How To Make Beeswax Tapers The Easy Way

Hand dipped beeswax tapers are some of the most beautiful candles you can make...they're also some of the most difficult. Hand dipping candles takes FOREVER (speaking from experience), but there is a much faster alternative. So in this tutorial, I'll show you how to make beeswax tapers the easy way. They'll have the hand-dipped look, without the hours of hand-dipped work. And as a bonus, I've found these burn better than actual hand-dipped candles as well, since there aren't any layers of water or air trapped in between the wax.

While you can use a double boiler to make these, I generally just use two pans set inside one another. The outer pan has water, like a double boiler, while the inner pan holds the wax. Just be sure you use an old pan you don't care about for inner pan. Once you use it for wax, you'll never be able to use it for anything else again.

MATERIALS USED:
Two pans or a double boiler
Lid for pan or double boiler
Water for double boiler
Silicone taper molds (available at betterbee.com/candle-molds/tm10.asp)
Wicking (candlewic.com/affiliate.asp?AID=140199&BID=…)
Wreath wire (twice as long as your mold)
Rubberbands
Wick pins or bobby pins
Scissors
Something to hold the mold upright (pvc pipes or other candle molds)
Dipping vat (I just used a metal plumbing pipe)
Raffia (optional)

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