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thank you! thank you! thank you @Candybeefor clearing this out for me. I checked the ingredients and it didnt sound like olive oil or lard or coconut oil, and after reading your answer, it made much more sense to me. Thank you so so much!

Good evening everyone! I'd like to ask, how is a glycerin soap made? I went to a craft show and a lady is selling soap, and the label says creamy handmade glycerin soap. 

Thank you in advance and Happy Holidays to all! 

look what I found!!! 

*happy dance

I've been looking for them too. they look so cute

I second @TallTayl, you will be able to do it using a die cutting machine. There's a learning curve but once you figure it out, you can do it yourself. You can do print and cut, so you can design your dust cover, save it, then open it on their site, and the machine will cut it for you. I have the cricut air.

I'd like to know more about amazon handmade. How does it work? Like how do we set it up? How much does it cost for listing or do we have to pay monthly fee?

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thank you so much everybody!

I've been lurking here for awhile and I learned a lot. I've seen where when adding fragrance oil to wax, its by percentage. like 10% for example.

now for example, I have 1 lb wax (16oz), and I want 10%, so that's 1.6 oz fragrance oil

my question is, should the fragrance oil be measured by weight? or by fl oz?

I apologize in advance if this may be a stupid question.

Happy monday!

this is interesting. I saw a youtube video on how to make them but I never got my hands on them. Here's a recipe I found from google

2 hours ago, Forrest said:

Is it getting hot enough?

yes it does. I believe so. I might have to try it with a different FO to see. 

thank you @Forrest 

4 hours ago, Forrest said:

Basically you put 3-5 drops of FO on a teaspoon of salt and put it on a candle warmer/wax melter. That will give you a close approximation of what a candle would smell like.

 

does it have to be on a certain size room? I placed more than 5 drops of FO, and I can't smell it.

*its spiced cranberry from WSP

23 minutes ago, Ramr said:

I have not tried charcoal in the suitcase. I have tried charcoal in other applications and it is very fluffy, very BLACK, very fine stuff. So I would have to find it in some confined form rather than loose. Loose charcoal is a whole other problem! But good thinking!

I'm thinking more of the charcoal you use for grilling? They are big, and maybe if you can put it in like a cup, covered with saran wrap, and poke holes in the saran wrap, it might not be messy.

For your suitcase, have you tried charcoal? Its known to absorb stinky odor. It might clear up the mothball smell

1 hour ago, Testing123 said:

A popular candle company claims that their fragrances are made in USA and candles hand-poured in Vietnam. You mean to tell me they ship fragrance all the way to Vietnam then ship back the finished product to America?

 

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sure sounds like that to me!

or maybe they manufactured the oils and candle in Vietnam, and shipped the final product to USA.

When I lived in the Philippines, I live close to a processing zone where they manufacture American brand products like Victoria's secret. They made it there, stamped the logo, and shipped it to the US.

thank you so much for the scent suggestions. This might be a new addiction for me.

what FO's do you guys recommend from WSP? 

I'll be using them for candles.

thank you so much for helping me.

I might give them a try since shipping would be "free" under prime. Most of the candle supplies near me is mostly 3 hours away.

Thank you again!

Hello! I'd like to ask if you guys would recommend buying soy wax on amazon? or a is there a good place to buy wax where the shipping won't cost me an arm and leg?

I'm just starting out so I might only need 10 lb wax to play with.

Thank you! 😊

On 6/9/2018 at 1:59 PM, Sebleo said:

Some companies manufacture their warmers to go with their wax. Think scentsy.  Scentsationals and BHG, i think, are the same way...designed to go with a low melt point paraffin wax.

Those warmers tend to melt the wax to around 150 to 155 degrees. Palm wax needs 170 or better to fully release scent. The hotter the better. 

 

 

 

Unfortunately there is no way to know ahead of time how hot the warmer will get the wax. You can use a thermometer in the melted wax to see how hot your warmer is getting your wax. 

 

I use, and sell, warmers by candlewarmers. All i have tried so far get plenty hot enough. But, I've never seen them sold in stores. 

@Sebleo I was able to buy warmers made by candlewarmers from our local kmart, and they had it on clearance.