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Home-based Business: Votive Candles I

Guest post by: Charles Godbout

Article Overview: If you make candles as your niche for a home-based business, then you must know somehow that votive candles are among the common types of candles you have to make. Many people love to burn votive candles during their long baths on the tub, or when they want to have a serene and romantic moment. Others burn a votive candle to save on energy.

Home-based Business: Votive Candles I

If you make candles as your niche for a home-based business, then you must know somehow that votive candles are among the common types of candles you have to make. Many people love to burn votive candles during their long baths on the tub, or when they want to have a serene and romantic moment. Others burn a votive candle to save on energy.

Whatever reasons people burn votive candles for, it is a sign of good business. Hence, there is no reason why you should not include them in your home business niche. If you have attended crash courses on how to make them, then you already know everything about them. But in case, you missed something from your classes, you can find this article helpful. Also, if you have not enrolled in a crash course, then by all means, continue reading on.

Understand that a votive candle is not free-standing. To burn it, you have to put it inside a candle holder designed for a votive. The candle melts as it burns and the liquefied form of it drops like tears do. Almost everyone knows about it. But the point is, you can make this feature an additional marketing strategy for your home-based business. You can include a candle holder in a set of four when you pack them for selling or shipment. Since the process of making candles is long, it is best to discuss first what you will need to make the candles. So you can have some information about the materials.

Now, to make your candles, you will need the following materials:

1. Wax for votives. There are different kinds of wax. There is paraffin, gel, jelly gel, soy, beeswax, palm and bayberry. If you are unsure which one to use, you can choose paraffin as it is the most common.

2. Wax additives. Additives are optional. They can be vybar or stearic acid. Vybar is used to eliminate bubbles, increase opacity, enhance fragrance oil-capacity of the wax, and prevent mottling. Stearic acid is used to increase the hardness and opacity of the wax.

3. Fragrance oil. Sometimes, this is optional. Some waxes like bayberry and beeswax have their own natural scent. Beeswax, derived from beehive smells of honey, while bayberry has a natural sweet smell because it is extracted from bayberry fruit. But if you use paraffin wax, and because you want to stay competitive for your home-based business, then you will experiment with other aromas.

4. Dye. Like the fragrance oil, this can also be optional. For your business, make it versatile. Offer votive candles without scent and with different scents and colors. Beeswax is naturally yellowish, but you can alter it as you wish. It is similar with bayberry wax, which has an olive green when extracted.

5. pre-tabbed wicks. Choose or prepare wicks ideal for votives which is normally 36-24-24 zinc core.

6. Votive molds. You can use metal molds bought from a store. For a home-based business, maybe you can purchase a dozen of them for more votive candles each time you melt the wax.

7. Mold release spray. This is another optional material. It is used to spray around the molds before the melted wax is poured over them for easier removal of the candles once they cool off. But if you have already made candles many times, this is not necessary.

8. Pouring pot. This is a melting pot.

9. Thermometer. Of course, this is used to ascertain the temperature of the melting wax.

Alright, so these are all the materials that you will need to make votive candles for your home-based business. In the next article, the steps are thoroughly discussed.

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