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Check out BL Gifts, you can find them at wholesalecentral.com

We order from them all the time...usually 40 cases at a time (1440 jars), but I do believe their minimum is one case. The number of jars that is would depend on the type you order. Example...5 oz Apothecary jars are sold in cases of 48 whereas the 16 oz jars are sold in 36 count. Never had a problem with service....excellent to deal with. They are after all..candle container suppliers, usually stocking minimums of 10,000 and up of each variety. If you should need to call them...ask for Paula. She's great.

try a soy wax that is designed for pillars....such as Eco-soy's PB blend. It's made for pillars and votives.

Don't give up Camoflauge....we didn't...and we have a very successful business. Our store...located on our property brings in a healthy income...as well as our online business. While we do have wholesale accounts as well....we wouldn't trade the store for anything. Our country style store brings in people from all over the area....they enjoy shopping at a location knowing they will get a great product and not have to pay the high prices found in the bigger residential areas. It is a full time job for me....and my wife works another full time job....and like Bruce...1500 candles a week isn't unheard of by us either. Don't stop dreaming....yes there is frustration, headaches and all that goes with it......but I wouldn't trade this for the world. I immigrated from Canada 4 years ago....the "American dream" does exist. Btw....been making candles for over 25 years.... just so you know I'm not a newbie.

We make tarts and votives here as well as our containers. We use candy molds for a more seasonal offering as well as fluted ones. 75 fragrances and counting! We use a votive blend for our tarts and up to 9% FO load.

May we suggest using CSP-1 from Candlewic or Eco-soy PB for your votives. We here at Creekside use both of these waxes for our tarts and votives without any problems. Both of these waxes are single pour, and require no relief holes. We also suggest you try using RRD 29 wicks. We've hand poured roughly 10,000 votives and tarts last year without any complaints. Just suggesting....

We here at Creekside use RRD 34's and 37's for our containers. We also double wick them. We found the RRD series to work best for us. IOHO.

Check our site, we have a copy of the original artwork my father did for us there.

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Try CSP-1 from Candlewic. It is what we use for the majority of our tarts, and the throw is great with 6-8% load. IMHO.

Try using RRD34's....sounds to us like your wicks are choking on FO. Also suggest you double wick for 3-1/2" or larger.

RRD37's for us

Just a quick reply to Pocha's response in her customers saying that when they sniff the candle they say it's too strong. To properly know how a candle will smell, your customers should be smelling the inside of the lid of the container and not the candle itself. This will give them a better judgement of what the candle will smell like when burning. Just giving some suggestions...not trying to offend.

We here at Creekside use the CB Advanced as well...heat to 180, pour at 120, and double wick our 16 oz. jars with RRD 32's. After pouring over 7000 containers this year we've found this combo to be the best for us. IMHO.

We use eco-soy CB advanced. We get the frosting too, but not so much when poured at a lower temp. Between 100 and 115 will help eliminate some of the frosting.

Try RRD-40.

Just a side note....we use Apple Pie FO from Candlewic after having tested quite a few others. We find Candlewic's AP to give the best throw. Just my 2c's.

For about 10 cents each you can buy tops for your bottles that have flip top lids. A lot easier to use than trying to pour straight out the bottle. Not only saves your FO's but also your furniture!

Go to wal-mart...the kitchen section...for about $2 you can buy a set of 3 stainless steel measuring cups that will hold about 2 oz of FO each easily. Easy to clean and obviously reusable.

FD&C dyes are approved by the FDA and stand for Food, Drug and Cosmetics.

As of now there are only seven dyes that have been approved by the F.D.A. for safe use in food, drugs and cosmetics. These are known as the FD&C dyes. These dyes are yellows #5 and #6, reds #3 and #40, blues #1 and #2, and green #3. The most popular of these dyes is Red #40. The second most popular is Yellow #5.

Yes, we offer two choices of scents for this particular votive. This one is Hot Apple Pie and we also offer them in Blueberry Muffin.

Nice job on the layered look.

Our Americana Chunk Votive perfect for July 4th celebrations..

Our version of an Americana votive perfect for the 4th of July.

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'll add more pics later.

The label artwork was done by my father...watercolour artist. He sent me the original and I scanned it and manipulated it for our purposes.