The Best Candle-Making Kits

Buying Guide for Candle-Making Kits

Why buy a candle-making kit?

Buying a candle-making kit makes sense if you’re new to the craft or intend to give the kit to a beginner. Generally speaking, kits are a collection of tools and materials needed for a single purpose. A quality candle-making kit will include wax, wax melter, wicks, and more to make the project easier. Kits offer a safe method to try something new, too.

What should you look for in a candle-making kit?

• Molds: A candle-making kit worth buying comes with durable molds, either glass jars or tins. Many kits have both. It seems straightforward, but there are many variations to consider. Some include ornate-painted tins and lids, while others contain only two tins or glass jars. To get more use out of your kit, you’ll need to buy more molds. The number of molds that comes in any one kit isn’t as critical as having the proper equipment; it means you’ll have to acquire more molds separately.
• Equipment: If you already had all the equipment for candle-making, you wouldn’t be looking for a kit. To make candles, you need a melting pot, an electric hot pot, or a wax melter. Which is best? It would help if you had a way to monitor the temperature to avoid over or underheating the wax. Some kits come with a temperature gauge and stirring spoon in addition to a melting device. Other must-haves include candle wicks, candlewick-centering devices, and adhesive dots to get the wick perfectly centered and anchored. If you find a kit with protective gloves, that’s great.
• Waxes: The common types are paraffin, soy, and beeswax. Paraffin emits fragrance from scented candles best; soy is the most affordable and is the wax easiest to measure; natural beeswax has the highest melting point and burns longer than paraffin and soy. As you can see, they all have pros and cons. If you’re brand new to candle-making, soy wax might be your best bet. It’s the lowest-priced wax, the easiest to measure, and, therefore, the most forgiving if you make any blunders.

What other attributes make an excellent candle-making kit great?

Many of us love candles for their colors and scents and their glow. If you want to make colorful, aromatic candles, we have all-inclusive kits to share with you. In addition to quality wax, equipment, and molds, they include color dye blocks, fragrance oils (synthetic) or essential oils (natural), and dried flowers. These bonus ingredients may inspire you to continue the craft and find ways to personalize your candles if you’re new to candle-making.

Our Picks for the Best Candle-Making Kits

Pros: For starters, the 31-ounce melting pot and seven-inch stirring spoon are made of 304 stainless steel, which you’ll use to meet the 100% soy wax included and food-grade standards. So, you can use it for melting butter, chocolate, or cheese. You get one 12.4-ounce bag of soy wax flakes, fifty 5.1-inch three-hole 100% cotton wicks, fifty adhesive dots, and two candle wick-centering devices. Dingpai prides itself on its chemical-free soy wax, which contains only plant-cased additives.

 

Cons: The 12.4-ounce bag of wax is not enough to make more than a few candles.

 

Bottom Line: It’s not often one comes across a candle with a melting pot that can be used for making food. If you run out of wax, you have what you need to DIY chocolate candy, fondu—the possibilities are endless.

 

Pros: While the selling point of some kits is the sheer number of included supplies, the Chandler Tool kit offers just what you need: an electric hot plate for candle wax melting, five pounds of organic soy candle wax, 50 cotton candle wicks, one stainless-steel pouring pot, two stainless-steel centering devices, and one stainless-steel spoon. That’s it: no potions or colors, just high-quality necessities. Impressively, the soy wax is organic and comes in a five-pound bag. The 500-watt electric hot plate features nonskid rubber feet and variable temperature control, an enormously valuable feature. The Chandler Tool soy wax melts at 135°F, and the ideal pouring temperature is 185°F. 

 

Cons: If you’re looking for a candle-making kit with color dye blocks and fragrances, you may want to consider a different product.

 

Bottom Line: You get an instructional eBook and video tutorial in this kit, both of which can be as valuable to experienced candlers as much as for beginners. There’s always something new to learn to improve your craft and increase efficiency.

 

Pros: This kit comes with beeswax, an ingredient that sets it apart from most candle-making kits. Natural beeswax offers more than a long-lasting burn. It’s known to purify the air from dust, mold, and toxins because the wax produces negative ions when lit. Another bonus is the 16-ounce capacity electric wax melter machine with a removable nonstick wax pot. It features an LED touch screen that displays the real-time temperature and buttons to increase and decrease temperature. Of course, this wouldn’t be a kit without the other candle-making essentials. You also get two 4-ounce tins with lids, 50 cotton wicks, 56 glue dots, 12 color dye blocks, ten wooden wick holders, scissors, a pair of heat-resistant gloves, and two 3.5-ounce bags of natural soy wax and two of beeswax.

 

Cons: The kit does not come with fragrances.

 

Bottom Line: The K KORKUAN kit makes a great starter kit for crafters new to candle-making. It includes everything needed and allows artists to explore the benefits of beeswax.

 

Pros: This candle-making kit may be a dream for lovers of all things bohemian. The kit includes a 550-milliliter wax melting pot and stirring spoon, a 1.06-pound bag of wax, wicks, glue dots, and two bow tie clips—all the elements needed for a candler to make candles. Still, there’s more. To fulfill its promise as a hippy, artsy, candle-making kit, it comes with eight dye blocks (two each of red, purple, yellow, and blue hearts), six fragrance oils (orange, jasmine, lemon, Freesia, lavender, and lily), and eight candle tins with lids. The colorful, mandala-like patterns decorating the tins establish this kit as an original.

Cons: The product information is inconsistent, which may be confusing.

Bottom Line: What a tremendous candle-making kit for anyone who wants to try a little bit of everything—color, fragrance, and decorative tins. It’s great for making some one-of-a-kind gifts.

Final Thoughts

Why not buy a candle-making kit? It can make a great project to bring the family together, a solo creative venture, or a fun gift. The creations are endless once you find a kit that gives you the proper tools you need for your candle-making adventure.