Getting Things Ready For That Steam

• Clean And Declutter:

Nothing can ruin a romantic mood like dirt and clothes strewn all over. When you clean the inside of your tub, and around it, makes way for peace of mind and soul. Elemenating unwanted distractions that would take away from focusing on your Cupid time.

• Candles

Having candles placed in or around the bathing area will set the ambiance for that steam. Any shape or form, tea lights. Just make sure they are not tall and slender ones. These will tip over and that would really dampen your mood for good.

It will be up to you if the candles are scented or not. The main thing I feel is the warm glow that emits from the candle, that sets that romantic feeling. The scents are just icing in the air.

• Mood Music

The sound of music have been around for a very long time, even in it’s rawest form have been recognized to alter our moods.

Not one type or style of music invokes romance for everyone. Some people might like ocean music for romance. While others might prefer blues, or jazz. What ever the style make sure the quality is good. You may find that using a sound machine may help. Or maybe a soundtrack with good a quality sound. Whatever the form, make it count.

• Make It Scentual

ESSENTIAL OILS

The art of using plants for it’s roots, essence, flowers, and pressing them have been around for a long time.

The essential oils that were extracted were used as aphrodisiacs to inspire allure and desire.

There are a wide range of essential oils that aid in sensuality.

Lavender essential oil for example decreases anxiety and stress. Calming also to help you wind down for that romance.

Other essential oils to consider are; Ylang Ylang, Patchouli if your man might think that Lavender is to girly.

The diffuser pictured above not only is filled with essential oils, but it has differnt lights that appear and you can set the essential oils on a timer for 1 -6 hours. And also if you don’t want the lights you can turn these off as well. I love these diffusers so much I have two of them.

• Bubble Bath OR Bath Oil

Bubble baths aren’t just for women. There are some men out there that take baths /bubble baths. Some say that the reason they do so is

to relax tense muscles. And who would blame them. Myself, I prefer a bath to a shower anyday.

Try Rose, or Lavender scented bubble baths.

Bath Oils

Using bath oils in the bath can be a sketchy thing. Just remember that you don’t need a lot. Slippery, but fun and sensual to use as a body massager to knead out those sore muscles for later use.

• Sugar IT Up

Sugar Scrubs

These are a blend of table sugar, essential oils, carrier oils Ex: (Grapeseed Oil). When rubbed on the skin it feels heavenly.

The sugar exfoliates the rough, dry patches. Leaving you with a smooth and silky feeling.

So why not massage one another with this and both of you can feel soft and smooth to the touch.

• Privacy

If you have kids, pets, make sure everyone is down for the night. If this isn’t possible then I suggest that maybe ask Grandparents to watch kids for a night, or check into a hotel. Either way there will be for sure there won’t be any possiblities of being interupted. But still no phones , you can silence them or turn them off.

Make Time

Ups And Downs Of Life

I know that everyone has a busy life. With kids, afterschool activities, PTA stuff, deadlines.

But just remember that we all have to make a conscious decision to slow down once in awhile to stop and focus on the ones that really matter in our lives. Be it spouses or kids,parents, grandparents. We are here on this earth for a very short time. Not knowing when tonight might be our last.

Tell that person in your life who ever it might be that you Love them. It’s the little things that count

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A History Of Candle Making

Candle-making can be traced back to the Egyptians, and the Roman Empire. Candles were used as an important source of light in religious celebrations.

Egyptians used “rushlights” a type of candle made of a rush plant, by soaking and dipping the dried core several times in melted animal fat or grease. These were cheap to make and used by poor people for a long time.

The Romans were thought to be the ones to make the first wicked candle. They would wrap a roll of papryus around a length of twine and dip it repeatedly in tallow. The way candles were used didn’t change, but they lasted longer and were better quality than rushlights. 

Early Uses Of Candles Around The World

The Romans didn’t have the sole market in the making of candles. Many other early civilizations also invented wicked candles using waxes. In Japan candles wer made of wax extracted from tree nuts. Alaska and Canada used a “eulachon fish” as a candle. This is an edible fish. This fish was so oily that when dried it could burn like a candle when lite on one end. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/150707-salvation-fish-canada-first-nations-animals-conservation-world

Middle Ages; during this time 500AD for 1,000 years candle making took a dramatic change. No longer did they use smelly animal fat in making of their candles. Beeswax was starting to be used and growing in popularity. It is a much better smelling process and cleaner one. It is almost a smokeless burn. Due to the fact it was more expensive, it was used only in churches and wealthy homes. Just Sucks!!!.

Tallow candles were the common household candle for Europeans, and by the 13th century, candlemaking had become a guild craft in England and France. The candlemakers (chandlers) went from house to house making candles from the kitchen fats saved for that purpose, or made and sold their own candles from small candle shops.

How Candle making changed in 18th & 19th Century

Colonial women were the first Americans to offer their contribution to the candlemaking world by using the gray-green berries of the bayberry bush. Even though it smelled pleasant it was also so hard to extract. This was a short lived venture.

Whaling Industry was growing in the late 18th century. It brought the first major change in candlemaking since the Middle Ages, when spermaceti / a wax obtained by crystallizing sperm whale oil became available in mass. Like Beeswax, the whale oil didn’t produce nasty odors when burned. And it was also harder than tallow or beeswax. This was a welcomed sight because it wouldn’t bend in the summer heat. Historians note that the first “standard candles” were made from spermaceti wax.

It was during the 19th century that candle-making was truly revolutionized:

• 1820s – a French chemist extracted stearic acid from animal fatty acids which led to the development of a hard, clean wax called stearin, which is still used in Europe today.
• 1834 – the birth of industrialized candles. A molded candle production machine was invented and candles could be mass-produced. This also made them cheaper.
• 1850s – chemists separated paraffin from petroleum and refined it into paraffin wax, odorless, clean-burning, and economical.

However, it was also during the 19th century that the lightbulb was invented. With that, candle-making went into severe decline for more than 100 years.

Candle Making Today

Fast forward to 2022, the candle making process and materials have come a long way. Now our choices of waxes are very wide.

Waxes

Paraffin:: Inexpensive, Very hard but brittle. Holds high amount of FO, High melting point, Slower burn time, can be a smokey flame.

Beeswax: Hard wax, clean burning, food grade wax, highest melting point, drip less

Soy: Mid range price, slow burn, low fragrance hold, tends to shrink, pastel look when colored.

Coconut: Most expensive, clean burn, holds fragrance,colors very well, very little soot

Palm: Plant based oil, very firm,almost brittle, often mixed with soy, works well for pillars and votives.

Gel wax: Cobo of a resin and mineral oil, holds scent and colors well, transparent.

Rapeseed: Newer type, not common in U.S., mostly in EU, plant based, slow burn, good scent throw.

Styles Today

Candles don’t always have to have a wick. Just need a souce to burn it.

Well I hope you enjoyed this information on the history of Candle Making and learned something you can use if you decide to make one of your own.

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