How to make candles. ;sourcing materials in Nigeria

candles are an important source of lightning in third world countries, especially in Africa where power supply is very irregular.

Candle making could be brisk business in these countries; almost every one uses them for lightning or for religious purposes, others for personal use because of its colours and scenting.Well designed candles of various sizes can be very marketable.

We would be taking you through the basic process of producing candles in the home; this process could be adopted for small scale business production.

MATERIALS:

·         Containers of some sort

·         A container blend wax

·         Appropriate wick for your jar and wax

·         Colour and fragrance as desired

·         Wick bars or a plastic straw to keep the wick cantered

·         Plastic Straw

·         Basic candle making equipment

Steps:

• Using a straw to hold the wick, apply a bit of hot glue into the bottom of the wick tab and press it firmly into the centre of your container. It's important that it be cantered well or the candle will not burn well.
• Weigh out the wax and melt it your melt pot. If you need to figure out just how much wax you'll need for your particular container.
• Add colour and fragrance oil.
• Stir to allow proper mixture of colour and fragrance
• Slowly pour the wax into the jars. Be careful not to overfill them - and be sure to leave a little extra wax in case you need to do a second pour.
• Let the wax cool down to about 150-160 degrees.
• Take the jars out of the oven.

Place them close together, This helps the jars to cool more slowly - which also helps combat the "wet spots." are actually not "wet", it's just a place where part of the wax has separated from the jar, and part is still sticking. There is no way to completely prevent them, but one way to minimize them is to pre-heat your jars. just put the jars on a cookie sheet and place them into a lightly warm oven - about 150 degrees is just right - warm enough to heat the jars, cool enough to not melt the wick

• After pouring, make sure that all of your wicks are well cantered.
• Let the candles cool slowly. You can wrap a towel around the group to help them cool more slowly. Be careful not to move your well-cantered wicks.
• Smooth the tops of the candles by topping or scrapping lightly.
• Once the candles are fully cooled - several hours/overnight - trim the wicks to about 1/4". Let the candles cure for a couple days before burning them to get the best scent throw and burning.

Sourcing materials:

Sourcing materials locally could be the greatest hurdle yet, few producers are not willing to disclose prices of materials.

For the sake of you our guest we went through task of getting a marketer who would be willing to give a preliminary estimate and address for sourcing here in Nigeria

Here : Fountainoil Enterprises • Fountain oil • P.O. Box 2578 • Minna, Niger 23401, Nigeria • +234 08053440608 • +234066220130

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