Gel Candles: 40 Creative Projects

By C. Kalia Westerman

Book Overview

Candle gel is the hottest new product in candle crafting. This new product (95% mineral oil, 5% resin) is transparent, is extremely easy to clean up, and has a significantly longer burning time than traditional waxes. Author Kaila Westerman gives the basics of gel candle crafting in ten easy steps, then explores the endless possibilities for creating special effects with layers of color, swirls, bubbles, specialty molds, and embedments such as glass, botanicals, shells, stones, and pieces of solid paraffin candle wax. Readers can create candles that look like rainbows, aquariums, seascapes, playful sodas and other drinks, and more. Since gel candles cannot stand alone, each design is enhanced by wonderful whimsical, vintage, or even sophisticated containers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158017390X
• ISBN13: 9781580173902
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Storey Books
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Bargain - Good Condition & Quality Information

This book is very instructive with great photos and is in very good condition. It was a bargain!

Gel Candles: 40 Creative Projects

Great book, gives alot of information. A must have if you enjoy making candles.

Author Corrects Oct. 27 Review

I am the author of this book. I am compelled to respond to the negative review written October 27. Of course the reviewer has a right to her opinion, however it is incorrect that I recommend people "set an untabbed wick in gel". In my introduction, on page 4, I state "The wick must be self-tabbed with a metal holder". In my general discussion of materials required, on page 21, I state "the wick must have a metal T-Tab at its base which is at least 7/16" high". Finally, in my detailed discussion of wicks on page 22, I explain at great length why a tabbed wick is so essential (it would be a fire hazard to not use one).I do not believe that the reviewer has read my book very carefully because her statement about wicks, as well as her other statements, do not reflect the content of the book.Thanks for taking the time to read this statement.Sincerely,Kaila Westerman

Best Gel Candle book I have

This is my favorite gel candle book. The design and layout of the book are beautiful and easy to read. The photos are very inspiring and beautifully photographed. There is a lot of good info and guidelines, too.

I just love it!

I just love this book, when I got this book I was surprised on how interesting it was, it has a lot of gel candlemaking projects, and they are very easy and fun to do, i recomend you to buy this book, it is incredible, it has a lot of recomendations, tips and has a lot of pictures, full colored that makes it easier to see the colors and how your final candle will look like, i just love it