Candle Moulds Animal

Candle Moulds Animal

Detailed shapes: what to know first

Animal moulds have more relief than a plain cylinder, and that changes the work: the wax has to be properly fluid and the pour slow so it fills ears, legs and textures without leaving bubbles. If this is your first mould, start with a compact figure — the owl, the rabbit — before one with fine limbs.

Some are hanging pieces, with a hole for ribbon: they work best as gift favours and as an eye-catcher on a stall, because they are visible from a distance.

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.