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Discover the art of candle making with a variety of classes in NYC. Learn the secrets of creating beautiful and aromatic candles, and enhance your creativity while gaining a new skill.

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Natural Scented Candle Making (Bryant Park)

Atelier Artisane @ 25 W 39th Street , New York, NY

Learn the art of crafting healthy, fragrant candles for your home in this hands-on course. Discover the benefits of natural ingredients and gain the skills to create your own unique scented candles. Join us at Atelier Artisane and elevate your candle game.

Sunday Dec 10th, 11:30am–12:15pm Eastern Time

Candle Making Pop Up! Experience

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Join expert candle maker, Marla Bosworth, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a relaxing Candle Making Experience where you will design TWO of your own gorgeous, customized candles. You'll blend your own natural fragrances to design your very own coconut wax candles in beautiful glass containers. These candles are perfect for special gift-giving (or keep for yourself!). Guests will spend a fun evening designing two of their own personalized...

Wednesday Dec 13th, 1–2pm Eastern Time

Organic Soy Wax Candle Workshop

Coastal Design Workshops LLC @ Live Virtual via Zoom

Discover the art of making scented organic soy candles from the comfort of your own home. Join this engaging virtual experience and learn how to create a customized candle with a DIY craft kit delivered directly to you. With step-by-step guidance and plenty of tips, you'll have a beautiful natural wax candle to fill your space with a delightful fragrance.

Saturday Dec 30th, 4–4:45pm Eastern Time

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Candle Making Class NYC

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Learn the art of candle making from a master chandler with 24 years of experience at Back Porch Soap Company. Create beautiful and customized candles in glass containers, blending your scents and colors. Perfect for those interested in making candles for sale or as unique gifts.

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Natural Scented Candle Making

Atelier Artisane @ 24-20 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY

Learn the art of crafting healthy, fragrant candles for your home in this hands-on course. Discover the benefits of natural ingredients and gain the skills to create your own unique scented candles. Join us at Atelier Artisane and elevate your candle game.

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Plant Based Candle Making

Nyah @ 78 John Miller Way, Kearny, NJ

With candles being used in 7 out of 10 households there is no wonder why you don’t want to learn how to make candles. In this 3 hour hands on class students will learn to craft custom candles using vegan waxes including soy and coconut. You will learn how to: Choose the correct wick Select appropriate candle containers Use colorants Safely make candles Pick the right wax Properly use fragrance Melt and Pour at the correct temperature...

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Organic Skincare, Soap and Candle Making Diploma Course

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Learn the art of creating your own organic skincare, soap, and candles with the experts at Back Porch Soap Company. Build your beauty business from scratch or enhance your existing one with this 5-evening certificate program in New York City. Gain the knowledge and skills to succeed in the bath and beauty industry.

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$1,300

5 sessions

Virtual Masterclass: Designing Your Own Natural Candles

Back Porch Soap Company @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

Virtual Masterclass: Designing Your Own Natural Candles This is a virtual candlemaking class taught by Marla Bosworth. In this small class students will design their own natural wax candles. Students will receive a candlemaking kit, as well as lifetime access to supplemental virtual candlemaking classes. It is helpful, but not required, to view the online class prior to the workshop. (Please note that candlemaking kits will be shipped...

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Moon Sign's Wax & Wine

Studio 45 @ 213 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY

Learn the art of candle making this fall with Moon Sign Candle's owner by pouring your own custom candle! Learn, sip wine, and enjoy the experience with others! Moon Sign's Wax & Wine makes a great date, girls night out, solo, or team building with colleagues. Each guest's ticket includes guided instruction, your custom candle & customizable label, wine for table and light bites. Note: Candle making will begin at 4:15pm. Feel free to...

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Holiday Design Your Own Coconut Wax Candles

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Create your very own candles and make beautiful gifts in this 2-hour, hands-on, holiday workshop! This is a fun evening of making candles. Sign up a friend, family member, co-worker, loved one or join us by yourself. We're a friendly group! Each student will take home two beautiful candles made with coconut wax, essential oils and natural fragrances. This workshop in conveniently located in the Upper West Side one block away from the 96th...

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Make Your Own Fragrant Reed Diffusers and Room Sprays Class

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Students will learn how to create beautiful, customized reed diffusers and room sprays in this 2 hour, hands-on workshop taught by an expert fragrance formulator with 25 years experience. Students will learn to blend their own natural scents. If you are interested in making diffusers and room sprays to sell or as a craft for gifts or favors, this class is for you. Your instructor for the class, Marla Bosworth, has been manufacturing and selling natural...

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Hand Rolled Incense

Antidote Apothecary + Tea Bar @ 242 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY

Sculpt your own all natural incense. Learn a classic incense recipe that is cleansing, purifying and grounding. We will discuss the esoteric value of the ingredients as well as the aromatic qualities. The class will be an hour long, and the students will be able to pick up their creations after 24 hours to dry. You'll also get an email with all the notes and recipes you'll need to make yours at home!

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Design Your Own Reed Diffusers and Room Sprays

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Students will learn how to create beautiful, customized reed diffusers and room sprays in this 2.5-hour, hands-on workshop taught by a master fragrance formulator with 24 years experience. Students will blend their own natural scents using essential oils and natural fragrances.. If you are interested in making diffusers and room sprays to sell or as a craft for gifts or favors, this class is for you. Your instructor for the class, Marla Bosworth,...

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Virtual Masterclass: Natural Liquid Soapmaking

Back Porch Soap Company @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

This is a virtual liquid soapmaking class taught by Marla Bosworth. In this class students will make their own herbal liquid soaps from home using a kit (or their own ingredients from a suggested list provided by Marla). Students will receive the kit, including shipping, as well as lifetime access to supplemental virtual liquid soapmaking classes. It is helpful, but not required, to view the online class prior to the workshop....

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Bath & Body University Certificate Course

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Bath and Body University is a 5-evening intensive, certificate program on the Upper West Side of New York City that will get your current indie beauty business or the one you've dreamed about owning off of the ground. Students will receive five classes of training with Marla Bosworth, founder and owner of Back Porch Soap Company. Marla has 25 years of indie beauty industry experience and 40 years of retail, market research, entrepreneurial and...

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$1,228

5 sessions

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Discover the Best Candle Making Classes in NYC

Cultures have made candles by hand since as early as 500 BCE, when the civilizations of ancient Rome, China, and India made candles out of tallow and whale fat for practical and religious purposes. The methods used to make candles today trace their roots back to the techniques and materials used to make these earliest candles. While today we use materials like soy wax instead of the tallow like the ancient Romans, use glass or plastic containers and molds rather than rice paper like the ancient Chinese, or use fragrance oils instead of real cinnamon like the ancient Indians, the core components and techniques are much the same. At its heart, a candle is wax and a wick, and this simplicity gives students opportunities to add fragrances or colors.


There are a few different methods for making candles, the most popular of which are rolling a wick in a sheet of wax, dipping wicks into a pot of melted wax, and pouring melted wax into a mold or container then suspending a wick therein. This simple process can be complicated somewhat by the addition of dyes to provide color or colors, or fragrance oils to provide scents. Regardless of the method, the end result is the same: an ignitable wick encased in a shell of wax that burns for fuel, personalized to your aesthetic or functional desires.

Why You Should Learn Candle Making in NYC

Many who get into candle making do so for the relaxing, meditative properties of candles. While practicing the hobby is in and of itself a way to tap into the sense of personal satisfaction that accompanies completing a task by hand, the candles themselves are typically further used in calming activities like meditation or a bath. Scents have a strong connection to memory, and a scented candle can be a great way to enhance personal relaxation by establishing an ambiance that evokes cozy, comforting times past.

While that sense of satisfaction or calmness is a matter of personal fulfillment, that doesn’t mean that candle making is strictly a solitary activity. For instance, practicing a hobby can be a great way to form a social network of others similarly invested in the hobby. The sense of personal relaxation can be shared with friends and family through the gift of a personalized, hand-made candle. Unlike a mass-produced, factory-made candle, the likes of which an old SNL sketch has associated with thoughtless regifting, a hand-made candle is a way to share something you’ve devoted the time and care to making yourself.

If you view candle making as more than just a hobby, there are ways to profit by selling candles. Whether you’re already established in the beauty industry and are looking to add candles to an existing beauty line or are simply looking to sell at local craft fairs as a side project, New York City is home to many resources that can help evolve your candle making from a hobby to an entrepreneurial enterprise.

In-Person Candle Making Classes & Schools in NYC

In-person classes are the gold standard for learning candle making techniques. There’s really no better or faster method for learning than following along with an expert instructor who can demonstrate each step along the way and who can answer any questions that arise during the process. Fortunately for New York City residents, there are enough expert chandlers in the city that finding a quality class is a relatively simple matter. 

Those living in Manhattan can find quality classes from Back Porch Soap Company in the Upper West Side. Originally founded as a soap making business in Plymouth, Massachusetts by Marla Bosworth, Back Porch Soap Company has since grown into a full-fledged natural skincare business operating in New York City. The company has been featured in publications like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and with Marla Bosworth herself conducting the classes, you can be assured that you’re getting advice from a true expert. 

Back Porch Soap Company offers a Candle Making Pop Up! Experience as a more casual foray into candle making, treating candle making as a hobby for personal pleasure or for gift-giving. In this hands-on 1.5-hour workshop, participants spend a fun evening designing and creating two of their very own hand-poured coconut wax candles. With options to customize scents and colors, these candles are great as gifts to close friends or for personal relaxation. Those looking to experience the more relaxing aspects of candle making need look no further.

Those who are a bit more serious about their candle making might consider the Candle Making Class offered by Back Porch Soap Company, which is a slightly more intensive experience. This class also covers the basic techniques of candle making and provides the same hands-on experience of making two personalized coconut wax candles, but it also offers some entrepreneurial advice for those who would like to sell candle wares rather than give them as gifts or keep them for personal use. Those who enroll in this class will also gain access to several digital materials that can be viewed at any time. Rather than a lighthearted introduction to candle making for beginners, this class is instead suitable for newbies seeking a slightly more serious tone or for practiced candlemakers looking to troubleshoot their techniques or further develop their existing candle lines.

Back Porch Soap Company also offers an Organic Skincare, Soap and Candle Making Diploma Course that caters to individuals hoping to launch or to grow a business. This “Make Your Own Beauty” certificate program goes well beyond just candle making, offering a series of 5 hands-on workshops devoted to various aspects of the beauty industry. One of those workshops does cover candle making, though the full program also includes workshops on soap making and on other skincare products. Certainly unsuitable for beginners, this class is for those looking for a comprehensive education to make it in the beauty industry.

If Manhattan isn’t convenient, cross over the river into Queens for great candle making classes from Atelier Artisane, a business dedicated to natural candle making craftsmanship. Melanie Rousselet channels the scents and memories of her native Provence into cozy, comforting all-natural candles, and also shares her techniques and experience through a series of candle making classes. The Natural Scented Candle Making class is a combination of theory and hands-on practice. This 1.5-hour workshop emphasizes the importance of natural ingredients, including advice on where to select and source quality ingredients. After an overview of the equipment and techniques required for candle making, participants will have the opportunity to practice making two different types of candles: a scented soy or coconut wax candle, and a lotion candle whose melted wax can be used as a skin moisturizer.

Virtual Candle Making Classes & Schools

While New York has plenty of options for those looking to attend an in-person candle making class, there may be reasons that attending one of the offered classes isn’t a reasonable option. Chandlers set dates and times for these courses based on their own availability, and those time slots may not work with everyone’s schedule. If, for whatever reason, you find yourself unable to attend an in-person class, there are still plenty of online candle making classes that provide quality training with expert chandlers.

While online courses are a great way to accommodate a challenging schedule or commute, they also do require some forethought in acquiring supplies. While in-person classes typically have supplies on-site provided for students, a virtual class can’t provide the same ready access to materials, so students are expected to acquire them themselves. Instructors will provide a detailed list of necessary supplies which can be purchased from online sellers or from local art supply stores, but the onus of actually getting those supplies ultimately falls on the student.

Love & Make in Houston, Texas conducts a Virtual Candle Making Workshop accessible to anybody in the world with an internet connection. This live virtual workshop teaches all the basic techniques of candle making as an instructor walks you through every step of the process of creating soy wax candles. You will complete the course not only having made a hand-poured soy wax candle, but also possessing the skills to continue making more candles at home on your own time. Note that this class does not come with supplies, and participants are expected to secure those on their own time. To make this a bit easier, Love & Make sells a DIY Candle Making Kit that contains all of the necessary materials, including a container, wax, 2 wicks, fragrance oil, and a stick for stirring wax.

Private Group Candle Making Classes in NYC

If you’re looking for an interesting option for socializing or team building, CourseHorse offers live online candle making and other crafts classes for private groups that are a perfect way to interact as a group in a fun environment.

You can learn basic candle making techniques with CourseHorse’s Virtual Candle Making class. You’ll have all the benefits of a fun, hands-on activity as an expert instructor guides your group through the production of soy and beeswax candles, all from the comfort of your own home.

As an added bonus, this is a virtual class where you won’t have to worry about supplies. While most other courses will require you to purchase materials on your own time and on your own dime, CourseHorse ships a candle making kit with all the supplies you need directly to each participant. Each kit includes enough wax, wicks, candle tins, and fragrance oils to make two candles of your own, as well as miscellaneous supplies for handling the wax like a melting/pouring pitcher and a wax-stirring stick.

Once you’ve booked through CourseHorse, you’ll receive a confirmation within 24 hours, and your event provider will personally reach out to introduce themselves and to provide additional information. If you need to change your group size after you’ve booked a course, CourseHorse can easily change your headcount after the fact. While the total cost of the class will depend on the size of the group, you won’t need to finalize payment until you’ve finalized your headcount. This virtual class is hosted over Zoom, but CourseHorse can accommodate other platforms like Microsoft Teams or Google Meets. 

If an in-person group class sounds like a more appealing option, some of the organizations that conduct candle making classes live in New York also offer options for group classes. In the Flatiron district, Atelier Artisane conducts a Natural Scented Candle Making group class for groups of up to 15 people. Over in the Upper West Side, Back Porch Soap Company can accommodate groups of up to 85 in a Design Your Own Candles Workshop.

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