How to Make Burning Oils for Candles with Fragrance Oils
Candle making provides you with a lasting hobby, as well as a way to create hand-crafted gifts for friends and loved ones. Making scented candles at home involves the process of mixing base oils for burning. An easy and brief process, making a burning base oil at home to be added to your candle recipes gives you the ability to control the amount and quality of scented oils you use.
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Choose a base oil that has a high burning point, such as sunflower oil or peanut oil. These oils, when burned, don't produce the black soot that results with cheaper oils.
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Choose natural essential oils to create scents that are mixed with the carrier oil. Unnatural fragrance oils often produce black soot and a chemical smell while being burned in a candle.
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Mix no more than two parts essential oil to six parts carrier oil. Overdoing the essential oil creates the dreaded black soot. For example, a 6-oz. bottle of burning oil contains approximately 1 oz. of essential oil and 5 oz. of carrier oil.
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Store the base oil for burning in plastic bottles. Keep the bottles tightly covered.
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Use the base oil for burning in a variety of candle formulas, by adding it to the melted wax before pouring the wax into a mold.
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References
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