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Candle Bee and TallTayl I love you guys!  I have missed all of you.  Hope you have been doing ok.

Trappeur how did the fresh raspberry from Cierra smell.  So many of them have a floral note to them.  I am still on the search for a good raspberry. LOL

I know I am late to the game here but I have the Avocado and Sea Salt and the Coconut Milk and Lavender.  Everyone loved the blends with Avocado and Sea Salt and Love Love Love the Coconut Milk and Lavender.  I haven't tried the others Trapp so you will have to let us know how they do. 

I am in the same boat here.  I have about 6 different sugar cookies and I hate them all.    Maybe if I mixed them all together I would have a really good one. LOL

Lumina what size rrd's do you use on your pillars?  

Faerywren what wick are you using with that combination?  I did a blend of 70/30 464/4630 in a straight sized tumbler using the Autumn leaves from BC at 1 oz pp.  I had the perfect burn with an Eco 14 but absolutely no ht after two or three weeks. 

Sorry I was just reading all this and really needed the laugh when Trapper was so shocked at the chisel comment.  I personally use a very large meat cleaver.  I can break the slabs up right in the box.  If you hold one end of the slab up so it isn't touching the slab underneath, then wack it good with the meat cleaver, it breaks up alot easier.  I used to use the bag and drop but this is so much easier and less time consuming.  Hope that helps. 

A few years ago I ordered a big order from Aztec and the Conservatory the same night and our card was compromised also.  I found that I was evidently buying stuff in London. LOL

I think the silver lid with that blue label is going to look so appealing and elegant.  Love it. 

These are so way cool Trappeur.  Your work is always so beautiful. 

Absolutely freaking fantastic!!! They are beautiful!

Thank you so much for all the comments everyone.  I have the iced tea from Daystar and it is FANTASTIC!   I just hate the fact that it seems she is out of everything all the time.  When I order I like to order more then one or two bottles because of the shipping and I was told her pistachio ice cream was really good but it has been out and so have a few others that I thought sounded interesting.  

I have several from them that are really good and have gotten some that are not so good.  You just have to either order samples and try them.  The reason you are not seeing alot of reviews is because she just redid her website so the reviews from the old site are not on the new one. I think they have gotten alot better then what they used to be like.   Every company has their good and their bad ones.  I have alot from JS but am not at the shop today to look them up for you but will try to remember when I go in.

Do you guys have some suggestions of some fragrances that are a must have from Flaming!  

Ha Ha Jcandleattic peppermint EO can be tingly.  I made a loaf of Melt & Pour up a few years ago and not thinking used EO.  I wanted to use the good stuff.  My daughter found a bar of it that was left over in my stash and stole it.  Next think I know she said, mom, that soap made my who ha tingle, is it supposed to do that?"  I about died first from laughter then mortification because I had sold all the rest.  Good to know about using the FO over the EO. 

I am just finally getting to take a minute to read through everyone's posts.  Belinda I feel the same way about Mrs. Clause Cookies, it smells to me alot like VBN.  Katmeltswax the PPW from JS is really good.  I think I bought some from FB and it wasn't near as strong.  It is one of my biggest sellers.  I have one lady that is a huge fan of PPW and she said she will only order it from me because I have the best.  I will have to look outside and see if my other ones were from TN or FB. 

I know I haven't posted much on here but we used to post alot together on the BC board.  I will see if I can figure out how to send a message, if not I will send you one on facebook as we are friends. LOL

Trappeur have you tried JS's PPW yet? I liked it better then the ones from front porch, FB and one other that I can't remember. If you haven't tried it, I can send you a sample. It is really strong and my customers love it. 

Oh Trappeur your candles are just beautiful.  I really love the triple cluster one.  Your embeds are adorable.  I remember to this day back on the bc board when you posted pictures of the melts you were making and you had trays and trays of beautiful melts.  I love the way you incorporated them into the candles.  Could I ask what which you used in the status jar?

Trappeur have you tried the PPW from JS.  I liked it alot better then the one from Front Porch. 

I decided to relight these tonight plus one of the Eco 12 wicks. I did them in 4 different rooms in my house and I had dancing flames wither every singe candle. Even the Eco 12 that didn't get a full melt pool did it. Plus all of the wicks both CD's and the Eco's were getting the carbon balls on them. The Eco's were worse then the CD's but they were also getting hotter and they had a better scent throw. I was told to try an LX26 next. I don't have that size but I do have a 22 or 24 so I am going to throw them in in the monrning. What is with all the dancing wicks?

Plus on another note. After I had snuffed all my candles out, I went and grabbed one that I had bought from Walmart quite a while ago. The wick isn't centered, it didn't get a full met pool but I could smell it all through the house. WTH Has anyone else heard of these Aramobead candles? They are made by Hanna's candles at https://www.candlemart.com/brands/aromabeads. How could it be that strong with such a small wick which by the way was also daning some.

I wasn't exactly comparing the Eco's to the Cd's. CS had told me to use the Eco 14 and on Wildberry Moouse I wasn't even getting an 1/8" melt pool after 4 hours so they told me to go up a wick. So when I did the 4 new testers I poured both the Eco's. At the same time it had been recommended to go with the Cd's and the Cd 12 didn't come close so I went with the 14 and 16. Just doing the test burns on both wicks at the same time and the picture was just showing the burn of all the four.

Well I have been doing wick testing and this is the results on the Eco 14 & 16 vs the CD 14 & 16. What do you think? I was really surprised, it seems like the Eco 14 wick had a bigger melt pool then the Eco 16 wick. This was after a 4 hour burn. (Actually I just looked at the time and I think I was an hour off, I think this was almost 5 hours. Dang it!

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Ok evidently that was not it. Tonight I poured 4 fresh jars and with the two candy thermometers that read 180, I grabbed the infrared and it read the exact same thing so evidently it doesn't hold the same theory in wax as it does water. So I am at a total loss here. Any suggestions?

Well In another thread, I posted that I was having trouble with the GB444 and the 8 & 16 oz Mason Jars from CS. I have excellent cold throw but was getting no hot throw at all.

This was how they were made:

Heated wax to 185 added fragrance oil at 1 oz pp, stirred for 2 minutes, let cool to around 135 and poured into the jars. Let cool overnight, put lids on and put them away to cure.

When I took them out, I have tested five scents now that are getting absolutly zero HT.

I am using the Eco wicks. The Eco 12 was to small and left over 1/4 inch hangup on sides of jars after a succesion of 4 hour burns. Today I put in an Eco 14, the scent was Wildberry Moouse. It fnally reached a full melt pool but after 4 hours was just barely like 1/8 inch. So while talking to Heather from CS, she told me that I needed a bigger melt pool so go up to a 16.

Also during our conversation she asked if I had checked my thermometer. I am using an infrared one. So I put on a pot of water to boil, went and got out my two brand new candy thermometers, one is the fancy metal one and the other is the one we all see in the stores. After the water was at a rolling boil, I checked and the glass one looks like it is right at 205 degrees and the metal right about 203. So I grabbed my handy dandy infrared and it only read 195.

So am I essentially burning off my fragrance oil before the jar is even poured? What is the best temperature to add my fragrance oil in this wax. I have a girlfriend that pours tons of candles and she adds it at 150.

One more question, has anyone any thoughts on the difference in allititude and how it might affect the candles. We are at 4500 feet above sea level.

Any help and suggestions would be fantastic!