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...

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...

Introduction:  The Chandler Grey Pro Container wax is a creamy and smooth one-fill container wax which boasts a smooth surface, excellent container adhesion, and a powerful scent throw. It's low melting point (40-44C) also easily allows a full melt pool, when wicked correctly. Container and pillar candle making wax is very different; container wax is made to adhere, whilst pillar wax has been made to contract for easy mould release. Characteristics: Max Fragrance Load:  8% Melting Temperature: 40-44C Pouring Temperature: As low as possible, ideally around 60C Dye: Inpex Deep Dye is most suitable (mixed at 1g dye per 100g wax) Wicking:  For the Chandler Grey Pro Container wax, we recommend testing the WickWell Cotton Core and Wedo LX wicks. Alternatively, the 0.508 Lumetique Wooden Wick range is also a suitable option to test.  More information can be found on our Cotton Core and LX wicks here.  More information can be found on our Lumet...