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Wow....that looks over wicked to me.

I tried CD's with this wax and for me they danced and mushroomed more then the zincs.

Today I poured...

Banana Orchid Flower

Honeysuckle Jasmine

Posh Garden Party

Little Black Dress

Cherry Blossom & Kiwi

Da Lime in Da Coconut

...all with matching clam shells, wholesale account is requesting Spring scents. I have a terrible headache from all the florals today...lol

Oops, just realized I posted this in the wrong location. Thanks everyone for your responses, it seems the first bottle of this my regular wick was fine then I ordered another not that long ago thinking it was fine but I had a friend tell me they were having issues with it and sure enough its not burning right. I hate when that happens, I know I have several out there with customers. :undecided

For those of you that use CS Beach Linen do you find that you have to wick up with this scent?

I do I do....but then I wake up...lol :undecided

With this blend I threw a box over the ones I made to slow down the cooling process in the 8 oz. sq. masons. I don't have to do that in the tumblers. With the few scents I tried, LX 16 did the best.

Been using the square masons for a while now with C3 and plain 464 and always cool with a box over them to avoid air pockets. Partly my fault because I pour too high into the neck of the jar but I don't like to have a space between the lid and where the candle starts. If I don't cool them under a box I do get air pockets sometimes and that is a pain so I just use the box the jars came in and cool them under that. Haven't had anymore issues with air pockets in these jars since then. This worked with the 16 oz. square mason jars also.

Thanks Debbie, that is a good point, I noticed the ones that did have the air pockets I poured up into the neck of the jar, so that could be another factor to consider.

Thanks everyone, I'm definitely thinking its an air pocket. It burned down in about 3 seconds once it hit a certain point. I'm going to put these jars aside for now till I can figure out what is causing that. I hate to pick on soy but I think it might have something to do with the soy portion of the blend, but who knows...lol

@HorsecentS...it was a 44-32-18, these worked best, especially in the second half of the burn. I just measured again and I'm getting a 2.5" diameter.

Oh well, just another crazy day in the world of wax...lol

Thanks Pam W, actually now that I think about it, I'm such a dork, I think I cut the wick too short on these and now its seems as if it is not burning right. I lit another candle up that I didn't trim the wick so much and its fine...lol Jeez now that I think about it I may have trimmed the wicks too short on quite a few of them, I'm so OCD about wick trimming but sometimes I can trim too much!

Wow! That is bizarre! You have way more experience than I do, but I would've thought the 51 zinc is the right size for that jar. Have you made candles in this jar before?

Yes, that is the crazy thing about it, I have made candles before in this jar and they were fine. This happened to the last two I made. I tested a 51z in this jar and it got way to hot on the second half of burn, so dropped down to the 44z.

I made this candle in a 16oz embossed mason jar and filled it with para/soy blend 4630/464

The diamter is about 2.5" with a 44z, scent, pumpkin cinnabun.

This is the same blend I use in the Libby Rocks tumblers and never had this issue, which leads me to believe there is something with the shape of the jar that may be trapping air when it cools down?

Would love your opinions. :smiley2:

I started a new box I got from CS in mid December and I noticed it seemed a little harder then normal but didn't think anything of it. I have been burning a few candles I made from it and something seems to be off. Can't put my finger on it but they don't seem to be melting as quickly and tunneling a little. I'm still using the same soy I had so I don't think it is that. Just wondering if anyone else noticed this?

Love it, I use those peg boards also and they are so easy to set up.

Well I have both MW's and Peak and will have to compare. I thought one of them was richer in amber (MW) and the other in vanilla (Peak)

You might be right Scented, but I do remember them being very similar. Let me know what you think.

Moonworks Earthen Oak is the same as WSP French Vanilla & Amber. Just FYI.

Which smells a lot like Peak's French Vanilla & Amber, at least to me.

Hi Russell, you just gotta go with what your heart tells you and don't stop till you get where you want to be. Never stop testing and always strive to make a better product. However, having said that I don't know how smart it was to quit a $100k a year job to do this before its making any kind of significant profit...lol Good luck to you though

Very busy, good luck!

I have yet to find a store candle that I could burn without trimming the wick. So I always tell people that I sell to, to trim the wick. I also put a little reminder card in their bag and I include one in each candle. I guess thats a little OCD? I still wonder if they trim?

Didn't Scent Works go out of Biz?

Was it a Voluspa candle? They use coconut wax in some of their candles and coconut is a very soft wax.

I have been hopeing someone would have some feedback..

let us know what you think of them..

Me too!

I just lit up CS Oakmoss & Amber and its strong in a Coconut/Soy Wax blend.

That looks great!

Ok, lets just agree to disagree, all waxes have their good and bad points, there is not or will there ever be the perfect wax. That is not the point of the original post, I put the original post up to show that trash talking one wax over another in order to sell your product does have affect on individual business. Personally I don't know why anyone who makes soy candles would blast that all over their website anyway, to me it screams desperate but that's just my opinion. :lipsrseal

And to confuse us even more:

http://www.candlescience.com/learning/the-problem-with-palm-wax.php

It goes to show you that we will never know which is right or wrong, It's so confusing!

I guess the only answer is when we all run out of oil on this planet we will have to keep bees and raise a LOT of bayberry bushes.

Tami

.......does anyone know how to process lard/tallow to make into candles?

So true, but I guess my reason for posting was based on another thread I was reading about how negative wax bashing does affect all of us in the long run regardless of our wax of choice.