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This might help some I never made them but thought about it and came across this article when searching https://candletech.com/candle-making/tutorials/make-mottled-pillar-candles/ scented, JC and candybee have a lot of pillar experience so maybe they will chime in

Blend it with marshmallow - that really helps make it more mild and it does tone down once in wax also

Elements sensuous black rose smells exactly like MW to me - I could not tell the difference between the 2 but FB is also spot on - they did a good job duping for the most part @Candybee If you order from elements maybe try a sample and see if it soaps easier

OMH the millcreek one is fantastic in 415 or I should say....was 😂 Its a great oil and worth trying out I considered it one of my lighter but in your face throwers

Candlescience has a great one

It's sooooo frustrating isn't it?? I had a perfect soy candle, my process was down pat, sales were getting better and better and boom- now soy sucks I can't make it work alone and I have tried several others - having to wick down suffered my hot throw tremendously, Other soys don't throw or they burn ugly or so drastically inconsistent with each case I keep chasing my tail with blends going back and forth and upside down trying to figure out what I like that stays consistent I'm almost there but I seem to hit new road blocks with each and every test

🤷‍♀️Any supplier that can't give you basic information on something they sell let alone make in house is a huge red flag to me so glad I didn't go calwax with coconuts after reading this ....so glad

Atkins and Pearce....they have 5000 minimums on each wick you purchase direct from them - they are a wholesaler that I'm sure supply our main suppliers but they have son many series and other sizes of common series available that our suppliers don't carry And they have sample sets of series you can buy to test or request the inbetween ones not available to us

so after almost a year - my 2 whacked out cases of 415 I have left that I left partially opened I made a few candles with various additives and some with none and it's still not what it was but it is better....still not going back but kinda proves some of the moisture issues they supposedly had with equipment failures and the fact that they couldn't produce fast enough for all the ecosoya people that were buying up whatever they could since they couldn't buy anything at all for a long time - I don't think soy is ever going to be the same again with new regulations in place but it can be worked with ....my issue is I know what it "could" be and it's not good enough for me - and on top of it I'm nit testing every lot that comes in because I'm so anal about all that EVERY fragrance would have to be tested also and that is just not practical it's so sad burning my old tester jars with the good stuff but it will be okay- this has forced me to revamp my branding and my whole line and I'm actually pretty excited about launching a new blend 👏👏

Here is a cottonwood in a maxi tealight its a 20...smallest you can go and it definitely didn't self trim and look at that shroom I have had success with other fragrances though in the maxi and other containers so they are not a total fail for sure - they do throw very good and make a nice melt pool and flame but they can get out of control fast as TT mentioned I have them on the back burner for now but do plan to revisit them in larger jars and harder waxes once I get my other crap together

Try candlewic also and see if their shipping is better they Call it crystallizing container fill, Candybee told me about it- I haven't used it but I think it's identical...right @Candybee Suppliers are all so different with shipping rates - I have one here in my state about 5 hours away and they are almost double to ship to me than candlescience so play the cart game and see who is cheaper

How about one of those pillars 😂 Seriously I haven't a clue what I even paid for them so if you can use them pm your address and they are yours

I also have raspberry peach magnolia, honeysuckle and dried apple wreath

Those are beautiful!!!! I love this old house and when they went OOB I stopped testing it because I knew I would scream when I ran out so I just didn't make anymore - I would be happy to send you the rest of the 16 ounces I have - I maybe used 3 -4 ounces

@KervenI have tried the midwest soy and millenium waxes and they suck too, there are a few from some suppliers that do not put a name to their soy claiming it as their "own" but I have not gone down that road and have no plans to either I went with 444 after so many years of 415 and the second lot I received was like daja vu - back to issues and TT says it gets worse so I am almost a year into testing different crap and I am done with soy- just done I agree cocunut has its issues but it is consistent at least and that is major at this point, Just need to perfect my wick sizes and I am off and running with it and if for any reason it fails on me and becomes inconsistent I will be going all palm or paraffin The 200 plus pounds of soy I have around here are going to go in jars I want to get rid of and I will just have to wick down and be okay with the fact that they are not throwing as well as they should and have a heck of a soy blow out special- SEE YA - and I can make up a bunch of cool fire starters I suppose

I don't really do Easter themed candles at all but frank and myrrh comes to mind when you say Easter and so does pink sugar and marshmallow along with hyacinth that you smell in every store around Easter 🐣

That is plain old 464 with that crack?? this is a little surprising, it's been years since I used that wax but it's so soft of a wax I can't even believe my eyes soy is a major problem right now and I'm beginning to think it goes deeper than we even imagined I have been getting cracks in soys adding different waxes and hardeners trying to get the burn under control without having to wick down so drastic and compromise throw that has already been compromised some how in the last several months, almost a years time of lots of soy - this is baffling coconut waxes seem to be pretty consistent so far but I haven't worked with them long enough and I don't use straight paraffin so I can't help you there How I wish none of this ever happened - almost year later and I'm still working on a new blend - I can't sell 415 anymore and sleep at night knowing it's basically crap now

Yep that is a mushroom LX wicks are notorious for that not to say they are bad wicks, I personally have a love hate relationship with them and use them in votives based off the look of your jar your early into the burn? I would wick down a size and see if it helps - LX are flat braided cotton wicks that are supposed to slightly curl while burning which is supposed to help reduce mushrooming ( Carbon buildup) and smoking but it doesn't always work like that unless it's living in its perfect world what wax are you using? that's not a horrible mushroom but if that was your first burn and you reached full melt pool I would see what a size down does

Just be thankful your aware of this before hand 😂 Figuring this out in the middle of season when you had stock made with it unaware is not cool - as far as melts with 415 I saw no difference at all myself but I blended with PB (the old PB- I won't touch the new stuff for nothing) but there have been complaints with 416 with melts that I know of and I tried it myself and it is pretty ugly there is a good thread in here with all the issues people have had - once you figure out wicking again some are satisfied with the results - myself, I am not- so that's why I sugggest you try it in a small quantity and see what you think or you will keep thinking about "what if" jumping into something new off the bat - if it's totally different and you hate it the decision to move on will be much easier - ask me how I know 😉

I haven't bought any new lots of my soy lately but what I do have I can say it just isn't the same or typical soy behavior at all from the last many years I've been using it- 415 that is I have bought several other soys and although I can't say I have used them in the past to be able to compare but being a soy user for over 10 years I can say I have never seen anything like this before - the new ones I'm testing are all over the map as well 444 is very different from my first lot than the new ones I have soooo 🤷‍♀️ All I can say is order the smallest amount possible of EZ soy and see what you think from when you used it before

Yes you definitely are posting as a "know it all" facts about what your saying I personally after reading your posts and your watching your video would never buy a thing from you - you are only looking at profit and profit only along with how many "views" you get - you don't seem to give a crap about quality in your product and that is not what this all about here on this forum of course we all want to be successful but having a quality, safe and exceptional product is and should be number 1 I wish you luck I really do but your blogs and videos are very unsettling - especially to the new people here that actually want to learn and know the truths in this business

Which wick series do you use in 444 I am curious now that I did the pan test to see what 4 series would do with naked wax - adding FO changes things

Yaaay you if your field is draining properly and they are able to fix the problem raising the pipe your in a different state of which all have different codes and regulations- around here if someone's tank sunk in the ground crooked causing backflow that kind of repair would likely not be allowed by the health department- but it depends on the severity of it and a whole lot of other factors as well and I am not as well versed on this stuff as my husband- I only know what I do in having him relay to me what to tell a customer when there is a problem 😂 I don't go to the education classes and conventions like he does I am sure the company you hired know what they are doing and it's a very good thing if it's just a pipe! As far as degreasers - why do you have to do a flush weekly? What are you putting down your drains to need that? And that sounds like a plumbing thing to me of which we are not plumbers at all and don't deal with inside pipes - if we go on a call and it's not septic related we refer them to a plumbing company I have never heard of that stuff before so I can't help you there

Septics is a big part of what we do for a living - it sounds like your field has failed and if your tank did indeed sink your looking at a new tank and field I'm so sorry this is happening to you what a mess - tanks should be cleaned/pumped every 2-3 years depending on water usage - if it's in good shape sometimes people can go 5 but not having it regularly checked out and cleaned causes all kinds of issues, baffles fall off causing it to fail and the bio mat in the field hardens like concrete with all the soaps and detergents and cleaners we put down our drains making it impossible for it to drain which in turn causes it to go back up in to your tank causing backups I hope you get it resolved and it's worth asking if they can do a field rejuvenation -basically aerating your field to try and bust up the bio mat to allow it to drain again....we do that for many people and had to do it ourselves 5 years ago and it's been fine ever since, providing you don't have a clay tile system - it won't work on that

Ah ha - so that's what a hurricane shell is And here I thought it was a container 😂