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It appears to be CandleScience(East Coast warehouse) has some stock of that.

I don't think there would be any regulation against using shredded cardboard as packing material. There are many on the market and they are not cheap! Mostly they are for gift item packaging. Here is shredder machine just for that use. https://hypershredder.com/english/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwqfz6BRD8ARIsAIXQCf0-RdAbJb9D-l6r2NN4A06FxNJfgHDNKL_vqmyVmO2mH2mXqLQPKC8aAt4oEALw_wcB I don't know what kind of shredder you have and how it comes out, but your idea should go really well with your rustic look & other candles to be used as packing cushion material. Go for it!

I use soy 464, and best result I had was with wood wick (only the one that stayed lit). It performed to perfection. Zero soot even in draft, shallow full melt pool through out, container never got hot even bottom 1/3, best HT, nice cool wide decent size flame, clean top after burn, very short after glow with little smoke, etc. I cannot find any other wick that would work this good in 464. I make and sell candles with other wick, but it isn't as good as the one I have made with wood wick. I am confident with my current candle, but I know it can be improved because I saw that with wood wick. That's why I am still searching for good quality wood wick, but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

It looks like Jar Store has some 8oz mason jar in stock. https://www.jarstore.com/jars/8-oz-mason-jar-2/

You will surprise to find that any paper would burn better than wood wick. First one is card board box and second one is folded regular copy paper. It burns nicely, but it will produce lots of soot and after glow is really bad that it won't be suitable to make into a wick. Now, if someone can make a wick that is in between paper and wood...

One of the best 464 wax candle that I was able to make was by using wood wick, and here is the picture. See how clean the top is after burn. It gave me 100% satisfaction result from top to bottom. I will not able to make anything similar to this candle using any other wicks. Now, if they can send me a same wick that will work like this all the time... Every wood wick will burn differently even though they claim that they are same model and size. Be careful with Atkins & Pearce! I am having horrible time with them right now. They messed up my order on other wick, and they are not responding for more than 10 days now.

I am left out, too! In 2018, someone was using Shawn Hendrix name making the fraudulent purchase. I am wondering whether this is the same person.

It looks like their wicks are Wooden Wick Company's wicks. Same story...

I thought Los Angeles area in California was the worst when it comes to registering a home based candle/soap business, but your city and county is topping our regulations. Consult with SBA, and you also want to talk to CPA. My CPA helped me set up candle operation out of my house.

About 85% any business start up would fail, and that number should be much higher in candle business due to lower entry barrier. It is true that many of newbies do not deserve to run a candle business nor any other businesses. I do see many in here who just want quick solution & answer from others. Who cares about this kind of people? Some will figure it out and many will fail. However, do not underestimate some of bright young new start up candle makers, who are on their way to be well prepared & planned. And they have a desire to do this right. We do have some here in this forum that really want to learn & do this right way. So, concentrate on helping the good ones and ignore the bad ones.

There are only 3 companies who holds wood wick patents in US. All general wood wick patent holder is Wooden Wick Co. Plus+ wood wick patent holder is WoodWick Candle(Don't get confused the other one.), which is sister company of Yankee. Cross Wick patent holder is Chinese company in Guangdong China. Other than these three no other company is allowed to manufacturer or sell any type of wood wick in US. WoodWick will never sell their Plus+ wood wick, so we actually have only two choices in US. There could be ways to go around their patents, but I don't have resource and time to spend on that. Atkins & Pearce is global distributor of Wooden Wick Company, but it seems like they haven't started carrying any wooden wick yet. At current stage, wooden wick would be a great choice for hobbyist especially in soy wax. But, it wouldn't be suitable for commercial candle making unless Wooden Wick Company can figure out the issues.

Most of us haven't figured out how to deal with quality of UNRELIABLE WOOD WICKS. It is just nature of wood wick that is just unpredictable with serious quality issue. I use 464, and I know wood wick would be the best wick for 464 if I can make it stay lit. But, some wood wick will perform excellent while many other same size & model wood wick just want stay lit at all. There are only handful of essential oils that can be used candle making. I am assuming you are using one of those right EOs in your candle. Below is picture of the one that is keep on dying out.

This is not the answer you are looking for, but check out JAFE Decorating. https://jafedecorating.com/techniques/ It shows all different kinds of glass color coating techniques that you might give you idea of what kind of paint to get.

Sorry, I thought you were in one of EU country. You might want to look into this service to get your desired wax to U.S. https://www.forward2me.com/ *This service should be good for small scale order.

Hello, We don't have rapeseed wax over here in US, so I do not have experience with it. But, I suggest you to try EcoSystem RCX from Candle Shack in UK manufactured by British Wax before you try to make your own blend. It is rapeseed & coconut blend. You might want to consider Kerax 4105 (paraffin & rapeseed blend) also. Kerax 4105 was used in British Royal Wedding candles. It would be much easier to use already blended wax than try to blend your own. Blending wax is very easy thing to do. But, you will need to know characteristics of each wax in order to come up with perfect blending proportion to your liking. Enjoy your candle making!

http://www.chimneycandle.com/ He is located in Charlotte NC. Does he know what he is doing? I have no clue how he managed to make his scents out of pure essential oils. He is claiming it's patented but no patent number given. He has no clue on Federal Trade Commission regulations. Does his theory works? I have no comment!

Check out Dream Vessels! https://dreamvessels.com/ JAFE Decorating, Inc. is one who can color coat glass wares. https://jafedecorating.com/

It would be a nice business practice to stick with one supplier (You will get discounts & other favors.) as much as possible and have 2 back up suppliers (in case of supply interruption) on everything. On top of that reason, when we know waxes, FOs, & wicks can be vary from batch to batch or from different supply sources, that kind of business practice would give us little bit more better protection from unexpected surprises. The differences of wicks from different assembler would be very minimal that we might notice them at all. 1) Chemical treatment is to make the wick fire retardant. So, this is just matter of wick burning off little faster or slower where we would not notice much difference. 2) What is purpose of wax coating? Wicks are coated with higher melt point waxes(usually they have melt point from 165F to 177F) to help the wick stand straight up in the melt pool. So, there isn't much to worry about with these different types of waxes used in wax coating unless you are in one of EU countries. But, then there is this WHAT IF? I am always suspecting that these wicks are designed for big brand companies, and it is not designed for our usage. Most major brand companies' candles are burning so hot even the containers get really hot (temperature of their containers will go up close to 170F) , and many of them create deep melt pool (1/2" or more). Major brand candle would not have to worry about this high melt point wax used on wicks at all (and maybe they are the one who ask supplier to come up with higher melt point waxed wicks), and they would not know the difference. On the other hand, our candles burn a lot cooler (my container temperature is below 130F) and have shallow melt pool (1/4" or less). It's so shallow that we would not even need high melt point wax coating at all to make our wick stay stand up in the melt pool. Now, here comes my biggest mystery question. Does my candle's melt pool has enough heat power to melt away high melt point wick wax coating? If my candle cannot melt away this wax coating, then my wax and FO will not be able to travel thru the wick to get to the end of flame. I am not 100% sure about this, but my candle might not have problem with 165F coating but it might not work at all with 177F one. I don't have the exact answer to this question, since I don't have capability to measure the temperature of wick right below the melt pool.

Even though keeping inventory is critical part of business bookkeeping, most tax prepare might not ask for it as long as your other numbers look alright. However, your numbers would look awful due to your excessive buying spree on FOs. You are entitled to tax write off on anything that you have spent on your candle business, and it seems like your tax lady is trying to help you get it and trying to protect you. It is always good business to keep 5 different categories of inventories in you business accounting book, but you don't have to do it in this detail. 1. Raw Materials Inventory: Direct Raw Materials & Indirect Raw Materials 2. Maintenance, Repair, and Operating inventory 3. Work In Progress Inventory 4. Finished Goods Inventory 5. Packing Material Inventory If you feel your business is too small to do the above, then you should at least do #1 Raw materials & #5 Packing materials inventory together for your tax lady.(Consult with your tax lady whether I am right about this.) Raw materials & Packing materials inventory would be waxes, wicks, FOs, containers, labels(blank or printed), ink/toner, dyes, & anything that needed for candle making including such items like detergent for cleaning containers. If you have a lot of finished candles that you haven't sold yet, then you might want to do separate inventory report on that also. When it comes to tax question, always consult with your accountant and only with your account.

(1) Size of each wick should be same which ever supplier you get these wicks. However, wicks from different suppliers can perform differently due to following 2 differences. a) After wick manufacturers braids these wicks, it will need to go thru chemical treatment to make it fire retardant. Yes, they actually have to make it fire retardant so it won't burn out easily. b) Wax coating Chemical treatment can be done by different places with different methods. And, they use different types of waxes for coating. So, same wicks will be different supplier to supplier. It will depend on which wick assembler was the final producer. (2) Most wick suggestions by suppliers & manufacturers are just to be used as basic guidelines. It gives us good starting point, but it can be off dramatically. Sometimes, it could be totally different wick & size that will work best. You should not ignore them, but you should not rely on them totally either. Don't blame them. There is no way that anyone can cover all the waxes & 30,000 available FOs combination with different % of FO usage.

Here is another one that is very close. All natural and unbleached sugarcane paper labels! https://www.purelabels.com/blank-labels-on-sheets/

@Marisa11 I know there are many people who are obsessed with that brand, and I liked their candles, too. They were doing really good for so many years that it kind of surprised me they closed down their business this year. I guess you have upper hand knowledge of how to sell candles than many others. Good luck with your candle making journey! It's not hard, but it would take little(☺️) longer than what we would hope to be.

Hi, Did you by any chance worked for Gold Canyon Candle Company?

I think you have to special order those. Online Labels does custom colors. https://www.onlinelabels.com/products/custom-color-labels Closest label that I know is Avery's Blank Coffee Labels, but it's little darker than what's in your picture. It's in the middle of page. https://www.avery.com/category/usage/all/?category=food-and-beverage If you are using inkjet, then you might want to print the back ground color/pattern to your liking. If this method works, then you will need to find the way to connect ink tank to printer to keep ink cost low. Or use some printer like Epson Eco Tank.

Unless we send it to candle testing lab, we are not going to able to get exact numbers for viscosity. We would have to rely on eye judgement & mini testing. Can you see the difference of viscosity from following 2 pictures just by looking at it? Sometimes I scoop up melted wax with little tea spoon and drop it back to see the flow of wax to see how lean or thick melted waxes are. I rub it in between fingers also.