Hi DreamCatcher, Welcome to the board. As you have already found out, there's more to it than melting wax . I decided 4 months ago that I wanted to make candles. This weekend will be my 1st Arts & Crafts show to sell my creations. Reading this board has been invaluable to get to this point. It's not all about giving away trade secrets either, but tons about personal preference which comes from testing and experience. 3 months ago, I found a candlemaker selling out due to health reasons. 2 wax melters, thousands of containers, 100's of fragrances, several hundred pounds of wax, and lots of wicks. Everything needed to start into the business, right? Made my 1st candle and quickly found out I didn't like the container wax he was using. Someone earlier mentioned it as their favorite, but it doesn't work for me. New wax purchased that I like (luckily I already used GB464 making candles with the kids that I liked so not much trial and error). New wax, new candle, wicks not working like I want. More reading here, purchased several types of wicks, more testing, and I like the ECO line of wicks. New wax, new wicks, new candle and now I'm getting separation, frosting, ugly tops. More reading, more testing, well..... you get the picture. Also, searched out some ideas and found great advice, both business and testing, that has probably saved me some great headaches. Now I still have to test every fragrance in stock to see if it works for me. So far, about 80% of them have been great but I've only used a few (and yes I still had to buy some more fragrances too). It's been work, it's been fun, and there is still money going out but not much in. Hopefully, this weekend will start to make it all worth while. Thanks to all the support from family, friends, and all the great people here I think I have a very good product. With more research, experience, help from here, and testing it will get even better. Good Luck!