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  1. Geeesh what does it take for a company to understand you don't package FO and lip flavors together? Second-time fail for WSP. They resent the order in three packages ... don't secure the lids so naturally there is a leak ... but the two flavor oils packaged with a fragrance oil is the bigger issue I have. I get to let them know again what the problem is and maybe I will send this slow mail with a paperback dictionary and underlined words for them to look up.
  2. OK you got a brown pouch type bag ... I got just the plastic bag without a zipper. They gotta be putting their garbage in these packages.
  3. Well my email has gotten a couple of responses as to how can we make it right? It should have been right the first time. They wanted pictures and I should have thought of that first but I was more interested in finding out what was leaking and stopping it and cleaning it up. I don't want replacements because I don't want the same catastrophes. I want logical, sensible, practical packaging and not just something you wiped your nose with tossed into a box that isn't going to just magically stay still. I also don't want store credit because right now I am not interested in doing business with any of them ... and if their buyers buy out everyone else ... I shudder to think. They've offered a refund but I want more effort. Still ticked today but about 3/4 the amount I was yesterday.
  4. I've spent a little fortune to restart our business and apparently, few suppliers care how they package their products. Having just read that NG sold out to WSP and knowing that RE did before we slowed to a halt because of life's craziness, it explains why both packages arrived in less than satisfactory conditions. Who puts stuff in a manilla envelope that can be smashed and pop loose lids on flavor oils? For that matter, who packages fragrance oils with flavor oils with loose lids? The companies listed above, but they aren't the only ones. Lonestar threw in a wadded piece of brown paper and Candlewic and Candle Science had their problems and lack of packaging. I will say, though, that Midwest and Flaming Candle did very well. While I am complaining here, I did email my concerns to WSP about the orders. Now to find replacements because I'm not interested in wasting my money to make the mail smell.
  5. You are probably talking about a certain business but I was a bit put off by how every single one of my recent orders arrived from Candle Science provided peanuts but the lids weren't tight; lonestar threw some wadded up paper (one sheet) into the box and called it good so a particular bottle leaked enough to wet the bottom of the box; nature's garden shoved stuff into an envelope and called it good for flavor oils ... I can hardly wait to see the dyes from lonestar or what flaming will offer when it gets here. Almost makes me regret trying to restart. Candlewic ... I should pick on them ... if I'm ordering lb bottles for Pete sakes send me the pound bottle and not two 8 ozers or four of the four ozers ...
  6. Personally, whatever curls my toes or makes me dizzy I suppose. This varies tremendously but there are scents out there.
  7. Wax I go with the Lavender that Peak's used to carry ... now carried by Keystone. Lavender 40/42 for soap. Did not experience the problem in bath bombs mentioned earlier with 40/42.
  8. The only time I added resin to a FO formula I had to wick up like it was a monster. Because it was such a headache for me, I used it for tarts for awhile. There are definitely a lot of resins that I love working with or just sitting around sniffing. I haven't touched absolutes but wanted to at one point before life went a little haywire.
  9. Do you have choices in your neck of the woods? I don't think there's just one soy wax in the states to be able to give you a better answer. What brand are you using? Did it come with recommendations? Etc. I'm not a soy user, but in general for waxes, FO, additives etc., it's easier for people to answer if they know more.
  10. Going back to the OP question, testing a UV inhibitor will take a longer time than long, long, long, long. I prefer the complete package so to speak than the two-part system. However, I don't think all UV inhibitors are the same. They can look the same, but I've seen two powdered versions that look a pale yellow do different things. Testing it ... I'd say put it in your candle and stick the candle in the window to see how long it takes to alter itself. On the short end of say two weeks, I've seen colors change drastically ... is that because the UV failed or because the FO decided to make it's change or because of its construction change all the color from black, green, yellow, pink, orange etc. to brown. I have one fragrance that got sent to the incense only pile because it wipes out the color no matter what I do to it ... I just am not a brown patchouli fan. Now I would say if a UV can't make it to two weeks, it's worthless and try someone else. None of that is going to help you though unless you're able to get orders from somewhere else to India. For me, the UV is the last thing in the world I will test or check, but it will become the first if I start noticing my candles make huge and obvious changes when there should be none. Hope that make sense.
  11. On the candle side, add a few pellets of vybar ... but even then good luck if it mixes. I had a rapture scent that simply would not blend into a candle and I think it was just the batch, because it worked otherwise. Now that company and that scent are gone but it was only good if it would blend. With soap, it had no trouble. With incense, no trouble ... anything else and trouble.
  12. We've had a couple of shortages too ... as if perhaps they include the weight of the bottle and cap to go with the FO. It has happened randomly and was never found to be consistent in the same order. Yes, we weigh to better price per ounce.
  13. Good to know they aren't partial with the types of waxes lol! I need a better filtering system for sure, but I need more space too!
  14. Man if wax expires, there's a 1950s chunk of wax we have that is still white. Now if it starts orange/yellow or grow things, I would reconsider holding on to it.
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