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TallTayl not quite - I've made soy candles with GB 464 on and off for about 6 years, and always did 1 ounce per pound. Now that I've switched to jars I'm trying to be more comparable to Bath and Body Works and Yankee Candle, and his feedback combined with personal experience made me want to try these at a stronger scent. The first batch of jars I did a fragrance load of 4 ounces to 3 pounds of wax, and obviously went a little nuts by switching that to 8 ounces per 4 pounds of wax. Hindsight I should have simply tried to up it to maybe 5 ounces per 3 pounds instead and gone from there. And I'm not a huge fan of Nag Champa in general, but it got good reviews on the CS website so I figured I'd give it a try!

Trappeur it was the hazelnut coffee candle. I've always used 6% and didn't think much of it, but I have to be honest - I love candles that really stink up a room and am loving the 12% (assuming it's safe!) I really appreciate everyone's input on this. I'm completely torn; I would like to think that Candle Science and various other suppliers wouldn't advertise a max fragrance load of 12% if it was a major safety hazard. Looking through archived posts on this forum there are people that always use the max of 12% (which is obviously making me feel better), and there are others that never go above 6%. I would like to drive the point home that I did test my candles - I certainly didn't just make them and package them and ship them off. I'm the type of person that will leave work in the middle of the day and drive 45 minutes home if I think there's any possible chance I left my flat iron plugged in, so I think my major fear here is that just because it didn't happen to the ones I tested, what are the chances it could happen to the others? KrisS thank you so much for your feedback, you've given me a lot to think about. Me making candles has always been more of a hobby - I sell them to people at work, and once in a very great while I'll do a craft show, but for the most part they're my own personal home use. When I test my candles it's really just to see how the scent throw is, and to make sure they're not tunneling (obviously not starting a fire is a bonus). Thank you both very much - I'll post Candle Science feedback when I get it, and from now on I'll be sticking with a max of 10%!

I used: Cranberry Marmalade Egyptian Amber Nag Champa Mistletoe Christmas Hearth Strudel and Spice I did test some of them out, but it was either the leftovers that wouldn't have filled an entire container (so half a glass jar) or a tin. I know that GB 464 allows you to go to 12%, and since I've been making candles for so long and followed Candle Science direction I didn't even think about it being a safety issue. It wasn't until I saw the review where someone said their candle turned into a tiki torch (they didn't specify the fragrance load) that I started to worry.

I have burned some, I guess I'm worried if different fragrance oils would have a different effect. I didn't change anything but the fragrance oil load percentage. I've actually been pouring the leftovers into old tins and am burning one right now - I would think that with the tin being a smaller diameter and getting much hotter due to being metal that if something bad was going to happen it would happen in the tin, but I'm concerned that it's a 'luck of the draw' thing and if the flame happens to hit a pocket it'll just erupt. And I suppose that could happen with any candle regardless of fragrance load, but obviously much less likely with 6% than 12%. Ugh I wish I would have just done 10% and called it a day. I've used 6% for years but have a lot of customers that are going for that fill-up-a-room Bath and Body Works or Yankee Candle, so I was trying to accommodate.

I buy all of my products through Candle Science and use GB 464. I've been making candles for YEARS and have always used a 6% fragrance oil load. I recently switched from tins to glass jars, so currently I'm using a 12 ounce jar (holds 9 ounces of wax, uses a ECO 14 wick) and a 16 ounce apothecary jar (holds 14.5 ounces of wax, ECO 16 wick). One of my customers told me their candle didn't have very good hot throw, so my most recent batch of candles I bumped up to a 12% fragrance load and sold about 15 of them today. I was looking through the reviews of new scents to add to my line, and someone mentioned they used too much fragrance oil and their candle turned into a tiki torch. This of course prompted me to start googling it, and I see a lot of posts about fragrance oil pooling at the top of the candle and the surface of the candle starting on fire. I could just vomit I am so terrified. GB 464, according to the Candle Science website, does in fact have a max load of 12%. That being said, the majority of the scents recommend a load of 3-10% for candles. So which is it? Should I be recalling all of my candles now and telling customers not to burn them? Is 2% in 464 that big of a difference from 10%? Anyone here use 12% consistently in 464 and never have an issue? All of this being said, 2 of my scents formed craters when I was curing - some of them even had cracks in the surface, it looked like I could push on it and my finger would go through the surface. I chalked this up to me pouring too hot and too fast, used a blow dryer on them and moved on. Sorry for the long post, I am just so scared that I sold a bunch of candles to people that are going to start their houses on fire!! Thank you!