RichardLOZ

Hi Flicker Tracy's other half here. The molds we currently have available at home to use are just really cheap rubber ice cube trays from the dollar store. We only picked them up as they looked pretty cute and wanted to see if they would work or not. I did actually try some non stick spray in them last night and they were still very difficult to remove from the molds. This was also using feather palm wax as it is all we have left right at the moment. The reason for asking the original question was so that we could guage some idea of the success of this before purchasing the molds, as the only place we can get these molds are from the US. There is absolutely nothing available here in AUstralia anything like you guys have over there, which would make what we are doing here quite unique. Cheers Richard

Hi Circle. I have heard that some of the EO's are great and some are not. Maybe its just the one we started with, being Lime. I hear citrus are not all that great and we did definitely get that fuel smell when it was buring. I currently have some Lavendar EO here so may try that one next. Dont have too much choice really as I have to wait till I get paid again in 2 weeks to go out and get some more wax and scents. So frustrating, wanting to create and not having the product to go ahead and do it Cheers Richard

Its all so hard. After doing much reading it seems as though the citrus EO's in particular dont like to play in soy. We are trying another batch in the same containers using the same wax with a melon FO to see how that goes. We have used the GW 464 before with both clean linen & vanilla cinnamon FO and they are both fine as far as hot and cold throw are concerned. Dont really know whether it is even worthwhile persuing the EO's for the small market share that actually want and are prepared to pay the extra for them? Cheers Richard

Brenda No not really, although I am currently doing that. Am going to basically forget about the soy candles that I have here now for the next couple of weeks and then go ahead and light one to see what difference that makes. Cheers Richard

Hi Islandgirl and thanks for the reply. We are doing quite well with the FO's in the palm, but really wanted to keep the soy range 100% natural pwith no additives etc etc. Guess that idea is not going to be so easy though. We still have 4oz of Lavendar EO to use, so I may get some container palm and try it in that to see how it throws. If it ends up that the EO's are too hard to use then so be it, but I will give it another shot using the palm instead of the soy. As said the cold throw in the soy is awesome, but when it comes to hot throw it just isnt there, although the well read about fuel smell is........ Ahhh back to some further testing. And I thought golf was frustrating, they should try pouring candles Richard

Hi there, my wife and I have been experimenting with some candles and think we have the feathering palm down ok with pillars, tarts and votives. We have lately been experimenting with the GW415 soy wax and essential oils. We have just tried a Lime EO and are using it at a ration of approximately 6%. The cold throw just about knocks you off your feet, but the hot throw is non existant. I am sitting here in my office at the moment test burning 8 different candles made from the soy with Lime EO and the cold throw of my palm melon & mago canldes is way stronger. I would appreciate any suggestions that people may have in regards to getting some kind of hot throw from the soy. We would really like to keep using the 100% soy. We dont have too much options for changing our wax or fragrance supplier as we are located in Perth Australia with not too many wholesalers around. I look forward to any suggestions. Regards Richard