How To Make A Body Candle

Today, I'm going to be showing you how to make a body candle. A body candle is like a normal candle but it's very soft. When you light it, it's quite quick to melt and it creates a gentle wax pool that you pour onto somebody's back which you then use for a massage.

I'm going to be using soy wax, which is the softest of the waxes. It's a natural wax and I'm going to melt it in my tin. This is just a clean, dry tin, like a baked bean tin - very useful because once you've made your candle, it can just be recycled.

Now, I want to be able to keep my candle soft, so I'm going to add some oil and I'm going to add some shea butter. Shea butter is ultra-moisturizing, so that will be lovely rubbed into your back. And then I've used jojoba oil.

The amount of jojoba oil that I'm putting into my 150 grams soy wax is 30 grams. And the amount of shea butter that I'm using is 40 grams, but you can adjust it so that it suits you. You want something that's going to melt quite quickly without being too hot.

If I put more shea butter in, it will harden it up. If I put more jojoba oil in, it'll just thin it down so that it's softer. I need to be able to fit ten more grams in there.

Now, I just put my tin into my hot water bath and allow that to melt. So, our shea butter and our soy wax have nicely melted, and this wax is almost ready to pour. As this is a massage candle, we are going to put some essential oil in, and I have chosen ylang-ylang.

Ylang-ylang is a rich floral smell and it's known as the amorous oil, and it has aphrodisiac qualities. I'm going to pour it straight into the tin, but you might have noticed that we don't yet have a wick in our candle, and I'm going to put in this wick. Now, the wick has already been threaded through a sustainer for me, and I'm just going to plunk that into my candle.

Now, that's a very soft candle, remember, because we've added our jojoba oil and our shea butter, so that should only take fifteen to twenty minutes to set. I gently removed these sticks that were holding the wick in place. I can see a very, very shiny beautiful-looking body candle.

I need to trim the wick before we burn it, so I'm just going to take the wick about half a centimeter above the candle. We used ylang-ylang; it smells just gorgeous. I'll just pop the lid on.

And that is how you make a body candle.
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