Making Container Candles

Container candles are a beautiful way to accent your home, especially the bathroom. It is not recommended to make container candles in anything other than glass containers for safety reasons. For container candles, you can use either paraffin wax or bees wax. Fill each glass container within one inch of the top. Leaving that extra space will allow room for the candle to burn and not drip outside the container. You will need to let your container candles cool for about 20 minutes. Gently place a wick with tab into each candle container. Once the candles completely cool, cut the wick to ½ of the top of the candle. As the wax hardens the wick tab with stay firmly in place. You can add creativity to your container candles by decorating the jars with paints or gluing on colored sequences. Glitter makes a great design tool as well. The designs of container candles allow them to burn down to almost nothing, ensuring you get the most use out of each candle. Container candles are very simple and inexpensive to make. See also in French: Boutique bougie