Sarah S

I tested the CBL129 and I loved the throw. It was easy to wick too. I am just way to lazy to deal with a repour. 🤣 For a single pour with consistent great results, I go with CBL125 every time. I actually just bought a slab of 4630 and a box of 4627 to see how they compare to CW's waxes.

@lovelyscents, you know what i am going to say... go back to the CW waxes! I am still in love with the CBL125 and I love their Palm1 as well. Their blends are very consistent. My only complaint is that they are often out of stock these days, but who isn't? I use oils from CW, Flaming Candle, and NG with great success in Palm. Like @Candybee, my CT is almost overpowering before the wick is even lit. I find Palm does best with florals, fruits, earthy blends and ocean type scents. And the typical "clean" types. CBL125 throws anything. But put a bakery scent from Indiana Candle Supply in it and be ready to die from rapture! I still have a stash of CSNs to use with the palm. I will cry when it's gone. I use HTPs with the 125.

Do you ever order from Bitter Creek? It has been at least three years since I ordered from them, but they used to make an amazingly realistic and strong ginger. Just like the slices you get with sushi! Super potent and a great mixer, and I'm pretty sure its skin safe.

@GailCdid you think of a name? How about Joy Juice? Berry Twist Raspberry Kiss Juicy Sweet Sunshine and Berries Fruit Salad I love coming up with names!

Try Candlewic! Some of their fragrances are meh, but they have a lot of outstanding ones too. I have not been to visit them post-covid, but they used to have samples to smell at their warehouse. Depending on where you are in the NJ area, they may be close enough for a drive over. They are located in Doylestown PA, about 30 minutes south of Allentown and Bethlem. I order from them frequently and am pleased more often than not with their oils. And they are my favorite wax supplier.

You could go up to 8 or 9% on the FO. I've never seen the need to go higher than that. A good parrafin or parasoy tart will be plenty strong at 8%, and the infrequent times I've gone up to 10% I've never noticed a difference.

It does! I love rooibos tea. That's actually my favorite blend to drink, rooibos, orange and cinnamon. 😁

Try the Cinnamon Bun from Aztec. It's one of my favorites, really strong throw and a superb buttery Cinnamon.

Flaming's Back Tea is incredible. Very similar to BB's black tea, just a little bit more mellow. If you mix it with Bergamot, it is an outstanding Earl Grey blend. I am also slightly obsessed with their Tea and Cakes. It's a very unusual mix of black tea and sweet cakes with a whisper of lemon. At first I wasn't a fan, but it is so mellow on burning, and it is a refreshing change from the usual bakery scents. I add a little Black Tea to it to cut down on the sweetness a bit.

That is exactly how I feel about it too! It is a great bakery scent, but I like the CB more. I also like the Bread Pudding more than Bears CLaws as a similar but different spicy bakery scent. @Marleigha, their Sweet Bakery Dough is one of my favorite bakery scents ever. Not too sweet, very mellow and it pairs well with other candles if you like to burn multiple fragrances. The Zucchini Pumpkin Bread and Pumpkin Ice Cream are outstanding Pumpkin fragrances.

That's a bummer, I just got a slab of 129 a few weeks ago. I haven't made anything with it yet. Maybe I'll pull it out today and see what it does. Do you have a softer wax like 125, or a soy wax? Sometimes I add a soft wax at a low percentage, like 5-10% to smooth out my tarts. I don't want to add much, because I like a hard tart, but a little bit can help smooth out some dimples or ripples to an acceptable level.

In my experience, the softer waxes do not have longevity with their throw. A soft wax may have great initial HT as the melt pool will reach a high temperature quickly, but as you have noticed the throw diminishes significantly over the course of several hours. Are you using a coconut blend? I don't think that coconut wax is a great stand alone wax anyway, for any application. If you are ok with parrafin, I would suggest adding 40-50% hard paraffin wax, or switching to parrafin entirely. There is a reason why the big manufacturers use parrafin, it makes a fantastic tart! Also consider the size of the tart, .5oz is not a lot of wax. The fragrance may truly be spent in that tiny amount of wax after 8 hours, depending on the strength and quality of your fragrance oil. If you are married to the "all natural" concept, try blending palm wax with the coconut, 50/50, or try palm/coconut/soy at 50/30/20. Finally, what makes your tarts "luxury"? Are you going for visual impact? Unique fragrance? Price? Novel packaging? Marketing something as luxury has many different factors, performance being only part of it. It is very likely that you may need to be flexible with your waxes to create your product line, so don't be afraid to experiment.

So glad it was something easily fixable!

Hmmm, ok. I'm not as experienced with HP as I am CP. If that was a CP soap, and you've ruled out improper measurement, I'd say there was something wrong with the lye. Are all the bad batches made with the same lot of lye? For HP, the only thing I can think of, is if you are adding the super fat after the cook, it might just be too much super fat. Hopefully someone with HP experience will chime in. @Sponiebr @TallTayl @Candybee Oh, one more thought, have you changed fragrance oils? They'd can do some wacky things to soap batter.

Just looking at your recipe, that is a pretty high amount of castor oil. You used that same percentage previously with no problem? Where do you get your lye? Do you masterbatch it or do you mix it fresh each time?