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Home-based Business: Votive Candles III

Guest post by: Charles Godbout

Article Overview: In the previous article about making votive candles for your home-based business, we stopped on the point in which you insert the pre-tabbed wicks into your mold filled with congealed wax. Avoid using too much force pushing the tab onto the base, as it may either release the wick from its tab, or free the tab from its base.

Home-based Business: Votive Candles III

In the previous article about making votive candles for your home-based business, we stopped on the point in which you insert the pre-tabbed wicks into your mold filled with congealed wax. Avoid using too much force pushing the tab onto the base, as it may either release the wick from its tab, or free the tab from its base.

After you have settled the metal tab onto the bottom of your molds, try to pierce a toothpick on top of your molds around the wick to allow the bubbles to release the bubbles. When you pierce into the wax, do it gently. The wax deeper may still be hot and has not solidified wholly. It will squirt upward if you pushed too deep.

Allow the wax to solidify entirely. It will shrink deeper into the molds as the bubbles are released. No need to worry because everybody who is in making candles as their niche for a home-based business will experience this. You will know what to do later into the article. It may take four to five hours for your candles to harden depending on the temperature of the room where you work for your home business. If the weather is cool, then the wax solidifies faster than when the room temperature is warmer.

Bring into heat the remaining wax on your melting pot, and wait until the mixture reaches 10 degrees hotter than the initial melting. Its purpose is to facilitate adhesion in between layers. When it reaches the melting point, put off the flame and pour the wax into the molds. Carefully, fill the molds above the lip level to avoid any spill. Let the votive candles to cool.

When you feel that the candles on the molds are absolutely cool, remove each of them from their molds. Taking them out from the molds sooner than necessary will damage the aesthetic of the candles. It will also make the removal more difficult. If this is the first time that the molds are used, the spray-on agent for easy removal from the molds should do the trick. But, if they prove to be difficult, place the mold in a freezer for five minutes and try again. If it proves to be a real stubborn, place it again on a freezer for another five minutes, before you make further attempts.

You can also press gently the sides of the mold in an inward direction, allowing the molds to roll onto your palms. After you have taken them out from their molds, it is time to wrap them in a package. Depending on the marketing strategies you have chosen for your home-based business, you can sell votives one, twos, threes, fours, sixes, nines, tens and a dozen.

You can also make a combination of colors for multiple votive candles in a package. So if the package has three, you can sell with one color, dual, or trio. Never forget to add a label into your package, include your home-based business name and contact details.

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