Wax melts are really easy to make, and you can create such cute holiday shapes using silicone molds. Add a cozy winter vibe to your home with these Christmas scented wax melts, or give them as a homemade gift!
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What colour can you add into these Christmas wax melts?
We used wax dye flakes to add colour to our Christmas wax melts, which you add as the wax is melting. You can also use a liquid dye, after you’ve taken the melted wax off the burner. We also added glitter to some of our wax melts, which you normally can’t do with a candle. Since you don’t have to worry about a candle wick, you can also add mica powder for colour, or even herbs and spices.
How do I know how much colour to add to my Christmas wax melts?
The melted wax is a lot darker than the melts will be after they harden so it’s best to add a small amount of dye to start with. After the wax dye is mixed in, put a drop of the wax onto parchment paper. Within a few minutes the wax will harden, and you’ll be able to see the true colour of the wax. Then you can add more colour, if needed. The small amount of wax dye needed is too light to register on a scale, so it’s hard to give the exact amount of colour we used, but it was definitely less than 1/4 teaspoon per batch.
What scents are best for Christmas wax melts?
We used a mix of peppermint and vanilla essential oils (mixed together in a 1:1 ratio) in our Christmas scented wax melts. And they smelled so good! It’s such a warm and cozy scent for winter! Christmas is a great time to make an essential oils blend, using a combination of your favourite scents. Here are some examples of essential oils that would smell great for the holiday season, either on their own or together with one or two others:
peppermint vanilla cinnamon cloves ginger nutmeg cardamom frankincense myrrh cedarwood spearmint juniper berry eucalyptus
My Christmas wax melts have frosting on them. How can I stop this?
Frosting is the white crystal-like coating that sometimes appears on soy candles or wax melts giving them a cloudy looking finish. It’s a purely cosmetic issue, and it doesn’t affect how the wax burns or melts. We see frosting as an inevitable part of using a 100% natural soy wax. It happens as the wax hardens, because of the crystalline structure of vegetable wax. Too much dye, or certain types of dye can change how much frosting appears on the wax melts. We had more issues with frosting on our green wax melts, compared to the red, even though we added the same amount of colour to each. To combat frosting, make your wax melts in an area without a lot of air flow or temperature changes. And try to pour the wax at a lower temperature. We found that changing our pouring temperature to between 110F and 120F gave us the best results.
These Christmas wax melts are so much fun to make and unmold! It’s so cool how many small details the wax can pick up from the silicone molds, and the Christmassy smell they give off is amazing!
Here’s even more candle craft ideas:
How to Make Wax Melts
DIY Pumpkin Spice Candles
How to Make Citronella Candles
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