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I will also have a pound of 2 of Purely Peppermint for anyone interested. I need to make a classified post of all of my extra Peak oil from my recent panicked hoarding!

I think I have an extra 2 pound bottle of Holiday Sparkle. I just did oil inventory in light of this bad news but am at work and my inventory spreadsheet is on home computer. Peak was being so flaky that I WAY overbought as things became available over the last few months. Shipping may be steep but I would certainly sell it for less than what I paid.

What does it smell like to you? Pie crust, cookie dough, bread dough, caramel or caramel pecan rolls? All my scent names are named what the scent smells like to me regardless the name.

My business has absolutely blown up and taken over my life! Looking at my oil inventory spreadsheet this weekend (I miss having weekends!) and trying to decide how I could scale it back a bit, my spreadsheet says that I have a total of 205 pounds of FO (NONE of this poundage is 1 ounce test bottles but all for my line of 100+ scents carried year round) in stock. Being conservative and saying $18/pound, that is $3,690. TOO much!!

YES!! I could literally spend my days correcting, helping and replying to posts in one of the largest groups made up of about 11,000 people. I have a few oils with a flashpoint of 100 degrees. My wax is barely still liquid at 100 degrees. How on earth could I mix oil in then?? I have no idea why I am in that group. The things they post make me crazy.

UGH. The giant Candle Maker's Group on Facebook (although the posts are mostly by newcomers who are just getting into wax making-but many speak with authority) REGULARLY has those who post this as if it is the absolute truth. I cannot say it enough. Flashpoint is NOT the temperature at which your scent will "burn off". Really. Truly. Find the temperature, as TallTayl has suggested that you get the best throw from your specific wax blend with oil added. An oil that is weak or has no throw may just be wrong for your wax blend and one you simply do not offer. They are not all winners in every wax blend.

My website is my market. I just did a quick check of all of the apps that integrate with my platform (BIG platform-not mom and pop) and thought that I would list some of the top loyalty apps in case you have not checked any of these to see if they would apply to in-person sales. Looks as if many also can reward for referrals, capture email addresses and more. Seems most also integrate with Facebook and other social media: Sweet Tooth S Loyalty Swell Beans Loyalty Lion

The very large Candle Maker's Group on Facebook OFTEN has new threads pop up where many are confused and post with authority that flashpoint is the point at which fragrance oil will evaporate or "burn off" so you should always add the oil at or below that temperature. This is false information. I have a number of oils which have a flashpoint of 100 degrees. I can assure you that if I added my oil to my wax at 100 degrees that it would not mix well and my wax would already be hardening! As you research, be careful where you get your information and question the skill and experience of the "experts" offering the data.

You are finding the same results in terms of longevity as well? That is where I noticed a difference. When I found a blend that threw the scent the strongest AND longest is when I knew that I could stop looking. Testers reported the same back in terms of longevity of scent in my final 2 blends. Ultimately, 1 won out. I chose 2 scents which I knew were strong and I alternated them as I tested. A spice scent and a clean scent as an example. That way I tested the spice scent on Monday, clean scent on Tuesday, same spice scent, different wax blend on Wednesday and so on. I was not smelling lingering scent from the previous day's test as I evaluated. I used the same warmer on the same room for testing. That way I was eliminating that as a variable. I have use the same wax blend (my own blend of 2 waxes) for years now and am glad that element of my wax making is done.

Agree that the wax dictates the limit. I speak only of melts-NOT candles when I say that I do not follow the "anything more than 6% is a waste" nor the "find the wax cheapest or easiest to get and make it work" theories. My testing proved these theories not to be optimum for me when it comes to melts. In all of the testing I did, percentage of oil mattered and I got different performance results wax blend over wax blend. Even testing to the point of 10% more of one wax over another in a 2-wax blend netted a difference in results for me and my testers-who, of course, were testing not knowing anything about the wax blend makeup of the melts they were supplied to test. They only reported back results on Apple Pie A and Apple Pie B (as example) as test melts were labeled as such.

You should be able to adjust your margins from that preset template just how you need.

Is the size so unusual that planet label would not have a template you could use or adapt?

See what they are like at room temperature. If they hold the shape, you are fine. Typically you want a pillar or votive wax or one of those blended with a container wax for melts. Just for holding shape and perhaps holding oil. Wax melts are designed to go into wax warmers. You cannot ruin her wax warmer. Well, I have seen those using a white wax warmer and using wax from a vendor who over-dyes melts. The warmer was stained, but not ruined. No offense to you or anyone else who makes candles but in terms of your concern about "unsafe", wax melts are MUCH safer than a candle with a wick which is set on fire and you offer those!

If the wax is too soft it will not release from clamshells or molds for use. Packaging it will also be messy. They need to be firm enough to hold a shape. I do not use soy wax so cannot answer the question about that specific wax.

I have not been to Walmart in years. We had a new one just open near us and my husband wanted to go to "just check it out". I took a break from wax tonight to go there with him. Walked by the Melts section and saw these. Took some pics. They are a Mass Channel brand of Yankee. May be exclusive to Walmart. I do not know. Every one I opened had broken wax. Cracked or literally loose wax pieces when I opened them. The cylinders were fine, it was the connecting piece someone did not test well. Those were the pieces broken. Anyway, thought I would add these pics to this thread on custom clamshells.

I do not think it is a waste, at all. After all, there are many tools in the toolbox of scented wax making! I got the idea from you have have used it when I am uncertain if a particular FO is going to be too similar to one I already have or if the OOB smell is so off that I want to quickly try out the scent when warmed. I then make 2 melt cups of every scent I test. I melt one just as it is straight from the bottle and save the other for a retest or if the first test passed testing, I use the other to start blending to get a scent I will offer. Years ago when I started, I poured each 1 ounce bottle for testing. I gave or threw away a lot of wax in those days! I got a big container of sea salt from Trader Joe’s which makes this method inexpensive and in my experience, very effective. NOT, of course, in deciding if a scent will be swiftly added to my scent list but if it is frankly worth my time and money to pursue at all which is just what you indicate as well.

You made me laugh! A FB group is similar to a Facebook business page. There are things you can do in each which are the same and some features are different. A page is much more one sided. You speaking with your customers about your products and brand. You can run paid ads which will offer potential customers whatever incentive you have for them dropping by. A giveaway, a coupon code, free sample, etc. Anything those who like your page post can be seen by their FB friends and family. Groups limit what people post or like to be seen only by those in that group. My customers begged for a group for this very reason! Some have friends and family members who give them a hard time about their scented wax addiction and they would not post on the page as what they hit like on or posted would be seen by their friends and family. Groups are more interactive (like this forum). Customer's posts are not tucked away like on a page. They are in the body of the page, right along with the things I post. I love it that customers answer other customer's questions. They post pictures of orders, ask questions, comment what they are melting and more.

Or it was genius! About 4 years ago, I was rushing out to dinner and quickly poured the last of what I needed to pour and only later did I discover I made a mix up in oil bottles. I decided to try one after my first instinct was to throw it out. As it turns out, it was good and now is one of my top selling blends! So, you just never know...

That is exactly what my spreadsheet says! In my wax blend I found them the same. I know that it is blasphemous on this forum (because everyone adores Vanilla Voodoo) but I bought Vanilla Voodoo after reading here how rich, sweet and decadent it was. Now, I know I am told that my scent list is so sweet that it is cavity inducing. I like my sweet scents. Vanilla Voodoo and CS Very Vanilla both came off less sweet in my wax blend. Certainly good but were more french vanilla where I hoped for a sweeter vanilla. Perhaps all my sweet and bakery vanillas have altered my perception.

The answer to your questions is the same-yes. There are loads of us whose entire businesses are built entirely on wax melts. Many of us have never poured a single candle!

Commercial chrome shelves (each shelf holds 300-350 pounds) filled with big Rubbermaid Roughneck containers. When I was a hobbyist I think I had 1 Roughneck container and it was mostly filled with Sterlite plastic shoeboxes filled with 1 ounce bottles!

Most put them in baskets or the clear plastic shoeboxes. I quickly learned that I am NOT a fair, market or show person but when I did one at my corporate offices, I used vintage gym/locker baskets. Might vary depending on your theme or branding. Also how many you will offer in various scents.

Yes! Think of any raw wax as generally the same basic material. It is wax. Each has it's benefits, each has it's drawbacks. Each will have nuances such as optimum temperature to heat, temp to pour and also percentages of oil each can tolerate. You finding what you prefer working with and best suits your goals is the fun, yet maddening, part of this. I purposely have tested about every kind of wax I could (except coconut wax) so that I could know for myself what I liked and what worked best for me. There is nothing better than first hand knowledge of something. No wax that I am aware is prone to unprovoked combustion unless you do something unexpected like heat it to 800 degrees, dump in pounds of fragrance oil and forget about it in a room full of sawdust or fabric! While I tested parasoy waxes, I did not choose to use parasoy so cannot be of help with brands nor suppliers.

Well, I am perhaps unclear why or how raw paraffin wax would spontaneously combust! I probably should not give you more fear by asking if you are familiar with the chemical process soy wax goes through to become soy wax! You would not treat soy, paraffin, palm, beeswax any different melting in a Presto with of course the exception of melting each to their optimum temperature for your application. Paraffin wax is not kerosene or propane. It is wax.

Your concern is that paraffin wax has a propensity to ignite while soy and palm do not? You can melt any kind of wax you want in a Presto.