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Am I way too tired to see the screen correctly or is Peak seriously out of all IGI waxes? It is saying out of stock for even sample sizes. Did I miss something?

Thank you so much!!

Also, does their color guide seem to work for liquid dyes from other suppliers?

Does anyone follow their chart as a general rule and find it to be accurate? I know it depends on how much you are using, but do their bottles seem to last for a great amount of wax? Thank you all

This definitely helps people like me who would like to stick with a handful of suppliers due to shipping and/or with finding dupes. Not to say I won't still test majority of these for myself since it is subjective and I am just me .

Thank you as always Belinda darling, I will add some of these to my list for testing when I can order

Anyone else try or use CandleWic FOs lately? Need recommendations for ordering samples

I definitely agree with being messy...and hot fingers if you arent careful LOL

I absolutely love country, rustic, primitive and vintage styles! Thank you so much Gail, I will definitely add some of those to my list to try!

Here are my little ones I have made in the past.

May I ask which oils you like from Millcreek? I love their cozy home and am thinking of placing another order to try more. Haven't heard much on this company lately.

Everyone I made them for loved them. I was actually inspired to do them after attending a craft fair where a woman offered them. I bought one of course because I'm a primitive look lover and it smelled wonderful and added decor to my home.

I meant to add that I highly recommend starting slow such as testing one wax type at a time to get to know it. For example, test different soy waxes first and compare to one another, same with paraffin, same with parasoy preblends. I was bad going all out and doing 6 different waxes at once while first starting out (soy, parrafin and parasoy preblend). I ended up with over 100 tarts with numerous combinations and all it did was confuse me...especially when not knowing exactly what FOs will perform well, so I didn't know if it was the wax or oil doing well or not doing well. I do not recommend this way to find your wax blend. I'm reversing my bus and doing one wax at a time with several oils until I know the difference for sure of each, then I will blend.

You're correct on how things can differentiate so much from person to person even using the same wax, oil, temp, method etc. Take it from me who is still testing my tush off finding differences in waxes that I am testing. Heck, 5 days ago I wasn't noticing what was different from wax to wax while using a good oil. Now that I am testing tons of oils in each wax individually, I'm finally starting to notice things better. Honestly, once I found this forum and searched for days and hours, I was set on certain blends according to others recommendations. Once trying for myself, wasn't exactly what I want. I'm even going back to basics experimenting with beeswax and all just for my own cusriousity and final results. I highly recommend Flaming Candle, CS or Peak to get some smaller amount of wax and test your heart out. It's frustrating but at the same time, I'm loving it. Good luck

I also agree about the CC frosting being more true to its name than any I've smelled so far!

I understand that there are differences in how overall wax melts perform depending on which waxes are blended. I also know this goes into testing and individual preference, but say you have 50/50 soy/paraffin and using a non forgiving soy FO. Would that amount of soy outweigh the performance of the paraffin in it and only have say half the strength? Again, I know this goes with testing and preference, but just wondered from you longterm wax scientists

I am still testing and figuring out differences in wax as far as scent throw goes, but I do find pillar/votive wax seems to last a great amount of time. I was thinking the same as you in terms of container wax being wonderful for scent throw, but then theres vendors like CFTKR who uses all pillar/votive with a booming business and confuses me again LOL. Im continuing to test. Good luck and post your findings. I find everyone here to be wonderful and so helpful.

This is why I ask to see if it is just me, I appreciate all of you and your help. I will continue testing

Honestly yes, but I was trying to stick with 2 good oils to try and test like you recommended. I have more curing right now to try additional oils, but maybe I'm giving more credit to certain waxes than are due or I'm just really bad at noticing the difference. Which is not good, especially if looking to offer to the world someday. I am also using the same 2 warmers using half ounce in each, is this my problem? Should I just be using the whole ounce melt in one warmer for testing? Trust me, thats definitely a good feeling as you can see, this is more difficult when you want it perfect. I trust your melts are wonderful, but I really love parasoy for the richness of some scents and the appearance. But yes, settling on a blend is driving me nuts to find, but I'm continuing to test. I thought I was overthinking this at first, but it's simply just trying to get it the best it can be and eliminating my confusion.

Well I definitely am finding the oil percentage to perform different results, but am not quite there yet on noticing the difference between waxes while using a good FO. I understand sometimes using a pillar vs container wax may carry the oil a little longer but it's very close depending on the wax in my testing. For example, Tennessee PPW throws very strong and long in all four of the waxes I've tried including 464, 415, 4625, 4630. I've tested it at family members homes and my own while leaving in between to avoid candle nose. I do see differences in the appearance etc., but feel these are all very good waxes, so it's hard at this point in time to differentiate. I will not stop testing, but I give credit to all of these particular waxes. It makes me feel like the actual real test would be using a known lighter oil and see which wax throws it better vs a good oil that throws well in most waxes??

Helpful information, thank you CandyBee! Years ago when I was making melts for myself and did not know much about them or anything about this forum, I definitely overloaded as I had wet / greasy 464 chunks. I quickly learned about FO overload after that

Cotton Candy Frosting from JS is good. Cannot recommend a buttercream as I have not tried one yet, sorry.

Good evening all, I have been testing melts for some time now with several different waxes. Each wax individually (to get to know each wax) and in several blend combinations. I am taking very precise notes (CT, appearance, HT, longevity, time it takes to melt etc. on a scale of low/med/high). I wanted to get opinions from all the experts doing this for years so I know if it is just me or if anyone else is finding the same results over time. When referring back to my notes, I see that the more FO in melts (for example 10% vs 6%) = higher throw and longer lasting. Upon looking at this board high and low through years of posts, everyone states that using more than 6% is a waste. However, I am not finding this for some reason and I am testing the 6% vs 10% in 415, 464, 4625, 4630 and the granular pre-blend wax. I have used tons of FOs as well, reputable ones mentioned on here and I do know now that I am doing things at the correct temperature since the higher FO % melts are throwing much better. I am also noticing many people recommending to find a wax that is cheapest to purchase with shipping and make it work. I have found that almost all of these waxes I have been testing do perform fairly well if the oil is good. Therefore, I can see where some would recommend making one wax work in my opinion. However, I am the type of person that like things as good as they can be and know there are fairly better waxes over others, or else we all would use the same one. I see alot of vendors lately getting decent reviews on their wax, but have noticed all of those vendors (excluding one) do several FOs in one blend. I wonder if it is because they're mixing several FOs vs 1, seems it would make the overall melt better since you would hopefully get 1 out of those 3-4 FOs in that single melt to perform well. Maybe 6% works better in candles vs melts? I may be overthinking this?? Edit to add: I know about candle nose and I have left the house several times and tested melts in other households of my family members to avoid getting "immune". I also know soft waxes vs pillar/votive waxes in terms of what is "supposed" to help with longevity.

I really appreciate your honest review of this as I was very much concerned about the same reasons with 3022, especially cost due to supplier availability. By this post, I am assuming you just do candles? I ask because I wonder if another wax (pillar/votive) should be added for melts, not venturing into candles at least not for a long time HAHA. I honestly have been testing for quite some time now and realize that I will have to test those things for myself (since we all get different results with same waxes, FOs, temps etc.), but this helped me in my decision to try 6006 first. I have been testing 415, 464, 4625 and 4630 all on their own and in numerous blends. I now would like to venture into a couple preblended parasoy waxes. However, I get nervous with preblend formulas for the possibility of inconsistent variables per batch. I have also tried the granular preblend which I thought was decent and I love the appearance, but am still feeling out the HT.