My2Scents

Vio, The 4627 is IGI comfort blend paraffin, the sticky stuff. I added 10% trying to eliminate the frosting and maybe help adhere to the container. It completely did away with frosting and they look wonderful when poured with very nice smooth tops. Now if I can just solve my mushroom problem I'm all set. I could live with a small amount of mushroom, but I get big ugly 3 and 4 headed monsters after 3 hours. I will test the CD and ECo wicks as soon as they arrive, however with the holidays it is taking forever to get them LOL

Chrisasst, From what I have read, I believe the idea is that by twisting the wick it will rotate as it burns turning the curled part of the wick to the outside around the entire perimeter of the candle. It should help with hang up

I really was hoping to find a solution that didn't include double wicking. Logcabinmomma, with your CD12 in 464, how do you fare with mushrooms? I was considering the 464 for it's lower meltpoint making it easier to establish a full melt pool

I am trying to single wick a 3" dia. 8oz. tin using a blend of 90% GW 444 and 10% 4627. No matter what I have tried, using a wick big enough to give me a full melt pool in 3-4 hours results in huge 3 and 4 headed mushrooms. I thought it may be fragrance so I tried some samples with no color, no fragrance, and still got the mushrooms. I have tried various sizes of zinc, LX, RRD, CSN, and HTP. I have samples of ECO and CD on the way which I will test, but if they are similar to the HTP as far as curling when they burn I have my doubts. The only wicks that did not mushroom were the HTP62, 73 and 83 however the melt pool was nowhere big enough for the 8 oz. tin, about 2.5" at the largest. I am very new to this so any insight would be appreciated. Is it possible the GW 444 is causing my mushroom farm? And just for the record, believe it or not I am a guy that loves scented candles, so please don't call me girlfriend LOL Thanks