Make Your Own Beeswax Candles!
Easy beeswax candle DIY
Servings 2 4 oz. candles
Ingredients
- ½ pound beeswax pellets filtered beeswax is best
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- cotton candle wicks
- wick stickers
- 4 ounce glass or ceramic jars or leftover vessel
- 1 large glass jar
- bamboo skewers or something to stir the wax with
Instructions
- Fill a large pot with enough water to cover the height of the beeswax (but won’t spill out when the water starts to boil). Place your jar into the pot and heat the water until it reaches a low and gentle boil.
- Allow the heat from the water to melt the beeswax, giving it a stir with a wooden skewer every few minutes.Beeswax is potentially flammable, so keep an eye on it while it’s melting, and make sure no wax pellets have scattered onto your hot stovetop. One sign the wax is getting too hot in the jar is that it will start to smoke, so watch for that, too.
- While your wax is melting, prepare your candle jars by adding a wick sticker to the bottom of your wick and placing it in the center of the bottom of your jar.
- Once the wax is melted, turn off the heat and add in your coconut oil, stirring to combine. Adding some coconut oil to your beeswax helps the candle burn more consistently and avoid tunneling.But, you can also make a 100% beeswax candle by omitting it.
- Pour the wax and coconut oil into your candle containers and let them set for 1-2 days before using. Trim the wicks to 1/2″ long, and you’re ready to use your candle!
Notes
- This DIY makes two 4-ounce containers.
- If you have a candle that tunnels down the middle and never reaches the sides, try a larger/thicker wick to get more heat to melt the wax more evenly.
- Depending on how bad your candle is sinking (especially if it’s only doing it a little bit), you may decide to leave your recipe as is. You can scoop out and reuse the leftover wax around the edges each time.
- If your candle is melting too fast and your flame won’t stay lit because the wax is drowning out the flame, try a smaller wick instead.