Candle Making For Fun and Profit - 1978 - Book

Learn candle making for fun and profit! Includes basic processes and decoration tips. Special effects and children's section included. "Why should people want to make candles? One of the reasons is very simple - people like candles. A flame is a constant companion, a sort of inanimate pet, which responds to our actions. Not only does the candle respond to us, we respond to it. Candles are all that are left of our ancestral hearthfires, the last flickers of our old friend, flame, which has been with us since the Stone Age... There is another very good reason for making candles. Candle making is the one art form that has not been overrun by professionalism. There are courses in candle making, and you can buy books about it, like this one – but there are no certificates to be taken in it, much less degrees. Because it is a completely new art form however, despite its storied past, everyone who enters it starts equal – you have just as great a chance of becoming renowned or making money by selling your candles as everyone else has..." - Candle Making For Fun and Profit Published 1978, Coles Publishing Company, Toronto Softcover. Approx. 5.5x8.5in. 128pp. Some of the laminate has come off on the back cover bottom (see photo). Otherwise in good vintage condition.