Showing posts with label Candle Making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Candle Making. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Why Is Making Scented Candles Smart?

By Georg Inderdal

Scented candles add warmth and relaxation to our lives. They can give even the most ordinary home cooked dinner a touch of romance and class, turn bath time into a spa experience and add warmth to even the coldest room in your home. Unfortunately in these tough economic times, paying the price for these simple home additions makes us wince. The price of scented candles have simply gone through the roof. Maybe it is time to consider making scented candles at home?

Making Scented Candles Is A Great Hobby

If you have been looking for a hobby that you might really enjoy, making candles could fill that bill. Making scented candles is an easy and inexpensive craft to learn. The start up cost is extremely low requiring only a few basic things to make jar candles.

Once you learn the basics and have some success, you can purchase books on candle making and before you know it you will be making votives, tea lights and even your own taper candles.

Financial Benefits of Making Your Own Candles

Count up the number of candles you have in your home. Think of how much all those candles cost and now imagine how much you could have saved if you could have purchased those candles at a third or less of that cost. That is approximately how much it would have cost you, had you made them yourself. Can you imagine the savings over the course of a few months or a year?

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Secrets to Homemade Candle Making - Get Wholesale Soy Candle Making Supplies

By Tom Taft

Have you ever tried creating handcrafted candles for fun? It's a great leisure activity and a way to express your ingenuity. Most homemade candle hobbyists make candles infrequently and only at certain times of the year. They would like to save up on handcrafted candles for gift giving and family use during the holidays. A candle is a cherished and sentimental gift you can send your others. It's a very personal way of showing you remember them.

People appreciate candles and tend to fawn over aromatic and stylishly made ones. The good news is you can profit from people's tendency to buy beautiful candles on impulse. People need homemade candles for holidays and religious occasions, as well as for sentimental events like wedding anniversaries and birthdays. Without a doubt, a handcrafted candle making business is one of the most lucrative around. Considering the low-cost set up and ease of production, you don't need much to jumpstart your homemade candle making business.

If you would like to turn your candle pastime into a full-scale enterprise, there's a way of going about it.
Mostly, you want to find a good deal for wholesale soy candle making supplies. Secondly, you have to keep improving your homemade candles, by incorporating new style techniques and experimenting with new methods to manufacture handcrafted candles. As a final point, you have to learn when and how to expand your business so that you don't have to limit your client base in your city or municipality.

The first part of your plan to succeed in candle creating is to know how to find the wholesalers of candle making necessities in your area. You can interact with some supply retailers for the moment while you are still learning the ropes, but sooner or later, you will need to be more aggressive and look for bulk deliveries to sustain your candle business.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Wholesale Candle Making Supplies - Keys to Making Cost Effective Purchases

By Patrick E McTigue

By now, you've likely already recognized that you have the creativity to make beautiful candles that can sell. The next step is material in the form of wholesale candle making supplies. It is important before you begin shopping to have at least a small business plan together so that you have some idea of what kind of wholesale candle making supplies you will need. For example, wax itself is generally alright if stored properly for a significant amount of time. Fragrances and dyes deteriorate when not used or changed out on a regular basis.

Also, keep in mind that wicks are a wood product and even though they are coated, they too can become worthless if not used consistently. It would be a shame to create a beautiful scented candle only to find out that the wick does not burn properly because it is old.

So the key to wholesale candle making supplies is to know what you can and can't buy in bulk and knowing how much work you plan to do will assist that directly. As with most things, buying in bulk, especially when it comes to wax is the best way to go. The more you buy at once, the cheaper wholesale candle making supplies become. If you plan on putting out an entire array of scented candles, there are many offers online for bulk purchases in fragrance and dyes. Bear in mind that this will also help if you are trying your hand at making the same types of candles consistently.

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