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DIY Hand Poured Candles (Cozy Living)

Candles are a lovely way to bring hygge and comfort into your home. DIY Hand Poured Candles make beautiful holiday gifts.

DIY Hand Poured Candles

Whenever I’m out shopping, I will buy myself a candle.

I can’t help it.

Marshalls.

Target.

HomeGoods.

Shopping in the Harbor.

I ALWAYS seem to bring home a votive of one time or another. Are you the same way?

For quite some time, I’ve wanted to make candles with our kids. I thought it would be a fun craft and also fun to give as gifts this Christmas.

Lovely homemade candles make great gifts. Learn how! #cozyliving #handmadeholiday

I thought this would be perfect for the December segment of our Cozy Living Series hosted by my dear friend Jennifer at Town & Country Living.

Make your own candles! It's easy #christmasgifts

I was surprised how easy these were to make and they kind of had science involved (which my boys love). We did some with wintery scents for the holidays but we all love lavender so we did a bunch of those, too.

DIY Hand Poured Lavender Candles

I don’t know about you but I’m a huge lavender fan. The yoga studio I go to always gives cool towels fragranced with lavender at the end of class. The perfect shavasina.

Lavender

Want to learn how to make your own?

I promise people on your holiday list would love these 😉

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DIY Hand Poured Candles

Make your own lavender candles.

What You’ll Need

Method

The first step is to make sure your containers are clean. Our son, Conor, LOVES yogurts and we have loads of the oui yogurt containers. I just store them in the basement. If you don’t have any, you can buy clean ones here.

I purchased a set that had soy wax flakes, wicks and centering devices, you can see that here. It came with 10 pounds of soy flakes, 100 wicks and two centering devices.

Next measure out the soy flakes into your candle pitcher.

How to make your own candles. Soy wax flakes.

We used one of our yogurt pots to measure and found that 18 of those created 4 small yogurt pots and 2 of the ball jars. Just to give you an idea.

Prep your jars, by placing either wicks or wood wicks in the center.

Step by Step - how to make candles

Next place put some water in a pot and place your candle pitcher in. Be careful to tip the pitcher so the handle isn’t over the flame (if you have gas) to prevent it from melting.

Melting wax for soy candles

It’s like magic watching the soy flakes melt and become a liquid. When completely melted remove from the stove to allow to cool. The fragrance oils have a flash rate so the oil should be approximately 130 degrees. To speed up the process, we replaced the boiling water with cold water and monitored the temperature.

We added about 50 drops of the sandalwood essence for some and about a quarter of the lavender fragrance for some others. Make sure to swirl the mixture before pouring into the containers.

Oils for candles

Here you can see in progress:

Making candles at home

The ones on the left are cooled while the right is just poured.

Tip: the wood wicks move but you can center them after you pour the wax.

My boys decided to draw faces on the wood wicks so they’d know which ones they did 😉

Making candles with kids - a great project!

Here’s how they came out:

How to make hand poured candles at home

You’ll want to trim the wicks.

They’d make great hostess gifts.

Hand Poured Candles - make your own - perfect hostess or Christmas gift

Or the perfect gift for your home to make these cold winter days seem just a little bit brighter.

Lovely candles you can make at home

Be sure to visit all my friends below for some more Cozy Living ideas!

Cozy Living Series - December 2018

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Doreen @ Hymns and Verses

I especially love Lavender scented candles in our bedroom! The scent is so relaxing and adds to that cozy feeling for sure! Thanks for the candle making tips!!!

Marlene Stephenson
Marlene Stephenson
5 years ago

Yes i am so glad to have these instructions, i want to make some candles and i do have some lavender now to get the rest of the supplies i will need, thank you, i pinned it.

Kristi Mercer
5 years ago

I LOVE making my own candles and I’ve always wanted to try making them with wood wicks – I just love the way they crackle! Yours turned out so beautifully!

Amanda
5 years ago

These not only look beautiful but I’m sure they smell amazing too! I can’t wait to try your method and fragrant choices. Thanks for sharing, Danielle!

Jennifer @ Town and Country Living

There’s something so wonderful about homemade candles! I like the wood wicks, too.

laura janning
5 years ago

okay, i am so making some candles this holiday season. every year I tell myself that I want to make mine instead of buying. This was my wake up call 🙂

Dawn Cain
5 years ago

Beautiful candle pics and I bet they smell amazing. How do you like the wooden wicks?

Laurie @ Vinyet Etc.
5 years ago

I just love making my own candles and the wood wicks sound so awesome when you burn them adds a whole new level to the cozyness of candles! Your are just the sweetest!