- How To Make
Tealight Candles
- by Dolores Attwood
Tea light candles are fun and
relatively simple to make and once you begin, you'll be making
many of your own candles in next to no time.
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Equipment Tips for Tealight
Candles
Apart from your normal stock
of candle making supplies, the only addition you need for making
tealight candles are a selection of aluminum or plastic tealight
cups available from any craft or grocery store.
To prepare your tealight cups
place them on a flat and level work surface and set your wicks
into each.
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. Try to get them in the center, although
during the pour they will probably shift to one side a little
unless you secure them 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. |
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Troubleshooting Tips for Tea
light Candles
Do you have 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 try trimming your candles
wick which may be successful.
If your candle continues to smoke
after trimming its wick, you'll have to use a smaller wick next
time 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. |
