Diy Natural Citronella Candle

This fourth dimension of year, you'd hold upwards difficult pressed to uncovering us eating dinner inside. Once the thermostat hovers to a higher identify seventy degrees F as well as the Sun is out, we're pretty much guaranteed to hold upwards dining al fresco. The alone problem? Mosquitos! Getting eaten hold upwards yesteryear bugs tends to accept the allure out of eating inwards the twilight. Not to hold upwards deterred, nosotros works life a solution that's equally fashionable equally it is practical: citronella candles!

Unlike many store bought candles that are citronella scented, nosotros similar using natural citronella essential crude oil to brand our candles as well as uncovering them only equally effective. Read below for the tutorial.

You Will Need:

-planter or another watertight vessel (we scored ours at Target)
-three candle wicks
-three pencils
-soy candlewax
-natural citronella oil

Directions
1. Anchor your wicks inwards the bottom of your vessel. Wrap the excess wick around a pencil balanced on the oral fissure of the vessel. If you're making a iii wick candle similar ours, you lot volition necessitate to brand certain that the wicks business upwards evenly inwards a row.

2. Melt your wax according to manufacuter's directions. To salvage time, nosotros microwave ours for xxx bit increments until melted. Add virtually xv drops of citronella crude oil to wax.

3. Pour hot wax into your vessel. Let wax harden for a few hours.
 

4. Once wax is hardened, cutting wicks to desired length.

Meet the Contributors

Emily Hirsch as well as Erick Steinberg are blogging duad behind Hello Home Shoppe, a lifestyle weblog alongside a focus on DIY projects, recipes, as well as travel. When they're non blogging or working equally 2/4 of the creative way Jolly Bureau, they moonlight equally locally sourced sandwich vendors inwards Philadelphia, PA.