NattyCat

Hi Brenda Thanks for the reply. I ordered some USA and some stickywax on your site yesterday (although I didn't get a confirmation email - only a paypal receipt - can you confirm you got the order to be shipped to the UK?) What I'd like to know is whether I can use your sticky wax additive AND the USA together. If I used the USA to help frosting and the sticky wax to help adhesion...just wondering if that would work or is it not recommended? Thanks Nat

If you do work it out, it would be best to start a new thread as it's nothing to do with this one and you'll get the response you need based upon the title of your new thread instead of in this one, which only people interested in greenleaf soy additive will open. I have just purchased some of the sticky wax and the soy additive from GL and will post here what the results are. just wondering if I can use them together. Nat

perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I'm not asking about BW etc, so I'll start again. Has anyone used the UNIVERSAL SOY ADDITIVE from GL Candle Supply (Greenleaf) as seen on the following link: http://www.glcandlesupply.com/Universal-Soy-Additive_p_14-280.html This universal soy additive is also available from the Candlemaker's Store. My specific question is whether there is anyone who has used this additive in soy wax and if so what were the results, and in particular I would be interested to hear from anyone who has used Universal Soy Additive in CB-135. I'm not asking about beeswax, coconut oil or any other additive - just this universal soy additive please! Thanks

so nobody has tried it? A product that could do away with the typical problems associated with soy? Guess I'll have to be the first! I will post how I get on. ps. beeswax doesn't work.

Has anyone tried the soy additive from Greenleaf? And if so, does it really help with frosting and adhesion? Am using cb-135 so if you've had experience using the additive in that wax i'd be interested to hear from you. Nat

well at least I know my website is so good that other crappy candle companies want to copy it. I should be flattered if I wasn't so pissed off.

Wasn't that the lady called Ikae from "Just Like Me Creations"? She actually stole my WHOLE website - just cut and pasted the whole lot into her own and despite me emailing her - she is still working away on it - it's still even got my company name in some of the text where she hasn't even noticed it yet.

the only experience I've had with Maddison Avenue Candles is that they stole very large chunks of my website - word for word and pasted it on their website as their own. I did contact them and they HAVE changed it somewhat but there are still massive chunks of text that I personally wrote for our website which is still sitting on theirs. This seriously pissed me off as a lot of the text on our site took ages to reasearch and write, so for this company to just waltz in, copy and paste it onto their own website and then have the NERVE to put a copyright symbol on their page - it's just a joke. I will never purchase from this company as I would NEVER do business with a company who so openly stole the hard work of others - even if their FO was amazing.

There are several people here who will swear blind that ecosoya waxes do not form cavities, but having used both advanced and cb-135 extensively, I have experienced the exact opposite. Sometime a cavity appears when it is setting up - a big hole appears near the wick which I then have to fill in with a heatgun so I now poke relief holes and either heatgun or do a top-up pour. When a candle set up without me poking relief holes, and DIDN'T sink, I just thought I was lucky - but 9 times out of ten it was those candles that formed a crack from one side of the container to the other across the centre of the candle. I initially heatgunned the crack to fill it in, but one day I noticed a small air bubble coming up from the crack once I had created a very small layer of molten wax across the top of the candle with my heatgun. I got a skewer and poked holes along the length of crack and then bingo - my skewer hit the sweet spot which was the cavity - my molten wax disappeared into the hole I had created and I had to do a repour. As soon as I had filled in that cavity - no more cracks. So, in my experience - if you have a crack across the centre of your soy candle it is because it has formed a cavity. Try melting the top of the candle with a heat gun and then poking along the crack with a skewer and see what happens. Nat

i think they look lovely - but that's not wine is it? If I'm being honest it looks like a glass of wee (do you say "wee" over there?) or pee - I love the idea, but just don't think it looks like wine! edited to add: oops, just saw you said it was apple juice.

very nice - but white candles on a white background? It may have been better to have some coloured candles. At the moment I feel it just looks very white and hazy with nothing standing out other than the soy beans - it's not the soy beans that should stand out..it should be your candles.... JMO.

They hold a standard 2oz votive tightly and perfectly. That picture is off my website, I have a stock of them already, but a company has just asked me to supply 300 of them and my supplier is out. I know they are ex-colony stock so it's unlikely I'll get the exact same ones unless there is someone out there with a mass of ex-colony stock - but anything similar would be fine I think. They want the silver mostly but also some black tealight holders. Nat

Does anyone know a supplier of glass votive holders that are metallic silver or gold? Like these: I'm also looking for black frosted tealight holders - or not frosted, doesn't matter as long as they're black? Thanks Nat

Bugs me, and my customers don't like it either and WON'T buy the ones that are worst affected. So I box mine in floater boxes from Sunshine.

It's a shame you're not near Kent - you could have used my wax melter which holds 50lbs of wax and melts in like an hour.

OK I got my black masterbuilt 28qt turkey fryer today woooo hoooo! I was told that I could just put my flaked soy straight in and turn it on, well when I did that it started smoking and cut itself off. So I am now gonna fill a presto pot with wax, melt it and fill the turkey fryer up with molten wax before I do anything. However, my question is - seeing as it smoked and switched off when I used raw wax flakes, what happens when I turn the machine off overnight filled with wax and want to use it the next day? It will have solid wax in it, not molten wax - so won't it start to smoke again because it's touching plain wax? I read in this thread that you shouldn't put unmelted soy in it as it will burn - won't it burn my wax tomorrow? Do I need to keep it turned on the whole time so that the wax is always molten or do I have to empty it out every night (pain in the ass) Sorry for all the questions - if you have a turkey fryer and know what I should be doing please help! Nat

Holidays? It's almost February!

how are you going to pour 275 wedding cake favours when the most cavities I've ever seen for wedding cake molds are 2 cavity. You're going to have to pour 2 at a time, wait ages for them to set up and then pour again unless you go out and buy tons of molds. Hope you got a spare few weeks.

I did receive two replies: 1st Reply) Hi again, I went ahead and read up at CMT to find out more about what is going on with the glossy labels. I noticed two things, 1) several companies have been mentioned so we've ruled out back label stock - it seems to be some odd characteristic of the glossy label. 2) many mentioned of light or exposure to air. On number two many people say it's light, one said they sprayed with a protectant on a half sheet, sat it under fluorescent light for a week and the untreated side turned yellow. My confusion is that our stock is stored, openly, in a large room with a ceiling lined with fluorescent lights - I've never noticed any yellowing of stock (rolls or sheets, packaged or unpackaged). The other part of #2 is the exposure to air, as in your case, your labels were on products but not in sunlight yet when you pulled the protected labels out of the cabinet there was a big difference, so I would have to go with some kind of environmental interference, whether it be the color or fragrance in the air during the production process of your products. I would really like to see one though, I was unaware of the posts I read yet I have not once - with all the products we've sent out, witnessed this "yellowing"..... 2nd Reply) I just found some fabulous research on the ph of paper, ph neutral, environment factors that can increase the acidity of a paper and the "yellowing outcome". Bottom line, the yellowing of any paper or label has to do with something increasing the ph neutral paper's acidity level. (environmental factor or something it's in contact with) The result is a yellowing affect. Go to google and do a little research on paper yellowing, ph nuetral paper and acidity, even wooden shelves can "share" it's acid with what sits on it....very informative. When I have more time I intend to write a f.a.q. for our website on this issue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

peaks in cb135 is knockout strong and realistic.

I bought mine already printed from them - I didn't print on them myself at all so they may not being using fade resistant inks but then I guess that doesn't explain why the white goes so yellow. I have labels here on the roll that the printed off for me - and ALL have gone yellow. I have no idea what they printed the labels with - if it was the primera or not.

I emailed yesterday - will wait to hear from them. I only just found out my labels were yellowing. I used up all my shelf stock and was creating more - and the new labels that had been in a bag in a filing cabinet are bright white wheras the ones on the bottles look dingy and awful now.

I bought labels from them too - pre printed and they have turned really yellow. They have NEVER been in direct sunlight, and in fact are stored on the bottles in a dark little corner to protect both the label and the product - yet they have still turned a really nasty yellow - and they're only 3 months old.

So what? Just because lots of people say the same thing doesn't mean that others won't disagree! She's already SAID she gets great results with CBA so your "lots" of people who agree that CBA is the worst of the bunch are not right in this instance. I assume that was aimed right at me - and my reply is "(insert word of choice here) off". You are resorting to characterizing ME by saying I've not reached sensible conclusions that I'm confident about, just because I'm advising this lady that she is going to get different answers from different people on just about every subject posted????? As I think I have said to you before, I am perfectly confident in my products and my methods and I do NOT get the same results as you with the same waxes. It does not mean my results are wrong, they are just different. It has been argued so many times before on here about what should and shouldn't be the "right" thing to expect with candles and what wax is and isn't good -despite what you think - not everything you say is right and people just have to try for themselves.

why don't you just buy a sample of each and try for yourself? Everyone on here will have an opinion - some more than others will feel that their opinion is right, but at the end of the day, the only opinion that matters is yours. There are people here who swear that Ecosoya Advanced has NO scent throw, but also people here who love it and get an awesome scent throw. The same goes for Pure Soy. Don't let the opinions of others here determine what waxes, fragrances and methods you use for making candles because everyone, and I mean EVERYONE will have gotten different results with the same wax and FO - it may have worked for one person, but been crap for another person. Your best option is to stop asking questions, because the number of answers you may get will just confuse you even more ! Just get on with making your first candles with a variety of different waxes and see which one you like best. Once you've made the candles, you can then come back and ask how to improve or change them etc! Just MY opinion, which you can ignore if you like!