Learn to make candles with step-by-step candle making tutorials for beginners. Each of these guides will show you how to make DIY candles. You can make your own naturally scented candles with these step-by-step instructions.
Making your own candles isn’t just for crafters. Commercial candles often use paraffin wax and scents that compromise indoor air quality. This contributes to asthma, allergies and other health issues.
When you make your own DIY candles, you have the option to use waxes like beeswax or soy, and essential oils for fragrance. You know exactly what’s going into your candles.
Candle making is also a great way to recycle condiment jars and the used containers many store-bought candles come in. You can make beautiful gifts of them, or just use them around your home. Get some great DIY candle holder ideas for inspiration!
And you may want to learn how to clean glass candle holders quickly and easily.
Learn How to Make Candles
When you burn a candle, you almost always end up with little bits of wax down at the bottom. You can take those and assemble them around a homemade wick to create a "new" candle.
This is a cool way to use that wax instead of discarding it, and get a new candle in the bargain.
This tutorial shows you every single thing you need. Every part of the candle, every tool you'll need - everything.
Once you follow it, you'll have made a simple candle in a jar with melted wax and essential oils.
This tutorial will show you how to melt soy wax and pour it into a jar with a wick. It takes a little bit of work and patience, but it's really easy to do.
Make your own citrus candles... in a half citrus peel. This is such a cool idea! You pour the wax into a fruit peel instead of a jar, and you've got a unique candle with a container you can compost.
With the wax of your choice plus a crayon for color and patchouli oil for fragrance, you can make this pretty green scented candle.
Make this lightly citrus scented candle quickly and easily. You can use a mason jar, or reuse a glass condiment jar or candle jar. The scent comes from essential oil instead of phthalates, like many commercial candles.
Here's another Mason jar candle that uses Ylang Ylang for scent. It makes a great gift or a great candle for your home.
An apple spice candle adds a wonderful fall fragrance to your home. Color it with a red crayon to get that beautiful reddish pink hue.
DIY Soy Candle Tutorial with Fresh Lavender and Mint
This easy soy candle tutorial uses herbs from your garden. You can just add them in to the jar before you pour in the melted wax.
Learn how easily you can use dried lavender stems to make pretty floral candles in mason jars.
This tutorial uses cassia and orange essential oils for a homey fragrance.
Learn How to Make Beeswax Candles with Essential Oil in 7 Easy Steps
This tutorial shows you all the basics on how to make homemade candles with all natural ingredients. By using your own wax and essential oils for scent, you can make candles that don't have any synthetic fragrance for you to breathe.
These beautiful, scented DIY Cranberry Candles are perfect for the holidays, but you could make seasonal variations on them all through the year.
It's scented with whatever essential oil you want (or none at all), and you put the cranberries and sprigs of pine down in the wax. You could easily switch it up to seasonal fruits or flowers all year long.