Fragrant Candles: A Practical Guide to Making Candles for the Home and Garden - Softcover

This handbook describes how to make candles and how to use them effectively in the house and garden. The photographs illustrate how to combine aromatherapy oils with the hypnotic power of a burning candle, to enhance general health and wellbeing.

There is only one thing more romantic, atmospheric, and mood-enhancing than a flickering candle, and that is a candle with the heavenly scent of essential oils. Craft your own, which beautifully combine color, shape, and fragrance. In addition to instructions for melting, molding, and dying the wax, an aromatherapy guide will help you choose the right scent for that special ambience. Consider frankincense for meditating; rosemary for purifying; lavender for overcoming insomnia; geranium for celebrating; and juniper for invigorating. Decorate by adding pressed flowers or embedding seashells in the candles, paint or stencil them, and then make a little magic with unusual ideas for displaying and enjoying your tapers or votives (including bathing by candlelight!). There are extraordinary holiday tips, too. 84 pages (all in color), 8 1/4 x 11. REISSUE