The Candlemaker's Companion: A Complete Guide to Rolling, Pouring, Dipping, and Decorating Your Own Candles

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Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.59332
EAN: 9781580173667
ISBN: 1580173667
Label: Storey Publishing, LLC
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Studio: Storey Publishing, LLC

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Create exquisite, handcrafted candles at home with this comprehensive primer!

From wax to wick to wrapping, the magical glow of a handmade candle is now easier to create than ever before. With illustrated step-by-step instructions and complete source lists, The Candlemaker's Companion shows you how to:

- Create rolled, poured, molded, gel, dipped, and custom-blended candles

- Scent, color, and decorate candles for special places and occasions

- Make innovative containers, holders, and gift packaging

- Create luminaria, lanterns, and floating candles

- Use specialty techniques, such as overdipping, painting, layering, and sculpting

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Summary: A true candle making compaion!
Comment: Like a true friend this book has been with me for many years. I often recommend it to my customers ([...]) While it may seem a bit difficult for beginners to follow it really has a lot of great stuff. Decent candle recipes, great trial and error stories and just enough humor. After about 20 years of candle making I still refer to this book from time to time.

Ms. Oppenheimer really knows her stuff. Especially when it comes to paraffin dipped candles. She is on my short list of candle maker's that I would like to have dinner with some time.

The reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because I feel there are some things that are talked about that are either wrong or dangerous. For instance, never add essential oils or fragrance oils directly to the flame or melt pool of a candle. You could create a flame thrower. I tested this with some orange essential oil and the flame got to about 20 times the normal size and shattered the votive glass.

But overall this is a great book. And it really hits upon my favorite theme for profession candle makers--test, test, test!

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Summary: Not Quite What I Expected
Comment: This book seemed a little generic to me. It served somewhat of a purpose in my candlemaking endeavor, but not as thorough or nice as I'd expected. For the right price, I'd suggest this book as a supplement, but to get something better if you need to know the ins and outs and are just starting.

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Summary: Very informative, but hard to understand...
Comment: Let me just say that there is a lot of information on this book, and the author thoroughly covers everything! However, for someone who was looking to learn how to make candles it was way over my head. The way the book jumped around didn't really leave me an organized way to figure out my first step in making candles. I gave it to a friend and hopes she has better luck with it!! I think people that have some experience will find this book very helpful!

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Summary: The Candlemaker's Companion
Comment: A very simplified instruction book. Fun to read that makes you want to dive right in and get started, but it also cautions you not to read ahead just do each project in order for a complete understanding of what a joy it is to learn such an ancient craft.

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Summary: Great Book
Comment: I have made candles since I was in the 5th grade and always made them from kits or just dabbling in the kitchen with some left over wax. I often found many problems with my results and never could find solid instructions about the details of candle making. This books chapter on wicks explained so much to me and has since made my candles not only more successful but I know why they are successful. No more smoking wicks and sputtering wax. If you want to make beautiful gifts for yourself and friends and are tired of just buying a kit. This book should be your next step. It dymistifies the mystery.

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