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There are folks out there that do use zinc in soy and will swear by them. In my personal experience I didn't think they burned hot enough for my soy. If you can, get some sample packs of other kinds of wicks. They don't cost too much money and then do comparision burns to see which type of wick(s) you like best. Good luck. :)

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I use zinc in my soy (nature wax c3) and am having good luck with it. I use 1 oz/pound of wax of fragrance. For the apothecary jars that I am using (4 inch diameter base) I use 2 of the 51-32-18 pretabbed wicks. They work great. For my hex jars I use just one. One thing that I found and am trying to tell the world is that if you fill up the container to just below the neck (not up the neck), you will most likely not get the pitting that is common. If you fill up to the neck, the wax will pit and look ugly and be hard to fix even with a heat gun. I have found that they can mushroom, but if you light them, get them to a large mushroom, distinguish them and cut them down to 1/4" again and then relight, they don't mushroom as bad the second time around.

I hope this helps!

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