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Help! I got my first starter set from Amazon to make soy wax candles. I’m following the instructions and temperatures, but can’t seem to get a smooth top I’m getting a lot of craters. I smoothed some out with a hair dryer to fill the holes (didn’t have a heat gun), but once lit they cratered again. I also tried experimenting with black liquid candle dye in one of them and not only did it crater, but looks like some sort of sugar crystals on top and dried to more of a grey (I put 8 drops in)lol. I have watched and read a bunch on do’s and don’ts but can’t seem to get it right. I did end up buying some better quality materials to use but I really want to get the technique right before I use them!

Hello! I got my first soy candle making kit today. I just started mat leave and really wanted to try a new hobby before baby gets here. I got the “Fragranth” kit from Amazon. It didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped due to some issues with the melting method and the thermometer. Probably a user error 🙃 it came with an aluminum melting pitcher, which I filled with some soy wax (enough for an 8oz container). I then put it in a medium sauce pan filled with about an inch and a bit with water as instructed (I tried a pot as well but the pitcher just kept floating in it). The instructions said to bring to a boil on medium-high, but when I melted the wax this way, the pitcher just kept shaking and the thermometer it came with wasn’t reading the temp properly because the needle was also shaking lol. I did try to turn the stove down so it wasn’t bubbling as much but then the temp of the wax dropped and wouldn’t go up. So anyways I did the best I could to get it at the right temp for fragrance mixing and then pouring. My first one is curing with a bunch of craters at the top which I kind of expected and I’ll see how the second one turns out lol. any advice on what I should do next time?