Eco friendly recommendations

I know its not a 'manly' subject but I enjoy the various candle scents. My favourite at the moment is Gingerbread which I love.  Its better than my stinky dog who now has Blueberry doggy deodourant!

I have tried the joss sticks but they are too intense and don't last long, much prefer the candles but hate wasting the containers or the wax thats left. I might give it a go and be able to give family members 'home made' candles and possibly soap as stocking fillers. I might even you tube soap making as well.

 My Daughters friend has a small business doing just that and attends craft fairs as well as selling on ebay methinks? I don't want to pick her brains though in case she thinks I am muscling in on her business!

I can see where SC is coming from with candle making  being boring, but some people may find fishing, reading or playing chess boring, so unless I give it a try, and start up costs aren't too expensive, I will never know?

Now to go and find some youtube videos................. where would we be wthout youtube?

They are lots of kits out there, so you can give it a go before you go into full production   . Have a look on eBay. 

https://eco-ness.com/products/eco-soy-ca...1156&_ss=r

if you find these guys on fb they’re are currently running a competition to win one of these.

Maybe its  me being a tight git but I think 30 squidish for a kit is a bit too much to pay for summat I might not enjoy doing? I wonde how many candles the kit makes as I can buy the finished article  for about 70p each!  I've been having a look on you tube and its a bit more contrived than I at first thought with formulae for how much wax and smelly to add, critical temperatures for melting and pouring wax etc. I might just buy a meat temp probe, some soy wax, some smelly additive, colourant and I really like the look of, and idea of ,wooden wicks and supports? I haven't checked out how much that will sting me but hopefully under 15 squid to try it out. I have loads of old candle jars and small jam jars which I need to get rid of anyway!