For home-made decorative paraffin candles, it may be necessary to color them. Fat soluble dyes added to molten paraffin or natural materials will help to cope with this task.
You will need
- - paraffin;
- - tanks for a water bath;
- - fat-soluble dye;
- - wax crayons;
- - stearin;
- - tansy leaves;
- - green peel of a walnut;
- - Marigold flowers.
Instruction manual
1
Before painting, paraffin will need to be melted in a water bath. However, if you do not have this device, replace it with two pans of different sizes. Place the paraffin in a smaller container and insert it into a pot of boiling water.
2
Once the paraffin has completely melted, remove the water bath from the stove and add wax dyes, available in the form of powder, tablets or aniline paints for oil-based candles. The color saturation of paraffin depends on the dosage of the dye. It is better not to use the dye in high concentration.
3
Colorants for candles can be mixed. So, from yellow and blue paint you can get green, from red and yellow - orange, and from blue and red - purple. In order to avoid unforeseen chemical reactions between the components of the mixture, add paints of the same manufacturer to the melt.
4
Wax crayons can be used to color paraffin. Grate the desired color of chalk on a fine grater, add to the melted paraffin and stir. Such a dye may dissolve unevenly, so after the melt has the necessary color, try to extract the remaining fragments of crayons from it.
5
Fans of homemade candle making use natural materials to give paraffin the right color. The leaves of tansy will color the melt in green, the green peel of a walnut can be used to obtain a golden hue. The flowers of African marigolds, known as marigolds or tagetes, are used to produce yellow. To color half a kilogram of paraffin, you need two glasses of tansy leaves or marigold flowers. The walnut peel will need only half a glass.
6
To extract paint from leaves or flowers in paraffin, ten to twenty percent of stearin should be added. In the melt obtained from candle scrap, this substance is already contained.
7
Place the coloring material in a bag of loose fabric that does not contain components that can melt in heated paraffin. Dip the prepared parcel into a melt heated in a water bath and leave for an hour. Stir the paraffin mass from time to time for uniform staining.
8
Painted melt has a much brighter color than solidified paraffin. To see how the result of your efforts will look after hardening, place a drop of molten mass on a thick sheet of white paper.
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