Melt Your Wax

You will need either a steamer pot or deep saucepan, and you will also need a melting pot with a pouring spout. These two items create a double boiler to melt your wax.

Fill the bottom part of your double boiler (the steamer pot or the deep sauce pan) with about two inches of cool water, and place on the burner set to high temperature.



Adding Dye & Fragrance

After the wax is melted, add candle dye and fragrance to create the color and fragrance of fill wax you desire.

Pour the Wax

Pour the wax into a cookie sheet or cake pan. The depth to which you pour depends on how big you would like your wax chunks to be. For small wax chunks, pour only ½ inch. For larger chunks, pour the wax to 1” deep in the pan.



Setting Wax

Let the pan cool undisturbed until the wax is warm and pliable, but no longer runny. The time it takes your wax to cool to this state depends on the depth of the wax in the pan. Keep an eye on it, because if you wait too long, the wax will cool and harden, making the next step (cutting the wax) difficult or impossible.

Cutting Wax Chunks

Using a craft knife cut the wax in the pan into squares. Make big squares for bigger wax chunks, smaller squares for smaller wax chunks. Different sizes and shapes add interest to your candles, so feel free to get creative and experiment.





Cooling Wax Chunks

When you have finished cutting the wax in the pan to your desired size of chunks, let it sit undisturbed again, until the wax cools and hardens. When it is hard, tip the wax out of the pan. If the pieces are stuck together, you can break them apart with your hands.



Fill Mold with Wax Chunks

Fill your mold with wax chunks. You can place them carefully using a wood stir stick or chopstick to position them, or you can drop them in sloppily for a random look. You can fill the mold half way, so only the bottom half of your candle has chunks in it, or you can fill the mold all the way to the top, so that wax chunks are sticking out of the top of your finished candle. You can get really creative with the placement of your wax chunks, the mix of colors you use, and the shape of your wax chunks.



Melt Your Fill Wax (as done in the first step)


Adding Dye & Fragrance

After the wax is melted, add the candle dye to create the color of fill wax you desire. Each of our diamond shaped dye chips colors 1 lb of wax. Use more or less candle dye for lighter or darker colored fill wax. Drop a dye chip (or part of a dye chip) into the melted wax, and stir until the dye chip is entirely dissolved into the liquid wax.

After the wax is entirely melted, and after you have added your candle dye, you may add your candle fragrance. The standard ratio for our candle fragrance oils is one ounce of fragrance oil per 1 lb of wax. Use more or less fragrance for lighter or heavier scented fill wax. Add the candle fragrance to the melted wax in the melting pot, and stir thoroughly to get even distribution of the candle fragrance.

Pour the Fill Wax

When your fill wax has reached the desired temperature, pour it into the wax-chunk-filled mold.



Chunk candles do not usually require relief holes or a second pour, as the cool wax chunks limit the shrinkage of the fill wax. The exception to this is if you are going for a chunk candle look where the top portion of the candle is fill wax. Even in this scenario, you should not need to poke relief holes. The wax may shrink enough for you to need to make a 2nd pour to fill the indentation around the wick. If you are making one of these candles, be sure to save some wax for the 2nd pour.