There seems to be an influx of wax melts around this year, the most popular option being Scentsy who have a huge range of scents. I like the idea of using melts instead of burning essential oils directly in my diffuser or oil burner.
I’ve been trying to find out what’s actually in Scentsy wax melts, and so far I haven’t had much luck – the ingredients appear to be a secret. As some of the options include scents like bubble gum blast and gingerbread donut, I’m guessing there are quite a few chemicals in there that I don’t want floating around the house.
This recipe is the result of my playing around with different waxes and essential oils – all toxin-free and easy to work with at home.
After a few tries I found that this mix of beeswax and soy wax worked best; the melts held together well, were easy to get out of the ice cube tray, and had a decent burn time. These make a lovely handmade Christmas gift too, especially if you have a silicon tray adorned with festive shapes.
Unicorn enjoying the festive scent
Christmas Melts
60g soy wax
15g beeswax
1ml grapefruit essential oil
1ml sweet orange essential oil
1ml Juniper essential oil
3 drops cypres essential oil
3 drops cinnamon essential oil
3 drops ginger essential oil
To buy essential oils go here
Place the soy wax and beeswax in a double boiler and melt, stir to combine, take off the heat and add the essential oils. Pour the mixture carefully into your tray making each melt the same size. I used an ice tray and had no problem getting the melts out once they had set which only took half an hour.
If you don’t have all the essential oils on hand and would like an easy option; next week we will have a Christmas Blend Essential Oil from Lotus available, you can use it in this recipe (4 mls) instead of the combination that I came up with.
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Sounds like a lovely recipe, Triona. Can you please suggest a good place to source soy wax and beeswax?
Author
Hi Lorraine, we get ours from Lotus Oils but they may also be available in some Organic Stores.
Hi Triona. Many thanks for the recipe, your response, and your great newsletters. All much appreciated. 🙂
Author
Thanks so much Lorraine, lovely of you to say 🙂
Thanks so much can’t wait to make these ?
Can you get the soy and beeswax from you
Author
We don’t sell it at the moment but are looking at that now, will mention it in the newsletter as soon as we have some 🙂
Hi, I was hoping to create a pin on Pinterest for this but the lovely photo of the melts with the snowman wasn’t an option. Can it be added, please?
Author
Hi Ali, we used to have a link and with one of the wordpress updates it disappeared, I’d very much like it back too, we are working on it.