Take the cap from the bottle. The wax and fragrance are already added to your bottle. As you can see the bottle contains white translucent granules, this is a special wax for making candles.

On the inside of the box you can see the contours of a wick holder. Cut this out neatly.

Place the wick holder on top of the candle holder and place the wick neatly in the centre of the wick holder.

Caution! Never ever heat the bottle of wax with their cap on it. Always remove the cap of the bottle before placing it into the water. If you don’t remove the cap, the bottle can explode because of the high temperature!

Place the bottle including the wax, without the cap, in a saucepan with water. The water should be at room temperature. Make sure there is enough water in the saucepan, but no more than 10 cm below the bottle opening. You can start melting the wax by heating the water slowly. This way of melting is called “Au bain-marie”.

Make sure the stove is on the lowest setting and wait for about 30 minutes until the wax is completely melted. You can tell the wax is melted if the content of the bottle is completely transparent and you no longer see grains in your wax. You can turn the stove off.

If the wax is melted, you can add a small grain of colour dye. Thereafter you can add more colour dye to your melted wax, depending on the preferred colour of your candle. The more grains of colour dye you add, the darker the colour of your candle will be. Through this you can create your own colour intensity. Little colour dye gives a light colour and more colour dye results in a darker colour.

Be sure that the colour dye is properly absorbed by the heated wax. You will achieve this by taking the bottle out of the saucepan shortly and make a circular movement with the bottle. Do this carefully because the bottle can be hot.

Now it is time to pour your candle. The special wax will shrink a little bit when it cools down so to make sure your candle will be a success you need to pour this candle in three times. This to ensure that the candle does not collapse while making.

Pour your heated wax into the candle holder so that the candle holder is filled for one third. Pay attention! Place the bottle with the heated wax back into the heated water again. If the wax starts to solidify again, reheat the wax again on the lowest setting and wait until the wax is completely melted again to use it for the second round.

After 15 minutes, pour the next third of the wax into the candle holder so that it is filled to up to two-third and place the bottle with the last amount of wax into the saucepan with the heated water.

After 15 minutes, pour the other third of the wax into the candle holder so that it is filled completely. If all goes well, you still have a little bit of wax left in the bottle. Save this wax! It is possible that the candle will collapse a little at the end. If that is the case, you can top up your candle with the leftover wax the next day. This leftover of course needs to be warmed up again in the saucepan, like you did the first time. After this you will see that the candle will be completely even.

Congrats, you have made your own candle! We like to see your results of making your own candle, share you result at your Instagram account and tag @makeyourowneu.