I’ve recently received a big shipment of beeswax sheets and wanted to come up with a creative way to use them that wasn’t just a boring old rolled beeswax candle… enter the beeswax flowers!
I love using beeswax because it’s a 100% natural product that can not only be used in candle making, but an important ingredient in balms and other skin care products. Beeswax is made by honey bees when they are gathering nectar and is used to build the honey comb in which the nectar is stored. Our beeswax sheets are made from 100% pure beeswax that have been filtered to remove all impurities ensuring the candles will burn cleanly, then they are coloured with special dyes so we can have nice vibrant candles.
How to make Beeswax Flower Candles
I chose to make a my candles with 50:50 beeswax and soy wax. You can of course make a 100% beeswax candle, but I find adding soy wax to the beeswax makes a softer candle that doesn’t burn as hot.
Ingredients
(makes two candles)
150 grams EcoSoya CB-Advanced Soy Wax
150 grams Beeswax
2 x Frosted Glass Jars
2 x CDN18 Wicks
2 x Wick Stickers
Coloured Beeswax Sheets
Equipment
Double Boiler
Melting Pot
Thermometer
Craft Knife
Heat Gun
Beeswax Flower Template (PDF)
Step One:
Measure out the beeswax into the melting pot and place in the double boiler to slowly melt. Once the beeswax is nearly melted, add the soy wax. Soy wax has a much lower melt point than beeswax so it doesn’t take much to melt the wax and for your mixture to become completely liquid (approx 70 degrees).
Step Two:
Remove the melting pot from the double boiler. If you would like to add essential oils, fragrance or colour do so at this stage. Make sure you mix them in well. I prefer to leave my candles 100% natural and keep the sweet honey smell of the beeswax.
While your wax is cooling, prepare your glass jars by attaching the wick to the centre of the jar using a wick sticker. Hold the wick in place by using an icecream stick, bobby pin or peg.
Step Three:
Once your wax has cooled to about 60 degrees pour carefully into your jars. Fill the jars about 3/4 of the way – you need to leave room for your beeswax flowers to go on top! Set aside to harden.
Step Four:
You can use any colour beeswax sheet to make your flowers. I went for more of a “succulent” look for one candle so I used green and natural colours, but for the other candle I made calla lillies so I chose vibrant pink and red.
If you’re good a freestyle cutting, great! But if you need a little help print out the flower template from the PDF up top. Place the template over the beeswax sheet and cut around the lines using your craft knife. I cut the larger flower out of green and natural beeswax, and the smaller flower out of ivory beeswax. I also cut just the petals of the smaller flower to add a little extra dimension. You can be as creative as you like here, using as many colour and shape combinations as you fancy.
Use a ball point pen to cut a hole out of the centre of each flower.
Step Five:
Slide each flower over the wick and gently stick down onto the candle. Bend the petals up slightly to create extra dimension. Once you’re happy with your flower trim the wick to 1cm above the flower and you’re done!
I’ll be sharing the tutorial on how to make the calla lily flowers soon, but in the mean time, I hope you have as much fun making these as I did!
