Diy Natural Citronella Candle

This fourth dimension of year, you'd live on difficult pressed to uncovering us eating dinner inside. Once the thermostat hovers inward a higher identify lxx degrees F as well as the Sun is out, we're pretty much guaranteed to live on dining al fresco. The solely problem? Mosquitos! Getting eaten live on past times bugs tends to stimulate got the allure out of eating inward the twilight. Not to live on deterred, nosotros constitute a solution that's equally fashionable equally it is practical: citronella candles!

Unlike many store bought candles that are citronella scented, nosotros similar using natural citronella essential crude oil to brand our candles as well as uncovering them but equally effective. Read below for the tutorial.

You Will Need:
-planter or another watertight vessel (we scored ours at Target)
-three candle wicks
-three pencils
-soy candlewax
-natural citronella oil

Directions
1. Anchor your wicks inward the bottom of your vessel. Wrap the excess wick to a greater extent than or less a pencil balanced on the oral fissure of the vessel. If you're making a 3 wick candle similar ours, y'all volition postulate to brand certain that the wicks job upwards evenly inward a row.

2. Melt your wax according to manufacuter's directions. To salve time, nosotros microwave ours for xxx minute increments until melted. Add virtually xv drops of citronella crude oil to wax.

3. Pour hot wax into your vessel. Let wax harden for a few hours.
 

4. Once wax is hardened, cutting wicks to desired length.

Meet the Contributors

Emily Hirsch as well as Erick Steinberg are blogging twain behind Hello Home Shoppe, a lifestyle weblog alongside a focus on DIY projects, recipes, as well as travel. When they're non blogging or working equally 2/4 of the creative way Jolly Bureau, they moonlight equally locally sourced sandwich vendors inward Philadelphia, PA.

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