From the article: Candle Making Safety
Buy them
- Buying candles in the store is probably the safest tip I can think of. Of course, when I tried to make a candle once, I ended up scraping wax off of a variety of surfaces (including my own hands and arms), so maybe I'm not the best judge. :-)
- —PaigeExercise
The right equipment
- Make sure you have a safe way to pour -- a regular saucepan doesn't have an indentation, so it's likely that the hot wax will splash.
- —susehahna
Double Boiler
- The double boiler is key, and make sure you don't boil all the water out. If the wax never gets hotter than boiling water, you'll never have a fire (although it can still burn you). Melting wax directly on a flame or burner is simply asking for trouble.
- —college_admissions
teen = unattended
- I agree that leaving the wax unattended is a bad safety hazard, but once I left some wax with a young but (I thought) fairly mature 13-year-old "just for a minute". I came back to see her about to test the wax with her fingertip. I stopped her, but man, never again. Attended = me or another responsible adult, ONLY.
- —Guest Jenn
