Elle Farrelly

Thank you so much for these replies. I appreciate the insight and the encouragement

For reference I’m using Soy 10 but will definitely play around with heating and pouring temps 🙏🏻

Wow, this is brilliant! Thanks! I immediately didn’t like wickless testing because of all the leaning, so this is a great trick to know

Hello! Newbie question alert: 

I’m having wicking & HT issues, so I remelted a candle in a double boiler to repour into a same sized vessel with a larger wick size. When the wax had melted I could see some of the FO had separated and had sunk to the bottom (I used a blend of 3 different oils). I’m assuming this shouldn’t happen, as I’ve never seen it in store-bought candles or wax melts. Did I do something wrong when making the original candle, and could this be why I’m having HT issues?

Wax: 90% Soy 10/10% MP117
FO 9% load
Heated to 200
Added FO immediately
Stirred for 2 mins
Poured immediately (all per manufacturers instructions)

Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

I’m determined to figure this out! I’ll have to keep on testing. It’s so frustrating to have the candle smell great when pouring, have good CT and then nothing when burning 😩

Thanks so much for your reply. Maybe I’m adding scent at a too low temperature, so I’ll start with that, and up fragrance load to 8%. Fingers crossed adding some paraffin will help!

Hi everyone

New to the candle making biz & unsurprisingly am struggling with HT ☺️

I’m working with C3 which only has a max of 6% fragrance load (& I’m getting zero HT, with varying vessel sizes & wick sizes/series), so I want to try blending with a parasoy or paraffin. I have SB1000 but cannot find any info anywhere on what the fragrance load % is (even the seller doesn’t seem to know). Anyone else use this wax? Do you like it for HT?
 

If anyone has recommendations of waxes to try I’m willing to keep testing until I get a decent HT!

Thanks in advance.