darthy

Hi, am just reading old entries to 'catch up'. Realised you must be an Aussie when I read that your daughter was in 'year 12'. She did a great job, has a lot more patience than me. I also like to bead, but do less since starting candles LOL, also do body products & occasional soap. Hope your daughter aces yr 12!

Yep I am an Aussie lol. We live in central Queensland (middle of the sticks lol) .

Jessica (daughter) is now beading xmas ornaments, we have a huge craft market at the end of this month.

Thank you everyone for your kind words and encouragement for my daughter.

Thank you everyone for your kind words. This is my daughters stress release, she is doing year 12 in high school at the moment and it avoids melt downs.

Hoping I am putting this in the right section. Just wanted to show everyone what my 17yr old daughter made for one of my containers. I have a stock pile of beads as I used to have a beading business, so she is now utilising them towards the candles. It is hand sewn.

I am fairly new to candle making as well. I use the Ecosoya CB 135 wax. Have had a lot of trial and errors with it but I think I have nailed it now.

I pour as it starts to go sludgey. Being in Australia and using metric measurements, per batch is 624grams of wax and for the stronger scents I add about 32grams and for the weaker scents I use about 45grams of fragrance. Haven't had a problem with hot or cold throws yet.

i also found if I pour half the container contents, let it rest for about a minute then pour the rest I don't end up with the horrible tops.

Darthy, without online calculator to convert grams to ounces, degrees F to degrees C, etc. I would be lost.

Here s a percentage calculator

http://www.onlineconversion.com/percentcalc.htm

temperature conversion

http://www.onlineconversion.com/temperature.htm

and weight/mass conversions...

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm

Bookmark these for future reference. HTH

Thank you for those links, I now have them bookmarked

They are all really pretty. Do you do a 2nd pour in uncolored so you won't see frost on top or is it just for the beverage look?

I am sitting here chuckling at your post. That is exactly what i did lol. i didn't like how the tops were. I am having troubles with the cool down stages because of the temps where I live. Figured out if I add plain melted wax on top it gives a nice finish, the candles have a great hot throw so I wasn't too worried about the plain wax drowning them iykwim.

I was hoping to minamize the FO load. Fragrance oil over here is $29.90 per bottle of 500ml . Works out quite expensive when using the maximum load.

I guess I will have to keep on testing to reach the happy medium. I am going to bed at night dreaming fragrance oils lol

thank you for your replies.

I was doing it all wrong.

I got a bit slack with mixing the oil in as I was concentrating too much on air bubbles and thought that was causing the problems, but I created others in the process. Just call me a nut case lol.

Thank you Vio.

That container is actually a drinking glass. I have a heap of candle containers but I went to one of our OP shops here and they had a heap of glassware. I snapped them all up, recycled glassware lowers your cost.

A box full of "old" drinking glasses etc over here is costing me about 7.00AUD.

I have searched and searched the forum , and I know what I am going to ask has already been done to death on here. fragrance load is doing my head in at the moment.

I use ecosoya CB . I am in Australia so all the measurements given on here are in US measurements. i am not that good at maths or numbers (improving though with candle making lol).

The instructions I got with the wax was 10%FO load, now I am finding that I am getting what looks like an oil slick on my tops. I have tried different % but haven't struck on the right one.

Ecosoya site says 10% - 12% load but if you go into the questions part they also recommend 5% load.

1lb of wax in my measurements is 453grams

I measure out 624grams per batch as it does 4 candles beautifully. Can someone help calculate the FO load for me please.

hi everyone,

I am new at making soy container candles and just wanted to post some I have done. Still doing a lot of experimenting, I am nearly bald lol. I use Ecosoya CB wax.

You could always contact them via email explain you will be out here and have them delivered to your nieces place. The other link I put up, they are in Sydney not far from the airport.

Hey Darthy, which State is the first one in? I looked all over their website and couldn't see it. I'll be in Australia, and in Qld around March and was wondering if there were any places I could get EO's from that I could pick up, or at least get them delivered to my niece's house.

Thanks

Jen

HI Jen,

they are located in perth , Western Australia. These are their details O got from an invoice:

Aussie Candle Supplies

3/30 Crocker Dr, Malaga

6090, Western Australia

Australia

AUSTRALIA TOLL FREE: 1300 135 489

E-Mail: orders@aussiecandlesupplies.com.au

Hope this helps

Leanne

Hello,

Most of the ones I have seen are EO's not FO's.

These are the two main sites here in Australia:

http://aussiecandlesupplies.com.au

http://www.naturalcandlesupply.com.au/index.php

Thank you everyone for your advice. I have to buy some molds now. Going to give it a try.

I just realised I put this in the wrong area, can it be moved to the right one?

Hello,

I am fairly new at making candles. Have only made container candles so far. I have purchased some Ecosoya pillar blend wax and would like to know whether it is successful in pillar candles.

The reason I ask this is because one of my suppliers here in Australia told me not to waste my time making pillars as the soy wax is no good.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Leanne

They look fantastic