Infusing candles with natural scents can be very time consuming as well as possibly dangerous. It is important to understand the use of fragrance oils and essential oils safe for candle making. Some essential oils may be able to be used for say diffusers, but not candles. The question here would be how volatile could it be? You would not want to put something in your candle that could actually cause a fire. I have had this happen. I used an oil that was good for electric burners in some votives. It was not fun when a few hours into burning my little flame went kaboom. The other question would be how much of the product would you need to actually make enough to scent the candle? Say you want to use mint leaves for a mint scented candle. You could end up needing many pounds of leaves to equal 1 oz of fragrance. This is not an area I have delved into but will be more than happy to do some research/future article. I know an upcoming article will probably be very controversial as it will be debunking some of the myths regarding soy wax vs. paraffin wax.


Shanda Lynn Markham
CANDLEMAKING