Today it is almost impossible to imagineour life without electricity, and few people are able to understand how it was possible to do without it before, and illuminate their homes with a wooden beam or candles. But, despite this, in the modern world candles remain very popular, although they are used only as an element of decor or are lit in special cases, such as a romantic dinner, weddings, birthdays. At the very least, they are lit when electricity suddenly turns off.
Of course, for unforeseen everyday moments ineach house will have a regular shop paraffin candle, but for especially solemn occasions you always want something special and romantic. And what could be more romantic than a beautiful and fragrant candle, and even made own, especially for the long-awaited event? This is where the once forgotten, but safely reanimated and repeatedly improved art comes to the rescue, called svechevarenie. Of course, you can buy a beautiful candle in the store, but is it not more interesting to learn how to make a candle with your own handles, and then to translate this knowledge into practice?
If interest is awakened, then to start your own strengthYou can try on candles used candles. The new ones will also work. Cut the wax into pieces and remove the wick or its remnants, prepare a water bath. It is better for her to use old metal utensils, in which you will no longer prepare food. So, on the water bath you need to melt the wax, and while it is heated, prepare the form, which then fill in the candle. Let it be an ordinary metal can from the condensed milk for the beginning, in the bottom of which you need to make a small hole.
Next, before you make a candle, you needwill make a wick for her. This is easy: take any cotton thread, measure the desired length of the wick (you can fold the thread twice or thrice, depending on the thickness of the future candle), thread one end of the thread into the mold, thread through the hole and secure from the outside with a small piece of wax. The second end is tied to a pencil or any other stick, which you put on top of the mold so that the thread is inside the can in the center, in a slightly stretched state.
If you are thinking how to make a candle of a different color,then this is also not difficult. You just need ordinary wax crayons for drawing, and the one you want to color is fine-grained and added to wax, carefully mixing everything until you get a uniform color. For a smell, you can drop a few drops of aromatic oil there, but after removing the wax from the fire. Now that the mold is ready, and the wax is melted, you can carefully pour it into the mold. After this, leave the future candle to cool down, as required. When it cools, you can put it in the refrigerator for several hours, then remove it from the mold. The pencil holding the wick can be removed, the thread from the bottom completely cut off, and on top leave a couple of centimeters for ignition.
Now you know the basic principle of how to makecandles, and, using it, you can improve your skills, inventing new and new designs and applying a wide variety of materials for their manufacture. After all, candles are not only wax and paraffin. Surely you met on sale very beautiful transparent candles, inside of which "the gardens are blooming and the butterflies are fluttering." These are gel or glycerine candles, which you can also learn to do if you have a rich imagination.
Having studied all the wisdom and understanding how to do ita candle, you can even achieve such an effect as a colored flame. Yes, adding some components to the molten composition, you can make it so that the candle will burn in yellow, red, green or blue flame. But with such special effects you need to be extremely careful, because the ingredients that make the spark colorful - nothing more than chemical reagents. In other respects, the process can become so fascinating that you have to open your own business. But every time before you make a candle, remember the rules of safety and observe them, no matter how well you have mastered your new hobby.
