Can Candle Scents Be Made with Natural
Ingredients

Can candle scents be made with natural ingredients? If you're committed to using all natural products in your home, you may find yourself asking this question.

Scented candles can affect your mood.

When making candles, crafters can add scent by using either fragrance oils or essential oils.

Fragrance oils are synthetically created scents. They are made in a laboratory using a variety of different chemicals.

Factors to consider when choosing fragrance oils for candle making include:

• There is no need to worry about finding key ingredients on a year round basis, so it's possible for manufacturers to create a wide variety of scents and have their products available in all major craft stores.
• The chemical processes used to make fragrance oils allow for more creativity in choosing candle scents. With fragrance oils, you can have scents like apple pie, fresh linen, Christmas Eve, or stormy morning.
• Fragrance oils are relatively inexpensive, so candle makers can purchase a variety of fragrances and feel free to experiment until they've created the perfect scent.

Essential oils are a natural product made with plant extracts. They can be used for medicinal, therapeutic, and homeopathic purposes.

Factors to consider when choosing essential oils for candle making include:

• If you're interested in making aromatherapy candles, essential oils are the best choice. While it's possible to duplicate aromatherapy blends such as jasmine and rose or orange and patchouli with fragrance oils, only candles made with essential oils will offer the full benefits of aromatherapy. This is because the benefits of a particular blend come from the plant itself, not merely the fragrance it produces.
• Although fragrance oils are not skin safe unless they have been labeled cosmetic grade, essential oils can be used to make candles as well as lotions, perfumes, shower gels, and soaps.
• Essential oils tend to be harder to find than fragrance oils because they require a large amount of primary materials to produce the final product. For example, you would need over 1,500 pounds of violet flowers to make just 1 pound of violet essential oil.
• Because they are labor intensive and require so many materials, essential oils are very expensive.

As you may have guessed, fragrance oils tend to be the most popular choice for making scented candles. While essential oils do offer some important benefits, the lower price and wider availability of fragrance oils is simply too hard to ignore. In addition, those who plan to sell their candles as part of a home-based business often find it's hard to get customers to accept the higher prices that are necessary for selling candles made from pure essential oils.

However, there is a compromise to the "Can candle scents be made with natural ingredients?" debate. Some companies have begun making fragrance oils that incorporate a percentage of natural ingredients. In fact, there are some manufacturers who create fragrance oils that actually contain a small amount of essential oil to help give the product a more authentic scent. Although these products are more expensive than fragrance oils with 100% synthetic ingredients, they are much cheaper than using pure essential oils for candle making.

If you're having trouble finding fragrance oils with natural ingredients in your local craft store, visit the Wicks and Wax Web site to select a scent for your next candle making project. Wholesale Supplies Plus also has a nice assortment of fragrance oils made with natural ingredients.

If you're interested in learning more about making scented candles using fragrance oils and essential oils, LoveToKnow Candles recommends visiting the following helpful Web sites:

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