How to Make Your Own Tealight Candles!

Tealight

What could be better than a tealight?

Well, this short tealight article is jam-packed full of candle making tips and tricks.

You can easy follow the step-by-step instructions to help guide you through making your first candles.

You’ll also want to include a tealight holder, as well as candle tealight holders because it’s easy to be making many of your own candles in next to no time.

Anyway, tealight candles are fun and relatively simple to make…

The beauty of a tealight candle holder is even before you begin making your first tealight candles, I’ve included some quick equipment tips just for you.

Start with a stock of candle making supplies, the only add-ons you need for making tealight candles are aluminum or plastic tealight cups.

You can find a selection available from any craft or grocery store.

To prepare your tealight cups, simply place them on a sturdy level work surface for setting the wicks into each tealight:

• You can either use pre-tabbed tea light wicks or prepare your own from 34-24 cotton core waxed wicks.
• Set the tabbed tealight wicks in the tea light cups.
• Aim to get them in the center, although during the pour the wick may shift to one side.

Tip: You can secure wicks with a small amount of hot glue at the base.

Tealight candles can be found almost everywhere, from church entrance halls, to restaurants and people’s living rooms.

There really is no limit to possible uses of a set of well made tealight candles.

Tea light Candles Troubleshooting Tips

Look for signs of a smoking candle…

If your candle is smoking heavily then it’s more than likely that your wick is too large for your candle.

First step is you can trim the candles wick which may be successful.

If your candle continues to smoke after trimming it’s wick, you’ll want to take note and use a smaller wick next time when you make that particular candle.

Does your flame flicker and splutter?

If your flame flickers and sputters, water is either trapped in the wick, possible from a water bath (if you used one), or there is water in the wax.

Make sure that the wick hole in your mold is completely sealed and be careful not to let any water from your double boiler get into the wax.

If a tealight sounds like the type of candle you’d like to be making…

You might want to subscribe to my free 7 day mini-course, its a great start for how to make tealight candles.

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