Don’t Abuse Candle Making Fragrances
Candle making fragrance is one of the selling factors in any candle making business. Common candle making fragrance includes naturally scented substances.
Candle making fragrances are mostly synthetics and not composed of natural ingredients. Natural oils are totally different from fragrance oils because these are steam culled from flowers, herbs, and spices—being natural substances.
Making use of natural fragrances can be a good alternative to commercial fragrances; but these have disadvantages as well.
These include higher cost than commercial fragrances and are not specifically designed as candle making fragrance.
Natural oils are more costly because it needs more natural ingredients in order to extract a small amount of oil. Two hundred pounds of lavender flowers yields only a pound of essential oil.
Nonetheless, there are a lot of advantages when using natural oils as a candle making fragrance.
It is definitely a great way to capture the natural essence of a plant in a candle. Essential oils give more than just purely a cosmetic scent; it gives some kind of a therapeutic scent, as well.
That is why there are so-called aromatherapy candles because these are made of essential oils. When you choose essential oils to be your candle making fragrance, bear in mind to explain to your customers the advantages of using natural fragrances. It will also make your customers believe that its expensive price is reasonable enough.
You can also blend and create your own candle making fragrance. In here, your creativity will come into play. The variations of scents you can produce depend entirely on your creativity to mix and blend candle making fragrance.
In order to do this, you will just need scent jars. Place these jars just exactly next to each other. Observe how these various scents will blend. If you happen to like it, you can already proceed with the second step. You will need a clean empty jar and some cotton swabs for this procedure.
Get a cotton swab and lightly dip it in the first jar of scent. Pinch out any spare oil on the rim of the jar. Afterwards, place the swab in the empty jar. Perform the same procedure with each remaining scent and place a cap on your jar which holds the cotton swabs.
Wait for some considerable period of time. Afterwards, open the jar. This has already given the scent the time to develop and it has given your nose a time to rest.
Upon reopening the jar, take down notes based on the following questions:
· Do you like the scent?
· Do you find any specific ingredient too strong?
Finally, close the jar and perform the process again after a few hours. Always remember to store your jar in a cool dark place.
If you think this mixture of scent is already good, create a set of candles using this new blend. Observe the performance of this scent and make sure to list down the exact recipe in order to make needed modifications in the future.
You must also follow some safety precautions upon doing this procedure. Natural fragrances are not completely safe to use. For your safety, you have to avoid using the following oils as your candle making fragrance:
· bitter almond
· chervil
· cinnamon bark
· bitter fennel
· oregano
· sage
· sassafras
· savory
· red thyme
· wintergreen
The above-mentioned natural oils are not yet proven and time-tested candle making fragrance. Be sure to do your own research before using any essential oil.
