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Making Tealight Candles
Making tealight candles is one of the easiest ways of making lovely candles, especially because you don't have to get them out of the molds after you've made them. Tealight candles are also popular because they are small, so even if you get the first few wrong, you'll only have spent little material on them and you'll have plenty of wax left to get most of them right. Pretty soon you'll see that tealight candles can be made really quickly and it is simple as ABC. Or, in this case - 1,2,3:
1. Get your tealight cups ready; put them on some old newspapers or waxpaper or a box lid, so then if it gets messy you will easily clan it all up. (If you are using cups made of aluminium, keep in mind that they bend easily.) Take some pre-tabbed wicks and place them in the center of each of the tealight cups.
2. Melt the wax in a double boiler or a wax melter at the appropriate temperature stated by the manufacturer of the wax (usually about 175° F, but the recommended temperatures vary). Then add some additives if necessary, and then yout favorite color and scent. Stir it up and the mixture for your tealight candles is ready.
3. Carefully pour the wax mixture up to the edges of the cups. Maybe you'll find it easier to scoop up some melted wax with a measuring cup made of stainless steel or pour wax through a funnel. When the wax has completely cooled, check if it had shrunk - if it had, just re-pour some wax and your candles will be level again.
And you're done! Clean up your workspace and you're ready to enjoy your new, hand-made tealight candles.