Candles

Description

This book reveals everything readers need to know to make soya wax and beeswax candles from scratch. It features 30 unique candle recipes and detailed information on a range of wicks, essential oils, colors and perfumes. It includes over 15,000 copies sold of "Tea Cozies", from the same series. Candles make a wonderful addition to any home and garden and now you can learn how to make your own in a range of delightful scents. This book shows the basic techniques of how to make pillar, floating, votive, multi-wick, tea light, dipped and rolled candles. Detailed information is given on a range of wicks, essential oils, colour and perfumes and advice on how to adapt them to make your own unique blends. Match the scent of your room to your mood with refreshing and uplifting blends through to warming and calming. Plus, all of these sumptuous recipes use either natural wax or soya wax - one of very few books ever to do so!

Author description

Elaine Stavert formed The Littlecote Soap Co after a life-changing move from her television career in London to a farm in the beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside, in England. Surrounded by hedgerows and meadows, and with a keen interest in herbalism and aromatherapy, Elaine was soon developing a range of natural toiletries and bath products that were both kind to the skin and quintessentially English. Elaine's previous books are Bath Bombs 9781861086150 and Soaps 9781861086457.