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I use mostly ADM soy. You don't need to wait until its slushy. I pour between 150 and 155, sometimes hotte than that to achieve a different effect

Happy testing!

Ditto on customers loving the Juicy Pineapple.

Really though, I'm pretty sure you can't go wrong with any of the Peaks scents. I've had great results with throw with every one I've tried. Not helpful right?

Ditto on the shipping issues. The wax warehouse is in Decatur, IL and I just drive over and pick up wax when I need it. I usually take a truck & trailer to get a pallet load. They seem to have some problems communicating between the warehouse and Chempoint's office in CA, but if you ask for the warehouse number directly, they are really helpful to me.

I would love to know where you found a mold for these! I've never come across one.

Anyway, the vendor I saw them at was Moon Glow.

Off the top of my head, I can't remember which supplier is carrying these. I'll look and get back to you with the name.

Anyway, they come this way from the manufacturer and are available in a limited number of scent/color combinations. You buy them from suppliers in 5/10/25 pound bags and then package them however you like.

I almost did it, but I stuck with the breakaway melts because I can offer them in the same scents and colors as the rest of my line. I didn't want to have 1 line of scents for the beads and a different for candles, if that makes sense.

Yep! Still use it. I think I have about 4,000 lbs in the basement right now. LOL Oh, and it comes in pastille form (not slabs) in 50 lb. feed sacks if you get it from Chempoint. Pastilles are similar to flakes but are more like droplets.

Anyway, have fun testing!

My cost is generally around $0.78/lb. It ranges from $0.70 to 1.20/lb, depending on how much you buy at once.

Hi Holly.

I just wanted to answer a couple of your questions. ADM headquarters is in Illinois. The wax is shipped from there since its made there.

The scent throw is great in my humble opinion. But, the way things turn out is really dependent on who is making the candles b/c techniques, additives, etc vary greatly from one person to the next.

Hello! I'm the resident ADM soy wax expert. LOL Just kidding, sort of.

About purchasing ADM wax, your best bet is to go to their main distributor, which is Chempoint (www.chempoint.com), see phone number already posted. You might want to ask for Leslie Wiechy. She's their very helpful main soywax sales rep. I don't know what their minimum purchase requirement is because I usually order a pallet of wax at a time anyhow. I've been assured and reassured by both reps at ADM and Chempoint that ADM manufactures their own soy wax. I even have it in writing in my files somewhere.

Just By Nature no longer carries ADM wax. I'm not sure why, but I've been contacted by a lot of people asking if I will sell them ADM wax b/c JBN no longer does. I did sell the ADM for a while, but its expensive enough that I can't get a good enough deal on it without buying a truckload to make it worth my time and worth it to the buyers. Anyway, basically the only licensed vendor for ADM at this time is Chempoint. Chempoint will generally be happy to send you 10 lbs free to test and 1 lb of additive also.

About the Cargill waxes, "NatureWax" is the brand name Cargill gave to the wax formula they purchased from Mike Richards (inventor of soy wax). Richards calls this wax 'Soyawax" and I believe he still sells it on his website. So, Soyawax and NatureWax are different brand names for what started out as basically the same wax. But, I do know for a fact that Cargill has done further research and taken some liberties with Richards' formula and have changed it as customer feedback and research dictates. This is where the C1, C2 and C3 formulas come in. C1 is supposed to be Richards' exact original formula. With C2, they've made it just a bit better and with C3, its supposed to be even more improved. The Cargill reps told me that they're hoping to be able to keep all 3 formulas b/c of the people who've already done all their testing on C1 will want to continue to buy C1 (most likely) and so forth. Very nice of them.

Both Cargill and ADM have nice waxes. They're very different behavior-wise from the Golden Foods waxes--in my experience. If there are any specific ADM questions, I'd be happy to answer.