Customer Reviews

Gel Candles: How To Make For Fun & Profit!

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Although this book was supposed to focus on gel candles, there were recipes that used no gel at all! Instead, there were simplistic candles made of regular paraffin wax. You got the distinct feeling that someone messed up in publication and put the recipes in by mistake, or that the author was really trying to stretch the length of the book (which was pretty skimpy) and threw these recipes in. Very strange.

This is my favorite gel candle book. The design and layout of the book are good and easy to read. There is a lot of good info and guidelines, too.

I found this book to be very helpful in learning how to make gel candles and it also has some good getting started advice. It covered all the basics materials and steps to get started.

I am just beginning to get into candlemaking as a craft and was very excited to try something new. The book is self-published and it is obvious. Some of the pictures were stretched and are blurry. There are grammar and spelling errors that, being a teacher, were hard for me to overlook. Not all of the recipes were for gel candles, which I think is a little weird given the title of the book. There were a few good ideas, but overall, I don't believe this book was worth the price I paid for it. In fact, Soapmaking for Fun & Profit gave me much better business advice (it applies to all crafts) and I found better instructions for Gel Candles on various web sites for free.

Although this book was supposed to focus on gel candles, there were recipes that used no gel at all! Instead, there were simplistic candles made of regular paraffin wax. You got the distinct feeling that someone messed up in publication and put the recipes in by mistake, or that the author was really trying to stretch the length of the book (which was pretty skimpy) and threw these recipes in. Very strange.