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Candle dipping is a favourite with children at parties, markets and school fetes.     Contact these candlemakers to arrange for candle dipping in Cape Town:
Barbara McLean         tel. (021) 557 8716  or bmclean@telkomsa.net
Costs:  R250 and then either R5 or R10 per candle dipped, depending on size.   Dinner candles of 13cm, 20cm or 23cm can be dipped in 3 colours.   [...]

It is satisfying to make your own gifts, especially when everybody loves receiving them!  Packaging can make a big difference – it changes the ordinary into the extraordinary.   Finding or making beautiful packaging can be another opportunity to let your creative juices flow.

The best way to mix your own colours it to make fairly concentrated wax blocks and then use these rather than the powdered dye. Melt some 6039 wax and add the colour of your choice. Pour into a baking tray and wait for it to cool down. Slice the wax into blocks before it is [...]

Glycerine soap attracts moisture. Once you have taken the soap out of the mould you may notice a  film developing on the surface. It is best to wrap your soap in ClingFilm or similar as soon as you take it out of the mould. Pull the ClingFilm tight so that the soap looks shrink-wrapped.

Use your candle pens to the max with this simple step by step tutorial.