True black color.....

[Sherri in Canada]

I read a post somewhere about adding a color to black color blocks to get rid of the "purplish" tint but now that I need it I can't find it anywhere LOL...murphy's law I guess. I'm thinking it was brown but i'm not 100% sure and i've done a search but I can't find it. Does anyone remember what the color was to add? TIA :smiley2:

[Glowlite]

I add brown and sometimes a little bit of orange. HTH :smiley2:

[pdevine]

Isn't it blue that you add to it? Portia

[Candle Man]

I use liquid black to the black color chips just to be able to use up the chips. Now I only use liquid black for black because I find it is a truer black without that purple cast.

[SatinDucky]

This may sound odd, but I would try adding bit of yellow. I only had primary colors (red,blue and yellow) and was trying to make brown. I ended up with solid jet black. No point in asking, I lost count long before I was done...LOL. Anyway, you can make it from the primary colors. Red and blue make purple, logic (my oddball logic anyway) says if it's purplish, there's more red and blue than yellow. I hit many shades on the way, including a greenish (blue and yellow), which was counteracted by red. Maybe this'll help

[Scented]

I've put more brown and blue with it at times. Tend to stick with colors that are dark.

[PrairieDweller]

to get rid of purple tones, you need to add the color opposite it on the color wheel (yellow). It acts as a neutralizer and does not lighten the black.

[Alohagirl]

I made this pillar with 1 black color chip and one forest green chip added to a pound of straight paraffin (no additives which might lighten the color).

It's hard to tell from the photo, but it was a deep, dark, true black. (The swirls happened because I made it in a milk carton.)

[PrairieDweller]

That is one WICKED looking candle, Devra!!

Totally a Halloween pillar ...how did you pour that gave that effect, exactly if you don't mind my asking?

[Sherri in Canada]

Well that's a combination I never would have thought of...thanks for posting the picture

[Alohagirl]

...how did you pour that gave that effect, exactly if you don't mind my asking?

I just poured the black wax into an empty buttermilk carton, and it came out swirled like that. I tried to duplicate it and couldn't.

[PrairieDweller]

Awww man, that bites! lol

By chance did you try to duplicate it by pouring into the same carton?

[topofmurrayhill]

I think we know for sure the white swirls are food grade paraffin.

[hawaiiansun]

this was a black color chip with 1/4 of yellow

I've never tried to dupllicate the color with liquid but I was thinking of doing it

[Scentedmoon]

I will need to try the Milk Carton technique...awesome candle!

[PrairieDweller]

top...that's what I figured, too. I wondered if the attempt to duplicate was made in the same carton (wax would of melted off already)...or perhaps a 2nd try in another carton was not poured quite as hot to melt the wax lining.

Hawaiian, that is an awesome looking pillar. Palm accepts color so well and I love the pattern!

[topofmurrayhill]

That palm wax finish really is striking.

[Alohagirl]

top...that's what I figured, too. I wondered if the attempt to duplicate was made in the same carton (wax would of melted off already)...or perhaps a 2nd try in another carton was not poured quite as hot to melt the wax lining.

A milk carton can only be used one time. The cooled pillar won't slide out, so the carton has to be peeled off.

The first one was a 1 qt. buttermilk carton. Using the same formula and same pouring temp (175 degrees) I tried a whipping cream carton, a milk carton, and finally another buttermilk carton. The weird marbling never happened again.