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All so pretty!!  Especially love the last one.

Cool!

For most of us it is the quantity of each scent you would need to buy.  They don't want to deal with the small operations.  Some of suppliers we buy from do cut the oils and some do not.  Many, Many of the supplier we buy from "own" their scents, so the mfg will not sell you what they have.  It's trial and error but there is the fragrance oil review by supplier section here on the forum that will tell you which fo's work and which do not.  It hasn't been going for a long time but the fragrance one has it just takes more searching.  There are also many threads about "favorite" suppliers.

I do the same about once a month, and use coconut oil even with no infection.  Warning that any oil blurs your vision so do at night.   I do the hot washcloth almost every day almost because it also relieves sinus pressure.

Ya mine get stolen at our business mostly OnTrac though because they refuse to acknowledge business hours like Fedex and UPS does.

I've had the best luck with the ones called Stickums and I believe Candle Science still has them although I bought from someone else a few years back

If you name a couple after the town/city in Texas the visitors will pick them up to take home.  My stores are in Cayucos so I had a whole line of Cayucos candles and even tho the scents were not my favorite they sold the best because we are a tourist town.

Welcome!  Looks like you came into this forum with friends already.  Enjoy the browse.  The Netherlands is on my bucket list.

Hi welcome and be sure to check out where others have done the pan wax/wick tests on the forum it may save you a lot of time.

If your wax/wicks are working with everything else, the fo probably did change.  I had a supplier tell me that very same thing and just looking at the bottles (lavender in this case) the oil was a totally different color.  It never performed as before so I know that it was being sourced elsewhere or since fo a formula had changed.

My brother is the same, he can't be around a burning soy candle so we always have paraffin for when he is staying at our homes, he has no reaction to that.  That being said, it doesn't mean this lady isn't also allergic to paraffin.  Like others said not worth changing for 1 customer but you could recommend she try a paraffin candle.

We know soy varies from year to year and sometimes batch to batch so if you've already done testing with 464 I would stick with it.  Most of the 2017 issues have leveled out with soy, but soy is soy!  I love it or I'd have left it years ago.

At 115 is was getting too hard to pour?  I make 1-2 # batches at a time and haven't had that happen. A lot depends on the amount your making at a time of a scent, your room temp, airflow and how fast it is cooling down.  You should be able to get in a groove where you can pour cool enough and get them poured without too much trouble.  Sometimes I end up with a tiny bit on the bottom that has set up if my surface is cooler than the room.

I love the tobacco caramel from Flaming, I call it Cowboy.  Someone gave me a sample of the cuban tobacco from same but I never put it in wax, it was good oob.

General Wax had a good straight bamboo.  I love the bamboo & Sugarcane from RE as well but it's definitely not straight bamboo.

I like #3 of the last group

I use soy, C3

It's kind of a pain to figure out what size to order, I've been a size off many times.

I have never had clams turn stinky and I've made hundreds of thousands of them.  Sometimes they have a plastic smell when I unbox the big box but a day in the air clears that out.  I have bought some and I don't recall where that had a skunky smell on arrival, but there again airing out cleared it up.

Do you think you really need the Citric Acid in these since they aren't going into a tub of water?  I'm thinking they would melt just find without it but idk, maybe I just need to try both ways.

On 4/5/2019 at 2:59 AM, Trappeur said:

What fragrance(s) have been your best sellers this past year (2018) whether you sell to stores or craft shows or consignment?

Any new ones that you added to your regular line?

Any fragrances that you dropped?

Any new style jars?

I'll go first.....

I sell to stores.

 

One store pretty much stays the same even though she did try a few new scents.

Her jars are the 22oz tureens and the tiny 5oz italian canning jars.

#1 Seller is Pineapple Cilantro

#2, #3, #4: pretty much stays the same;  Basil, Sage, & Mint, Lux Linen, Lemon Verbena

#5: Crackling Firewood which is renamed Christmas Hearth (she sells all year long).  Sales doubled this year on this scent.

Slower sellers this past year due to her burning only what she likes which is the Pineapple Cilantro her sales went down on the Chardonnay, Vanilla Champagne and Southern Sweet Tea.

 

My biggest account (the apple orchard)

There is no best sellers there as they all sell....as long as their name is on the label, they all fly out the door.   Even new scents sell equally as well.

 

Another account a little country store in the back woods here the best sellers are:

#1:   Orange Creamsicle

#2:   Cinnamon Broom

#3:   Balsam Fir

#4:   Farmhouse Cider

Their jar is the pint canning jar with black lid.

Pineapple Cilantro is a new one I made up for this shop this past year and it's really moving pretty fast.

 

Tropical scents are moving pretty well....you wouldn't think here in the mountains that that type scent would move but they are.   I just got in a sample of Monkey Farts from RE and it really is a wonderful scent that I'm loving myself and I'm not into that type scent.  I made up samples and brought to all these shops of a dupe of Aveda called Rosemary mint and 2 shops are going with this new one.

 

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I think that sometimes, maybe more often than I even think, people want to be taken somewhere else by a candle or scent.  Live in the mountains, they don't all want to smell pine or earthy scents in their home but maybe a tropical scent to take them to Hawaii or Bali.  Prob why the tropicals sell pretty well, plus they are just great scents!

Best sellers were always my blends and not because they are great scents because I named them after the town our stores are in which happens to be a tourist town so people buy as gifts to take back home.  I had 8 scents, but the Mermaid & Sunset far surpassed the others in sales (beach town).  Mermaid is a blend, Sunset is Flamings Cairn Sunset, all others are blends.

11 hours ago, candlesinflorida said:

Really?? Could kerax actually just be Ecosoya wax?

IDK for sure but I know this company came up on another forum or possibly on Facebook and it was stated that they are distributors for Ecosoya.  That doesn't mean they don't make their own wax as well.  I'd shoot them an email or phone call.

I always thought they just distributed Ecosoya waxes????

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