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@TallTayl Thank you for the reply. I am trying to solve the hot throw issue for my candles primarily but also tunnelling and wick size. So too many problems I suppose. I have 2 containers and both tunnel or mush room with the htp wicks, the containers are 3 and 3.5 inches and htp 1312 they mushroom and 126 there is tunneling, htp12 12 doesn't work either. I tried a store bought blend bw917 which has soy coconut bees was and it burned soooo nicely melting everything to the edges even without the pool going all the way to the edge becasue the wax was softer. I contacted supplier and they couldn't tell me the percent coconut as its proprietary but gave me a ball park that it's less than 20 percent coconut. This is why I decided to try to blend my own soy with coconut oil (not coconut wax and I am not sure if there is a difference blending wax vs coconurnoil). To help with the tunnelling and the hot throw. the soy only candles doesn't produce any hot throw at 7 or 10 e. O. percent. I am only using essential oils and I amm adding them under 140 as to not burn them. I guess the wick is not creating a warm enough pool for the scent. Or there are other factors I am not aware off as a newbie. I guess i am doing too many things at once and I should test other wick sizes and other wick series. What series should I try for a coconut soy blend? The reason I wanted to blend myself is I assumed thought that if I did 30 percent coconut it would improve the hot throw. Thanks Lana

This happened to me too. I was mixing my own blend of soy wax and coconut oil. And I saw this x shape on all three candles. I re melted the tops and am waiting to test. Did you figure it out? Has it happened before? My pouring temp was 140. What temp did you pour?

Hello, I am not sure anyone will comment as it's now 2022. So here is my question, do the properties of hydrogenated coconut vs unhydrogented coconut have any differences other than melting point difference? Ordinary cooking coconut oil has a slight smell, where as coconut wax is hydrogenated meaning has additional hydrogen in its chain and doesn't give off a slight coconut scent. For improving hot throw is there one that works better or are they both the same. And another question, there is also fractioned coconut oil, made by heating coconut oil to high temperatures, waiting for oil to cool and when it cools it seperate into solids on top liquid on bottom. Well that liquid is called fractioned coconut oil. Sigh. I am making candles with eos only and I am trying to improve hot throw. I read on the internet (so it must be true) that fractioned coconut inhibits smell, and that coconut wax has great hot throw. These two addatives are seemingly the same so they seem contradicting to me. Does any one here know what all the differences are for the three types of coconut products.