Who uses Bees wax in soy/ or other wax

[Brooke]

Hey guys,

Do you add bees wax in with your wax?

How does it help your wax?

Keeping focused (bit blurry today LOL its Friday you know)

Brooke

[Kaybee23]

http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2482&highlight=beeswax

You can do a search on here, there have been a few discussions. You can also do an "archive" search as well (at the bottom of the page). It will take you to the old board where there is a ton of information on adding beeswax to your soy. That will give you many opinions and information.

[MLJ]

I use 1 oz. bees wax to each pound of soy.

Mary Lou

[Jeana]

I tried doing this with soy pillar blend and I got a couple of candles with cracks and holes in the middle. I added 1 oz per lb of soy pb. Could this have cause this problem?

[Kaybee23]

One ounce per lb is about 6.2% beeswax. Usually if I use more than 5% I get cracking in my wax. Since I use containers, it is usually straight across the container. It is worse in the winter months when my heat is on. I usually use 4% in the warm months, and down to 3% in the cold months. Most people use anywhere from 1-5%. But you really have to play with it to find out what works best in your wax.

[topofmurrayhill]

Not to be a stickler but 1 oz per lb is 5.9%

Well yeah, to be a stickler.

[wildangel112]

I use .5oz. per lb.

[Kaybee23]

My calculater says it’s about 6.2%, guess I need a new calculater. But the point I was trying to make was that one ounce was closer to 6%.

[scottopus]

Not to be a stickler but 1 oz per lb is 5.9%

My calculater says it’s about 6.2%

This is why you should use percentages and not ratios (1 oz per pound).

Here's how they got two different answers:

Total weight = 16 oz of wax + 1 oz of Beewax = 17 oz of waxes

% of Beeswax = 1 oz of Beeswax / 17 oz of Total Weight = 5.9%

This means that 5.9% of the waxes used was Beeswax.

Kaybee just took 1 oz of beeswax / 16 oz of wax = 6.2%

This is a ratio since it doesn't take in account the total weight.

[Kaybee23]

I stand corrected, if it is a total of 17% of soy and BW combined, then it is 5.9% BW. Scottopus, I appreciate you pointing it out and explaining it to those of use who are a little math handicapped. I should have worded my post differently.