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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.
  15. Well they put them in there thinking oh so pretty. They'll even make the outside have stained glass window effect by melting tissue paper and napkins etc. on the outside. The bright idea is really an old one. I think the first one I did with botanicals ... might have been the second ... floated free and right into the flame. The attempt to make it differently with an outer shell with embeds and the inside filled with wax eventually led to a botanical floating free regardless and poof ... it was attracted to the flame. The botanicals are good for hurricanes IMO and mostly for potpourri.
  16. We make all paraffin and already went through that battle ... too many times. Either they buy or they don't but we're not going to bash waxes or cause problems for other vendors that do. Your product will sell itself if its made appropriately and if you can establish a good reputation etc. Our reputation probably is down a bit because of a string of bad luck and no fairs etc. but we're working to adjust to new waxes and testing and hopefully no more tornados or ceilings caving in or illnesses or deaths.
  17. Not using gel but I think my experiences would happen in any type of wax perhaps. I have a patchouli that goes brown no matter if I color it black, the brown eats it up. Just was going to try out Margarita, but my design is blown out because the wax turned yellow ... this is what I get for an older bottle of the fragrance probably. Still ... I just like when fragrances don't discolor.
  18. You can do it. It will take time to perfect but a couple of ideas come to mind. 1) Drop dye into a slushy mix, stir once or twice, pour and heat glass to get rid of air bubbles. 2) Dip some chunks of wax into dye (or smear dye on them), place into container near the edges and pour wax. 3) Fill containers with hot wax and take a chopstick or something pointed, dip into dye and then draw on the sides of your glass. 4) Fill container with chunks, but so full that the chunks would show at the top, try to drop small amounts of dye near the outer portion of the candle, fill with wax. 5) Anything similar might help give the effect.
  19. So Hawaiian jasmine is pikaki and there are places that carry that in a fragrance oil. I take it you have found some of this but it doesn't work for your application? The real stuff ... the jasmine sambac is terribly expensive in essential oil form.
  20. I'm thinking you get to experiment to make your own. Water fragrance of some kind ... add to it a moss (maybe an oak moss) with some dirt/slime smell. I'm going by imagination. I've not smelled a swamp but you could probably enhance any fragrance with a little eucalyptus.
  21. To me, that's WSP. I always had decent shipping from RE
  22. Well now Warm Vanilla Nutmeg is delish ... heavy, but so very good. Bamboo Sugar Cane just never moved for me so tossed. I think their Toasted Marshmallow was what I used ... need to go back to it. You want suggestions on fragrances from here? Rustic Lodge Country Gift Shop served me well in straight paraffin. I wish I could try Alaskan Wilderness but people don't do pine around here. I believe Amish Quilt was said to be good ... thought someone once said that. I haven't tried it. Keep meaning to. Atomic Fireball ... very much a hot, hot cinnamon. Baked Apple (KY) got rave reviews ... perhaps it still does. (What I don't like here is some stuff is meshed with the buyer's stuff. I'm going from memory, because I was downfallen that RE sold.) Always wanted to try Barbershop. I mean our people like clean scents. Butternut pumpkin is a yum to me over and over and over. Celtic Moon Spice is the slight representative to Amish Harvest ... that or Amish Quilt was to be? I've been away the equivalent of about 2 years from making so I am really rusty here. Cinna Vanilla gets a thumbs up here Dreamcatcher ... unique and that appeals to me Glazed Doughnut (KY) said to very realistic to Crispy Creme Golden Opium ... if you like heavy, incenscy type of stuff ... Honeysuckle patchouli ... might try this ... I will be hoping it matches what I have from another company or be better. Pink Lilac & Willow, but it is a tad light Red Saffron if you're an incense type of person Strawberry musk ... just flat very sexy and good Sweet Amber Musk good as a stand alone or a mixer
  23. Personally I would go Wellington over Save on Scents. I'd also start looking for others but Wellington might provide you with something. Save on Scents carries a lot of dupes or used to try to carry everything but the everything wasn't all that great. If you are on groups on FB they might be able to point you to heliotrope or even a dupe of what you want.
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