mmcgregor

Thank you all for the wonderful advice!! I will be visiting Lone Star Candle Monday, since it's my day off and picking up a starter kit. I really want to start out with the wood wick candles and master those first. Again I appreciate all the advice and tips and I will definately continue to read the boards and research as much as I can to learn all I can and get as many tips from here as possible. I'm very excited about venturing down this road of candlemaking; I love burning candles at home so if nothing else I can always have my own :rolleyes2. Thanks again!!

I have been reading this forum for several days now and there's a ton of great information here....so much so I'm getting cross-eyed and all the information is running together. So I figured I'd start a thread with my questions and am hoping for more great information to weed through So here goes. I currently work a normal job and have been with the same government agency for 12 years, but like so many others I'm looking for business ideas and have always wanted to work for myself. I've tried several things over the years like MLM with different companies and those just didn't pan out like I'd hoped, so now I'm looking at other options. I'm very interested in starting a candle business from my home, but I'm at a loss of where to start really. I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex in Texas and I have a ton of questions, so here goes: How do I go about getting started? I've never made a candle in my life other than when I was in school. What liabilities are there once the product is sold? What pieces of advice and instruction can you give to a completely green candle maker? I have started researching suppliers and luckily there is a supplier, Lone Star Candle Company which isn't far from me at all, so I can actually go there to get my supplies and not have to pay shipping. I will only be starting with 2 sizes of candles in mason jars and about 10 fragrances, maybe less fragrances at first. I know for sure I will be including a wood wick line in the beginning as well as regular wicked candles. I look forward to the responses....any and all assistance, advice and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks MM