Fragrant Candles


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The only thing more romantic and mood enhancing than a flickering candle is a candle with the heavenly scent of essential oils. Craft your own, which will beautifully combine color, shape, and fragrance. In addition to instructions for melting, molding, and dyeing the wax, an aromatherapy guide will help you choose the right scent for that special ambience.




Fragrant Candles


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Explains fully how to make candles and how to enhance them with fragrances.




At Home with Fragrance


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Bestselling brand P.F. Candle Co. offers a modern, “so-easy-you-will-be-tempted-to-try-it” introduction to enhancing your home with fragrance and making your own custom scents and candles Candles have evolved in both function and style over the years. Gone are the days of overpowering, artificial scents: The focus on subtle, complementary fragrances is here to stay. P.F. Candle Co. has been leading this charge for more than a decade, amassing a huge following, and now they want to share all that they’ve learned in their first book. Equal parts design and DIY, At Home with Fragrance will teach you which fragrances work best for each room, how to interpret your distinct design style into fragrance, and (the best part!) how to make candles, room sprays, and incense with your own custom scents. The design and fragrances featured in this book are inspired by the authors’ home state of California: organic and relaxed elements, as well as scents drawn from nature, are the hallmarks of P.F.’s design ethos. Scent is the perfect way to express your unique design sense—and the art of making your own fragrances and candles offers an affordable DIY approach. Filled with tips and recipes for room sprays, incense, candles, and more, the book unlocks the secrets of P.F.’s hallmark style—creating atmosphere with candles and scent—and helps readers make it their own.




Candle Making


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"Candle Making: A Guide to Making Candles and the Necessary Ingredients" is the perfect resource for anyone interested in the art of candle making. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to create beautiful, fragrant candles in the comfort of your own home. You'll learn about the necessary tools and ingredients, including waxes, wicks, fragrances, and colorants, and how to choose the right materials for your desired candle style. With step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to make a variety of candles, from classic pillar candles and votives to container candles and floating candles. You'll also learn how to customize your candles with unique scents and colors, and how to troubleshoot common issues that can arise during the candle-making process. In addition to candle-making techniques, this guide also provides valuable information on candle safety and storage, as well as creative ideas for packaging and presenting your finished candles as gifts. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced candle maker, "Candle Making: A Guide to Making Candles and the Necessary Ingredients" is the ultimate resource for creating beautiful, high-quality candles that will fill your home with warmth and fragrance.




Tequila Mockingbird


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Pour yourself a drink and brush up on your literary knowledge with this clever guidebook that pairs cherished novels with both classic and cutting-edge cocktails. No B.A. in English required! From barflies to book clubs, Tequila Mockingbird is the world's bestselling cocktail book for the literary obsessed. Featuring sixty-five delicious drink recipes paired with wry commentary on history's most beloved novels, Tequila Mockingbird also includes bar bites, drinking games, and whimsical illustrations throughout. Drinks include: The Pitcher of Dorian Grey Goose The Last of the Mojitos Love in the Time of Kahlua Romeo and Julep A Rum of One's Own Are You There, God? It's Me, Margarita Vermouth the Bell Tolls and more! 2013 Goodreads Choice Award (Food & Cookbooks) Entertainment Weekly Great Gifts for Book Lovers BookPage Best of 2013 Clue on Jeopardy




The Fragrant Heavens


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A noted aromatherapist provides rich insight into the spiritual powers of fragrance. Including a guide to analyzing the differences between physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual crises, this book presents a system of using essential oils homeopathically. Color illustrations.




Scented Candles


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Both as intimate design accents and as gentle aromatherapy for any room in the home, candles can enhance every decor. Scented Candles offers a wide range of projects grouped by scent families and season, with simple methods for creating everything from a simple wax glass candle to a colorful centerpiece with three wicks. The author's guide to choosing and combining scents helps candlemakers set the mood in the tub or at the dinner table. Featuring 200 color photos, Scented Candles provides a guide to choosing the right scent - floral, citrus, spicy, or woody-for any occasion or location.




Candle Making Like A Pro


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The art of making candles has been around since primitive times. Of course, as time went by they become much different in design than what they were back then. Today candle making is a fun hobby or craft. For some, it is a very profitable business venture. Candle making provides you with they ability to create wonderful designs and crafts out of your candles. There is no limit to the shapes, sizes, and colors you can make your candles in. "Candle Making Like A Pro" will teach you everything you need to know about making perfect candles from the comfort of your own home. Imagine you can be making your own candles in just 48 hours from now. Here are just some of the things you will learn from this book: - A brief history of candle making... - Important safety tips you must know BEFORE making any candles... - How to pick the right kind of supplies for wick, wax, fragrance, colorant, molds, and more... - Secrets from expert candle makers that few people ever know about... - 3 little known, yet simple ways to uses wicks... - How to create different kinds of candles like gel, soda fountain, whipped wax, sand, layered, ice, balloon, beeswax candles, and more... - 3 proven steps to prime your wicks... - WARNING: 3 things you should never do when it comes to making candles... - 2 simple keys (that are right in front of your eyes) to make scented candles... - Special and unique candle gift ideas... - Tips and tricks for selling your candles... - How to avoid these common candle making problems... - And much more...




DIY Easy Step by Step Guide to Making Scented Soy & Beeswax Candles and Wax Melts at Home


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DIY Easy Step By Step Guide to Making Scented Soy & Beeswax Candles and Wax Melts at Home Learn to Make Seasonal & Healing Candles with Aromatherapy Blends Why do we love candles? For their great looks? Or for their great fragrance? Well, if you guessed the latter, then you are right. We all love candles mostly because of their aroma, the fragrance they emit that fills the room and sets the mood for any occasion. What if I show how you can in a few simple and easy to follow steps make beautiful Soy, beeswax and other candles that can do just that? Candles that fills a room with lovely aromatic fragrance? Better yet, what if I can show how you can create your own unique scent that you can add to your own candles? Think how wonderful it would be to have a few of your own signature fragrances that no one else has, and all your friends can identify them as YOURS? If you are reading this, I can safely assume you like candles and want to learn how to make them. There are over 100 books that teach you how to make candles, but not many can guide you how to make uniquely aromatic scented candles that can become your own signature brand. In this budget-friendly guide, my goal is to show you how to make candles with a few easy to follow steps, what supplies you will need and how to create your own unique blend of fragrance that you can add to your candles. This is not a chemistry book about making perfume. Instead, I show you how easy it is to make your own fragrance just by adding and or mixing various fragrance bases. You will learn how to create and blend various seasonal scents along with different aromatherapy healing blends that can help reduce various discomforts from depression to insomnia. At a glance here is what I shared inside: Types of Wax You Need Types of Wick You Need Tools You Will Need Candle Making Safety 7 Candle Making Guided Steps Making Container candles Making Votive & Pillar Candles Making Soy & Beeswax Candles Making Wax Melts Factors that help Decide Scent The Fragrance Wheel Three Important Fragrance Notes Candle Scent Throw Fragrance Oil Combinations 6 Most Popular Aromatherapy Blends for Candles 4 Seasonal Blends Make Unique Candles for "Him" & "Her" with unique Masculine and Feminine Scents Rest assured, you will be proud of the end result, best of all, it all can be done with a day or two. Let's get the supplies and let's get started, shall we?




Potpourri, Incense, and Other Fragrant Concoctions


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Explains the history and lore of perfumes and presents recipes for toilet waters, pomanders, sachets, and potpourris.