Fragrant Candles: A Practical Guide to Making Candles for the Home and Garden

by Rhondda Cleary

Overview

There is only one thing more romantic, atmospheric, and mood-enhancing than a flickering candle, and that is a candle with the heavenly scent of essential oils. Craft your own, which beautifully combine color, shape, and fragrance. In addition to instructions for melting, molding, and dying the wax, an aromatherapy guide will help you choose the right scent for that special ambience. Consider frankincense for meditating; rosemary for purifying; lavender for overcoming insomnia; geranium for celebrating; and juniper for invigorating. Decorate by adding pressed flowers or embedding seashells in the candles, paint or stencil them, and then make a little magic with unusual ideas for displaying and enjoying your tapers or votives (including bathing by candlelight!). There are extraordinary holiday tips, too. 84 pages (all in color), 8 1/4 x 11. REISSUE

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781863512053
Publisher:	Milner, Sally Publishing Pty, Limited
Publication date:	08/01/1997
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.34(w) x 11.03(h) x 0.31(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1	Making Your Own Candles
	Making Candles	8
	Equipment	9
	Moulds	10
	Ingredients	12
	How to Make your Moulded Candle	14
	Colouring Candles	17
	Essential Oils and Candles	19
	Aromatherapy	21
	Using Cardboard Moulds	23
	Striped Candles	25
	Mosaic Candles	27
	Ice Candles	29
	Glow Candles	30
	Hurricane Candles	31
	Candles with Pressed Flowers	32
	Floating Candles	35
	Candles Embedded with Shells	37
	Painted Candles	38
	Stencilling Candles	39
	(Dipped) Taper Candles	41
	Votive Candles	43
	Beeswax Candles	45
	Paraffin Wax Sheets	49
Part 2	Using Candles in the Home and Garden
	Some Decorative Ideas	53
	Candles and Glass	53
	Follower Candle Lamp	53
	Candles in the Fireplace	54
	Individual Candle Arrangements	54
	Bathing by Candlelight	55
	Celebration Candles	57
	Use of Gold and Silver	57
	Christmas	59
	Easter	61
	Weddings	63
	Valentine's Day	65
	Candles in the Garden	67
	Using Candles in Flower Arrangements	73
	A Decorated Candlestick	75
	A Simple Candle Decoration	76
	An Advent Wreath	77
	An Arrangement with Australian Native Flowers and Candles	78
	Care of Candles	79
	Precautions	79
	The Most Common Problems with Candles	80
	Restoring Candles	80
	Sources	81