Hello fellow candle making friends!
I will try to keep this brief but my biz partner and I are on the verge of starting a candle making support group with all the issues we have been having this week. Haha.. Trying to make myself laugh instead of cry!
We just launched our business last month after 10 months of testing EVERYTHING from Wax to wicks to fragrances to new vessels. Literally thought we did it ALL. We sold a bunch of candles that we poured small batch and scented meticulously beautifully. Everything was great! People loved them. A few 50 pounds of wax later and many candles made... I decided to light one at work... The candle was suddenly underwicked... it was drowning. I lit another one hoping that it was a weird fluke... same thing... we have 5 total scents... could it be them all? so we started lighting them and testing them... all suddenly underwicked. We chose to make a few with a bigger wick size and that didnt work either after the 2nd light, it burned terribly with the wick drowning.
Is it possible that our batch of wax is no good? We literally haven't changed our methods. We have launched a business and now we are freaking out that our candles are worthless.
We have 2 sizes of vessels a 4oz and an 8oz and we have 5 scents for each size. We use Golden Soy Wax 464, Eco 4 & Eco 10 wicks for our vessels. We warm up our jars before we pour and we pour at 135 degrees...
HELP! Anyone know what could be causing this? Could it be the wicks? Could it be the wax?
Thank you!