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This is not the first time that I made my C affeccino candles, but this time I've used products from 4Candles and new glass containers of the famous French brand Duralex. Products: EcoSoya CB-Xcel Cocoa Brown Dye Flakes Escentscia Coffee Bean fragrance  and...  real coffee powder + edible golden flakes for the top!

These are some of the candles (together with the two pillars of the previous post) that I've been asked to prepare. Probably most of them will be offered as Xmas presents so  I'll do my best to make as beautiful as I can. They will be all different one from the other and they will likely have small imperfections but that's normal because they are HAND-MADE!

New pillar paraffin candles with soy wax chunks!  The first OFFICIAL request from a friend!

A brand new batch!!! Bees wax, shea butter, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, and also mica and lip safe fragrances for Sangria and Hot Chocolate lip balms. No preservatives at all!

I wasn't really planning to do any M&P soap for Xmas time, but... I received an adorable silicon mould to make reindeer-shaped ice cubes from my friend Nora . In addition, knowing my love for candle making, my husband Mass i, suggested me to use the mould to do reindeer-shaped floating candles (that I'll certainly do later on, and NO I won't be using the mould for cooking anymore!). Few nights ago I couldn't really manage to sleep...to avoid getting stress by this, I decided to start thinking about something positive and nice, and came up with this idea: Reindeer M&P soap!!! It's white and red, full of glitters and with a reindeer in the middle of each slice: very Xmast-ish indeed! M&P base is always the same kind as for the other soaps, the soap is delicately amber scented, and each reindeer is coloured with Fairy Red mica , that shouldn't bleed!!!  

A lot of different opinions about that... to cut a long story short I'd say it's worth giving it a try if you do not exaggerate  with the amount of mica! Too much mica can clog the wick (either cotton or wood) and won't anyway add more colour to the final products! For this project I have used soy wax and paraffin and two different kinds of wick (cotton and wood). To dissolve mica powder I have used some carrier oil (sweet almond oil) and did that before adding micas to the melted wax. I have used only a tiny amount of micas! For more details on how to make mica-coloured candles please visit my  FB page

It has been a while since the last post...you know... work, a bit of health issues and other things kept me pretty occupied in the last weeks! Today I took a well-deserved day-off from work and I decided to consecrate it to relaxing things! Today's topics: a bit of melt and pour soap and how to use mica in candles . This one is my first M&P soap ever: it's again a melt&pour base I got from The Soap Kitcken, all natural, no SDS, no SLES, no Paraben etc. You can refer to this post for 'soap curls preparation and embedding'  Post how-to-do-curls