How to produce anti-mosquito aroma candle (Asian style)

anti-mosquitoes aroma candle is a kind of candle that become popular among candle lovers these days. Apart from its benefit, which use to prevent mosquitoes in the room, the candles can be used for decoration too. The important thing that candle maker have to know about produce it is the type and characteristic of materials that they use to make candle, process and tips and actual implement.

Equipment need for making candle

1. Electric cooker or rice cooker, this will be use for melting wax in order to make a candle.

Using electric cooker is very convenient because it has thermo strut to cut the power supply when wax are melt properly. If the wax start to become freeze, then we just only press the button to re-cook.

2. Two-layer hot pot, to warm the wax, we generally avoid to use heat directly to the wax, in stead, we use two-layer hot pot. The bottom layer use to contain hot water to transfer heat to the top layer, which contain a bowl of wax.

3. Square shape tray, should use a tray that made from aluminium because this material is heat resistant.

4. Small spoon for scoop wax

5. Mold for making candle in different shape

6. Large stainless bowl

8. Scoop

9. Scissors

10. Sharp iron stick to make candle spine

Materials

1. Paraffin wax, available in many shapes, both in chuck and seed shape and you can use any of them.

2. Poly-Ethylene wax or commonly known as PE or Polyester Estuarine, available in scale format. This material will enable candle to be long lasting. We generally use only about 2-10% mix in to the Paraffin wax.

3. Satiric Acid, use to make candle easily peel off from the mold. The mixture is 4 spoon table per ½ Kilogramme of Paraffin.

4. Micro wax, use to make candle texture flexible in order to be easy to mould or carve, available in square sheet. Be careful of using low quality micro wax, which will make a candle has a lot of smoke when lit.

5. Candle spine, there are two types; whiten and non-whiten

6. Powder colour

7. Lemon grass oil

How to do

1. Cut paraffin wax into small pieces, boil by using electric cooker until melting into liquid

2. Add powder colour, make sure that you fill colour bit by bit. Mix colour powder and wax until you satisfy

3. Then fill lemon grass oil 3-4 drops per wax ½ Kilogram Be careful about adding lemon grass oil too much, which will make your candle too smelly when lit and this may be harmful to people in your family who might get allergic to its smell.

4. Pour the liquid wax into a mould, wait until wax become stiff, then try to take candle out of the mould by using knife or scissors.

5. Decorate by small ribbon or any accessories that you want, such as colour scales. You may also want to put the candle into beautiful package as well.