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My favourite is a blend we make ourselves called "Baby Feet". It's a proprietary blend so I can't reveal its nature, sorry Our best selling though would be Lavender, as we make Lavender essential oil aromatherapy candles.

I was using a hot glue gun for awhile, but it seems that it doesn't work so hot (pun not intended) for high-temperature pours. I then bought some glue dots from Bluegrass and never had that problem again. The glue gun seemed to work for low-temperature pours though, such as soy pours, but for paraffin, forget it...

Just finished some french vanilla containers, then finished off a batch of some christmas stuff I'd worked on a couple of months ago. From there, I did a triple wick pink chocolate heart as a Valentine's Day gift for a good friend of mine, and am now working on creating a soy pillar. Ooh, looks like time to pour!

Okay, here's the deal...I used to be a paraffin-only chandler back in the day, I would get pretreated wax (melt and pour!) from a company in NY. Was easy since I lived in Vermont. Well, here in Puerto Rico, wax suppliers are almost impossible to find, so I have to order from the US. Anyways, I scored a box of Plain 415 Bluegrass Soy and have been experimenting with it for awhile, trying various things to make a "perfect blend", so to speak. I only ever use vegetable-based stearic (I refuse to use tallow), 5 tbsp per pound, and I try to use essential oils whenever I can as opposed to artificial fragrances. I'm now about to attempt to make my very first soy pillar, which I'm told is amongst the most difficult trials a chandler could ever attempt. Anyone here try this before? I've found it difficult to find information on making soy pillars, it seems to even be hard to find companies that sell them. I'm under the impression that soy isn't used much for pillars because of the low melting point. However, I've seen this additive called Clear Crystals being sold at Pourette that is supposed to raise the melting temperature of wax. I've tried to order it twice from them but both times they were sold out and you only ever know that until you order and then a week later, it's "sorry, we're out, order again next time" (great products from these guys but they're just so unreliable, I've had to find a new supplier). Does anyone know of a similar product? My brain's kinda fried from all the various websites and all the conflicting information out there...