How to Make Vermilion Sealing Wax

Sealing wax provides a decorative way to embellish or seal notes and envelopes for crafting, stationary or ceremonial purposes. It also serves as a way to deter tampering, as it is almost impossible to open a seal without breaking the wax. Making vermilion-colored sealing wax, a commonly used shade of red, doesn't take very long and only requires a few basic materials.

Things You'll Need

• 1 cup carnauba wax
• 1 tbsp palm kernel oil
• 1 tbsp cinnabar candle pigment
• Glass mixing bowl
• 10-inch taper mold

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Instructions

• 1

  Add the carnauba wax and palm kernel oil to the glass mixing bowl. Palm kernel oil is solid at room temperature and red.

• 2

  Microwave the bowl of wax and oil for three minutes, or until the contents melt together into a thin red, translucent liquid.

• 3

  Stir in the cinnabar colored candle pigment. Cinnabar pigment is the same color as the mineral cinnabar, from which the natural vermilion color derives.

• 4

  Pour the melted, reddish orange mixture into the taper candle mold. Allow it to sit in the mold for five hours to cool to room temperature and harden before use.