Soy candle making basics
Every candle starts here. This section covers what you need before your first pour: supplies and equipment, the soy wax to fragrance ratio, how to size a wick to the container, and how many candles a pound of wax actually makes.
If it is your first candle, read how to make soy candles first, then plan the batch in the soy wax calculator. The other guides go deeper on each step, with every number in ounces, grams and degrees, no guessing.
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How to Make Soy Candles at Home: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
A tested recipe for your first soy candle: the supply list, exact melt and pour temperatures, fragrance load, wick sizing, cure time, and the mistakes that trip up most beginners. Everything in one place.
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Soy Wax Calculator: How Much Wax and Fragrance Oil per Candle
A free soy wax calculator: enter your container size, number of candles, and fragrance load, and get the exact weight of wax and fragrance oil to weigh out. Plus a chart for common jar sizes and where the 0.86 ratio comes from.
5 min read - Basics
How Much Soy Wax per Candle? Jar Size Chart and How Many Candles 10 lb Makes
How much soy wax an 8 oz, 12 oz or 16 oz jar really takes, how many candles you get from 1, 5 and 10 pounds of wax, soy wax density and weight-to-volume conversions, and a batch calculator that starts from the wax you already have.
7 min read - Basics
How Much Does It Cost to Make a Candle? Soy Candle Cost and Pricing Calculator
What a soy candle really costs to make, line by line: wax, fragrance oil, wick, jar and label, a calculator for your own supply prices, and a candle pricing method that does not leave you paying to sell.
7 min read - Basics
Candle Making Supplies for Beginners: What to Buy First and What to Skip
The complete supply list for making soy candles, with notes on choosing wax, wicks, fragrance oils, and containers, a realistic starter-kit budget, and the things not worth buying until you have a few batches behind you.
4 min read - Basics
Soy Candle Wax Ratio: 6–10% Fragrance, Dye Dose, Wick Size and Fill Level
Every ratio for soy candles in one place: fragrance oil percentage, dye amounts, wick size by container diameter, fill level, and the four temperatures that matter. Printable tables to keep above your workbench.
5 min read - Basics
Candle Wick Size Chart and Calculator: Sizing Guide by Container Diameter for Soy Candles
How to pick a wick for a soy candle: the differences between ECO, CD, HTP, LX, and wood wicks, a size chart by container diameter, what else changes the answer, and a simple burn test that tells you whether your wick is too small or too big.
6 min read - Basics
Wooden Wick Soy Candles: How to Choose, Size and Use Wooden Wicks
Wooden wicks in soy wax: how they compare with cotton, single versus booster and double strips, which width fits which jar, how to install, prime, trim and light them, and what to do when a wood wick will not stay lit.
7 min read - Basics
Candle Labeling Requirements: Warning Labels, Net Weight and What the Law Says
What has to be on a candle label before you sell it: the ASTM F2058 candle warning label, net quantity in ounces and grams under the FTC's packaging rules, what CPSC actually mandates, ASTM F2417 fire safety, and the extra CLP and GPSR rules if you sell into the EU or UK.
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