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Massage Candles – Pouring and Wick Setting

Filed Under: Lotion


When you pour your massage candles, you’ll want the wax to be a cool temperature, almost slushy. If you don’t pour the Container Wax Lotion Bar Hybrid cool enough, you will end up with pitted candles. Pitted candles work just fine – they just don’t look so great. If you end up with an uneven surface or cratered look on your candle, just zap the top of the candle with a heat gun to remelt the top layer of the candle to ensure a smooth look.

For these candles, I prefer the WU250 wick over the 450. I find that the wax pool is much better with the 250. A large wax pool is a necessity for Massage Candles.

Pour the Wax Oil combination and center the wick. The wick has a tendency to flop over. You can easily prop up the wick in between two pens or chopstick.


Unlike yesterday’s recipe, which was a little oilier, today’s recipe is somewhat waxy and harder. It would do well as a travel candle or in warmer climates. The recipe below uses a larger portion of soy wax and absorbs into the skin more slowly than yesterday’s recipe.

For this Massage Candle, you will need:

1 oz. of Avocado Oil
2.5 ounces of NatureWax C-3 (container) Soy Wax
.75 oz. Cocoa Butter
.75 oz. Shea Butter
Skin Safe Fragrance
Candle Tin
Wick
Pyrex Container
Spoon

Melt the Avocado Oil, Soy Wax, and Cocoa Butter until completely liquid. Melt in short 45 second bursts in a microwave, stirring between each time.
Once fully melted, add the Shea butter in small chunks to allow the heat of liquid wax and oils to melt it.
Add your fragrance or essential oil (remember, no Peppermint or Spearmint or skin irritants like Clove or Cinnamon essential oil). Mix well.
Pour into your container after the mixture has started to cool and is close to setting up. Place the wick. Use 2 chopsticks or pencils to keep the wick centered and straight while the wax is setting up.

Hint: If you don’t have Avocado Oil (or just don’t like it), you can substitute another liquid oil such as Sweet Almond Oil or Olive Oil for the Avocado Oil.

Check back tomorrow for the final recipe.

Day One – Introduction
Day Two – The Fine Print
Day Three – The First Recipe

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20 Comments

  2. How do I know which fragrances are are skin and candle safe? Also, I was thinking of making these for Christmas gifts, but it looks like Brambleberry is out of the tins. Any idea when they’ll get more?

    Thanks!

    • It’s not very spreadable as an actual massage oil product because then it’s mostly just wax that gets pretty solid at room temperature. =) But it burns just fine…

  5. Can I use a butter other than shea butter (I have discovered that shea butter irritates my skin)? Would cocoa butter or mango butter work – don't want to use something flamable?

  8. Could you tell me about how much this recipe makes? As in what size candle tin is used for it.

  9. You can do .25 ounces all the way up to .75 oz for the fragrance depending on preference.

  11. Hi Katty –

    The difficult thing about making an edible product is that you really need to be working in a clean kitchen environment – and ensure that all the products are food grade that go into the product. Many soy waxes are not food grade – though they are skin safe – because they aren’t initially processed in a food processing plant.

    If you can ensure that all of your products are food grade (Bramble Berry does not certify any of its product as food grade; I don’t think most of our fellow suppliers do either), then you could use the same recipe with flavor oil.

    Best of luck with your new project! =)

    Anne-Marie

  12. Hello Anne Marie!!

    Thank for sharing your time. I have heard of this massage candles but WITH FLAVOR!!! Please, can you adjust your reciipe in order to make it edible, lickable.

    Thanks!!!

    Katty

  14. Ann-Marie

    Can you make these without wicks, just use with a candle warmer, so there isn’t the liability?

  15. Koinonia, They ARE super easy. That’s one of the nice things about them. They are very easy to make and difficult to mess up. =) You should give them a try, even if it’s not in time for Valentine’s Day.

  16. Those look super easy to make. Too bad I don’t have time to get supplies in time to make them for Valentine’s. (stomp, pout!)

  18. I love these! I am going to order supplies to try them. Thank you for the detailed tutorial. I have not seen them anywhere else before so I am excited that you tackled it so I did not have to muddle my way through it.