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Candles make a wonderful addition to any home and garden and now you can learn how to make your own in a range of delightful scents. This book shows the basic techniques of how to make pillar, floating, votive, multi-wick, tea light, dipped and rolled candles. Detailed information is given on a range of wicks, essential oils, colour and perfumes and advice on how to adapt them to make your own unique blends. Match the scent of your room to your mood with refreshing and uplifting blends through to warming and calming. Plus, all of these sumptuous recipes use either natural wax or soya wax - one of very few books ever to do so!
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Elaine Stavert formed The Littlecote Soap Co after a life-changing move from her television career in London to a farm in the beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside, in England. Surrounded by hedgerows and meadows, and with a keen interest in herbalism and aromatherapy, Elaine was soon developing a range of natural toiletries and bath products that were both kind to the skin and quintessentially English. Elaines previous books are Bath Bombs and Soaps.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has quite a lot of detailed instructions and information on the basics of candle-making, as well as essential oils. It also has quite a lot of sample projects to get you going, before you start coming up with your own ideas.
I've used this book a lot, and generally like it. However, I have two issues. Firstly, in some of the instructions it can be a bit vague when it would really help if it was more specific (so I have been referring to a second book) and some of it takes a slightly condescending tone in places.
All the "recipes" are either beeswax or soy wax. There is the barest mention of paraffin wax (along the lines of "paraffin wax exists but I don't like it, because it's not natural"), so if you want to use paraffin wax you would need access to another source of information for things like melting temperatures.
Good, but not as well set out as the bath bombs book, which (for example) has a table at the back summarising all the recipes and their ingredients, etc. I would have preferred if this book had that, so you could see at a glance which fragrances and colours were used for each.
It does however have a useful listing of places to buy your supplies (not restricted to UK).
I've used this book a lot, and generally like it. However, I have two issues. Firstly, in some of the instructions it can be a bit vague when it would really help if it was more specific (so I have been referring to a second book) and some of it takes a slightly condescending tone in places.
All the "recipes" are either beeswax or soy wax. There is the barest mention of paraffin wax (along the lines of "paraffin wax exists but I don't like it, because it's not natural"), so if you want to use paraffin wax you would need access to another source of information for things like melting temperatures.
Good, but not as well set out as the bath bombs book, which (for example) has a table at the back summarising all the recipes and their ingredients, etc. I would have preferred if this book had that, so you could see at a glance which fragrances and colours were used for each.
It does however have a useful listing of places to buy your supplies (not restricted to UK).
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am only starting to get into candle making, and this book has definitely inspired me to give it a go!
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed this book the style is simple and easy to read and the recipies work.
Mainly using soya wax ,with some beeswax.no paraffin wax recipies. Some of the instructions are a bit vague but for a beginner it is a useful book.
The list of suppliers at the end of the book is limited and better ones can be found on line.
Mainly using soya wax ,with some beeswax.no paraffin wax recipies. Some of the instructions are a bit vague but for a beginner it is a useful book.
The list of suppliers at the end of the book is limited and better ones can be found on line.
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