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  1. I know I'm late here, but I use between 1 oz and 1.5 oz typically. The vast majority of my candles I use 1.5 oz on. Most of them use RG dye chips as well as dye blocks in other candles, very few are undyed. I usually test two different 8 oz candles at 1 oz, 1.5 oz, then 1.25 oz in that order and if those don't work, I abandon the scent. A few of my first scents use 2 oz, but I don't really test that high any more. One lesson I learned here was more often is not better. If it's perfect at 1 oz, 2 oz will clog the wick and inhibit scent throw. If you get good results with less FO, you're saving money per candle which adds up if you make a lot (and I do!)
  2. I add at 185 as well. I haven't really tried any other temperature, but I've had great success here. I've both left the heat on and also turned it off and not sure which is better, really. I leave it on now as I want the temp to be good enough to melt dye blocks when I use those, and sometimes even in the low 180s it takes me more than 2 minutes stirring to melt those dye blocks. If I don't leave the heat on sometimes it cools to 175 or so and its harder to melt dye blocks, but that's not as relevant when I use reddig glo chips. Some do it differently, but I do FO at 185, mix 2 minutes (although its likely overkill), mix dye until its fully incorporated (usually more than 2 min for me), then UV inhibitor for a minute. I haven't used too many FOs that have a low flash point, but I just started experimenting with a lemon verbena that has a flash point of 147, and I mixed it the same as I always do. It has an intense cold throw, but the hot throw is a bit less than my usual candles. I suspect I may need to use 1.5 oz rather than 1 oz, and don't feel it's burning off, but need to do more testing to be sure as I've only tested one candle. Btw that scent is AMAZING!
  3. Interesting, and that makes sense. Thank you so much! I want to try my hand at shampoo, shower gel, or liquid soap, but am trying to research and figure out as much as possible before diving in. I bought far too much glass I can't use for soy candles as I didn't research properly how much testing went into it, and have a bunch of glass just sitting around. I guess I'll post it in the classifieds.
  4. Are you supposed to fill up the empty plastic bottles with the 70% and just pour it out, or reuse it? Seems like you'd have to use an awful lot to fill em up, let em sit, and pour it out
  5. Do you also sanitize plastic bottles you are putting liquid hand soaps, shampoos, and shower gels in? I would imagine so
  6. I was asking what the favorite bar of those 25 was. I live near Monroe, Louisiana and used to live in Monroe for many years. I'm pretty sure they still keep a tiger at LSU, but I'm not a big football fan and don't keep up with them. If the Saints make it to the Superbowl or even the 2nd round of playoffs I would watch those games, but I have about 1% the interest as your average football fan!
  7. I use GB 464. I stir at 185 uv inhibitor then dye then fo. I've used liquid, dye blocks, and reddig glo chips. I pour at 130 to 125 in 12 oz unheated jars that were cleaned with ammonia. I put a large box over them while they cool. Doing this I have minimal wet spots and frosting. It does occur sometimes but not often and so far about 3 months in no new ones have shown up. My house is also temp controlled at 73 and they are in the middle room which is the stablest in heat. I doubt it's possible to have frost and wet spot free candles but this is the closest I've got.
  8. I don't think the fault was Columbus just due to the fact the bucket couldn't have been busted long before I got it and the two pails I got were in cardboard boxes that you could tell weren't treated delicately. Those boxes were jacked up and UPS is normally good for me. The busted one was barely still even closed due to the stress it went through. She sounded like they would find an excuse to deny the claim and it would just be easier to send me a 7 lb pail. That works for me.
  9. I was wondering how you all clean, and especially, sanitize your buckets/bottles/etc. for oils. I've read many of you melt and stir palm oil and put into smaller containers. Surely it needs to be sanitized. What do you use? I've read a lot of different ideas on here. Some say bleach, others say 91% isopropyl alcohol, others say chlorox or lysol wipes. What have you used with success?
  10. Yeah, I would imagine going with smaller bottles/pails would be better if I have to melt the entire thing and stir everytime I want to use palm. Yikes! But from what I've read about palm, it sounds worth it.
  11. I was actually going to get empty buckets of icing that Wal-Mart and Super 1 were going to throw away anyways. In my town, Super 1 doesn't charge and Wally world used to not but currently charge $1, which is fine. I'm going to research before I do it but I am thinking I need to clean it a certain way with all that sugary stuff in there. For the palm today I guess I'll just buy a few buckets from Lowes and go from there.
  12. Yeah I can only imagine how hard it would be to crack that pail. She said luckily it was palm and you're going to want to melt it and reportion it anyways, so go ahead and do that into other pails and she's going to send a 7 lb for free. I'm 100% satisfied with that. I'm a bit curious though, I am planning on melting it in a double boiler, a 12 Qt stainless steel stockpot in a 5 gallon stainless steel pot as the boiler. Does that sound good? And what do I need to clean the plastic buckets I put it in with? Surely some cleaners are good, some bad, for this purpose. Surely some increase oxidation
  13. It was in a box but no other packaging materials were in it. I would imagine it happened today since not much has seeped out, but it's hard to say.
  14. I was wondering if any of you had this and what the resolution was. I just got home and noticed a soaper's choice pail of oil I received. The bottom was oily and some oil had leaked on the porch. I brought it inside, took it out and found the bottom of the pail was split all the way across. It's only open enough that it's very slowly leaking out, but it is a continuous leak. They are obviously closed, but I did take pictures of it and called and left a voicemail. I also left the pail unopened, turned upside down, and put saran wrap over the entire bottom to prevent air from getting in. What do you think a company might do in this situation? What ought they do in your opinion? I'm not upset or anything as things happen in shipping and I wouldn't expect them to replace the entire 50 lb pail, but it would be nice if they sent me an empty bucket and perhaps a few lbs to replace what spilled out. Also do I need to do anything differently for it to store better while I wait for them to give me a response tomorrow?
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