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grama

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  1. I love Tobacco Caramel but have a hard time selling it.  Think when they hear the name tobacco they think it smells like a cigarette & it turns them off.  I explain it smells nothing like that but doesn't seem to help.  Need to come up with a new name. 

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  2. I keep all my pour pots on an electric griddle.  I pour my wax from presto into another pot, a coffee carafe, that is pretty accurate for lbs, then put my pour pot on scale to measure out what I need.  But all pots are kept on my electric griddle and it never really loses temp from my presto. 

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  3. The only problem I have found using 1274 & 1343 is that as the pillar burns it starts to bulge out and you have to steady keep hugging it to keep it rounded.  I use 4625 with the same rustic look & like others said put mold in freezer and I pour real cool, like around 135-140. Edited to add you can add stearic to the 1274 or 1343 and it will help with the bulge but with the mottling wax to much and it doesn't mottle good.

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  4. Learned this years ago from this board!  When my wick is secured I twist the wick several times then put it in wick clip.  I use the old straight ones with notch in middle so the wick doesn't untwist. As candle burns the wick will slowly untwist and you have an almost even melt all around.  Edited to add that the cd wicks curl to the side and that is where you will see difference but with the twisting it helps.

  5. Looks like you are in the UK.  Have you tried contacting the supplier you bought it from to see their recommendations for this wax.  Looks like it is a container wax.  Maybe some stearic might help.  It did with my paraffin pillar wax when I had it years ago.  Maybe try doing a second pour to smooth top instead of heat gun.

  6. I use 27 flat in my 4625 pillars.  Very seldom I have to go to a 30 with certain scents.  My pillars don't bulge like that, they self consume I guess that is the term to use as they are burning, sort of hugging inward on their own.  Not to say that sometimes I don't hug them in a little at times just to be sure.  Now I do use stearic & vybar in my wax after having problems years ago with fingernailing and snowflaking.  Once I started adding the additives, on recommendation from a supplier that was recommended to them by IGI I have no problems.  

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