I love the look of sand candles. It is cool to intermingle natural items such as rocks, sand, flowers with wax. I decided to try my hand at making sand candles. Sand allows you to make your own candle mold cheap. You can mold any shape into sand and watch how the wax takes the shape.
I will say that it is difficult finding sand here in the State College area in the middle of the winter. Yes, I could have gone to a home building store, but I would have had to buy a lot of sand. So, I instead used some of my brothers sand blasting sand.
This sand is on the course side and black. It is not the sand I am accustom to.
Materials used in making a sand candle:
- Sand
- Wax
- Wick
- Fragrance oil
- Drill
- Bamboo Skewer
- Plastic bowl
- Tin can to form the hole
1. Put sand into your container – I used a plastic whip cream bowl and didn’t have trouble with the wax and sand being to hot, but if you are not sure put your sand into a metal bowl.
2. Then I put enough water to dampen the sand. I could make holes in the sand and the walls would stay up. Don’t put too much water.
3. To help form the hole put the tin can into the sand and mold the sand around the can
4. Take the tin can out and you have your hole. It is ready to be filled with wax
5. You can fill the hole up with wax. Heat up your wax according to the manufacturers directions. I poured mine at the highest temperature a double boiler would go
6. Now pour your melted wax
8. Take the candle out of the sand
9. If the sand is still damp wait for it to dry before you start scraping the excess sand off the sides of the candle
10. Seal the sand to the candle by heating the outside of the candle with a heat gun
11. Once you tap all the excess sand off. Take a drill and drill a hole down the middle of the candle
12. I used a bamboo skewer to make sure the hole is clean
13. Wick the candle
Voila! you have a genuine sand candle
Many Blessings,
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