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  1. I'm going to give them a try. I want a luxury candle line for my candle business and the wood wicks seem like a nice feature with that gentle sizzle/crackle. I'm not looking for perfect. I don't even think perfect is possible with certain cotton wick/vessel combos. My wax is always very consistent from batch to batch, so I am hoping that a tiny bit of inconsistency with the wicks will be ok. My wax performs like GB 464 but the Freedom Soy I use is always the same/perfect from batch to batch unlike 464 which has a lot of bad batches. I get an amazing cold/hot throw in my 8 oz. tins with a CD 18 wick and 7.5% FO load.
  2. I'm disappointed to hear that I should expect inconsistencies in wicks in the same package. I have purchased many wood wick candles from Get a Whiff Co. They use wooden wick co. wicks and I've never had one burn badly/differently from one to the next. I wonder if maybe some people are experiencing user error when it comes to their own wood wick candles. It doesn't seem like a company like Get a Whiff Co. with such a great reputation would put out candles they know will have inconsistent burns. I'm going to give wooden wicks a try for my candle business and see how it goes. Of course, I plan to test first.
  3. Hi everyone, I am seeking advice on where to begin with testing wooden wicks from the wooden wick co. for my candles. My wax is Freedom Soy by American Soy Organics. It is designed to perform like GB 464, but has a slightly higher melt point. My vessels are glass tumblers with a top diameter of 3" and a bottom diameter of around 2.75". My fragrance load is 7.5%. I was planning on starting my testing with the crackling booster wick, .04" thickness, .5" width. Does this sound about right to anyone? Orders from the Wooden Wick Co. are taking their sweet time to be processed and I'd really like to try and get away with as little testing as possible to avoid having to deal with order backups, so I'm trying to get a ball park idea of where to start with wick suggestions. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
  4. Hi everyone. I make candles with non flammable/candle-safe items embedded in the wax, but I am looking for a type of "glue" that I could use to adhere objects to the surface of the candle for display. I don't like having to do a second pour of a thin layer of wax and I can't really use a heat gun because my candles are pure soy and they turn out shiny and lumpy after the heat gun. There must be a candle-safe glue that won't emit toxic chemicals when exposed to heat or flame. Is there anything out there on the market, or am I out of luck? All suggestions/methods accepted and appreciated. Thank you!
  5. Oh goodness yes! That dihydrogen monoxide is toxic if inhaled for sure. Symptoms of inhalation include coughing, choking, difficulty breathing, gasping for air, and a burning sensation in your lungs. Inhale too much and death will ensue. Ingest too much of it orally and it will result in confusion and the cells will burst in your brain and organs resulting in death.
  6. @TallTayl I can assure you that the clean scents are very potent. I have never had an issue with cold or hot throw and I use between 6% and 7.5% fragrance load in my soy wax. In fact, my warm apple pie candle is a little too strong for my tastes at the 7.5% fragrance load. I may be naïve, but I truly believe the clean scents are "cleaner" because I have seen some fragrance oil MSDS with multiple scary looking hazard pictograms. The clean scents MSDS can only have the caution pictogram because candle science limits the chemicals that can be put into it to ones that don't have certain hazards that many other companies have in their oils. I also have to say that I own paraffin candles that I burn properly (trimming wick etc.) and my soy candles burn incredibly cleaner. I don't get any visible soot with my wax compared to the paraffin candles I have from Yankee which all soot like a chimney. It's so gross...That's one reason I make my own candles now. The other is I LOVE selling my candles and watching people light up when they smell them
  7. @Candybee The clean scents by candle science don't actually contain carcinogens or any of the following: phthalates, mutagens, reproductive toxins, organ toxins, acute toxins. I suppose people can be sensitive to fragrances (get headaches or nausea if they hate the smell) or they can have allergies to some chemicals, but otherwise it seems like removing these other harmful chemicals makes fragrance oil significantly safer for use over long term frequent exposures to vapors. Not all fragrance companies can say their products don't contain these chemicals. Perhaps the people who have health issues from fragrance oils have been using ones that do contain acute toxins, organ toxins, and all the things listed above. Who knows...Better to be safe than sorry. I have a "fume hood" that I make my candles in. It's a giant box with an inline fan attached to a dryer hose that goes out the window. No heat sources are used in the box so no fire hazard. It's just for mixing and pouring. I am not concerned about the wax melting "vapors" in my kitchen. Wax is just solid oil. No worse than deep frying. Anyways I also wear a respirator. Between my fume hood and the mask I feel pretty safe. Within 30 minutes there is no more odor at all in the room anyways because the candles solidify in the fume hood.
  8. @birdcharm Thank you for "clearing the air" (pun intended) about this fragrance thing a bit for me. I know that the clean scents idea isn't a substitute for completely harmless. The oils contain synthetic aroma chemicals no matter what in addition to the concentrated essential oils. I think what I was driving at in my original post is the hazard for the candle maker in terms of the high concentration of fragrance being inhaled during the mixing and pouring phases. Once the candles are cooled, the amount of fragrance released from the cold throw is not hazardous, but it seems like a big pot of hot fragranced wax, even at a 6% fragrance load, would be dangerous in terms of vapor inhalation. Have you or any one you know of had any issues from inhaling the fragrance? What safety/ventilation precautions do you take/ should I take?
  9. Hi everyone, I have recently started up a business selling my handmade candles. I am concerned about the chemicals in the fragrance oils in my home. The only fragrance oils I will use are CandleScience Clean Scents because they claim those are free from acute toxins, mutagens, carcinogens, etc. I have read horror stories on these craft forums about people who have had lung infections, pneumonia, dry coughs, sinus infections, you name it from making candles. If these fragrance oils can cause all that, then why isn't there a HUGE warning label on candle making kits that say DO NOT INHALE FRAGRANCE VAPORS WHEN MAKING YOUR CANDLES? Also, I have read the MSDS for CandleScience fragrance oils and they say not to inhale the vapors for a prolonged period of time, but then another reputable company, P & J Trading, has MSDS that say "this material does not present a hazard if inhaled." What is CandleScience putting in their fragrance that makes it dangerous to inhale the vapors? Which by the way, I thought the whole point of fragrance was to be inhaled in order to smell it..... I am working under a homemade fume hood but the vapors sometimes escape and I can smell the fragrance. I try to wear a respirator for organic vapors, but it is cumbersome and takes the joy out of making candles. I made a few batches without any ventilation before and had no breathing/sinus issues until I started reading people's respiratory horror stories online on these craft forums. Am I being a hypochondriac or what? Maybe those people just have allergies and they are reacting to certain fragrance oils, but since they work with so many they can't pinpoint which one it is? I mean if fragrance oils cause health issues, then the people walking around Yankee Candle factory should, by that logic, be dropping like flies. Their factories have 1,000s of lbs of heavily fragranced wax with people walking around like it's nothing.
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