Lana

6 minutes ago, Trappeur said:

What's HIWTK??    ?Never heard of that abbreviation.

 

Trappeur

Honey I Washed The Kids (from Lush)

On 7/31/2018 at 1:17 AM, Trappeur said:

After searching RE was highly recommend by so many and lots of reviews and not 1 negative one as people loved it.

As far as CS goes it was very mixed reviewed and most people did not like.

 

So I'll get some from RE.

 

Thanks             Trappeur

I should mention, I go down in percentage in any of my applications w this scent (melts, candles, room sprays, reed diffusers). I rarely make candles, but have made them in this scent for friends. I don't recall my formula off the top of my head but I can tell you in melts (parasoy), I do about 5.75-6% instead of my normal 6.5-7% for many fragrances. If I go much higher than 6% in RE Coffee House, it starts to smell fake to me. It's a pretty strong scent for me. 

This is definitely strange and I would 100% not give them certain details and say your process and/or particular raw materials are proprietary. 

In my day job, I work in the food industry as a co-manufacturer and some of our customers do request "open book pricing" where we do share our costs and profit margins but they are far and few between. We also have a customer who is a nut roasting company, so they make plain roasted almond/cashew/peanut butter, we process it with other flavors & ingredients and dispense it into retail jars for them. In that case, they give us the nut butters at no cost and we only charge them for the additional flavors, jar, labor, etc. I would say those instances could carry over into a candle business. In any case, these would all be established businesses whose business relationship together is clearly defined up front and no confusion, shadiness, etc. 

You have worked very hard to perfect your craft and you shouldn't be bullied into giving away your trade secrets. Best of luck with this - I hope it works out however is best for you!

Agreed on Coffee House from RE or maybe Coffee from CS. Both smell different from each other and I sell both under different names in wax melt form, but the Coffee House does better for me as far as repeat orders go. (I only sell online, so people are initially buying off of description only). 

Oh man, I love so many of their scents. Baked Apple HI type, Spiced Pumpkin Latte, Coffee House, Badedas (although I haven't been able to sell a lot of it - I need a good name for it), Golden Sands (I LOVE the scent, but the fo turned black-ish purple on me after about 6 months, very weird). Oak Barrel Cider is nice. Also Sparkling Pomegranate Prosecco. 

I could probably go on and on! 

4 hours ago, Trappeur said:

In answer to your question about the emergency animal clinic Gail......well, when I got home last night after work about 5:30 I had a message from my neighbor that she had 1 of my cats called "Friendly" on her back porch in very bad shape, as she thought he was paralyzed.  He evidently crawled into her driveway and she found him uncontrollably breathing very heavy and couldn't move from the head down.  Her and her hubby picked him up, ran up to my shack and got one of my cat carriers of which they made a little bed out of it for him.  They said he couldn't move.   When I got there, I bent down and started talking and mothering him.  By a miracle she said, he got up and tried to walk, but he couldn't stand but kept falling over and crying.  I picked him up and he was just purring a mile a minute but I rushed him down the mountain to the 24 hour emergency clinic.  They gave him every test that was available and all was negative, no feline leuk, fiv....a test for antifreeze maybe and that negative also.  It was neurological said the vet as my neighbor did also as she is a nurse.  No broken bones, nothing....Next step would be to go to a neurologist at the Tennessee or Georgia Universities which would have cost thousands.   So here I am at the clinic for 10 hours desperate for a positive some kind of result and they have nothing.   And as usual, always scraping the barrel as far as funds go so they said they would try for care credit if I wanted to...so I did and got approved for 2,500.00....I couldn't believe that so they finished the testings.  I asked about if it could maybe be with the symptons rabies....and that was a possibility yes.....but the vet said cats are so different and there are so many neurological things that could be happening and not just rabies.   Someone could have hit him.... He said maybe if I wanted he would euthanize "Friendly" and send his head off to be examined!   I thought with this bedside manner of his of what he just said I would die.  As I'm sitting there holding "Friendly" in my arms, here is this cat looking up at me purring so loudly and hugging my neck and I want to euthanize him?  Are you kidding me?    Look at this cat....surely there must be something that could be done....??? I said what if it is something else which could very well possibly be?  So he gave him fluids and a shot of an antibiotic that would last 2 weeks and I could take him home.  But the only way I could take him home is if I quarantine him for 4 months and they didn't even want me to touch him at all for that length of time....ugh............So almost 600.00 later I and Friendly drive home and I set him in the basement, opened up his cage and he very wobbly walks out crying to me.  He ate 2 whole cans of wet cat food and just starts talking to me so this goes on for hours with me being with him and then I passed out for a few hours, went downstairs about 9:00 and devestation clicks on and his system is shutting down (you don't want to see something like this as it is so horrible) and he passes away....I actually thought with him eating so much food and purring and talking to me, was a positive thing going on....Now I have to go and bury him with my beloved horse Timmy, my dog Bonnie, another little cat I named Hope down at the shack looking out over the pond who all  just recently died.   "Friendly" was a feral cat who showed up at my little shack a few years back and of course me, the animal lover I am could never turn any animal away and started to feed him and another feral who became best buds and they waited every day for me to come and spend time with them and feed them.  We bonded so well as I usually do and he was the most loving feral and a huge one at that too....I don't think he was that feral to be quite honest.  Undoubtedly another animal who got left off the side of the road by some disgusting person and now they went looking for their new forever home which they found in me.   Rest in peace Little Friendly...you are so missed....

 

And on top of that I have another cat named Oreo who some assh......le used her for a shooting practice evidently.  I took her to the vet and they did xrays and she has probably 10 areas in her that is loaded with schrapnel and she is a mess but a loving girl.  Long story short, she gave birth to 1 kitten in the condition she is in.   Now a couple weeks ago my same neighbor who just rescued Friendly for me, calls me to tell me there are a couple kittens somebody threw off onto the side of the road and these kittens were probably 2 weeks old and asked if I could help her get them out of the woods as they were crying frantically and that whole week we were having bad storms and bad flooding.  Couldn't get the kittens.  Next day she calls me and said 1 kitten was run over and is out in the road.  I run down there and she got the other kitten of which was in very very bad shape, scared, drenched and nothing but a bag of bones.  I brought the kitten home and Oreo actually took this kitten right over as if it were her own.  Long story short I named the little kitten Annie (short for Orphan Annie) and the other kitten that is Oreo's actual baby Oakley.  Got the names from Annie Oakley.  So it is now a couple weeks since I have the orphaned kitten and she after going to the vet and needing certain medicines is now thriving and getting big and is having a great time growing up with her 1/2 sister and Oreo as horrible as it is to see her hobble around with all the shrapnel in her body just loves her 2 babies.   And they really need homes as I have way too many animals...I don't know what God thought when he made me.  I swear my heart just breaks anytime I hear or see an animal suffering.....I want to save them all but I just can't and I have no life....All I can do with all the rescues I have and the ones who just showed up is just give them the love, food and care they need.  That makes me happy most.    So that is my life aside from candles and I make all these dang candles just so I can feed my animals truth be told.   If there is life after death and we come back and if I come back as a cat, I swear I hope I find someone just like me who will take care of me to the end.. Wow, such a long rant.....I'm tired.....

 

 

This is how Friendly greeted me every day as I pull in to the shack to feed him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trappeur

So sorry to hear that you've gone through this. I know it's of little comfort now, but Friendly had a great meal and a lot of love as he was at the end of his life and I'm positive he felt comforted by your care and compassion. 

When I am planning an order of whatever FO's I need that are tried and true, I spend some time reading through descriptions and try to find scents that A) I think I'd like and B ) fill a void in my current rotation. Then I add some 1oz bottles of the ones I want to try. I'm a super small seller that tries to run a profitable side business, so I don't want a lot of money tied up in FO's that I'll never use. When I started several years ago, I wasted sooooo much money just buying dozens and dozens of FO's but now that I have my regular rotation and have a good handle on what I like and what my customers like, I find that I can be much pickier with my new potential scents and am also better at blending those I already have that are just sitting here. 

Do you buy from Nature's Garden? I like their Hayride scent better than the others I've smelled, which have been almost perfumey to me. It's also different than Fresh Cut Grass too. It almost reminds me of the scent of freshly mown hay wafting through the air. Kind of sweet, kind of that dried grassy smell...I don't know how to describe it lol. 

On 5/27/2018 at 1:44 PM, ShelleyF said:

Hi I am just seeing this. I am pretty new. I make wax melts. Are you all saying that I can't sell Love Spell with the word type or inspired. I have to change the name completely? Then people won't know what it is. I see everyone online selling like that   but I want to do the right thing.

You have to change the name and adding “type” does not save you in the event of a lawsuit. 

The attorney for 2 companies just did a big sweep on Etsy. For about a week, there were zero listings for Frasier Fir Wax Melts / Candles and they’re slowly trickling back in. People are playing with fire when they keep using TM’d names bc Etsy will eventually just shut your shop down. Not to mention potentially being sued. 

I found another thread that mentioned JS Grandma's Berry Griddlecakes being the same, but it was from 2006-2007 and JS now refers to it as Country Berry Hotcakes (not sure if it's been reformulated of anything in the meantime)

Are you referring to this thread? 

Wait - disregard! I re-read and see that you said it is NOT Country Berry Hotcakes. UGH. Sorry.

It happens even with the most expensive and sought after candles on the retail shelves. I don't think anyone notices (aside from us!)

Good luck! I'm only about 2-3 years in and it's already become like an addiction. I think just the creative outlet of it all. 

31 minutes ago, strugglebrother said:

 

I wonder if they are really honest about that - they told me that I'm the only one being concerned about the latest soywax situation....

Yeah, not to be all conspiracy-theorist, it does seem weird that not a single one of their scents is impacted, when pretty much the largest manufacturer in the world has something like this happen.

Maple Street's comments are also suspect to me, because he claimed to have 4 suppliers and they've all duped each other's scents. That may be true, but we all know that there can and will be slight nuances between any duped scent. It seems unlikely to be spot-on for every single application their FOs are used in. 

30 minutes ago, jackbenimble said:

Hey guys! I contacted Candle Science this afternoon and was told that they will not be impacted by this fire as of now. If anything should impact then in the future they will notify by email and social media so that customers will know. 

Good to know. I think I'm good on FO's for a while (doing my year-end inventory pretty much scared me straight! Lol). I have to look at everything again and maybe get some safety stock of my good sellers across all suppliers ....just in case. Luckily, I'm pretty low volume. 

Well this is quite the list of impacted FO's from RE....They just posted this on facebook a while ago and I think also sent out an email. YIKES

CONFIRMED LIST
Fragrance oils that will be unavailable (until approx. May 2018) once our current stock is depleted.

Almond Crème
Alpine Frost
Amber Romance
Amber Type
Amish Quilt
Angel Heart
Apple Butter & Caramel
Applejack 'n Peel
Apples & Oats
Atomic Fireball Cinn.
Baby Powder
Banana Cream Pie
Banana Walnut Cake
Bayberry
Bird of Paradise
Birthday Cake
Birthday Cake
Black Velvet
Blackberry Sage
Blackberry Sage
Blissful Blackberry
Blue Skies
Blueberry Muffin
Blueberry Parfait
Bora Bora
Butter Cream
Butter Rum Capp.
Cabana Coconut
Caramel Pecan
Cashmere Woods & Tonka Beans
Celtic MoonSpice
Celtic Moonspice (BODY SAFE)
Cherry Slush
Children's Room
Chocolate Layer Cake
Christmas Cheer
Christmas Fantasy
Christmas Tree
Cinna Vanilla
Cinnamon
Cinnamon Bun
Cinnamon Styx
Citron & Wild Spices
Clean Green
Coconut Cream Pie
Coffee House
Cool Citrus Basil
Cotton Candy
Country Clothesline
Country Gift Shop
Cranberry
Creamy Cinn. Vanilla
Creme Brulee
Cucumber Melon
Cucumber Mint
Downey Rose & Violet
Dragon's Blood
Driftwood & Sea Salt
Essence of Jesus
Eucalypt. & Thyme
Eucalyptus
Fiji Dates & Lemon Peel
Forbidden Fruit
Forget Me Not
French Vanilla & Oak
Fresh Squeezed Oranges
Frozen
Gardenia
Gingerleaf Plum
Golden Opium
Grandma's Kitchen
Green Tea & Cucumber
Harvest Moon
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle & Wht. Patch
Hot Apple Pie
Hot Apple Pie
Iced Lemon Cookie
Intense Almond
Issey Miyake
Just Peachy
Kettle Corn
Key Lime Pie
Lavender Vanilla
Lemondrop Pucker
London Fog
Luscious Vanilla
MacIntosh Apple
MacIntosh Apple
Macintosh Apple
Malibu Heat
Mango
Maple Glazed Bacon
Marijuana
Midnight Pomegrante
Ming Fern & Lavender
Molten Spark
Monkey Farts
Mulberry Frost
Muscadine
Muscadine Vineyard
Neroli
Oatmeal Milk 'n Honey
Orchid Rain
Oud Wood
Paris Nights
Passionate Kisses
Patchouli
Patchouli Oud Wood
Patchouli Saffron
Pearberry
Pearberry
Peppermint Bark
Pina Colada
Pineapple Brown Sugar
Pineapple Cilantro
Pink Berry & Tonka Bean
Pink Lilac & Willow
Pink Sugar
Pink Sugar
Pizza
Plumeria
Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin Crème Brulee
Rapture
Raspberry
Raspberry Lilac
Red Hot Banana
Red Saffron
Redwood
Rosemary Mint
Rosewood & Musk
Salted Caramel Ginger
Sea Island Grapefruit
Sea Salt & Rice Flower
Sea Salt & Yuzu
Serene Waters
Shangri-La
Silver Birch & Vetiver
Snickerdoodle
Snowkissed Sugar Type
Southern Vanilla
Sparkling Ginger
Sparkling Pomegranate Prosecco
Strawberry Musk
Strawberry Taffy
Succulent Aloe
Sugar Cookie
Summer Breeze (Gain Island Fresh)
Sweet ‘n Creamy (Peanut Butter Cookie)
Sweet Amber Musk
Sweet Potato & Brown Sugar
Sweet Potato Spice
Sweet Tarts
Sweet Tooth
Toasted Marshmallow
Tropical Oasis
Vanilla Lace
Vanilla Lime
Vanilla Type
Velvety Vanilla
Very Sexy for Him
Vetiver Type
Vineyard
VL-Cherry Almond
White Pumpkin & Lilac
White Velvet Bow
Wild Tuberose & Jasmine
Winter Hideaway
Yuzu

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POTENTIAL LIST
Fragrance oils that may have limited availability (until approx. May 2018) once our current stock is depleted.

Alaskan Wilderness
Almond Biscotti
Almost Paradise
Amaretto
Amazon Mist
Amish Spice Loaf
Apple & Pumpkin Strudel
Apple Clove Butter
Apple Harvest Festival
Apple Jack N Peel
Apricot & Honey
Arctica
Asian Pear
Asian Pear Flavor
Autumn Rain
Awapuhi Seaberry
Baby Fresh
Badedas
Bahama Coconut
Bamboo & Sugar Cane
Bamboo Cypress
Banana Nut Bread
Banana Nut Bread
Bayberry Black Forest
Beachwood Vetiver
Berry Bundt Cake
Black Cherry
Black Currant Tea
Black Oak Currant
Black Raspberry Vanilla
Blackberry
Blackberry Scone
Blue Lagoon
Blue Sugar
Blue Summer type
Blueberry
Blueberry
Blueberry Burst
Blueberry Cobbler
Bonfire Bliss
Breezy Meadows
Brown Sugar
Bubble Gum
Bubble Gum
Burnin' Love Cinnamon
Butter Pecan
Buttered Rum Spice Cake
Butternut Pumpkin
Butterscotch
Butterscotch Marshmallow
Butterscotch Rum Brittle
Buttery Toffee Crunch
Cabernet Crush
Cake Bake
Calabrian Bergamot & Violet
Campfire Marshmallow
Candied Ginger
Candy Apple Sleigh Ride
Candy Cane
Candy Cane Cupcake
Cantaloupe
Cappuccino
Caramel Pretzel Bar
Caramel Sensations
Cardamom Cedar Blossom
Caribbean Day Spa
Carmelized Pralines
Cedar Sage & Blackberry
Cedarwood & Patchouli
Celebrate Christmas type
Chai Tea
Chardonnay
Cherries and Chestnuts
Cherry Berry
Cherry Mist
Christmas Bliss
Christmas Past
Christmas Tree Garland
Cider Barrel
Cinnamon
Cinnamon & Spruce
Cinnamon Glazed Baklava
Cinnamon Red Hot
Cinnamon Supreme
Cinnamon Toast
Clementine Lavender
Cleopatra
Clothesline Fresh
Clothespins
Coconut Grapefruit
Coconut milk & Peaches
Cool Water
Corn Husk
Cornbread
Cornucopias & Gourds
Cotton Candy
Cranberry Orange Scone
Cranberry Salsa
Cranberry Yuzu
Crème de Menthe
Cuban Tobacco
Cucumber Melon
da Lime in da Coconut
Danish Butter Cookie
Danish Vanilla Custard
Dill Pickle
Dreamcatcher
Earl Grey & Apple
Elderflower & Moss
Ezra
Farmer's Market Harvest
Fig & Cassis
Fizzy Pop
Flannel Sheets
Flower Child
French Toast
French Vanilla
Fresh Lemon Sugar type
Fresh Lilac
Frosted Winter Berry
Frosty Pines
Frosty Windowpane
Fruit Medley
Funnel Cake
Gilded Amber
Ginger Souffle
Gingerbread Brulee
Gingerbread Pumpkin
Gingersnap
Glazed Donut
Golden Sands type
Grand Marnier & Apricot
Grandmas Cupboard
Grandmothers Toddy
Grapefruit Tangelo
Green Apple
Green Apple
Green Grass
Green Irish Tweed
Green Pumpkin
Green Tea
Green Tea & Willow
Havana Nights
Hazelnut
Hazelnut Coffee
Hazelnut Latte
Hipster
Holiday Spiced Balsam
Home Interiors Baked Apple
Homemade Apple Pie
Honey Bee
Honeydew Melon
Hot Apple Pie
Hummingbird Nectar
Iced Pineapple and Tangerine
Icy Peppermint
Italian Fruit Parfait
Japanese Pear & Ginsing
Jasmine, White
Juniper Berry Cedar
Juniper Breeze
Karma Sutra
Key Lime
Kickin' Caramel
Kimono Flower
Lavender
Lavender Apples & Oak
Lavender Chamomile
Lavender Mist
Lavender Vanilla
Leather
Lemon Cheesecake
Lemon Curd
Lemon Éclair
Lemon Ginger Tea
Lemon Pound Cake
Lemon Sugar Bundt Cake
Light Blue
Lily of the Valley
Lime Freeze
Lingonberry Wreath
Little Black Dress
Love Spell
Love Spell (VS type)
Lovely type
Lumberjack
Main Street Christmas
Malted Milk Ball
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Spice
Mango Lassi
Mango Peach Fusion
Manuka Honey & Saffron
Marshmallow Fluff
Mediterranean Fig
Merlot
Mint Truffle
Mittens & Mistletoe
Mochacinno
Molasses Cookie
Monkey Bread
Moon Shadow
Moonlight Path
Moscato
Mulberry ( HI type)
Nutmeg & Caramel Swirl
Oak Barrel Cider
Oatmeal Milk & Honey (CM)
Oatmeal Milk & Honey
Ooey gooey Caramel
Orange Dreamsicle
Orange Flower & Amber
Orange Sorbet
Passion Melon
Patchouli Blend
Patchouli Rain
Patchouli Raspberry
Peach
Peanut Butter
Peppercorn
Peppermint Swizzle Stick
Pickin' Pumpkins
Pie Crust
Pine Cone Wreath
Pineapple Supreme
Pinecone & Lime Type
Pink Frosting
Pink Hibiscus
Pink Lemonade
Pink Sugar type
Pipe Smoke
Pistachio Ice Cream
Plum Tart
Plumberry Spice
Pomelo Sage
Popcorn
Praline
Pumpkin Cheescake
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin Cupcake
Pumpkin Ginger & Apple Slices
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie Spice
Pumpkin Souffle
Purple Sandalwood
Red Currant
Red Delicious Apple
Red Velvet Cake
Roasted Coffee
Rocky Mountain Memories
Rose Petals
Rosemary Citrus Spritzer
Rustic Lodge
Rustic Rose
Sage and Sweetgrass
Salt Water Taffy
Salted Caramel Popcorn
Salty Sea Air
Sandalwood & Shea
Sangria
Sauvignon Blanc
Sea Grass & Sand Dunes
Sea Kelp
Sex On The Beach
Shamrocks & Sunshine
Snow Cone
Snow Covered Pines
Snow Taffy
Southern Pecan Pie
Sparkling Pine & Bergamot
Sparkling Snowflakes
Spiced Autumn Wreath
Spiced Coquito
Spiced Pumpkin Latte
Spicy Apples & Peaches
Stone House Reserve
Strawberry
Strawberry Buttercream
Sugar Cookie
Sugar Frosted Plum
Sugared Spruce
Sugared Strawberries
Swedish Dream Salt
Sweet Pea type
Sweet Pumpkin
Teakwood & Fern
Teakwood Coconut
Three Wishes Tea
Tinsel Tree
Tis The Season
Tres Leches Cake
Tropical Fruit Slices
Tulips & Lilacs
Turquoise Sky
Tuscan Cypress
Tuscan Fields
Vanilla Bean
Vanilla Butter Fudge
Vanilla Crunch
Vanilla Ice Cream
Vanilla Kissed Chrysanthemum
Vanilla Pound Cake
Vanilla Sandalwood
Vanilla Snowflake
Vanilla Wafers
Very Sexy For Him
Victorian Pine
Violet Blush
Violet Leaf & Sweet Grass
VL Spa Fusion
VL-Pomegranate & Ginger
Volcano type
Voluspa Ambre Lumiere Type
Warm n Cozy
Warm Vanilla Nutmeg
Waterlily & Jasmine
Watermelon
Welcome Home
Whipped Cream
White Choc. Apple type
White Chocolate
White Jasmine & Pineapple
White Nectarine
White Peach Sangria
White Woods
Wild Honeysuckle
Wild Red Cherry Pie
Wine by Candlelight
Winter Linen
Winter Wisp
Winter Wonderland
Woolen Blanket
Zucchini Bread

48 minutes ago, Kerven said:

Not on topic but since allergies were brought up... Does anyone know if soy candles can trigger soy allergies? I've often wondered if those sensitive to soy could handle them or breathe in any fumes/smoke/soot from a soy candle.

Yes, a very good friend of mine has allergic reactions to soy and rarely burns candles since so many have have some sort of blend. She was gifted what she thought was a paraffin candle and her skin got really itchy and dry eyes. She called the company and they confirmed they use a paraffin-soy blend in that candle. 

2 hours ago, Daisymay66 said:

It don't smell like burnt popcorn to you? I've had so many peeps want this scent.. especially this 1 lady who I think messages me several time a week asking about it. I've tried ICS.. and several others.. all I get is burnt popcorn

Have you tried RE Coffee House?  I don't smell burnt popcorn with coffee scents but most smell completely fake to me. My best friend has been asking for coffee scents since day 1, so she's my go-to Coffee tester and CH is her favorite. She also likes CandleScience Coffee and Hazelnut Coffee. I've sent her a variety of NG (neither of us like them) and also SweetCakes (love the cappuccino scent but can't get a throw from it). 

Coffee scents tend to smell super fake to me but if I stick to about 6.5% for Coffee House, it is perfect. Adding more brings out the fake smell. I use parasoy pillar wax for melts and I've used a blend of 6006-464 for candles. (Although I mostly make melts)

21 minutes ago, Venetti said:

Thank you very much! I actually didn't have any goo gone and researched that WD-40 does the trick.

 

I gave it a shot and it worked extremelyyyy well at removing the permanent labels.

It was strong smelling but I'm letting them sit and the smell is dissipating.

 

I think I may try boiling/hot water bath-ing them to get the FO wax out. 

Awesome! The goo gone has a strong smell too and it dissipates after a little while. I'm sure it works faster than overnight too, but I just like leaving it overnight and peeling the labels off in the morning. Good luck! I used this method a lot when I re-branded and needed to relabel a ton of melts. It was such a pain but I wanted to change the look of everything all at once.   

20 hours ago, Venetti said:

I am making baskets for my family for Christmas full of my candles/melts/etc.

I was going to order plastic clamshell molds but I realized I had some already. Unfortunately, they have already been used. I popped out the wax and am left with 12 empty clamshell molds. 

 

I'm wondering if I am able to reuse these? 

If so, ANY AND ALL advice on how to get the smell out is highly appreciated. 

A few of them also seem to have residual wax left in them. 

 

Also, does anyone have any experience in removing permanent labels from these molds? 

 

thank you all again!

Goo gone! I rip a square of paper towel, put Goo Gone on it and place the square of soaked paper towel over the label and let it sit over night. The label or any remnants should come right off no problem. 

I don't color my wax and I use a pillar wax that pops right out, so I don't have good advice for getting the wax and scent out. :-(

Here's the ones I have used. I've made parasoy melts with them, so that's the experience I'm basing this on.

• Bonfire Bliss - It's alright - I don't understand all of the rave reviews. They may have changed it over the years, because it doesn't smell like a bonfire to me at all, or it may be my wax. I thought I loved it when I first smelled it but I think the rave reviews were swaying me lol. There's something about it that just seems overly synthetic to me.
• Cardamom Cedar Blossom - I like this scent, it's kind of fresh and spicy. 
• Coffee House - I really like this one! Good coffee scent, good throw.
• Elderflower & Moss - haven't put this in wax yet, but OOB it smells really nice. It's on my list, pleasant spa-type scent to my nose.
• Fig & Cassis - I LOVE this. It smells very familiar to me and I can't put my finger on it. But it's one of my favorites, great throw and kind of a complex (or maybe just hard to describe) scent.
• Redwood - I really like this scent, but I wish it was a little more woodsy and less soapy. It may be the way it performs with my wax, but there's a definite soap feel I get when melting this and I did also have a customer leave that in a review as well. (Edit: not a literal soap feel, just what the scent makes me think of)

1 hour ago, kfintoni said:

Good evening,

Has anyone found a successful replacement for Peaks Winter Wonderland? I am in need of about 8 oz and Keystone still has not stocked it. I figured I would try here before emailing my customers to say I am out. 

 

Thanks,

Karen in MA

I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with the Peaks version but have you tried Flaming Candle? I have their version and I love it! Just not sure if it's supposed to be the same thing. 

Just want to chime in and agree that NG has very reasonable shipping. It's too bad I'm not in love with a lot of their FOs. They're fine, I just like FC and RE more, with the exception of a good handful or two. 

I don't really use 464 but I have seen comments here and there that the manufacturer is out of stock. I don't recall the reason given, but I saw a post maybe last week about it. 

What are you making? I make melts with a parasoy wax and have had a LOT of duds with NG, including some listed above, but it could totally be my wax, or my sniffer. Different wax or different application can make a huge difference.

Some listed above that I also like are:

Apple Orchard

Christmas Cabin

Mrs. Claus Cookies

Pumpkin Crunch Cake

Spiced Cranberry

Not listed above that I like:

Bamboo & White Grapefruit

Brown Sugar Fig

Sun & Sand Type

Seaside Cotton

Tomato Leaf (I love it, but it doesn't sell well for me, full disclosure - kind of a niche scent for gardeners, imo)