Candle Moulds Religious

A market with two seasons

Beeswax candles have a long tradition here and a liturgical use that has not disappeared, and that gives this category two sales peaks a year: Christmas, with the nativity figures, and Easter.

It is also a product with an outlet in parishes, brotherhoods and local shops, which buy in batches and reorder. If you are going to produce for sale, that is the route: these are customers who value the wax being genuine and who ask about it.

Technically these are figure moulds, with the same care fine detail demands: fluid wax without overheating, a slow pour and a second top-up on cooling. Wicks and bands are in candle-making supplies.

What they all share

They are silicone moulds, so they stretch to release and forgive shapes with a narrow neck. Two-part ones close with elastic bands: without them the wax escapes at the seam, which is failure number one on a first attempt.

Beeswax melts between 61 and 65 ºC and there is no need to go beyond that; above 140 ºC the volatiles that give it the honey smell evaporate. And the wick goes with the candle diameter: too fine and it tunnels, too thick and it smokes. All of that, with wicks and bands, is in candle-making supplies, and the full mould range in candle moulds.