*This post is the third of a 3-part series of making your own home made gift set using essential oils! Check out my DIY Christmas Rooms Spray and myΒ DIY Soap with Essential OilsΒ – all with downloadable labels to make a matching set!*
So it’s Black Friday if you haven’t checked your emails, social media or have been hiding under a rock (and if you have, I salute you for escaping it). Yes, you can run out and get some deals on Christmas presents, of course. But if you really want to give a thoughtful gift that you’ve made with your own hands and don’t love that crazy push for consumerism that this day tends to press upon us, well, you may enjoy my post today.
There’s something rather lovely and personal about receiving a homemade gift, isn’t there? And in my eyes, it’s even better if it DOESN’T look like it’s a DIY but still has that same love and attention poured into it. Well, over the last week, I’ve been sharing a few items you can make to form a really cute home made gift set for Christmas (and yes, of course there’s still time!)
Here’s the last piece – a super simple DIY Soy Wax candle fragranced with essential oils.
Last week I shared a room fragrance and on Wednesday, it was soap. Today is the last piece of a 3-part series, creating a really lovely Christmas candle. Obviously any one of these items would make a lovely stocking-stuffer, hostess gift or a gift for your own home but I thought it’d be nice to be able to package them all together as a set.
As before, I’m providing free printable labels which all work in conjunction with one another – there’s one for the Orange, Clove and Cinnamon combination that I’m sharing today, one that’s for any other fragrance combination you might want to create for Christmas gift giving and finally a generic one for any time of year.
I’ve done a post previously on making your own soy wax candles so I didn’t want to repeat it all by taking pictures of all the steps, however, here’s what you’ll need for these particular ones…
Cinnamon, Orange and Clove Soy Wax Candles
(Makes 3 candles – increase the quantities to make more or less)
~ 1/2 kilo Soy Wax Flakes
3Β Amber Glass Jars
3 Wicks 100mm LongΒ *
30Β drops Orange Essential Oil 9 mlΒ *
50 drops Cinnamon Leaf Essential OilΒ *
20 drops Clove Bud Essential OilΒ *
Glue Dots
Labels (download here – opens in new window)
*denotes afilliliate link β you donβt pay any more but youβll be contributing a few pennies to Swoon Worthy! Win-win!
Follow the steps in this post to make them – it’s exactly the same!
If you follow all three recipes, the labels, fragrances and packaging all match but of course, every single recipe is fully customisable. This is what your complete set will look like once you are done!
As I said previously, you can EASILY make a few of these sets in a single afternoon. Once you have the materials, you’ll find yourself actually enjoying the process. I have 3 sets I’ve made already and I’ll probably make a few more before Christmas!
For easy reference, here are the other two tutorials:
How to Make Christmas Room Spray with Essential Oils
DIY Christmas Soap with Essential Oils
On Monday, I’ll be sharing the start of my Christmas decorating so stay tuned for that!
So, did you enjoy this little series? Is it making you feel all Christmassy? Will you be giving out some homemade gifts this year?
you really mean that I can actually make those?? ItΒ΄s a GREAT idea! I love it! Thanks!! IΒ΄ll get out immediately and purchase everything that I need to make them all!
O, I LOVE IT!!
Thanks =)
https://pandaonavespa.wordpress.com
They look great and a wonderful idea. I’m going to have a go at making all 3 and try and find some lovely boxes and wrapping to put them in. I think in the spring, i’m going to try all 3 again with different fragrances for birthday presents. Thinks for the idea’s Kimberly xxx
These look gorgeous Kimberly, what a fab idea, I think I can feel a Swoonworthy candle range coming on!β€οΈ?
Love this! I really like the idea of giving handmade gifts, but I don’t want them to necessarily look handmade so this is perfect. Thanks so much!
Great ideas and I’m dying to have a go but your links on the candle post don’t work so not sure where you got everything from. They work fine on the room spray post.
Thanks for tutorials though.
Hi Kate! I’m so sorry your having issues with the links – I’ve tested them again (on 2 different computers) and I’m not sure which ones aren’t working? The materials are listed in this post which should link to everything I bought – do you mean on this post? Or the post that shows all the steps for making them? I’d love to make sure they are sorted, if you can let me know! Thanks so much!! xx
Yay! Working now. Thanks so much and thanks for responding to my query. Really appreciate that! Am going to order tomorrow – I LOVE room sprays and candles so thrilled to find your lovely blog, Kate X
They look great, can’t wait for my candle supplies to arrive. Thank you
Very pretty post Kimberly, the candles look so gift worthy. Please tell me what size jars have you uses for them. Thanks :)
Thanks Brenda! The jars are 120ml if that helps! You can see them on the Amazon page if you click the link :) xx
Yes that does help Kimberly, hope mine turn out just as nice!