Is a candle making business expensive to start and manage?
Yes, it’s fairly expensive to start because of the quantity and range of products you need. Beyond the actual equipment to melt wax, the molds and other equipment (pouring pots, ladles, etc.) you need to buy wax, wicks, wick tabs, dye, fragrance oil and containers if you are making any kind of container candles. If you aren’t lucky enough to live near a wax supplier, shipping is really expensive since a case of wax weighs anywhere from 50 to 62 pounds, and you will go through a case of wax before you know it! By the time you finish testing and find a combination that works well, you’ve used a lot of wax and fragrance oil (which can also be very expensive)! The initial purchases to find the quality materials that you want can be very expensive. Managing isn’t quite as bad as the initial start-up costs, however, once you settle on products you know and trust. If you work out of your home, you save yourself the overhead costs of operating a store. Insurance can also be rather expensive an
