such as beets, coffee | | | | Make scented candles the eco-friendly way, and you |
| grounds, curry powders, herbs, or onion skins in | | | | will open the door to a growing market of |
| melted beeswax or soy wax. Just remember that all | | | | environmentally conscious consumers. |