Fire and Ice

I personlly agree with curing to get a stronger scent throw. And I have testers who test my candles. I have four of them and they all agree that curing is an absolute must with my soy candles. About a year ago I switched soy waxes and found that the new wax needed a longer cure time than my ols wax even though they were both produced by the same company. Cargils. The old wax was so much quicker at curing up that I purchased about dozen 50lb boxes from other candlers on the east coast. I began adding to the new wax and sure enough, it shaved at least one to two days off of the curing time. I will, test my candles from time to time but 96% of the time, the testers do that work. As I've had the same testers for nearly five years now, they should know. And I fully agree with what Mystical Angel too. Amish Harvest can go out the dor in two days where Lily of the Valley will take six days.

I use pure soy wax and have never had a problem getting a throw with soy. But I use the best scents too. My soy is my personal blend. three types of soy. I use 1.5 per pound and cure 5 days in a cool basement. Scent throw is awesome!

I use C-3 soy, mixed with two other soy waxes for my personal soy blend because I can get it locally. I use to use 6006 years ago but then it was flaked and as I understand, Now has been reformulatated by IGI into a slab wax. But I still have several bags of the old 6006.

I'd try 1oz per pound with the soy and give it some time to cure. I have no idea about Gel since I don't do those. We have a soy-(veggie section and Gel section of the boards. HTH Fire

Why thank you! LOL! Aw, if you guys only knew the truth, LOL

Another idea, though I don't make pillars. A thin cardboard round the same size as the bottom of your candl. set the candle on top and the label on the other side and wrap. And that's probably a silly idea. But I have seen pillars sold this way!

Hello! With soy candles, you have to cure them for some time to allow the scent and wax to marry. what kind of wax are you using and what's ther F/O load per pound? Are you making container candles with lids? Put the lid on, put on a shelf and forget about it for five days or so. Soy must cure. No curing time will yield very little scent throw. You could also have a case of candle nose though. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us!

Hmmmm Raging River Huh? I think I like that.....Thunder River!!!!! That's IT! Or should it be River Thunder? This scent IS POWERFUL OOB! I just dream of some guy wading out of a raft,by a Colorado River, wet T shirt that shows all the rippling muscles and energy of a 25 year old hunk with his long hair caught back with a leather thong. He's deeply tanned and has large gray eyes and a dangerous smile!!!!!YUMMY.... He could be wearing a thong ....Whoops Cough~ Choke The color suggestions are interesting. A Tan with a light teal throat might work. When you do layered containers, they tend to be time consuming so a solid body with an add accent would be easier I think. Great work Gang. I don't think I would have come up with that combination of colors! I would have done something boring like smokey Gray! I'll have to play this weekend and try it out! Will keep you all updated. I wish I had a Digital camera so I could put the candles in the gallery and have you guys vote but alass, I don't have one.

I just got this scent today and won't be making testers til this weekend but I'm trying to come up with the color for it. When I smell it, I think of a silver color but I've never seen a siver color in dye blocks. I could go blue but I already have every blue known to man and it's the same with green too. I plan to rename it White Water or River

How great for you!

I'm keeping my fingers, eyes and toes crossed for ya trish!

Yup, those are the newbie candle makers who haven't tested a thing and don't want to be found if something goes wrong! Very, Very scarey

I made those up for my testers four years ago and hoped that Alan would find the time to add them both to the sidebar. I don't think he did though. They are the questions for my testers. Sorry but I just don't have the time to post them this week.

Glad to be back!

Some of my Faves: Amish Harvest Med fig Mango/Papaya Hyacinths Sage Lemongrass And I will be ordering a sample kit of ten scents. Here's what I'll be ordewring: Sweet Pumpkin Spice Spruce Christmas Tree Red Current Green Clover Georgia Peach, Cornucopia Creme Brulee Asian Sandlewood Carmel Apple Scarey! If these all smell great, I'll be going broke for the fall and winter season! And I will have to thin my list of scents down some too I can think of three scents I can drop and that's it!

I'm looking to get one too! I don't want anything bigger than a 100lb melter. I know I'm looking at at least 1500 shipping included. I'm just wondering how much my electric bill will go up. I too would never leave it on when I'm not home. I make soy candles and I wonder if the flaked wax would melt faster than a slab of wax. The other thing I wonder is what sort of a plug it has. I might have to have my electricion come out and put in a special appliance outlet for it. I will be so happy when this is no longer just research but a reality!

Sure zinc wicks mushroom but so do many other wicks. I use zinc and will not switch.

I fully agree. I only do one size container but I do it better than anybody else! Earlier this year, I started pouring clamshells too

I just ordered Home for the Holidays from Peaks to start testing. Will be doing Amish Harvest and Cranberry Cinnamon. I'm thinking for testing Peaks Pumpkin Spice too. I have a good Pumpkin Pie but I think it could be better. Need to find a good true Pine scent too

I only offer 16oz pint size mason jars. I could do Jelly jars but EVERY candle maker except me does those. I'm one of the few that does a large mason jar and they seller very well.