Getting Started
How to make tealight candles?
A tealight is a small aluminum or polycarbonate cup. A thin wick, little wax. Soya Wax 50 is a container soy and can be poured into a small cup. Dozens of tealights come from 1 kg; write down the grams.
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Line up the cups and wicks
Fix the wick to the base. Weigh the net grams in one cup and write down the 1 kg calculation.
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Melt the wax and fill
Melt Soya Wax 50 at 51–55°C. If you use fragrance, 6–8% (ceiling ~8%) after the heat. Pour into the small cup without overflowing.
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Cure
At least 24 hours. Trim the wick to ~5 mm. In a narrow cup, do not burn longer than 4 hours; the metal heats up.
Yield
At a 15–20 g net fill, 1 kg ≈ about 50 tealights (excluding loss). It varies by cup SKU. Do not memorize it without a scale.
Safety
Do not confuse burning a tealight in a water-filled decorative dish with the wax warmer: warming wax is separate, burning is separate. No flammable surface, and supervision is essential.
FAQs
Can a wooden wick be used in a tealight?
Most wooden wicks do not fit a narrow cup. Use a thin cotton wick or a ready tealight wick.
Is a ready cup required?
Use a heat-resistant tealight cup. Random plastic melts.
Choose Materials From Stock
You can order the product groups in this guide by quantity from the Rufus Concept catalog.