Candle Making Kit

Candle making kits can be purchased from craft stores or online, or you can make your own candle making kit with just the right ingredients for the recipient of your gift.

What Goes in a Candle Making Kit?

Candle making kits vary in their components, depending on where you buy them from or if you make them yourself. Some of the things you might find in a purchased candle making kit include:

• A melting pot or pitcher for easy melting and pouring of wax
• Candle molds
• Wax
• Wicks
• Candle dye and/or scents
• A thermometer for testing the temperature of melted wax
• Stirring stick
• Detailed instructions for making basic candles

More elaborate candle making kits might include:

• Candle making additives, such as stearic acid, which helps harden candles, or parol, which makes beautiful mottled candles
• Silicone mold release spray
• Additional kinds of wax, containers, or molds

Making Your Own Candle Making Kit

If you are making a candle making kit for someone who already makes candles, you can skip some of the basics and include more interesting items in your gift. Some things you might want to think about include:

• Interesting molds, such as plastic or polyurethane molds, floating candle molds or great novelty molds.
• Wax, dyes, scents and wicks that could be used with that mold. The website you buy your molds from should tell you what kind of wick can be used; the rest is up to your imagination (though something that makes sense, like red dye and rose scent for a heart-shaped mold, is always appreciated).
• Dye in interesting colors or fragrance in scents you never would have imagined you could buy (like yellow cake, fresh laundry, new car smell, baby powder and more.
• Different waxes, such as beeswax sheets, bayberry wax and soy wax.

If your candle making kit is for a beginner, consider making a kit full of beeswax sheets, wicks and cookie cutters for forming shapes from the sheets. This is a great idea for a child who wants to learn about candles but can’t yet work the stove on his or her own.

Another great idea is to get all the supplies needed for a particular project, whether it is a votive candle kit complete with glass holders for the finished candles or a collection of chunks of different colored wax for a chunk candle kit. You can even make colored wax chunks from your own stash for a much cheaper gift.

Candle making kits could be centered around gel candles, soy candles, or even a novelty candle like the ice candle (throw in an ice cube tray and printed instructions) or a star-burst candle (include parol and instructions for using it along with the standard supplies).

Giving Your Candle Making Kit

Presenting a candle making kit can be almost as much fun as putting it together. If your gift includes a melting pot or large mold, it makes sense to stack the other supplies inside. You could also put everything into a gift bag that you have decorated with drips of melted wax.

Don’t forget to include a way for the new candle maker to display his or her candles. Throw in a candle plate for a pillar candle kit, votive holders for a votive kit, or taper candle holders for a beeswax kit. You could even buy (or make, of course!) some drippy taper candles and burn them in a glass bottle so that the wax drips all over the outside of the bottle. This is a great personalized touch that your budding candle maker is sure to love. Have fun, and buy some supplies for yourself while you’re out shopping!