#1 - The first step towards un(beads)able wax seals

The perfect tealight 🕯️

Before you start making seals, choose a tea light to place in your oven. You don't want the flame of your tea light to touch the spoon, so I recommend using a tea light that you have already lit before. This will lower the flame and prevent your spoon from turning black. If you only have new tea lights at home, choose one with a burning time of 4 hours and let it burn for 25 minutes before using it to make seals.

In the meantime, you can start selecting your wax stamps and sealing wax colours!

The ideal wax temperature 🌡

Once the perfect tea light is burning in your oven, it is important to focus on the temperature of the wax. You want to pour the wax at exactly the right moment so that your seal looks perfect.

The wax is too cold when: ❄️

• There are still hard pieces visible in the wax.
  
  
• You cannot stir the wax with a skewer.
  
  
• You dip a skewer into the wax, pull it up in a long string, and the wax solidifies immediately.

The wax has become too hot if: 🔥

• The wax in the spoon starts to smoke.
   
• Bubbles appear in the wax. 🫧
  
  
• The wax is as liquid as water.