For this post, I have put together a collection of the best candle making kits currently available.
Our Top Picks:
- Best For Kids: 4M Mini Animal Kids Candle Making Kit
- Best Starter Kit: No products found.
- Best DIY Treasure Candle: TBC The Best Crafts DIY Treasure Candle
- Best Quirky Kit: Hot Cocoa Candle DIY Kit
- Best For Gifting: TOFU Scented Candle Making Kit DIY Gift Set
- Best For Experimenting: Dellabella Candle Making Kit
- Best Eco-Friendly Kit: Scented Candle Making Kit by Lunar Oceans
- Best With Floating Candles: House of Crafts Candlemaking Craft Kit
- Best Soy Wax Kit: Make & Melt Soy Wax DIY Candle Making Kit
- Best Beeswax Kit: Kelliescraftsupplies Beeswax Candle Making Kit (Etsy)
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Candle making is the perfect home craft for adults and children (under supervision). Not only are candles fun to make, but they also make a lovely gift for someone.
From beeswax to soy candles and floating to fragranced candles, there are many different candle making sets available to buy.
We’ve picked our favourites, all of which have excellent 4-5/5 star ratings and customer reviews.
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So here is my list of the the best candle making kits.
Best Candle Making Kits For Young Kids
4M Mini Animal Candle Making Kit
- A cute kit which will allow your kids to make up to 6 mini animal candles, without having to use the stove.
- The kit contains 8 wax sheets which you can soften with a hairdryer and squish into the moulds, which will create the animal shapes.
- Very good reviews. From 302 ratings 82% of buyers gave this 4/5 stars.
KRAFTZLAB Ultimate Candle Making Kit
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- This candle making kit is made with kids in mind.
- It comes with 7 candle moulds – square cupcake, round cupcake, heart, leaf, butterfly, flower and star.
- There is a choice of 5 different colour waxes.
- The wax will need to be melted in the melting tin, so some adult supervision will be required with this set.
- Kids can make up to 15 small candles with this kit.
- No products found.. From 787 ratings 87% of buyers gave this 4/5 stars.
Best Candle Making Kit For Older Kids
TBC The Best Crafts DIY Treasure Candle
- You can create your own treasure candle with soy wax and mystery wax capsules that melt to reveal hidden stones and metal charms.
- The wax can be melted in a microwave (parents to do this bit), add the colour chips, and pour it layer by layer to create your block candle.
- Includes 4 wax mystery capsules with metal charms and stones, a fold-up wax paper mould, 1lb of soy wax, 2 bags of colour chips, 2 metal brads, 2 wicks, 4 wooden stir sticks, a measuring cup and instructions.
Best Candle Making Kits For Adults
TOFU Scented Candle Making Kit DIY Gift Set
- A lovely, large candle making set which comes in a rigid cardboard box, ideal for storing all your bits and pieces.
- Includes 100% Beeswax, cotton wicks, a pouring pot, tea light tins, 4.4oz big tins, colour blocks, essential oils.
- Also includes a melting jug and thermometer for testing the wax is just the right temperature.
- The 6x tins included have pretty patterns on and there are 6 fragrances (essential oils) to choose from.
- Great reviews. From 425 ratings 79% of buyers gave this 5/5 stars.
- Read our home testers review further down this page!
Dellabella Candle Making Kit
- A 100% soy wax candle making kit that is ideal for experimenting.
- It comes with a globe and square mould so you can make chunky candles.
- There are a variety of wax dyes so you can make the candles multicoloured.
- Fragrances include lavender, eucalyptus, cherry blossom and sweet orange.
- Great reviews. From 278 ratings 82% of buyers gave this 4/5 stars.
Scented Candle Making Kit by Lunar Oceans
- This candle making kit comes in a stylish tin which can be re-used.
- Set includes two bags of natural wax, two fragrance oils, wicks, wick stickers, glass thermometer, whisk, wax melting jug and gold tins.
- The fragrance oils are vegan friendly, never tested on animals and paraben free.
- If you’re looking for a premium set, this is the perfect choice.
- Great reviews. From 170 ratings 83% of buyers gave this 5/5 stars.
House of Crafts Candlemaking Craft Kit
- You can make both traditional, scented and floating candles with this set.
- We like the different shaped moulds included so that you can make a variety of shaped candles.
- Kit includes wax pellets, candle moulds, coloured dyes, fragrance oil, bulb pipette, wicks, wick rods, mould sealer and full instructions.
- Great reviews. From 699 ratings 84% of buyers gave this 4/5 stars.
Make & Melt Soy Wax DIY Candle Making Kit
- A kit which includes everything you need to get started making candles.
- Enough to make 6 soy wax candles.
- Includes 500g Eco Soy Wax, Wicks, Thermometer, Wick stands, Tins, Cotton Fresh Scented Oil and Melting Jug.
- The good thing about this set is the tins are plain sliver, so you could add your own labels if you wanted to.
- Great reviews. From 330 ratings 77% of buyers gave this 5/5 stars.
Kelliescraftsupplies Beeswax Candle Making Kit (Etsy)
- A great starter beeswax sheet candle making kit.
- This kit contains 5 coloured sheets of beeswax 20 x 20 cm, wick and instructions.
- You can either make 5 long candles or cut the beeswax sheets and make more smaller ones.
- The good thing about this kit is there is no heat involved, so great to do with kids.
- Excellent customer reviews with 4.6/5 star ratings based on 280 reviews.
- Available to buy from Etsy.
Hot Cocoa Candle DIY Kit (Etsy)
- A quirky candle making kit which comes with an Irish coffee glass and mason jar to make your candles in.
- They will look and smell good enough to eat!
- Excellent customer reviews with 4.9/5 star ratings based on 71 reviews.
- Available to buy from Etsy.
Review On TOFU Scented Candle Making Kit DIY Gift Set (Amazon) – By Ella, Age 9
This is my review on making candles using the TOFU scented making kit.
The kit came in a lovely gift box. When I opened the box it smelt like a field of lavender. The kit includes beeswax, 6 large candle tins which are really nice, melting pot, fragrance oils, dyes, thermometer and wicks.
This is my step by step on how to make the candles.
- First choose a pot and get the wick and put a sticky glue dot (included)at the bottom.
- To keep the wick in place and balance a lollipop stick with holes in.
- Pour the beeswax into the melting pot one bay of beeswax is enough to make two candles.
- Add the dye block of your choice I chose purple and it made a really nice lilac colour(the colour will be lighter than you think).
- Next we melted the wax on the hob. My mum helped me with this as the wax got hot. It took about 5-10 minutes to melt.
- Once the wax was melted I used the thermometer to check its temperature. It was about 65 degrees C so that was just right for adding fragrance.
- I chose to add two fragrances, Lavender and Rose and put a few drops of each into the melted wax.
- When the wax had cooled down a little bit to about 55 degrees C I poured it into my two candle tins, being careful not to spill it.
- Next I let the candles cool down and once they cooled down I cut the wick to the right length so it wasn’t too long.
I think this candle making kit is quite good for older children about age 9 and over as you have to melt the wax and also my mum enjoyed helping me. I would recommend this kit.
FAQ’s Candle Making Kits
No, it’s not hard, but candles do need to be made using the correct supplies and equipment. Candle making kits are a great starting point if you are interested in making candles at home.
Soy wax is simple to melt, eco-friendly and a popular choice for homemade candles. Derived from soybean oil it has a longer burn time than paraffin wax.
Because the wax cannot stick to the wick. Try pouring it in at a cooler temperature or try a second pour, to fill the gap and leave a smooth surface.
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I hope this list of the best candle making kits was helpful.
If you think I left any out that should be included or have a suggestion for a future article, let me know in the comments below.
Nicola
