How to Sell Wax Melts From Home (Step-by-Step)

Your friend asked for a second clamshell of the vanilla melts you made for her birthday. Then her neighbor asked. Now you have a pound of wax left, three people waiting, and a craft fair two months out. You want to know what it takes to turn this into something you sell on purpose.

This guide is for vendors in the United States, and it walks you through the work in the order you will actually do it. It starts with the supply order, with prices loaded on one day, then covers the wax, the fragrance, the pour, the cure and the testing. After that it covers the label, the heat problem, where to sell, what each checkout keeps, and how many clamshells to pour for your first month.

How Do You Start Selling Wax Melts From Home?

You start selling wax melts from home in five moves: buy one starter order of wax, fragrance and clamshells, pour a test batch, cure and test it for 1 to 2 weeks, label it, and sell your first 60 clamshells to people who can smell them. Most of your effort goes into the scents, not the paperwork.

Here is the whole path at a glance:

• Order supplies once. One wax, four fragrance oils, 90 clamshells and a roll of warning labels covers your first batch.
• Pour a test batch first. Make one clamshell of each scent and melt it at home before you pour 15 of it.
• Cure and test. Give the melts 1 to 2 weeks, then judge each scent in a real warmer in a real room.
• Label every clamshell. The scent and the words "wax melts", your business name and address, and the net weight of the melts go on the front, with a warning label inside the lid.
• Sell where people can sniff. A market table or craft fair first, then a link for reorders.

Pricing is its own job. Our wax melt pricing guide found nine small shops charging a $6 median price for a standard clamshell on September 30, 2026, and works out a price for snap bars, minis and bundles. This page uses that $6 figure for its examples and covers everything else.

What Does a Starter Wax Melt Supply Order Cost?

Plan on $171.89 for your first order, the CandleScience total we added up on October 5, 2026, not counting shipping or sales tax. It buys 10 pounds of wax, four 4 ounce bottles of fragrance, 90 clamshells, 100 warning labels and three tools you keep.

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We loaded every price on CandleScience's product pages on October 5, 2026. Fragrance prices vary by scent; the 4 ounce price is Moroccan Cashmere, the scent in CandleScience's clamshell guide. Shipping, tax, dye and your front label are not included. You also need a pot for a double boiler, which most kitchens already have.

The yield comes from CandleScience's clamshell guide, which says "half a pound of wax will fill approximately 3 clamshell wax molds." Ten pounds is 20 half pounds, so about 60 clamshells.

At a full 2.75 ounce fill, which is 2.51 ounces of wax and 0.24 ounces of fragrance (the pricing guide's split), your materials come to about $1.80 a clamshell ($1.796 before rounding): $0.64 of wax, $0.77 of fragrance, $0.34 for the clamshell and $0.04 for the warning label, each rounded to the cent, which is why the four parts add to $1.79. Filled that full, 10 pounds of wax makes about 63 clamshells; if you pour the guide's 60 instead, spreading the $40.88 of wax and $51.40 of fragrance across 60 comes to about $1.92 a clamshell with the clamshell and label. The pricing guide's $1.55 assumes one 16 ounce bottle of fragrance, which costs $2.24 an ounce instead of the 4 ounce bottle's $3.21. Starting with four small bottles costs about 25 cents more a clamshell. That is the price of finding out which scents your customers want before you buy a pound of any of them.

If all 60 sell at $6, that is $360 from a $171.89 order, or $188.11 left before your booth fees, front labels, card fees and time. The $44.68 of tools pour your next batch too, so a second order of the same supplies costs $127.21 and still leaves you spare clamshells and labels from the first.

Which Wax Works Best for Wax Melts You Sell?

The best wax for melts you sell is a pillar or melt wax, not the soft container wax used in jar candles, because a melt has to hold its shape out of the mold and survive a warm day. CandleScience's wax guide lists which of its waxes are made for melts and tarts, with each one's fragrance limit and melt point.

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Fragrance limits and melt points come from CandleScience's wax guide, and prices from its wax order page, both loaded October 5, 2026. 464 is shown only to compare its melt point; CandleScience lists it for containers and tealights, not melts.

How to pick between them:

• Pick CocoSol if scent strength is your selling point. It is the only one on the list rated to hold 25% fragrance, and CandleScience calls it its top performing wax for melts.
• Pick BW-921 if you want plain soy on the label for less. It costs $10.34 less per 10 pounds and holds up to 1.6 ounces of fragrance per pound, a little more than the clamshell guide's 1.5.
• Pick IGI 6028 if your customers do not ask about soy. The paraffin blend is a common choice for strong scent, but say paraffin on your listing if you use it.
• Skip jar wax for melts. A wax that melts at 113°F was made to sit in a jar, not in a clamshell you carry to a summer market.

Whatever you pick, use one wax for your first season. Changing wax changes how every scent smells, and you want your test results to stay true.

How Much Fragrance Oil Should Go in Each Melt?

Start with 0.75 ounces of fragrance oil for every 8 ounces of wax, which is 1.5 ounces per pound, the rate in CandleScience's clamshell guide (the guide rounds it to 9%). That is exactly IGI 6028's listed limit and under the limits of BW-921 and CocoSol, so it is within the listed limit of every melt wax in the table above; check each oil's own limit too. Only CocoSol leaves you much room to go higher once you have tested a scent; BW-921 allows just 0.1 ounce more per pound.

You weigh fragrance, never measure it by the spoon. Put the pitcher on the scale, tare it, and weigh both the wax and the oil. For a half pound pour that fills about 3 clamshells:

1. Weigh 8 ounces of wax into the pitcher.
2. Weigh 0.75 ounces of fragrance oil in a separate cup.
3. Melt the wax, then add the oil when the wax reaches 185°F, the temperature both CandleScience guides use.
4. Stir gently for 2 minutes so the fragrance binds with the wax.

You can go higher with CocoSol, but more is not always better. CandleScience's lab notes on CocoSol found visible frosting, a white bloom on the surface, was "much more common in wax containing fragrance loads of 15% or greater," and that higher loads make melts "more crumbly" with "less snap" when you break a cube off.

Clamshells, Snap Bars or Silicone Molds: Which Should You Start With?

Start with the standard 6 cube clamshell, because it is the mold and the package in one piece, it holds 2.75 ounces, and CandleScience calls it "the most common size in the market." You pour straight into it, snap the lid, and it is ready for a label.

Here is how the main options compare for a home seller:

• Standard 6 pc. clamshell. $30.78 for 90 on October 5, 2026, or about 34 cents each. Customers know what it is, and it sells by the clamshell at a market.
• 5 pc. snap bar clamshell. $14.65 for 50, about 29 cents each. A flat bar that breaks into five pieces. A good second size, or a lower price point next to your standard clamshell.
• Silicone molds. Shapes like hearts, shells or cookies. You pop the melts out and then need a bag or box, so you pay for packaging twice. CandleScience's lab notes warn that molds with "thin areas or intricate designs" can break when the fragrance load is high.
• Tart molds. CandleScience's tart mold makes tarts of about 1 ounce each. Fine for samples, but each tart still needs its own package.

The clamshell also solves a heat problem you will meet in summer. CandleScience's CocoSol lab notes recommend "packaging that is self-contained, such as clamshells" when you ship high-fragrance melts in hot weather. A melt in a sealed clamshell that softens a little is still a sellable melt. A loose melt in a paper bag is a stain.

One more reason to start simple: if you make one format in four scents, you have four products to track. If you make three formats in four scents, you have twelve. Add the snap bar once you know which scents sell.

How Do You Make a Batch of Wax Melts at Home?

You make a batch of wax melts in about an hour of hands-on time: weigh, melt, add fragrance at 185°F, pour at about 170°F, and let it set overnight. The temperatures below come from CandleScience's soy wax melt guide (which uses CocoSol) and its clamshell guide; if you use a different wax, use the pour temperature on that wax's page.

• Set up your space. Cover the counter with paper, set out clean, dry clamshells open and flat, and keep the warning labels and your scale close.
• Weigh the wax. Put the pitcher on the scale, tare it, and weigh 8 ounces of wax for each 3 clamshells you plan to fill.
• Melt it gently. Melt the wax in a double boiler or on a hot plate, with the thermometer clipped to the pitcher, and never leave melting wax alone on the stove.
• Add fragrance at 185°F. Pour in the weighed fragrance oil, take the pitcher off the heat, and stir gently for 2 minutes.
• Pour at about 170°F. Let the wax cool to around 170°F and pour slowly into each cavity without overfilling. CandleScience lists CocoSol's pour temperature at 175°F plus or minus 5.
• Let it set overnight. Leave the clamshells open and flat until fully hard. Moving them early can spill wax between cavities.
• Close, label and date. Snap the lid, put the warning label inside the lid, add your front label, and write the pour date on a strip of tape or in your notebook.

Pour one scent at a time and clean the pitcher between scents. A pitcher that held cinnamon will make your next batch of lemon smell faintly of cinnamon. CandleScience's tip is to remelt the leftover wax, wipe it out with a paper towel, then wipe the inside with rubbing alcohol.

Keep a batch log from day one: the date, the wax, the scent, the fragrance weight and how many clamshells you got. When a customer says the last clamshell of Sea Salt was weaker, the log tells you why.

How Long Do Wax Melts Need to Cure Before You Sell Them?

Wax melts need to cure for 1 to 2 weeks before you sell them, the range CandleScience gives in its soy wax melt guide: "For best fragrance throw, let your wax melts to cure for 1-2 weeks before use." Curing is the time the fragrance needs to settle into the wax, and a melt sold the day after pouring often smells weaker in a warmer than the same melt a week later.

That cure time changes how you plan. It means:

• Pour two weeks before any market. A craft fair on November 15 means a pour day around November 1.
• Keep a cured stock, not a fresh one. Your best-selling scent should always have a few clamshells that are already cured, so a reorder never waits two weeks.
• Store cured melts cool and dark. A closed box in a closet works. A sunny windowsill does not.
• Label the pour date. You will know at a glance which batch is ready.

Curing is also free quality control. Look at the clamshells at day 7. Frosting, cracks or melts pulling away from the plastic show up in that window, and you would rather find them in your closet than at your table.

If a customer asks how long a cured melt lasts on the shelf, give them the honest answer: keep it closed and cool and it holds its scent for a long time, but a clamshell that sat open in the sun loses scent fast. Tell people to store spares with the lid shut.

How Do You Test Scent Throw Before You Sell a Scent?

You test scent throw by melting one cube of each cured scent in the kind of warmer your customers own, in a normal room, and judging it after 30 minutes and again after 2 hours. "Throw" is how far the scent travels into the room. "Cold throw" is how it smells in the package, and "hot throw" is how it smells melted, which is what your customer paid for.

A simple home test:

1. Use one cube in a standard warmer. CandleScience's own tip is that a warmer with a high-heat bulb gives more scent.
2. Melt it in a closed room of normal size, such as a bedroom, with the door shut.
3. Leave the room for 15 minutes so your nose resets, then walk back in.
4. Write down whether you smell it at the door, in the middle of the room, or only near the warmer.
5. Repeat with one cube of every scent, one scent a day, so they never mix.

A scent you only notice standing next to the warmer is not ready to sell. Try a higher fragrance rate in the next test pour, or drop that oil.

Size matters too. CandleScience's clamshell guide warns that "some scents may overpower a small room like a bathroom." If a scent is very strong, say so on the label or the listing. A customer who melts all six cubes of a heavy scent in a small room will not come back for more.

Ask two or three friends to test your top scents in their own homes and warmers. Their warmers run at different heat, and that is closer to what a buyer will see.

Which Scents Should Your First Wax Melt Line Have?

Start with four scents, one from each of four families, so every shopper at your table finds one they like: a sweet bakery scent, a clean or fresh scent, a fruity or floral scent, and a warm woody or spicy scent. Four 4 ounce bottles add up to $51.40, the fragrance line in the starter order above.

A balanced first line might look like this:

• Sweet: vanilla, sugar cookie, or a bakery blend. The one shop on Homegrown whose listings are labeled wax melts pours scents like Fruit Cereal and Cotton Candy Cake.
• Clean: cotton, linen, or sea salt. These sell to people who want a room to smell washed, not sweet.
• Fruity or floral: citrus, berry, lavender. A bright scent balances the sweet one.
• Warm: sandalwood, cedar, cinnamon, or a musky blend like Moroccan Cashmere.

Then add one seasonal scent at a time. A pumpkin or pine scent in the fall, a citrus in the spring. When the season ends, the scent goes away until next year, and the regulars who loved it have something to wait for.

Keep a simple tally at every market: which clamshells people pick up and sniff, and which they buy. After three markets you will know your top two. Order those in the 16 ounce bottle next time, which cost $2.24 an ounce against $3.21 for the 4 ounce size on October 5, 2026, and drop the scent that never sold.

Scent names are part of the product. "Porch Swing" or "Sunday Pancakes" is easier to remember and ask for than "Fragrance #4." Write the name big on the label so a customer can text you "two more Porch Swing" without looking it up.

What Rules Apply to Selling Wax Melts From Home?

Selling wax melts from home needs no cottage food permit and no commercial kitchen, and it does need a label with three things on it, because a melt is a scented household product like a candle, not a food. The FDA's aromatherapy page puts "air fresheners, scented candles" under the Consumer Product Safety Commission rather than the FDA. On the selling side, Homegrown's signup page lists "No food license required for non-food products."

What still applies:

• The label. Under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act rules the FTC publishes, a household product shows what it is, "the name and place of business" of who made or sold it, and its net quantity in metric and in ounces or pounds. That federal law covers melts sold or shipped across state lines; for melts you sell only in your own state, your state's weights and measures packaging rule applies where your state adopted it, and the model rule NIST publishes for states, the Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation in Handbook 130, asks for the same three lines. The detail behind that, in 16 CFR 500.5, is that the place of business means "the street address, city, state, and zip code," though the street address may be left off if it is listed in a public resource such as a website. On a clamshell that means lines like "Wax melts, Porch Swing, Net Wt. 2.75 oz (78 g)" and "Made by" your business name with its city, state and ZIP, plus the street address unless your shop is publicly listed with it.
• The warning. This one is a safety practice, not a packaging rule. For candles, the fire warnings come from a voluntary industry standard, we found no rule that sets a wax melt warning, and federal warning labels apply only when a product contains a hazardous substance, as the candle rules guide below explains. Stick a printed warning inside each lid anyway. CandleScience's $4.15 roll of 100 tells the buyer to remove the packaging, never leave a melter unattended, and keep melts "out of reach of children and pets."
• What you claim. That FDA page counts a promise that a product will "help you sleep" as a drug claim, along with easing pain or anxiety. Name a scent "Calm" if you like, but do not write that it helps anyone sleep.
• Your state and city. Sales tax, business registration and home business zoning are set where you live. Verify your state's current rules before your first sale.

Weigh the melts, not the clamshell, for the net weight. Subtract an empty clamshell's weight from a filled one, check a few, and print the lowest honest number.

If your melts look like food, such as cookie or candy shapes, a child may try to eat one, so put "Do not eat" where it shows and keep the warning label in every package, the way Forever Red Candle Co.'s cookie melt listing on Homegrown ends with "Do not eat." For the full label and the line between law and voluntary standards, read whether you can sell homemade candles, since the same agencies cover candles and melts.

Will Your Wax Melts Survive a Hot Car or a Summer Delivery?

A melt made from a pillar or melt wax handles summer heat far better than one made from jar wax, but a melt point is not a promise. The three melt waxes in the wax table have melt points of 128°F or higher, yet a heavily scented melt can soften well below that. The risk is time and fragrance load. CandleScience's CocoSol lab notes found no damage to the wax after 3 months at 104°F, but melts with 25% fragrance came out softened and needed time at room temperature before they would release from the clamshell.

The same tests found that "fragrance loads above 15% also caused slight softening of the plastic clamshell after 3 months of 104°F exposure." That did not ruin the melts, but it tells you where the weak point is: heavy fragrance plus long heat.

Practical habits for warm months:

• Carry stock in a cooler bag to markets. You are not chilling the melts, just keeping the sun off them.
• Keep the table out of direct sun. A clear clamshell under a tent is fine. On a bare table in July, it is a small oven.
• Do a test run before you ship. CandleScience's own advice for shipping high-fragrance melts in hot weather is "conducting test shipments." Mail one clamshell to a friend in August and see what arrives.
• Prefer pickup and local delivery in summer. A melt that rides 20 minutes in your car arrives the way it left.

Where Can You Sell Wax Melts When You Work From Home?

You can sell wax melts from home in six main places: farmers markets, craft fairs and holiday markets, pickup orders from your own link, local delivery, gift shops that buy wholesale, and online marketplaces that ship. A part-time vendor usually does best with two of them at once: one table where people can smell the melts and one link where they reorder.

• Farmers markets. A weekly market gives you the same shoppers every Saturday, which is how a scent becomes "my scent." Check that your market takes non-food vendors before you apply.
• Craft fairs and holiday markets. Bigger crowds and gift buyers. Melts at $5 to $7 are an easy add-on next to a jar candle.
• Pickup from your home or porch. Regulars order on your link and grab their clamshells at a time you set.
• Local delivery. Drop orders within a few miles on one evening a week.
• Gift shops and boutiques. They buy at wholesale, about half of retail in our pricing guide, so one shop pays less per clamshell but takes a case at a time.
• Etsy and other shipping marketplaces. Shoppers in other states, at the cost of packing every order and higher fees.

Smell sells melts. A shopper reading "Porch Swing" online has to guess. The same shopper at your table opens a clamshell and decides in seconds. That is why the first sale of a scent usually happens in person, and the second one can happen on a link.

If you also pour jars, our breakdown of where to sell candles compares these places one by one, and melts can go anywhere your candles go.

What Does Each Way of Taking Orders Keep on an $18 Order?

On an $18 order of three clamshells picked up locally, a Homegrown storefront kept $0.82 in card processing, Square's free plan $0.89, Shopify Basic $0.82 on a standard card, and Etsy $2.16, on fees loaded October 5, 2026. Homegrown's plan adds $10 a month and Shopify's adds $29, both on annual billing. The monthly plan is what separates the cheap options once you sell 50 orders a month.

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We checked these on Homegrown's signup page, Etsy's fees policy and Sell page, Shopify's pricing page and Square's pricing page on October 5, 2026. The $18 order is three $6 clamshells sold as one 3-pack listing, picked up locally, before sales tax. Etsy's processing applies to the order total including tax and shipping, so a shipped order costs more than the row shows.

What the numbers mean for a melt vendor:

• Square's free plan is the lowest on fees alone at 50 orders, $6.40 under Homegrown's annual plan, and it is a strong card reader at your table.
• Etsy costs the most per order at $2.16, or 12% of an $18 sale, before shipping and before any Offsite Ad fee. It earns that by bringing in shoppers from other states.
• Shopify's standard card rate matches Homegrown's 2.9% + $0.30, so the difference is the plan: $29 against $10 a month on annual billing. Shopify charges 3.5% + $0.30 when the customer pays with a premium card, while Homegrown's rate stays the same on every card.

The fee is only part of the choice. The next section covers what each one does for a shopper who wants the same scent again.

Let Regulars Reorder Their Scent Without Messaging You

The hardest part of selling wax melts from home is not the first sale at your table, it is the second one, when a customer runs out of Porch Swing on a Tuesday and has to message you to get more. Homegrown gives each scent its own spot on one storefront link for $10 a month billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly) with no percentage fees beyond standard payment processing, so that customer can order and pay without a single back-and-forth.

What it does for a melt vendor:

• Scents as variants. One clamshell listing with every scent under it, each with its own price, so a 3-pack and a single sit side by side.
• Pickup and local delivery. Set your porch, your market and a delivery radius of 1 to 25 miles, with pickup days and times you choose.
• A printable QR code for your table sign and the back of your label, so a market shopper can reorder from the clamshell itself.
• Your customer list. Names, emails and order history stay yours.

How it compares: Etsy is the better fit when your melts go by mail to buyers you will never meet, but it kept $2.16 of the $18 order in the fee table, and shipping comes on top. Instagram DMs cost nothing but can lose an order in a busy week. Square's free plan is excellent at the table and its online page costs a little more per order, while Shopify starts at $29 a month on annual billing.

What Homegrown does not do: it does not ship, so if most of your melts go out by mail, Etsy or Shopify fits better. Customers create a Homegrown account to place a first order. There is no drop or countdown release feature for timed scent launches. Your storefront is listed on the marketplace, but plan on most orders coming from people you send to your own link. You cover the card processing of 2.9% plus 30 cents yourself, and no card fee is added to your customer's total.

If your regulars already text you for refills, start a Homegrown storefront for your wax melts and list all four scents with a pickup day in one afternoon.

How Many Clamshells Should You Make for Your First Month?

Make about 60 clamshells for your first month, 15 in each of four scents, which is one 10 pound bag of wax and the starter order above. That is enough for two or three market days plus a handful of pickup orders, and small enough that a scent nobody likes does not leave you with 40 unsold clamshells.

A sample first month:

1. Week 1: pour one test clamshell of each scent and start the cure.
2. Week 2: after 7 days of cure, test throw at home and give two friends a few cubes of each scent to test. Then pour the other 14 clamshells of each scent that passed.
3. Week 3: let the full batch cure, and swap out any scent that failed for a new test pour.
4. Week 4: first market. Bring 30 clamshells, about half your stock, and keep the rest for a second market or a pickup weekend. Count what is left by scent after each one and reorder the top two.

That shop shows where melts fit in a home fragrance line: next to the candles and the candle lamps, as the low-price way to try a scent. If you pour jars too, put your melts in the same scents, and the guide to how much to sell candles for prices the jar side.

What Do New Wax Melt Vendors Get Wrong?

The mistakes that cost new wax melt vendors the most are buying a pound of a scent before testing it, selling melts before they cure, and using a soft jar wax that sags in summer. None of them need a permit to fix, just a little patience. The common ones:

• Too many scents at launch. Ten scents at 6 clamshells each means you run out of the good ones and keep the slow ones. Four scents at 15 each teaches you more.
• Selling the day after the pour. CandleScience's guide says 1 to 2 weeks of cure for the best throw. A weak first clamshell loses the repeat sale.
• Guessing the fragrance. Measuring oil by eye gives you a strong batch and a weak batch of the same scent. Weigh it every time.
• Printing the clamshell's weight as the net weight. The label shows the melts only, not the plastic.
• Writing health claims. "Helps you sleep" turns a melt into a drug claim on the FDA's page. Keep scent names fun and claims out.
• No way to reorder. A shopper who loved your melt and cannot find you again is a sale you already earned and lost.

Most of these come from rushing the first batch. Pour small, cure fully, test honestly, then scale the two scents that sell.

The last mistake is the easiest one to fix before your first market. If you want every clamshell you sell at the table to lead to a reorder, put your wax melt scents on a Homegrown storefront and print its QR code on your label, so a customer who runs out can order the same scent for pickup without hunting for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a permit to make wax melts at home?

You do not need a cottage food license or a commercial kitchen to sell wax melts from home, since food rules were never written for wax. You may still need a sales tax permit or a business registration where you live, and some cities limit home businesses. Verify your state's current rules before your first sale.

What is the best wax for wax melts you plan to sell?

A melt or pillar wax works best for wax melts you plan to sell, such as CandleScience's CocoSol soy and coconut blend, BW-921 soy, or IGI 6028 paraffin and soy. These melt at 128°F or higher, well above jar wax, though heavily scented melts can still soften in long heat. CocoSol is rated for up to 25% fragrance, the highest of the three on CandleScience's wax guide on October 5, 2026.

How much does it cost to start a wax melt business at home?

Expect to spend about $171.89 on your first supply order, the total of CandleScience's prices on October 5, 2026, before you pay shipping or tax. It covers 10 pounds of wax, four fragrance oils, 90 clamshells, warning labels, a pitcher, a thermometer and a scale. If you already own a kitchen scale and thermometer, you start closer to $135.

How long should wax melts cure before selling?

Wax melts should cure for 1 to 2 weeks before selling, according to CandleScience's soy wax melt guide, so the fragrance has time to settle and the melt smells full in a warmer. Plan your pour day about two weeks before each market. Keep a few cured clamshells of your best-selling scent on hand so reorders do not wait.

Do farmers markets let you sell wax melts?

Farmers markets that accept non-food crafts can take wax melts, but every market writes its own vendor rules, and some limit non-food stalls. Ask the market manager before you apply and bring labeled clamshells with a warning label inside each lid. A table where shoppers can open and smell a clamshell is the best place to sell wax melts from home.

Is selling wax melts from home profitable?

Selling wax melts from home can be profitable on materials: about $1.80 of supplies in a full clamshell from a small first order (about $1.92 if you spread the order across the guide's 60), against a $6 median price across nine small shops on September 30, 2026. Your time, booth fees and the scents that do not sell come out of that gap. Buying your best two scents in larger bottles lowers your cost as you grow.

Related Reading

These 5 guides pick up where this one stops, from clamshell prices to candle rules to online checkouts. Start with the pricing guide if you have not set your clamshell price yet, since this page's sales examples use its $6 median, and read the candle rules guide before you print 100 labels:

• How Much Should You Sell Wax Melts For? sets a price for every melt size from live supply costs.
• Can You Sell Homemade Candles? explains which candle rules are law and what goes on the label.
• Where to Sell Candles compares markets, shops, consignment and online, and melts fit each one.
• How to Sell Candles at Farmers Markets covers displays and scent choice at a market table.
• Best Platform to Sell Soap and Candles Online lines up the online checkouts for home fragrance vendors.

Selling wax melts from home comes down to a few habits: one wax, four tested scents, a full cure, an honest label and a way for the people who loved a scent to buy it again. Pour your first 60, learn which two sell, and build from there.