gingerinarkansas Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Last week I poured several container candles and I have a bunch of wet spots and very teeny tiny bubbles. I use J223 and do not heat my jars..What could have caused this? Never had bubbles like this before and it is on most of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerinarkansas Posted April 24, 2006 Author Share Posted April 24, 2006 I forgot to mention that I do tap on my jars to help release air bubble and I do poke relief holes in the 11.5 and 16 oz jars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janette Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Are your wicks primed? Raw wicks can cause air bubbles. Not sure if this is your cause, just a thought.CheersJanette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerinarkansas Posted April 24, 2006 Author Share Posted April 24, 2006 Yes, my wicks are primed. Maybe I was just having a bad day cause most of them had bubbles and wet spots. Doesn't pouring too quickly cause bubbles? I think I poured just like I always pour. A few wet spots don't look to bad but these looked really bad. I popped them with a heat gun and they all went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crafty1_AJ Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 If you pour too cool or the jars cool too quickly, sometimes air bubbles rise to the top but can't burst because the wax forms a skin too quickly. Or if the jars weren't preheated, or the candles cooled down too quickly, the wax shrinks and pulls away from the jar, causing wet spots.See if your particular wax mfr. has a recommended pouring method and pouring temp. Then let them cool slowly, such as in a styrofoam cooler, and see if that doesn't help with the bubbles.HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scented Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Might be you poured too fast at too cool/hot of a temp too. Or maybe humidity was up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topofmurrayhill Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Any chance your wax had a little water in it? Seems to happen a lot with J-223. Or maybe it can come from humidity like Scented said.I have a wax that has some moisture in it. If I melt it normally I can cook it off, but recently I made some testers in small votive glasses. I put the wax directly in the containers and melted in the oven, so a tiny bit of water ended up staying in each container. At first I didn't see anything unusual, but within a week I had little bubbles appearing and small spots of separation from the glass. It was all throughout the wax but distinctly more towards the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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