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...

Golden Wax 494 is a speciality tart wax and is one of our bestselling waxes! It is designed specifically for wax tarts/melts. This 100% natural soy wax has great characteristics including excellent scent throw, easy mould release, and exhibits vibrant colours. We have also found that the Golden Wax 494 has a beautiful smooth frost-free appearance! Above you can see an image of some wax tarts which our research and development team have made using the Golden Wax 494! Characteristics: Max Fragrance Load: 10% Melting Temperature: 49-52C Pouring Temperature: 60-70C (Many of our customers find optimum results when pouring at 60C, but this is personal preference) Dye: Inpex SD Dye is most suitable (Mix at 1-2g dye per 100g wax, depending on the shade you wish to achieve) Moulds: Golden Wax 494 is a natural soy wax developed specifically for use in making tart melts. This means that mould release is very easy when using our wax tart moulds. Our research and development tea...

Inpex has become renowned across the UK and EU for the quality of their candle wax dyes. Inpex’s success is due to their consistent reliability and wide colour range. Currently, we stock a total of 45 Inpex dyes and we will add more stock colours as they become available. This is broken down into 32 colours in the Inpex Deep Dye range, 8 colours in the Inpex SD Dye range, 4 colours in the Inpex Fluorescent Dye range, and Inpex Whitener. Inpex Deep Dye: Our most popular candle dye range is the Inpex Deep Dye range. This is the range we recommend using when making candles using paraffin wax. The Inpex Deep dye is paraffin based and we recommend using a ratio of 1g of dye to 100g of wax. The melting point of the dye is 65°C. Due to the much wider colour range available, some of our customers do choose to purchase this wax for use with natural candle waxes. It is important to note that using the Inpex Deep Dye in natural wax will result in a much more pastel effect. For natural waxe...