Candle Making
Beeswax is the hardest and highest-melting of the common candle waxes, which is exactly why it burns longest and exactly why it needs a bigger wick than the chart says. Size up one or two wick numbers from the soy recommendation, then burn-test three candles before you trust a mould: one at the chart size, one up, one down.
- The hardest of the waxes
- Never above eighty-five
- The wick chart
- The burn test
- Reading the pool
- Rolled tapers
- Dipped tapers
- Votives and tealights
- Pillars and the topping pour
- Container candles and the cure
- Bloom is not a flaw
- Rushing the melt
- Balms, salves, wraps and polish
- What a kilo is worth as candles