Candles

depends entirely on what you are using them for.

I want to know the chemical used to make Gel used in making Gel Candles. The websites are not of help, Please let me know if any one have the knolwdge

Mineral oil and resin
Penreco Versagel

I am a beginner and trying to start a business selling my gel candles. I make hand-poured, unique candles and am trying to figure out how to make a website for people to see my work and be able to order candles. I guess i need an e-commerce site for people to purchase things and I think I am supposed to set up a merchant’s acct. with paypal or credit cards or something. If anyone could please help me i would greatly appreciate it as I am a totally NOT computer savvy person, I just want to be able to sell my candles! thank you.

I assume you’re not familiar with OScommerce php scripts.

I suggest you download the Yahoo Sitebuilder. It will really help you in building your own website (if you don’t want to pay for web designers). You only have to customize the templates that the software provides.

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Good luck Diane to your candle business!

I am wanting to make gel candles. I just want to make the average size candle like you see in jars or decorative ones in hi-ball glasses. About how many candles could I make with 10 pounds of gel wax?

It depends upon what else you put into the glass as well as the volume of the glass (they do vary) and how high you pour, how close to the top edge. I can’t do the math on weight vs. volume, it is better to figure out the volume of the 10lbs and then divide by the volume of a highball glass. An instruction set for this type of thing can give you a better answer.

like i used to make gel candles and still have left over materials. i have scented oils to make the candles smell good but since i don’t make candles at this time i wanted to find other uses for them besides burning them in one of those oil burning dish thingies. i want to use this oil to oil my scalp since it’s dry and itchy and i don’t want to use any mineral oil or petroleum based gunk and T/gel doesn’t work.

is this not such a good idea or what? i don’t have the packaging that the oils came in so i don’t know if it’s harmful or not for hair but it’s safe to use in gel candles.

please don’t do that. products for the skin and body are first tested for safety. the chemicals used in the products you are speaking about may do terrible damage to your scalp. just use them in the oil burning dish and use olive oil or something for your scalp…(:.)
~~Stranger In My Heart~~

Here’s a few more.

http://www.gelcandleshop.com/miscwaxembeds.htm

http://www.happycandles.com/glassembeds/html

http://www.lonestarcandlesupply.com/gelsupplies.html

http://www.candledecor.ca/embeds/index.htm

This site might also be of interest to you.

http://www.gelembeds.com/