4CandlesUK Candle Making Supplies Blog

  With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we are here with our romantic top picks. Whether you are looking for fragrance inspiration or looking to celebrate Valentine’s with a creative candle making session, check out the below products to help channel your inner cupid. Fragrance 4Allure – Prime Range Both refined and elegant, 4Allure is a sparkling fragrance which combines fruity notes of mandarin with oriental vanilla notes and floral notes of red rose to create a fragrance which is soft, fresh, and sensual. Amelie Mae – Style Range Amelie Mae entwines sweet top notes of powdered sugar and raspberry with a core bursting with floral fragrance to create a lushious scent which is fun, fruity, and matchless. Finally, Amelie Mae comes to rest on a bed of rose petals. Champers and Roses – Style Range Bubbling with excitement, Champers & Roses begins with top notes of tongue tingling bubbles before settling into an opulent core of champagne. These sparkling notes are accentuate...

All wicks should be coated in wax before they are used. We offer pre-waxed candle wicks here for customers who prefer the convenience, but we also offer raw candle wick here for customers who enjoy priming their own wicks. Raw wick is unwaxed cotton wick. It is supplied in string-like format and is wound onto a cardboard bobbin. A step-by-step guide to priming your own wicks can be found below: Cut the required length of wick off the cardboard spool which it is supplied on.  Dip the wick into the melted wax and keep the wick in the melted wax until you see air bubbles rise to the surface. This generally takes a few seconds.  When this happens, it means that the wick has absorbed a sufficient amount of wax and the wick can now be removed from the wax. Run your fingers along the wick to remove any extra air bubbles and then lay flat on a hard surface. Once this has dried, we recommend repeating this procedure twice, but please note when doing the 2nd and 3rd layer you only nee...

Container candles are one of the most popular types of candles thanks to the variety of containers available. Additionally, making candles in containers you already own is both a lot of fun and kinder to the environment as re-using also eliminates the cost, energy, transport, and small amount of pollution associated with recycling. What you will need • Double Pan Set (to melt your wax) • Thermometer • Container wax • Candle Wick (pre-waxed with sustainers is best) • Inpex Dye (optional) • Escentscia Fragrance Oil (optional) Choosing a container It is always better considering the jars and tins you already own. Glasses and tea-cups can also be found at bric-a-brac stores, car boot, and charity shops (you will also be supporting that charity). Not a lot of glass is made using recycled glass – and glass which is recycled is usually processed overseas rather than locally – so it is best to re-use wherever possible rather than recycling or buying new if we are serious about reducing our fo...

Happy World Baking Day! To celebrate this delicious event, our team have chosen their favourite bakery scents from our Prime and Style ranges of Escentscia candle making fragrance oils. Check them out below:  Blueberry Muffin – Prime Range Bakewell Tart – Style Range Banana Nut Bread – Style Range Cinnamon Buns – Style Range Fresh Bread – Style Range Gingerbread House – Style Range Lemon Chiffon – Style Range Pain au Raisin – Style Range Pumpkin Souffle – Style Range Raspberry Tarte – Style Range Warm Mince Pies – Style Range The best part? No calories…

We are often asked questions such as ‘what is the difference between the Golden Waxes?’ and ‘which soy wax should I use?’ To help make this easier, we have put together a handy wax comparison chart for the Golden Wax 494, Golden Wax 464, and Golden Wax 444: The Similarities All three of the Golden Waxes are manufactured by AAK. They are natural, kosher, vegan and cruelty free. The most suitable dye to use with natural soy wax is the Inpex SD Dye . Additionally, all three waxes have very similar fragrance loads (10-11%) and offer fantastic cold and hot throw when used alongside Escentscia Prime Range and Style Range fragrance oils. The Differences When choosing which soy wax to use, you need to first consider the type of candle you will be making. For wax melts and small moulded candles, you need a wax which contracts as it cools to allow mould release and therefore the Golden Wax 494 is most suitable. Please note that the Golden Wax 494 is not suitable for pillar candles.   For ...

 It’s our sweet sixteenth birthday! On this day in 2004, www.4Candles.co.uk launched and became one of the first candle making supplies websites in the UK.  We’re celebrating by launching 16 new fragrance oils! From festive, to Halloween, aftershave, sweet, fresh, alcohol and more – there is something for everyone. As with all of our new fragrances, we’re offering 50% off the 60ml bottles of all 16 new scents until 26/10/20 But that’s not all! We want to give 16 of you a present to say thank you for supporting us so you can celebrate too. Four people who like us on Facebook, four people who are subscribed to our newsletter, four people who are following us on Twitter, and four people who are following us on Instagram will all win a 25ml bottle of all 16 scents. So 16 people with 16 fragrances each. There’s no liking or sharing, as long as you’re following us, you’re in the draw. You’re free to follow/subscribe to us on all four platforms for extra chances to win and winners ...

As an environmentally conscious company, in December 2018 we embarked on a new project in order to tackle our single-waste plastic consumption. This project, among other things, tackled our previous plastic fragrance oil bottles being replaced with new eco-friendly aluminium bottles. However, we have received some constructive feedback from our customers regarding the new aluminium bottles about it being hard to open the lids. We have therefore stopped using the 75ml and 170ml aluminium bottles. These two sizes have now been replaced by 60ml and 150ml glass alternatives. These can be seen in the image above. The new glass bottles were designed with the feedback from our customers and the advantageous elements of the glass bottles, such as having child-safe caps and being easily recycled. By changing to a glass alternative, we hope to have resolved the issue that has been outlined whilst still minimising the impact we have on the environment. We do still use the 600ml alum...

We will be closing on Thursday, 19th December 2019 for the Christmas break. All orders placed before 12pm on the 19th December will be dispatched. Any orders which are placed after this time will be dispatched when we re-open on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.  We would like to thank all of our customers for their loyal and continued custom and hope that you and your families all have a wonderful, fun-filled Christmas break!

We are offering a fabulous 15% off all our fragrances this Black Friday! Add any fragrance to your basket and the discount will automatically be applied.  In addition to this, we are offering free shipping on all UK & EU orders with the promotional code "freeBFshipping" regardless of your order value! This offer is available across our website and on all our fragrance sizes including the 20ml, 75ml, and 150ml and 600ml bottles!  Both of these offers are valid until midnight tonight.

Three new fragrances have now been added to our Escentscia Style range! All of these fragrances are wonderfully unique and we are offering 50% OFF the 75ml until the 11th November 2019. The top, middle, and base notes for each fragrance can be found below:  Black Plum & Rhubarb Freshly picked plums entwines with wild tangy rhubarb to create a fragrance which is understated, elegant and quintessentially British. These notes are accentuated by a fruity accord of peach, blackberry, and added sunshine.  Dragon's Blood Dragon’s Blood is an oriental and earthy fragrance which incorporates top notes of orange blossom with middle notes of clove, patchouli and cedarwood. This comes to rest on a bed of Indian Incense, star anise and musk to create a fragrance which is complex, sophisticated, and has legendary depth.  Raspberry Tarte Top notes of succulent raspberries dance with a core of luxuriously thick cream, voluptuous vanilla and raspberry glaze whic...

At 4Candles, we take our commitment to the environment and corporate social responsibility seriously. We are continuously looking for ways to maintain the high-quality standards that our customers expect whilst minimising the impact we make on the environment. Over the last two months, we have been extensively trialling an eco-friendlier packaging solution – as many of our customers will know upon receiving their orders. Previously, we used branded plastic air bags to secure items within your order however we have now moved to a paper solution. Whilst the previous plastic solution was recyclable, the paper alternative has many eco-friendly advantages. The paper packaging is made from recycled material, supports renewable forestry, and is more widely recyclable. In addition to this, the paper packaging can be re-used when fulfilling your own orders and is fully compostable! We have received great customer feedback since implementing this change and have sent several thousand parce...

Whether you’re looking to entertain the kids over half term, or looking to brighten up your candle stall, these Halloween votive candles are a chandler’s equivalent of carving a pumpkin! We enlisted the help of some children to create our ghoulish designs! Step 1 – Make Votive Candles:  To begin, you will first need to choose your fragrance and colour combination! We chose the following colours and fragrances: Inpex Candle Whitener with US Style Liquorice Fragrance Orange Inpex Deep Dye with US Style Pumpkin Souffle Fragrance Fluorescent Green (used at a lower percentage to create a ‘slime’ colour) with US Style Strudel & Spice Fragrance Fluorescent Green (used at a higher percentage to create a ‘Frankenstein’ colour) with 50/50 US Style Crème Brulee and US Apple fragrances to create a toffee apple scent! Once you have chosen your combinations, you will need to create the votive candles themselves using the votive wick pins, votive moulds, and Chandler G...

Escentscia hav e rebranded their ranges and tweaked the formulas. Ahead of changes to fragrance legislation, such as the reclassification of lilial, Escentscia have begun to implement changes ahead of time . These changes are very small and the scent of the fragrances and how they perform in your candles/melts has not changed in any way. Testing is not required. Escentscia Original fragrance oil range has now been rebranded to Prime Range. Prime Range fragrances are designed to be used as a strong single scent. They can be used on their own or together for your own unique blend.  Escentscia have also rebranded the Escentscia US Style fragrance oil range to Style Range. Style, by definition, is an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living. We believe this perfectly embodies the style fragrances which are styled blends designed by expert perfumers.  All our fragrance oils are suitable for vegans, not tested on animals, and are paraben, petroleum and s...

We have now introduced the TCR Candle Wick series to our website. This is a wick which we have been asked to stock and we now offer a whole range of sizes. As with all of our wicks, the TCR can be coated in natural wax. The TCR candle wick is an unbleached, self-trimming candle wick suitable for natural waxes including soy and rapeseed. The wick is made from cotton entwined with a thread of paper.  The core of this wick has a supportive external jacket which is designed to eliminate sooting and minimise mushrooming. The smallest sizes are also suitable for natural tealights.  The TCR Wick is available to purchase in many formats including in sample amounts, raw and pre-waxed. We offer a fully bespoke waxed wick service where customers can choose the height of the wick, the type of wax it is coated in, and the sustainer they would like this placing on. Below, you will find a wax pool guide for the TCR candle wick series: Wax Pool Guide – Soy Wax TCR...

Our new Summer fragrance oil range is now available and we are offering 50% off the 75ml bottles on all six fragrances until the 7th July! 😁  4Choo, 4Millions-M, and Blueberry Muffin have all been added to our Escentscia range.  Mango & Lychee, Cherry & Lime, and Fountain of Youth have all been added to our US Style range.  Perfect for this weekend's fantastic weather! Enjoy! ☀️☀️☀️

We currently stock a total of nine different pillar mould sizes and are frequently asked how much wax you should use for each size. Below, you will find a guide of how much wax to use for each of our pillar moulds. Whilst this is only a guide, as the amount of wax used depends on how high the mould is filled, the below measurements are a great reference point for calculating how much dye, fragrance oil, and wax to use for your candles.  If you are interested in making pillar candles for the first time, you can purchase our  Chandler Grey Pillar Kit he re or you can also read our  in-depth guide on how to make pillar candles.   50mm Diameter Moulds: 50 x 100: 160g 50 x 150: 240g 50 x 200: 310g 62mm Diameter Moulds:  62 x 100: 270g 62 x 150: 400g 62 x 200: 550g 75mm Diameter Moulds: 75 x 100: 400g 75 x 150: 560g 75 x 200: 800g If you have a candle making topic which you'd like to see a guide for, please contact us  and we will b...