MEESECRAFT

Candle-making is a very, very recent interest of mine. Like countless other people during this lockdown, I decided to try my hand at making candles (and also bread, but we'll get to that later) at home.

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I honestly have no idea what I'm doing. But I will say this- please don't melt paraffin wax on a gas stove. Or any wax, really.

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My primary reason for picking this up was to be able to make my own scented candles. I like to use them to clean the air, so to speak, right before I settle down for a long bit of work. Many commercially available candles would work wonderfully well for this purpose, but their fragrances get to me.

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For someone who can't smell the food on the stove getting burned to a nice, crisp charcoal just from the other room, I'm unusually sensitive to fragrances (artificial or otherwise). Two things about commercial candles put me off - they're too fragrant, and they're often a mixture of scents. I'm really picky about the scents I want in my candles, and I prefer just having one or two smells wafting from them.

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Candles with individual, plant-based scents are also easier to work with when hexing my enemies.

 

I'm kidding. I don't know anything about hexes...yet.

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I'm so excited to be experimenting with this! I wonder how many more attempts will be needed for me to get a grasp of how to make a good scented candle with essential oils, and one with a decent 'hot throw' (unlike my latest batch of candles that don't smell at all when burnt).

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Of course, I could just make things a lot easier on myself by going through the numerous helpful blogs that give detailed instructions on how to make foolproof, organic scented candles, but then where's the fun in that?

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NOTE: Blog is such a weird word. Who even came up with it?