Jelly candles, as the name suggests, are naturally jell-like candles. Different from ordinary candles, jelly candles are glittering and translucent. If they are bright and smooth as frozen, they are works of art with high ornamental value. When lit, they are bright and mysterious, creating a romantic atmosphere instantly. Making a jelly candle isn’t complicated, as long as you master the recipe, you are the master of lighting a passion and creating a romance.
As an important category of handmade candles, jelly candles can be made into various shapes according to the different shapes of the production containers, and become creative products for a variety of handicrafts and festival supplies. Besides transform a variety of shapes, still can according to the aesthetic experience of maker, put flower, branches and leaves, act the role of article, design appearance, color feeling, smell, build the product that gives colorful, fragrant flowery. Not only can increase warm atmosphere for household, but also for birthday, festival, wedding, banquet, coffee shop and other places, and can be used as gifts, crafts, house aromatherapy, etc. Jelly candles burn completely, without smoke, odor during combustion and out. Crystal clear, colorless, non-toxic, harmless, full of elasticity and special fragrance, after melting also has the wonderful use of fragrance, color.
So how do you make a jelly candle? What’s the recipe?
The first thing you need to make a jelly candle is jelly wax, which you can buy in regular gift shops or supermarkets. If you can’t buy it because of limited conditions, you can choose to make it yourself.
Transparent jelly wax production materials include: liquid paraffin wax, thermoplastic styrene butadiene rubber (also can be made with styrene, butadiene). Method: the 70 styrene butadiene mixed with 30 thermoplastic styrene-butadiene rubber, 4-12 will refrain from thermoplastic styrene-butadiene rubber added to 100 ml of liquid paraffin, into the wax machine, heat while stirring, until the styrene-butadiene rubber melt after stop stirring, until the cooling molding, jelly wax can be finished. On the basis of jelly wax, more complex fruit wax blocks can be made, and different shapes of fruit wax blocks can be made through different fruit molds.
With jelly wax, you can make jelly candles. There are two kinds of jelly candles: heated and unheated.
Do not heat the jelly candle, do a good design beforehand, choose suitable glassware, make jelly wax, various decorations, a cotton wick. Add your favorite decorations to your glassware, and then start filling it with jelly wax. During this process, you can add your favorite decorations, until the jelly wax is 80% full. After inserting cotton core in jelly wax (do not need to insert bottom), the finished product will be refrigerated to finalize the design, can be used.
Heat the jelly candle, adding the jelly powder to the above ingredients. Heat the jelly powder in a saucepan in a ratio of 1:30 jelly wax, stirring as you heat until transparent. After waiting for the temperature to drop, you can add some flavor and crayon chips and other decorations according to your preferences. After that, the cotton core is fixed in the middle of the container. After that, the wax liquid is poured into the container and waiting for cooling and molding, it can be used.
So, is the recipe for jell-o candles simple? Life needs passion, perhaps a small jelly candle can illuminate the mediocre life, let you become a romantic, let the friends around because of you and feel the beauty of life.
