Sag_77

Like most people I have 4 - 5 different pre-tabbed wicks and test them all with any new scent. Now when it comes to my mixed votives...I make with all different left over wax...it becomes difficult to test as every one is a different mix. So I guess what I am wondering is if anyone just uses one specific/generic wick for all their votives that they have found works best over all? Thank-you in advance!

I love that idea, it is way better than them sitting on the table naked waiting for me to wrap them. Do you have one box for each scent or do you just reuse the boxes depending on what your making? I am just wondering as I don't have the room for a box for each scent. I am worried the scents will mix if I use each box for 2 or more scents (at different time of course). Also once you have them all shrink wraped how do you store them?

Bell makes to order so they do take longer to get, but I think they are the only ones with color blanks. I placed my most recent order with them on the 1st, I got my shipping e-mail on the 17th and I have not got them yet.

Is there no one out there that can help me? I am in desperate need of help on this! My costumer has phoned twice today. I have held her off telling her I wasn't sure my oils were safe for her use.

I am not sure if anyone can help me but here it goes. I have one of my costomers asking me if I would sell them some oil for an oil burner/defuser .... one of the ones made only for oils. I heard somewhere that you can't use straight FO in those and that it has to be cut with something like DPG. I just want to find out befor I let her buy some oil and have it be a fire hazzerd or something. If it has to be cut I do have DPG but I have no idea what the amounts of each would be or if DPG is the right thing to use. Thank-you in advance for any help given.

whiffandsniff: I do mine with shrink wrap and then put a band around them with all my info on it. HTH gerrie: I love the way yours are wrapped it looks so professional. I have seen them done that way before except with the top label being larger. It wrapped around the top edges a bit, what size circle is yours?

You could try the lemon from Gemlite.com you can also find them on eBay, it is getting a good response from my costumers. I know they are not a well talked about supplier but I order from them once in a while(as they are cheaper to get here in Canada). I personally thought the OOB scent was nasty but gave it a shot and the in wax scent to me was good. Although I have had costumer compliment it left, right and center. So I guess I will continue to carry it. A winner for a long shot try! HTH

Why does everyone hate votives so much? I have no problems making them, even more now that I have enough molds. I sell tons of them and people burn them like crazy up here in Canada. Just my 2 cents!

Could you PM me that list also. I have to pay a fortune to get FO's here in Canada as is. I don't want to pay high shipping and duty to find out it is crap! Thank-you

I am from Canada and to ship FO's here is expensive, and my local supplier is obseen. I have found a supplier that doesn't seem that bad for shipping but have never heard about them. I was hopping someone has experience with them and can give me some advice. They are called GemLite, web site is www.gemlite.com and has what seems to be a good selection. Any advice on this company would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you

I have tried the do-it yourself ones and the places you can take your cartridges and get them filled. Didn't like the quality of the do-it yourself ones. As for the little mall kiosk ones I had that one blow up in my printer, after the bill that one caused me I just decided to pay for the name brand ones. HTH

Well I wanted to add a Thank-you to erikatx and Freezin. I found a couple recipe's that I could use from your info. Now my mom is happy and off my back. (well atleast about her room spray ) Thanks to all for the help!!

Thank-you both for the help! The google thing is a good idea but I keep comming up with stupid recipes for home spice air freshiners. Like boil a few ingredient's on the stove and stuff like that. As for the BCS idea all they have is for recipes using there special mix. I guess I will just keep looking till I find something good for the stuff I have. If there is anymore help out there I would greatly appreciate it.

I was hoping that someone could help me out! My thing is candles but my mom has asked if I can make one of my scents into a spray. So I went to the local supply place here to see what I could find out. The lady there immediately grabbed me some polysorbate 20 and some pump spray bottles, telling me that is all the extra stuff I would need. So as I was paying I asked her how to put everything together and she told me to just keep mixing the poly. and FO with water till it smells right. Now this doesn't sound right to me, I know there has to be more accurate measuring going on but just don't know where to start. Thank-you all in advance for any help given!

I can't remember what they were called but I know what you are referring to. I actually have some and you can still buy a type of them at Michaels, in Canada anyways. I found the ones I have on TSC here. My main use for them is on the dinner table during special occasions. You fill a wine glass (or any glass item that will hold liquid) half full of water and color it if desired then you add the oil. A basic cooking oil will do and if I want to add FO I mix it up in a measuring cup first then pour it in my glass. Then you float the disk with its wick in it and light it. The nice thing is you can put one per place setting or use something larger and make a big center piece. If the oil starts to get low you can just add more and if it runs out the water seems to extinguish it. As for the disk melting it has never happened to me but I normally only burn them for maximum of about 3 hours. (the time it take for a full dinner, Christmas or something like that) I assume if you were to burn them for an extended period of time they would get hot enough to melt. I have never had a safety issue with them, but I have a 2 year old and I am very cautious of where I put things.