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Home-based Business: Rustic Pillar Candles

Guest post by: Charles Godbout

Article Overview: Rustic pillar candles make a good additional niche for a home-based business. Unlike the original pillar candles, a rustic candle is more attractive with its textured surface, which ranges from lightly pearlized to a rough, leathery, and pitted surface. Rustic candles have lesser slick and finished than candles that are normally seen on display.

Home-based Business: Rustic Pillar Candles

Rustic pillar candles make a good additional niche for a home-based business. Unlike the original pillar candles, a rustic candle is more attractive with its textured surface, which ranges from lightly pearlized to a rough, leathery, and pitted surface. Rustic candles have lesser slick and finished than candles that are normally seen on display.

Candle-making is an ancient craft. From generation to the next, the basic secret and tips are not changed, but enhanced to have more enhanced appearance or longer lasting than most regular. When it comes to rustic candles, the secret to having such rustic finish is easy to get. You only have to chill or freeze your molds before you use them for molding candles, and to allow your wax mixture to cool a bit before pouring it into the previously-frozen molds. The frozen-coldness of mold creates the rustic effect of the candle as soon as the wax is poured into the metal mold.

So now, let us discuss the materials that you shall need.

1. Molds-the molds should be metal as you will put them on a freezer for a certain period. If you use other molds of different materials, chances are, your molds will break because they cannot withstand the freezing coldness of your freezer. The metal molds are the ones you normally used when you make votive candles or pillar candles.

2. Pillar-blend wax. You should use wax that will enable you to have more translucence. IGI4625 is a grade that is normally used in making rustic pillar candles or rustic votive candles. Now for the wax itself, you have many to choose.

There is beeswax that is derived from beehives, and thus, smells of sweet honey. It has a natural honey color as well. Its melting rate is slower than of paraffin's, but it comes more costly. Bayberry is another natural wax extracted from bayberry fruits. It too has natural sweet aroma and greenish hue. The soy wax is another naturally-occurring wax from soybean. It is cheaper plus it melts slower than paraffin candles. For your home-based business, it would be more lucrative to make few candles out of these waxes, and vary your prices.

3. Wicks. For pillar rustic candles, you may use HTP105 and 4-24-18z for rustic votive candles. Or you can use the wick that you have familiarly used in making pillar candles. If you are making rustic candles for your home-based business, it is important that you use materials that you have been using unless, there is something more beneficial.

4. Fragrance Oil. The scents of the candles are among the elements that makes a candle a bestseller. You can vary your scents in making your rustic pillar candles. Ensure though that the oil is compatible to the wax that you are using.

5. Coloring agent. Besides the aroma, the rich color or its paleness decides whether your candles are attractive to your client's scrutinizing eyes. If you use coloring dye, ensure that it is compatible with your wax.

Candle-making is a rewarding undertaking. There are different designs, styles, shapes and size to make. If you have mastered the skill in making rustic candles, it will be a boom for your home-based business. Of course, you must have candle-making as your niche, first and foremost.

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