Date: February 21, 28, and March 6
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location: 696 Dutchess Tnpk, Ste F, Poughkeepsie, NY
Price Per Student: $50 AMH members; $65 non-members - The course fee includes all supplies and you take the candle or melt you make home!
Workshop Description: Learn the basics of candle making including lotion candles and melts. You will learn about containers, fragrance oils, labels, wax, wicks and you will receive step-by-step paper instructions to take home for future reference. They make excellent gifts or just to treat yourself.
Learn to make a candle that is also a lotion!
A lotion candle is a candle that scents your space but is also used to moisturize your skin. You light it like any other candle then wait until the hot wax has cooled down then just dip into the wax and apply to skin. During the class, you'll be able to select either a floral or fresh fragrance oil and mix with a wax that's specifically made for your skin. You'll leave with a lotion candle in a 6oz. Container.
Scent your Space without Open Flame!
Not all waxes are the same. A special wax made specifically for melts will be used and poured into a 6-Cavity melt container. You will have the opportunity to select from a floral or fruit scent and then add your choice of dried flowers to the melt container. You'll leave with 6-Cavity Melt Container
Shades of Different Colors!
Pick from a Fresh or Woodsy Fragrance Oil which we will add to the blended wax then different shades of color. You'll leave with a colorful 6oz container scented candle
Materials Needed: None.
About the Teaching Artist: Sonya, the Candle Lady has established herself as a trusted source for soy and beeswax candles including wedding ceremony and reception candles when she opened Ye Olde Candle & Gift Shoppe in 2015. She's been featured in The Hudson Valley Magazine’s Face of Soy & Beeswax Candles for 2022 and participated as an artist in Dutchess Homemade for Arts Mid-Hudson. So, if you're tired of being disappointed with candles that smell great at the store, but never last once you light them, stop by and try her candles. You'll be back.