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Top looks good, bottom wait three hours. Top at two hours will burn all the way. You have to burn it through the tin it might be too big halfway down. Other one do a three hour burn, might need wicking up. That scent has a lot of vanilla. You need to test tin over time to make sure the fo doesn’t discolor tin etc.

Bump! Anyone?

Looking for good dupe of Karma. Got NG version but didn’t like it. Anyone try Flaming Candles?

I would venture to say maybe it’s the fragrance oils. Some OOB smell like they are going throw in wax, and then ya burn them and nada. I have been playing around with 464 and it’s not as great as C3 for throw but it’s a good blender and soft.

That’s how melted wax cools. It will look different when it solidifies.

Wick for 1/2 way point in your candle. When you candle burns down, the glass hold the heat in. So what you wicked for up top is very different deeper in candle. Now try another tester and wick one step down see if it flickers less and burn wells. If it’s to wildly flickering wick down again. Do you test candles 3/4 full to 1/2 find a wick that stops flickering then do a full candle.

Well just Received a new bottle of Blue Spruce and it’s not the same. This was one of my favorites.

Suggestion test market. Do two boxes. One with shred and the other with new packing material. See the reaction. This will tell you a lot. I know thatI always get complimented on my packaging. It’s consistent, and neat and recognizable. Your box is like a signature.

Reddit is worse. Also as experiment I purchased a candle with stuff on it. I asked the seller don’t put the dried bits on it and they replied we only make candles with the dried herbs. I said it’s a fire hazard. They replied that it won’t catch fire as the herbs get covered in wax 😂. I replied when the candle catches fire I will let you know. Doing r and d work. People are making pandemic businesses at home. So between shortages and newbies, there is even more shortage of supplies.

You know I think Candle Science is struggling. In the past couple of years Flaming Candle and Aztec have caught up and I feel surpassed them in product lines and customer service. Candle Science has been alienating customers by changing fragrance oils, eliminating waxes etc. They used to be One of the biggest suppliers but not so anymore. I can’t use their fragrance oils anymore because I don’t need to invest money then find out they don’t carry it or changed it. The sudden announcements are not a good idea. You can’t do that to customers.

Candle Science once a favorite is making me really mad. All the changes in the fragrance oils, then they stopped carrying C3, now the wicks.

How do you want to present yourself? If you wife finds it yucky then that give you a good clue what customers might think. Present yourself in packaging the same way you might if going into a gift shop.

Candle Science Gardenia. That was hands down the best gardenia. Everyone else’s Gardenia are terrible. Bad renditions of plumeria.

If you want powdery feel then try adding arrowroot or cornstarch. Changing oils to and butters to less oily can help in end result. You need to put at the right temp to incorporate powders and clays into balms and salves. If you pour hot then the additives will sink, pour cooler. Mango butter is a drier oil for example. There are other additives you can use.

Try it. Do one candle with 15 per cent and another without compare.

What percentage oil? Try wicking up to start. I don’t go over 7 per cent fragrance load.

I was looking around Etsy. How is someone selling candles for 14 dollars, and free shipping making money with Etsy fees? I saw other sellers doing similar? That’s nuts!

Anything silk is not vegan, just saying in case you have that customer base...

Do you own the rights to the images otherwise it’s a wash! So correct me if I’m am wrong. You black and white images. You want to the white to go away and use the black art? Vector is perfect for logo.

Phenonip is good preservative for scrubs, though it is parabens. It’s wash off product not a lotion. Regarding additives, I think you will feel you won’t need anything else as emulsified scrubs leave you skin very well conditioned. If you want to add the silk you could add .15 in formula for label appeal.

Are you trying to coat the salt with wax and then market and sell the salt as a food additive? You would need a food grade wax. What is the end product supposed to be? Just on beaded what you have said. You want to dry out your salt so there is no moisture and coat quickly to cover.

I could smell it burning so as they say out with the fish! Better you started with another wax. I don’t know how anyone can use coconut wax the stuff is always out of stock.

I have some coconut easy beads, and I cannot work with the stuff. It smells like canola oil which I can smell a million miles away! It’s not just you!

I was going to suggest Cetyl alcohol for you. It has less thickening power than stearic and is also glide compared to stearic acid. Now you can also fine tune by doing 1 per cent stearic and .5 per cent Cetyl as an example. You could sub the IPM for fractionated coconut oil as it’s a drying oil. These are also cetyl esters which is one step down from Cetyl alcohol. Though I think you will find Cetyl alcohol very nice in lotion, and you won’t have to worry about too much viscosity. Cera Bellina will give another feel. It’s more waxy good for hand lotions. I would order another preservative to test with. Try and avoid spraying your emulsions with alcohol. Just let them sit and the bubbles do go away. Although you say you see no separation in lotions in bottles, but you see in bowl. Keep some of those bottle as stability test. They may separate in a month or two or less. I don’t know if you are testing this way but you should. They other thing you should get are samples of gums, you add a tiny tiny amount but the gums really help with stability in lotions. That throw another one into the pot with experimentation but worth it if you enjoy making lotions!

It doesn’t look emulsified to me. I would Switch the IPM and almond oil ratios and up the emulsifier start at added 1 percent, I agree with TT. Sometimes the switch in ingredients makes all the difference. Make sure you stick blend longer than what you have been doing. If this doesn’t help try changing preservative. Optiphen can break emulsions.