Once the wax is heated to about 180 degrees, add your essential oil blend and stir well. I use about 1 to 1.5 ounces of essential oil per pound of wax. It will sure smell up the kitchen, but will be effective outdoors.
Fill your dipping can to about 1" from the top, and dip the stick into the wax. You want the dip IN and the dip OUT to be a fairly fluid motion. Think "IN...2...3...4...OUT...2...3...4"
Lean the stick upright onto a piece of waxed paper.
Note: Be sure to keep some extra wax in the melting pot. As you keep dipping, you're going to need to add wax to the can.
Note: I'm using uncolored wax for the core of the candle, and will overdip with color later. You don't have to do it this way. You can make the whole candle white...or the whole candle in a color. You can also experiment with different colors - starting the core white, and getting progressively darker with each set of dips.
