I just have a quick question, as someone who is fairly novel to the occult and specifically advanced candle Magick I was wondering if there are any more advanced practitioners here who are cognizant of the best online stores to buy colored candles that are fairly cheap and also ship within the United States?
Wholesale offers/deals! I don’t know about the US but where I live I get my hands on boxes with out-of-season candles (for example christmas themed candles during summertime) and b-stock candles (little imperfections like scratches on the surface) from big retail shops for a rather small amount of money. If you’re about variety and are okay with surprises (sizes and colours WILL vary) this would be my advice
I buy mine on Amazon, because smokeless and dripless is really nice for what I do. If a candle does something weird I know it because I’ve bought so many.
I keep thinking I’ll start making my own again someday, but for now while it’s too much cost and time for my day, I use these- and I’ve also gotten boxes of just white ones.
I was disappointed these are only 4 inchers though, because my last box was 5”
Walmart right now has those skull candles that have red wax inside so it looks like a bleeding skull- they were $5 last year and really cool for baneful work. I didn’t pick any up this year, so I didn’t turn them upside down to check price.
Just amazon, but dollar stores are still cheaper. Keep an eye out for the clearance rack in grocery stores.
I quite like quickcandles.com for bulk votives, but prices are crazy right now and so is shipping, so it may not be worth buying a years quantity at once right now. I’m hoping the prices will come back down when the gas price does.
The cheapest way of all is to make your own, bulk wax is now around $100 per box plus $35 shipping which comes out at 1.35 a lb, and a bit more for a few molds and wick. I like to do this so I can add oils to the wax and make by own designs. I get candlemaking supplies at candlewic.com.
Today I received a box of “broken and damaged candles” for this very purpose, roughly 13 lb for under 20 bucks (molds and wicks not included but I am having them separately around). I actually wanted to use broken candles and wax leftovers to make my own, but it turns out that not a single candle inside this box was damaged enough to make another candle out of it from scratch
@Necros as you can see: better go with bulk wax instead of “damaged candles”