Gypsyjen

Suggested conversion = 1T powdered milk per 2oz water

In your case = 16.5T per 33oz or roughly 1C powdered milk

Might it be Lonestar?

Yup. Soy candles taste awful too.

Hijack alert!! I found this article earlier today. These folks won $5000 for creating edible soy candles.

Purdue students put the 'happy' back into birthday candles

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Now you can have your cake and eat the candles, too, thanks to three Purdue University students who have created an edible birthday cake candle that uses hydrogenated soybean oil instead of petroleum-based paraffin.

The peppermint-flavored candles don't drip and have a slightly shorter flame height. Christened "Flavor Favors" by their student inventors, the soy-based candles burn an average 25 seconds longer than commercial candles.

The candles took first place in a universitywide undergraduate student competition sponsored by Purdue's Department of Agronomy and the Indiana Soybean Development Council. Inventors Amy Khal of Iowa City, Iowa , Rahul Nair of Jackson, Miss., and Adam Watkins of Goshen, Ind., all students in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, split a $5,000 prize.

The composition of the candles is 83 percent hydrogenated soybean oil; 16 percent glycerol, a sweet emulsifier; about 1 percent coloring; and a bit of concentrated peppermint oil for flavoring. A combination of fully and partially hydrogenated soybean oil gives the blue, red and yellow candles form and texture; the glycerol makes the candles slightly softer and easier to chew. The peppermint oil could be replaced by other flavors as desired, Khal said.

Watkins, who was the designated candle eater for the team, says he wants to continue work on replacing the cotton wick with something tastier. Watkins is maintaining a World Wide Web page for the project at http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~watkins/info.html

Do y'all think these candles might be made out of hydrogenated soybean oil, as opposed to soy wax?

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Can you tell I'm bored today???

If they're tucked away in boxes and not gathering value anymore, why not try one and find out? I don't imagine it would hurt the "beans", but ya never know until you try one. If there's no adverse reactions, like with the stuffing or colors running or anything, I think they'd make nice small dipped critters. Maybe like for small rooms or dorms or something

You're probably right, I should, but I still feel kinda sorry for the li'l guys . Reminds me of the time my mom cooked a live crab and left me traumatized!

Has anyone tried to dip Beanie Babies? Maybe they'll become popular again and I can get rid of the 200 or so I have boxed up, which I initially bought as an "investment"...LOL santa roll

I use bean pot jars.

www.jarstore.com

Muriatic acid also removes blood, including DNA.

I learned this from CourtTV, NOT personal experience! :tiptoe:

That looks like a sure-fire way to burn your house down...literally!!:tiptoe:

This is what I used before I got my wick tabs. Just be sure to use enough and you shouldn't have any problems with your wick coming loose. I used about the size of a small pea per wick.

LOL, you're right. I did find a phone number for them:

770-667-2258

This is what it said on their contact page:

DOWNTIME!!!

We have experienced a large outage of phone service and we have been short of help during our move. In addition to phone service, our email has been out. We are working to correct this, and are overwhelmed at the moment.

Your order is on it's way!

Thank you for your patience

as we get back up and running!

I order my oils from Columbus Foods. Even with shipping those big containers, they are still cheaper than buying oils in small amounts elsewhere.

You guys crack me up!

Of course now I'll probably spill something, hopefully it will be just my tasty adult beverage.

That would surely be a tragedy as well.

Ok, I am new to B&B. What is Red Devil and what are you guys making with it?

Red Devil is lye - sodium hydroxide - which is used to make soap. It causes a chemical reaction with oils to turn them into soap.

My neighbors friend is rep for mia bella and she has this same problem. She gets black stuff on her base boards and around the perimiter of a carpeted room. When she had a carpet cleaner come in to clean he told her that its from burning candles. She said it can't be because she only burns soy and soy doesn't have black soot. But he told her its because dirt or dust sticks to the soot and darkens it. She called me and asked if it what he said is true. I didn't know what to tell her exept that I burn parafin and don't have that problem.

Oooh, there's a whole discussion surrounding whether Mia Bella's candles are really soy!! Check the threads... Most have concluded that it is actually a palm/veggie blend. I'm not sure if this type of blend is supposed to make more soot than a soy candle, however.

IMO, any scented candle will produce some level of soot, due to the addition of FO.

MC gets ab $5.25 and with shipping it is about that. Peak's is a honeycomb six-sided shape, and MC comes in little pellets, which is easier for me to use. besides, MC ships to me REALLY fast! I can order online on Saturday and I get my stuff on Tuesday! In fact I got some more goodies yesterday!

If you'd like to order beeswax in bulk, I highly recommend Columbus Foods (www.soaperschoice.com). You can buy white or yellow beeswax pastilles (pellets) at $3.25 - $3.59 per pound in a 25 pound box. They have always shipped my soapmaking oils very quickly to me.

Wow, how exciting!!:highfive: I would think that customers at a winery would be interested in wine fragrances - chardonnay, cabernet, etc.

Have fun and good luck!

FO's are always measured in ounces by weight, not fluid ounces, because some oils are heavier than others.

Oops Carrie, you must have posted while I was typing!

I poured this soy Sunday into an 8 ounce square mason and a 10 ounce apothecary container. It took the color well and the tops set up perfectly flat. I did a 4 hour burn on each container yesterday and another 4 hour burn on them today. I will contine the burns on each tomorrow. This is a great burning soy, very pretty looking container candle and easy to wick. Just wondering if anyone else has tried it and how they like it. I have yet to try the449 but may get to it later in the week.

Here's the results thread:http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9521

FYI, Millcreek has now listed GW444 on their website. They call it "Golden Soy Blend 444". It's $47 per 50lb.

I'm a smoker too, though not a loser one. You're right, it really helps the candlemaking. Plus it's one more thing you can light on fire. All in all, I recommend it but maybe not while opening bottles of low flash point FO.

This is me in the morning, LOL

Funny you ask that question.

Let me tell you how I stumbled upon something that greatly reduced the wet-spots in soy containers. I am a smoker. Yes, a loser smoker. I had a bunch of jars out on my pouring table. Right from the box, clean~ so I thought. I was procrastinating on doing this order for one of my wholesale accounts so they sat there for a few days. So, I washed them because I didn't want any chance of them stinking like cigarettes. I am a freak about this because thats not a reputation I want to give myself as a business woman.

So I wicked them up and poured them. Cooled them off and slapped the caps on. Not ONE damn wet spot to be found. I am not talking about 2 cases candles, its more like 12 cases. So, if you using J-223, J-50 or soy~ you might want to consider this for appearance sake.

I passed this on to a few of my soy girlies... they said it works like a dream.

I'm a loser smoker too...and so's my DH...I do get some wet spots, so will definitely have to try this!!

Thanks for the tips, y'all!! Guess I'll wait 'til I have my heat gun to try THAT again, otherwise - - this will be me!! LOL!!