How to Make Soy Candles

If you have ever wanted to learn how to make soy candles, The Pretty Pauper’s recent tutorial is a great resource to get started. Even as a beginner, the blogger was able to create candles that look amazing and smell great. The tutorial includes a step-by-step guide, making it easy to follow along and create your own soy candles.

The tutorial begins with a list of supplies that you will need, including soy wax, a wick, a container, fragrance oils, and dye (optional). The Pretty Pauper explains the benefits of using soy wax for candle making, such as its eco-friendliness and ability to hold onto scents. The blogger also provides tips for selecting the right container for your candle and choosing a fragrance oil that complements your personal tastes.

Once you have gathered your supplies, the tutorial provides clear instructions on how to melt the wax, add fragrance and color, and pour the wax into the container. The blogger also shares helpful tips for keeping the wick in place and preventing air bubbles from forming in the wax.

What makes The Pretty Pauper’s tutorial especially helpful is the inclusion of photos at every step of the process. The photos make it easy to follow along and ensure that your candles turn out just as they should. The tutorial also provides a troubleshooting guide, in case you encounter any problems during the candle making process.

The Pretty Pauper shared a tutorial this week hooking you up with the details! This was the blogger’s first candle making project and they look great – check out the how-to.

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Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer (illustrated by Bruno Valasse).

This book, aimed at kids in grades 1-4, is colorful and silly but also educational about how brains actually work, with billions of neurons sending electrical and chemical signals around the body.

“Everything we think, feel and experience comes from an electrical relay race, with neurons passing chemical batons to each other,” the book says. “The constant chatter of billions of brain cells creates your entire world.”

The book compares the brains of mammals to those of crabs (the book is “written” by a crab after all) and notes that crabs have fewer neurons and of course are much smaller, but they have separate parts of their brains that control their eyes and their legs. Crabs are also capable of remembering things, using tools and solving puzzles.

Some animals’ brains allow them to know more about their world in different ways from humans, such as spiders being sensitive to vibrations in their webs and catfish having an amazing sense of taste, with taste sensors all over their bodies.

It notes that 95 percent of brain activity goes toward things we do unconsciously, like breathing, walking and catching a ball flying toward us. It also talks about dreams, memory, how our emotions try to predict the future, where brains came from and fun facts about brains. For example, did you know a sperm whale is believed to have the biggest brain of any creature that’s even lived? Their brains weigh 18 pounds, compared to just 2.5 pounds for humans.

Information on what creatures have the smallest brains, the toughest brains, the most brains and those who actually eat their own brains will delight kids (and maybe gross them out a little bit). They’ll also enjoy learning about the mycelium network of fungi, which is like a brain without a body, and slime molds, which are like a brain without a brain.

It ends talking about why human brains are so special because we’ve found ways to work together, communicate and build communities on a scale bigger than any other animal.

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this colorful, silly and informational book about brains!

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $19.99.

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