
Master candle making equipment, including a wax pot or double boiler, pouring pot, scale, thermometer, stirring utensil, and wick stabilizer, to add fragrance and dye and keep wicks centered.
Identify and prepare candle making supplies, including a container, wick attachment with glue dots, wax, fragrance, colorant, wick options, safety labels, a heat resistant surface reminder, and labeling.
Learn essential candle making terminology, including burn time, cold throw, cure time, diameter, and fragrance load, plus practical tips on double boiler, wicks, and hot throw.
Explore soy wax as a clean-burning, 100% natural option that burns 50% longer than paraffin. Learn about popular soy waxes, minimal frosting, fragrance loads, and wick choices for beginner candles.
Learn to create a container candle by preparing supplies, melting and measuring wax, adding fragrance oil between 180 and 185 degrees and dyes, centering the wick, pouring slowly, and labeling.
Explore container, pillar, taper, tea light, and votive candles, their wax choices and burn rates, and how memory rings form to guide even burning.
Discover how to pipe decorative wax frosting for soy candles by prepping wax consistency, piping tips, and bags, then practice designs and troubleshooting for flawless finishes.
Explore cake frosting as a topic within candle making for beginners in the scented soy wax candles course.
Master frosting a container candle using scented soy wax for beginners and learn practical steps to craft clean, decorative candles.
Identify sinkholes, flickering, sweating, and tunneling, then fix with wick trimming, heat gun smoothing, and proper fragrance timing to ensure a minimum of 2 hours burn.
Select reputable suppliers and test small scent variations to balance fragrance load in soy wax, ensuring potent essential oil aromas and avoid weak hot throw.
Learn to test scented soy candles by focusing on safe burn, wick size, melt pool, scent throw, cure time, and meticulous notes to ensure quality across batches.
Learn To Make Soy Wax Candles and Wax Melts, How To Make Container Candles with Soy Wax, Soy Wax Frosting, Step by Step Instructions on Creating Dessert Cupcake Candle with whipped wax frosting.
My name is Emerald and I’m the owner and creator of Gourmet Candle. I’ll be guiding you through this exciting course on how to create scented candles made from soy wax. With almost a decade of candle-making experience and running a very successful candle business, I’ll be teaching you the basics of candle making and how to apply your newfound knowledge to the candle making process.
Candles are a million dollar industry and what better way to enter the industry than with a variety of very unique items that stand out from all of the traditional items!
In Gourmet Candle's course you'll be able to understand the frosting component of the candle-making process, apply your knowledge and create your very own candle creations.
This course includes a variety of information on how to make scented soy wax candles and how to pipe wax frosting as a beginner candle-maker. You’ll learn how to make dessert candle cakes, cupcakes, pipe wax frosting into a a variety of containers and more!
If you already create candles, this is a great way to take your candles to the next level. If you want to learn how to create candles, we host an additional course with all of your need-to-know candle information.
With lots of different information on the internet, it can be very difficult in finding what’s accurate and what works. Save time and money with this organized beginners candle making course. See you in class!