How to Build a Home Candle Making Business from the Ground Up

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Denny prepares to pour colored wax into ice cube trays in this easy technique for making multi-colored candles.
Denny prepares to pour colored wax into ice cube trays in this easy technique for making multi-colored candles.
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Dennis Murphy makes his production candles by first casting ice cube-size chunks of colored wax in?naturally enough?ice cube trays (see lower photo on page 68). He then stockpiles these chunk.. of wax according to color in large paper bags (see photo at right) and places a handful of assorted cubes in his candle molds just after wicking and prior to filling the molds with hot wax of yet another color. The result is a multi-colored candle.
Dennis Murphy makes his production candles by first casting ice cube-size chunks of colored wax in?naturally enough?ice cube trays (see lower photo on page 68). He then stockpiles these chunk.. of wax according to color in large paper bags (see photo at right) and places a handful of assorted cubes in his candle molds just after wicking and prior to filling the molds with hot wax of yet another color. The result is a multi-colored candle.
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All Denny's wax melting is done on an old kitchen range in make-shift double boilers. Murphy's wax chiller is nothing but a second-hand refrigerator... proving that a $1,000 a week candle business can be set up with only the simplest of tools. Denny says anyone can do it.
All Denny's wax melting is done on an old kitchen range in make-shift double boilers. Murphy's wax chiller is nothing but a second-hand refrigerator... proving that a $1,000 a week candle business can be set up with only the simplest of tools. Denny says anyone can do it.
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Dennis Murphy, just after moving into his new basement workshop. Note the still-unpacked molds in lower left corner of this photo and empty crates (that will soon be filled with candles) in the background.
Dennis Murphy, just after moving into his new basement workshop. Note the still-unpacked molds in lower left corner of this photo and empty crates (that will soon be filled with candles) in the background.
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Denny relaxes with a TV break in has basement workshop after single-handedly 'manufacturing' a batch of candles.
Denny relaxes with a TV break in has basement workshop after single-handedly 'manufacturing' a batch of candles.
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These twenty candles are all that remain from 1,000 taken to a one-day sale.
These twenty candles are all that remain from 1,000 taken to a one-day sale.

Dennis Murphy — a young man in Rochester, Michigan — has proven to my satisfaction that even the cold, hard world of business will soften and thaw for the individual whose heart is pure.

Dennis, you see, has a little home enterprise he conducts from his basement and the venture allows him to create a product that he enjoys and believes in. Furthermore, Dennis has found he can gladden customers’ hearts by offering them his product at one-third the price they expect to pay. The customers, in turn, are grateful for the opportunity to buy . . . and they do. And that allows Denny to hire his friends at very good wages for work they find pleasurable which, of course, gladdens their hearts.

And is Dennis rewarded for spreading all this Good Karma? You bet he is! For Dennis Murphy can gross one thousand dollars a day with his little home candle making business. Of course, it sometimes takes him a whole week to prepare for that one big day . . . and you must realize that Denny only gets $850 out of the thousand.

Still and all, I think you’ll admit that young Dennis Murphy is doing very well.

As a matter of fact, Denny is doing so well that he doesn’t even bother to work every week. In his words, “It’s not the business of business, it’s the business of living that interests me.”

  • Published on Sep 1, 1971
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