How to Make Gel Candles as Gifts for Your Loved One

When a loved-one or any spe­cial per­son cel­e­brates a mem­o­rable day of his or her life, gifts would always be at the top list. Gifts may vary from the sim­ple greet­ing cards to the most lux­u­ri­ous car. Well, does the cost really mat­ter? In some cir­cum­stance it does but it does not mat­ter the most. As what I always said, it is the “thought” that counts.

Though for most peo­ple the tag price of your present may “tickle the spine”, how­ever, it is beyond denial that a “per­sonal” touch expresses more sin­cer­ity for the receiver.

Valentine’s Day is approach­ing soon, got any gift ideas for your loved one? – want to give your loved one a fan­tasy jew­elry, flow­ers, trendy bags or a spe­cial per­son­al­ized gift etc.

I love can­dles so I think it might be a good gift idea to share with you some tips toward how to make one for that spe­cial per­son. Because you made your own cus­tom gel can­dle by your­self, your cre­ativ­ity would make that spe­cial per­son feel extra spe­cial.

Okay, let’s get start.

1. Pre­pare the fol­low­ing materials:

• Ceramic con­tain­ers like mugs or any fancy-shaped fig­urine that could hold the can­dle wax when melted and cooled. Glasses are also great.
• Gel wax
• Can­dle wicks
• Pen­cils
• Pot (for melt­ing wax)
• Can­dle scent and color (non alcohol-base)
• Sharp scissors

2. With the use of a pen­cil, twine the wick around it but leave some of the wick free that it could reach the bot­tom part of the can­dle con­tainer. It must be straight down the cen­ter of the container.

3. Put the pen­cil with the twined wick on top of the con­tainer; allow the wick to hang down the cen­ter of the con­tainer. As what the direc­tions tell, melt the wax by cut­ting them into cubes first to has­ten the melting.

4. Add color and scent but make sure that they will not make the wax cloudy.

5. After the melt­ing, pour the gel wax into the con­tainer you have pre­pared. Fill the con­tainer but set a limit. Before get­ting to the next step, make sure that the wax turned gel fully cools down.

6. Check out the wick if it really takes the focal point of the container.

7. Trim the wick to ¼ of its total length.

8. You could tie a rib­bon around it or stick a piece of fancy paper with a spe­cial mes­sage or a mini-picture of the receiver. Give it with the purest sincerity.

As you fol­low these quick and easy steps, you could unravel both the artist and entre­pre­neur in you. This way of prepar­ing gifts would tickle your resource­ful­ness and cre­ativ­ity. And it may be an ini­ti­a­tion of your new busi­ness spe­cial­iz­ing in can­dles. They are mak­ing it big on the mar­ket today.

You even can try out your cus­tom home-made gel can­dles and do busi­ness with this Can­dles, can­dle sup­plies and can­dle mak­ing sup­plies shop, exam­ple.