Want to fill your home with beautiful autumnal scents and make your own halloween decorations? Try our DIY halloween scented candle recipe!
DIY candles can bring your favourite scents to your home and they can be decorated with halloween designs like ghosts, pumpkins, bats and more!
In this recipe, we’ll show you how you can use natural candle wax to create ghosts inside your candle! We are using natural paprika powder to colour our candle a beautiful orange colour. This ghost candle has a beautiful floral aroma, but you can also try some other blends here!
Halloween Candle Recipe
Ingredients
- Soy wax 300g
- Paprika powder 50g
- Clary sage oil 9g
- Frankincense oil 9g
- Bergamot oil 3g
Method
1. Weigh the soy wax
- Weigh 50g of the soy wax into a heatproof bowl
- Heat the wax in a double boiler or place your bowl of soy wax over a saucepan with boiling water
- Continuously stir the wax until it has fully melted
- Once the wax has completely melted, keep the wax at a temperature of 40°C
2. Create the ghost design
- Place your candle container on its side, so when we add the candle wax it does not run down to the bottom.
- Scoop a spoonful of the candle wax onto a spoon and carefully pour it into the side of the container.
- Using the spoon, carefully spread the melted wax to form a rough ghost shape. The wax should set fairly quickly on the side.
- Repeat this as many times as you want around the inner edge of the candle container.
- Using a marker, draw two dots for eyes and another dot as a mouth on the white ghost shapes on the outside of the container. Now your ghost design is finished!
3. Prepare the container
- Once the decoration has been completed, place a wick sticker on the bottom of your wick and place it to the bottom of the container
- Lay the wick holder on the top of your container, with the wick in the centre hole
4. Prepare your paprika powder
- Using a small square of cheese cloth, pour the paprika into the centre.
- Gather all of the edges together and tie it tightly to secure the colourant in the pouch.
- Tie a pencil or wick holder, to the remaining amount of cloth. This will help hold the pouch in the wax.
5. Melt the soy wax
- Weigh 250g of soy wax into your heatproof container.
- Place your container in a saucepan with hot water to melt the wax or fill a slow cooker with some water and place your container in the heated water.
6. Infuse the wax
- Make sure the melted wax is around 60°C, then sit your pouch of paprika into the wax and place a lid on top.
- Leave this to infuse into the wax, making sure to keep the wax at 60°C. We infused our wax for 8 hours and we love the colour!
- You can infuse the wax from 8 hours to 24 hours. The longer you infuse the wax, the stronger the colour will be. If you want to heat it for longer than 8 - 12 hours, we would recommend using a slow cooker so you can heat the wax for a full 24 hours.
7. Add the essential oils
- Weigh out the clary sage oil, frankincense oil and bergamot oil in a separate bowl
- Once the wax has been infused, remove the cloth with the natural colourant
- Leave the wax to cool to around 57°C
- Once the melted wax has reached this temperature, add the essential oils
- Continuously stir the mixture while it cools to avoid it solidifying on the edges
8. Pour into your candle container
- Leave the wax to cool to around 40°C and then pour it into your candle container.
- Make sure to hold the wick holder as you pour the mixture to keep the wick centered.
- Leave the candle to set for 2 weeks and trim the wick to about ½ an inch.
- Test the candle by burning it for around 4 hours (you want the candle to melt to the edges)
TIP: Don't make the white wax too thin when making the ghosts, as it may melt too quickly when pouting in the orange wax!
Halloween Essential Oil Blends
Want to fill your home with more spooky scents? Try some of our other halloween blends in your candles!
- Patchouli essential oil 7g
- Clove essential oil 6g
- Vetiver essential oil 6g
- Frankincense essential oil 6g
Continue Reading
Now you know how to make your own halloween candle, why not continue reading?
- Want to try a more simple candle? Have a go at our simple soy candle recipe!
- Learn more about colouring candles naturally with this blog!
- Make more halloween creations with our pumpkin soap recipe!
How did your halloween candle turn out? Let us know in the comments!
