How to Start Your Own Candle-Making Business

If you enjoy crafts and love having candles in your home, a candle making business would be an excellent home based business for you. It is relatively inexpensive to set up and could start to make you some money quite quickly.

To get started, you can either sign up with a company which will allow you buy and sell their candles or you can make your own candles. Buying from a large company will mean that you have a lot of competition and could struggle to get your website well-ranked compared to people selling exactly the same products.

If you decide to make your own candles you will need to learn how to make candles from an expert, either by finding someone locally who can teach you, perhaps in an adult education class or by buying a book written by an experienced candle maker. Making your own candles will enable you to develop unique designs, giving you an edge over your competitors and you can make specific candles to order, enabling customers to have their own individual designs.

You will need to learn about heating wax, puring it and adding scent. You will need to understand the different types of wax and candles, such as beeswax candles, soy wax candles and paraffin candles. And you’ll need to know how to make different types of candle and their uses such as floating candles, scented candles, taper candles votive candles.

The type of candles you make will depend on your market and you will need to do some market research so that you can produce candles which will sell.

You will need to learn business skills and also how to set up a website. Initially, you can sell candles to friends and co-workers and as you build your supply, you can look into setting up a market stall or selling at a craft fair. Once you are able to make good quality candles, you could approach gift stores or candle shops as well as developing your own online candle store.