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If you think too hot, try one wick down test 3 hours. Or try different wick series and see how burn is. Cd wicks burn hot.

6006 straight up required smaller wick, than what I am combining. I just don’t love that wax and think it has bad adhesion. I do like 4630 fo paraffin.

You need to revisit premier wicks, and htp wicks. Coconut wax is hard to wick and depending on your own blend or manufactures you will have to test different types of wicks. If 780 too hot go down two sizes. Ecos not enough sizes to fine tune. Try htp series.

My paraffin blends require larger wicks, than soy. I find the blends I am testing using to be very thick and viscous more so than soy.

Ahh no fragrance. Try with fragrance, the additional oil will help the burn

What’s the diameter on those tins. I’m guessing around three inches. Those wicks should have worked no problem. Did you try other fragrances, some fragrance are stinkers and you do have to wick up sizes.

Experiment!

Essential oil and certain aroma molecules. Most candle fragrance houses probs do not use the same aroma molecules because they are cost prohibitive for the average candle maker. Many of the aroma molecules that make beautiful perfumes are also very, and I mean very expensive! When you get a dupe, it can get close but may not be spot on, if you want a certain price range.

I start at one size down for whatever I wicked jar with for tin as tins get hotter than glass. So you could start there. Pour a tester without a wick and drop in a couple sizes, see what burns best. You are adding dye, so that will affect the burn.

What’s the diameter, three inches?

Modify your wax to make it slightly softer and you won’t have to to worry about wet spots. Some of these blends are more prone to shrinking. 6006 is one of the culprits and it can vary batch to batch. You can use Wraps whatever but the shrinking will still happen when the jars vary in temp. You can change the wax to make it a softer container, or change waxes. Or create your own container blend, which is what I have done and they pour perfect top, perfect adhesion, stay adhered during burn and after. Not easy took a year of fooling around but this is the solution. Figure out which waxes give you the best adhesion consistently, figure which additives give you the best adhesion consistently, and then have fun wicking😂. You can try pouring hotter and cooler and see if you get better adhesion as well, but then you will have to test if the temp drop as we are getting into fall cooler weather if you don’t get pull away for example leaving candle out in cool area overnight. if you like you wax as is then change the container to solid one, or put wrap around label. Simple solution without testing!

Hate to say but I think they just ok on of there waxes, and added a smidge of beeswax and voila new wax. I think they are way way overpriced.

Hi there The Wax you are working with is very soft. I can’t believe you make melts with it. Yes, a new box may be different from your other lots. You will have add some harder wax to it, so it performs like you are used to. Also maybe you added too much fragrance oil and softened the wax too much.

It’s a long process. But once you learn all about wax and wicks you are able to really work up good formulas. My goal is not to be dependent on one particular wax as the industry seems to have so many flub ups. Companies going out of business, bad batches etc.

Here’s what I have learned. You may have to adjust the wax to work with the wick that you like the best. I have four coconut wax formulas now, with different combos of this and that, and different wicks depending on the combo. None of these waxes is perfect. You should test waxes with fragrance. You have to see how they throw, and also how wicks work with fo. First decide and define what is your perfect candle. For me, and who I want to sell to. The candle must have a smooth perfect top before and after burning, the candle will adhere to side while burning and after burning. Good throw obvi. Wicks must behave for customer because they are not going to be doing any trimming like we do.This is all before designing the candle label etc.

Tracy, You will get some sooting because you have a parasoy blend, and also as his jar is on the narrow side it will be more obvious. Try the underwicked premier again but let it burn for three hours, then decide. It may be fine.

I like using the presto pot as double boiler. It works very well this way and the wax is one step away from heating element. Plus it makes easy cleanup etc. You can have multiple pouring pots etc.

I need a certain look with my candles for the audience I want to reach and they expect a beautiful candle right off surface wise and afterburn. I discarded the beeswax tho I liked it but it was a pain to get first pour perfect. Found other solution.

Purpose is to have smooth afterburn, which beeswax gives to the wax. Its a super pain to get perfect top and I hate heat gunning.

Bump!,

This is a very very fine circular crack not a major deep one FYI

I had a box of 464 stored away and decided to break it out and play with it. I am adding 2 per cent beeswax to smooth out the top EXCEPT I get a small circular ring crack! Now when the candle is lit and cooled there is no issue of cracks. I tried 150 down to 100 ( worse top). So now am thinking higher temp better result. Am I on the right track? Feel free to PM. Also this box of wax, I have had cavities happening as well. And frustrating it can be Candles poured at same time. What’s with that with this wax.

No I disagree on this one for DIY. You’re talking electric and flammables. I do everything DIY but this one is not a safe project to be fooling around with. Additionally each fragrance is made with a certain amount of solvent, and it’s not DPG which is not the right solvent for these anyway. The solvent they use is more volatile but also flammable. Is it that important to have wallflowers? There are many beautiful and safe things you can make that can throw fragrance. Reed diffusers are one, plug in tart warmers. There is no need to hack a wallflower. As they say it’s playing with Fire, if you’re okay with that then go ahead but if your place goes up in flames.... Also Fire starters. I would never gum up my wood stove and chimney line with a candle wax firestarter. No way. Our chimney liner cost a fortune to install and cost us money to clean.

Uhhh 😳!!!!!

I do a couple things. I have a dedicated workspace with surfaces I want to protect. So my main work area I have pieces of glass covering the surface, then use freezer paper, or messy liquid jobs Amzn dog pee pads ( plain). The pads work really well for soap FYI. You can cut open garbage bags too, pretty simple.