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Is this an ad? How very odd. People who enjoy candles will burn real ones not flame less.

My take on Lab Co is they mark everything up and market it as luxury. Wellington premium grade is less cut than for there other options for crafters. Premium is most potent in strength. There are plenty of suppliers with excellent fragrance oils that are potent. If you want. “Luxury”, you should blend your own and call it a premium luxury fragrance. And or seek out some of the wholesale supply houses that make fragrances and look for unusual blends.

Yikes! There is no excuse for that anymore. Websites can calculate this very well now when you input product weight.

Agree there! Palm wax is totally different from other waxes. Your brain will scramble

Search threads. People have fave wicks and how they like the burn with this wax.

Infrared for me. Home Depot and Lowe’s are great places to look online for them. And haha if you need reliable glue gun they have those there as well - received too many bad electronics on Amazon.

Try Apple Brandy from candle science that is a very strong apple fragrance, and everyone who smells it loves it. That could give you good comparison to the Apple you have. Most of the apple scents I have throw well though

Some fragrances are just stinkers in wax. Not that they stink, they just don’t throw. Wax you have to test a bunch of them to find some to live with. I haven’t found one wax that I would die for though my new refund favorite is C3. The cold and hot throw is pretty amazing, better than 4630 and 4627I have been playing with. You should try it. Just warning though C3 has learning curve, but I have been liking it a lot

Go to dollar store and get the big containers of cinnamon, Badia is one brand. or possible Costco, Sams club as they will stock larger sizes for baking.

Hi Belinda Just do a google for the cinnamon recipe, some are made with apple sauce, some are made with elmers. Made both awhile ago and they still smell good.

Not all oils will blend with cyclomethicone. It does leave a dry silky finish on skin. I do not recommend grape seed oil due to short shelf life. You can also use IPM and this is similar to feel to cyclo - best with essential oils and IPM penetrates skin more than the above. FCO is nice because of shelf life and its light.

I have not tried their fo’s as aI find their whole marketing ridiculous and their prices exorbitant. Regarding their fragrances, they are most likely using high end molecules used in perfumery. They can get very spendy.

Dough ornaments. I have baked and honestly had many puff up and get ruined. If you do use an oven heat it up, turn off oven the put in ornaments overnight. My favorite ones are made with cinnamon and elmers glue, and or apple sauce! The scent lasts for ever and easy to make.

I don’t mind that. I do mind when they have tutorials that don’t work, or are not safe. I find many of them are made for the newbie and they cut corners on how to properly make product etc. Not having wicks secured when playing with Fire is really not good! Reminds me of a Martha Stewart recipes. I had too many that were not tested and complete failures, so I don’t go there anymore and stick to Serious Eats where they are very obsessive testing...

That’s the one! But she does a tutorial on tins just plopping wicks in unsecured. Ahhhhhhhhh!

New tutorial on Youtube about making beeswax candle gifts. A couple tutorials always have unsecured wicks. I don't get it! I know they want to have their readers think easy peasy but where is the safety factor!!

My bad. Yes if you want the background foreground look you want you r f stop lower, as you are. Sharper image overall go higher. There are mixed feelings about what sells well. White does have a high conversion rate. A blend of the product with image on white with image in scene would be a happy place. I just read somewhere photos on white have a better time with Google AI as the AI can read the image better, bumping you in search. Social media does better with scene and styled photos. Do both and A/B test. You can do interesting photography on white using lighting and composition. Soap can be stacked and angled and really presented in a unique and interesting way. Flat lays, geo stack.

You can shoot on white successfully without the feeling of floating by using light and shadow to define the space. If you shoot on delineated surfaces rather than a curved sweep it gives a subtle sense of place but it will be on white.

You need to record the depth of field you shot the photo at, if you want the foreground and background to have that look. if you want the background to be blurred out you head to settings 5.6, 4, 2.8. Go the opposite way the image will be more in focus from front to back. So having the constant f stop will give you the look and the same distant between the foreground soap and background soap as in original shot. Lighting creating a constant is important. Obviously if you shoot with daylight different times of day will change the look.

If lx wicks work you should stick with them. I love that they burn in a perfect circle. Have you tried going up one size with the lx?

I would keep it super simple. No essential oils. Fracionated coconut oil spray would be helpful, it is as simple as you can get. Lotions you will need a preservative and could be a problem on tender skin. Salves might even be too thick to apply. Possible something with aloe or aloe spray but again needs preservation.

You have to let the candles sit at least a day or two. Wax has to settle or it will be to difficult to test properly. make sure your wicks are trimmed to proper height. Test one wick series at a time. Test one container and get it nailed. Start with one fragrance. CDs work well in the wax. Do a burn test for two three hours you will be able to tell which wick is okay. When you switch out wicks. make sure wax is level before trying another wick. You can test three containers, but do follow steps. Harden wax, test with one wick series. Level wax, test another wick. Do burn test for at least two three hours

Yes do wax melts! You can get kits, and or supplies at any of the candle suppliers. People love them and they are fairly easy to do right off the bat. There are kits you can buy on Amazon. You could also get a candle making kit! The kits will have the wick already picked out for the wax, etc. The nice thing with kits, you can test the waters and see if this is a craft you want to pursue further. Candle Science has these kits https://www.candlescience.com/kits Flaming candle has this https://www.theflamingcandle.com/candle-making-kits/soy-container-candle-making-kit/ Candles and Supplies http://www.candlesandsupplies.net/Candle-Making/Starter-Kits Amazon has several kits but can’t guarantee the suppliers

Can I ask you have you ever asked a lawyer about the use of these soda and beer cans that names are copyrighted and trademarked. I personally would be concerned.

Room sprays won’t have longevity no matter how you make them. If you disperse them into air for sure. Now you smell them now you don’t. If you spray fabric like a couch they will last longer. Glycerine acts as a fixative. You don’t need much 2 per cent or whatever you spray will get sticky. Essentials uses butyl energy glycol because they use it in all their stuff. It’s used in bath and body formulas but falling out of favor. If you want long lasting make reed diffusers, or electric diffuser similar to using tarts.