Crowded House

I have also noticed a big difference between using the "plain paper" option and the "other specialty labels" option.

If hot coffee from the McHouse can land them in court, so can the wicks we are selling people to light, and B&B products we are making for them to apply to their skin.

Part of the reason McDonald's lost that suit was because they intentionally heated their coffee 40-50 degrees hotter than the industry standard because it was "better tasting" when held at that level of heat.

If you buy glasses by the cases, what do you do when you have one or two glasses with "faults" in them?

Do you save them up and send them to the manufacturer a case at a time? Do you try to get replacements right away? Do you write it off?

Just curious. I got a case of 24 recently and one had a fault in it that made it unacceptable as a candle container. I thought, you know, it would take months (or years, maybe) to get a whole case of faulty glasses that would make it worth shipping it back to the manufacturer, and I'm not about to pay out the shipping to the distributor for one stupid glass.

Mine is sitting on top of my refrigerator, and I'm considering just using it as a drinking glass or in some other function.

So, what do you do?

I have one fragrance from BCN that will turn an undyed candle without UV inhibitor Sunshine Yellow in only 2 days of indirect sunlight.

With the UV inhibitor it is indeed just add it and then fahgadaboudit.

That is weird...I would think that ~17 ounces of wax and fragrance in a 5 oz container would really scent a room!

its very relaxing to be able to have some me time, and some quiet time for myself that I wouldn't get otherwise.

LOL - I make candles on the other side of the gate while the baby hangs on (to the gate) and hollers to be let in and the toddler shows and tells me about every toy and topic she can think of.

Quiet time indeed.

But it's still better than not pouring.

I've been with a couple of different hosts and from what I can tell, you get what you pay for. If you need a lot of help, enjoy bells and whistles, and/or want access to your .htaccess file then you'll pay more for it on a monthly basis.

Regardless, I'd look for any hosting site with at least 99.7% up time at a minimum.

Taylored Concepts has a couple of different sizes of self-adhesive plastic shields to put over containers/tumblers, but they do not have holes in them.

You could always buy some spray paint for cardboard and paint on the cheaper white boxes. Krylon holds up pretty well, IMO.

I like htp's and cd's.

I carry 5 specialized Christmas FOs and I also market Spiced Cran as a holiday scent during that time, but it's part of my full-time line.

I use MC for mine:

Balsam & Spice

Mint Candy Cane

Chestnuts & Brown Sugar

Christmas Splendor

Warm Cinnamon Buns

If you like the Chestnuts and Brown Sugar, I'd recommend their new Caramel Apple. It's a similar fragrance (less chestnut, more apple though, obviously) but the whole front of my house smelled like this scent for a day and a half just from pouring an 8 oz test candle!

I was quite impressed.

I've found that DPG works pretty well. I'd like to hear from anyone who's tried isopropyl mystrate as that's supposed to be "better" but I haven't tried it myself.

Also thanks Crowded House...great idea to check out restaurant supplies in my area. Will also give Libby a call!

You're welcome.

This is also a great way to save on shipping for small orders. The RS store in my area has a long lead time (a couple of weeks) but I just pay for the case if I pick it up there, and no shipping, so it's perfect if I just want to "test" a new type of glass.

Instawares does not carry the lids, as far as I know.

Call Libbey up in Toledo. They can set you up with a list of distributors.

For smaller (no minimum-type) orders, you might want to call around to restaurant supply stores in your area and ask if they would be willing to order cases for you from the Special Markets catalogue.

I have been testing the 444 and have not noticed much difference. A little bit with the cold throw, no difference at all with the hot.

My husband, who is not around the candles as much as I am, says he doesn't notice any difference at all, either way.

I evenly space them from side to each other to side.

You might be able to go as low as a CD18 with White Ginger.

Make your own CD and/or LX sampler

She's fast and extremely reasonable on shipping.

Do you have houseplants? They can live and breed in those, too.

Has anyone ever tried estimating a starting point for wicking a not-round container by calculating the square inches of the surface of the container?

For example, a round container that is 3" in diameter would have a surface diameter of approximately 7.07 sq in (I think - that's r squared times pi, that is the correct formula, right?).

So if you have a square container that is 4" across, the surface area is 16 square inches, and would require, maybe, two wicks that have a burn rate and yield just slightly higher than the 3" round, right (assuming wax and FO is the same for both containers)?

Or is this way of calculating just completely off?

I haven't had any problems getting the 444 to hot throw with most scents I've tried at 6-8%. Some I could get to throw with less, in fact.

Of course some FO's I can't get to throw at any percentage in either 415 or 444.

Have you tried another tester on your theory that the scent is gone towrds the end of the candle?

When I first started testing the 444 (essentially the same wax but with a higher melt point) I noticed a strange salt smell in the hot throw of all the FO's in the candles.

Then I realized that I'd been testing A LOT and I probably just had candle nose. After a week of no pouring or testing everything was back to normal.

CD's are coreless, not cotton cored. Taylored Concepts has them, as well as Bitter Creek, candlewic, and a variety of other places.

I have found the CD's to be a little worse on 'shrooms than HTP's overall but no soot whatsoever.

How do HTP93's do?

I noticed that with HTP's as well.

CD's are (so I've heard) the German version of the HTP's, and I've had no problem with them sooting. You might try CD12's if you can't find an acceptable solution with the HTP's.