Make your own beautiful candles: 5 easy projects you’ll master in no time
Making candles at home is easy. With these tutorials, you’ll learn to create gorgeous candles by dipping, rolling, stacking, and using molds.
1. Candles from leftovers
Save burned-down candles and dripped stearin—you can turn them into new ones. Melt the leftover stearin and use molds to pour lovely shell candles. Take a look at how to make candles from leftovers!
2. Stacked spruce trees
These stunning spruce candles are easy to make from pieces cut from beeswax sheets. Cut squares in different sizes and thread them onto the wick in size order. If you like, mix in pieces of different colors for your tree. See the spruce candle tutorial!
3. Olive wax jar candles
Candles poured from olive wax are an eco-friendly, biodegradable alternative to traditional candles. Melt the wax, pour it into glass jars, and let it set—that’s it! To finish, decorate the jars with natural materials. See the tutorial for olive wax candles.
4. Quick-rolled candles
Pillar candles come together super easily by rolling strips of beeswax sheets. Try patchwork candles too by combining pieces in different colors—think stripes, for example. Find the tutorial for rolled pillar candles here!
5. Honey-scented beeswax candles
Candles made of beeswax have a gentle, honeyed scent and purify the air as they burn. These long taper candles are made by dipping the wick into a wax blend melted in a water bath. See the tutorial for long beeswax candles!
