The Effect of Variations of Stearin Mass and Used Cooking Oil From Purification with Activated Carbon on the Quality of The Candle

Cooking oil is vegetable that has been purified and can be used as foodstuff. Consumtion of cooking a medium for frying foodstuff, to add flavor form texture in bread making. repeatedly or commonly known very bad impact on our body will pollute the environment if it not managed properly. Candles are made paraffin, melt easily when heated, light source. For making candle, chemical added, namely stearin. The function this stearin give shape fot candles because solidify once cools. presence palmitic acid stearic contained causes solid state at room temperature. study was conducted using 400 ml which then clarified with variations mass activated carbon much 40, 80, 120 grams. analyzed its absorbance value spectrophotometer uv-vis, become wax addition 50, 75, 100 resulting candle tested includes hardness, organoleptic test, flame resistance candle.