Supplies For Canadians??

[sweetpea]

To my fellow Canucks,

Where do you buy your fragrances, wax, jars etc. for candle making? Every decent online company I've been able to find are only in the US :-(

[MaggieMay]

Welcome Sweet Pea from a fellow Canadian....:highfive:

I like to buy some of my fragrances from http://www.goatmilkskincare.com/

she has lots of prebuys too...She just finished a prebuy...

Tell her Maggie sent you...

Hugs Maggie

[SoapDiva]

Alberta Beeswax is good to deal with, my friend who is a chandler deals with her. She also likes her fragrances.

Right now www.lyndenhouse.net is closing its doors and going to an online store only and they are having a HUGE sale on wax and candle scents and jars. They are my major supplier.

Otherwise, www.canwax.com is also an excellent company to deal with.

Um....for fragrances only, newdirections.ca is another one I like, they specialize in B&B, so I don;t know if theyre candle safe, cause I don't make candles!

[HelenW]

Every decent online company I've been able to find are only in the US :-(

Boy, do I hear you on that one and I find it very frustrating, especially when they won't ship to Canada.

[Linnyeg]

I'm doing a Peak's co-op right now in the co-op section of the board. A great way to get supplies from the US at a good price!

When buying in Canada I like to buy from http://www.canwax.com or www.villagecraftandcandle.com (VCC runs a candlemaking retreat every year, it's AWESOME)

[Lifelace]

Hi there! I hear ya, it's so incredibly frustrating! For me the worst to find are the jars for my creams and scrubs (I can find the plain white ones no problem but I prefer clear jars) and fragrance oils, most other stuff is easily bought from Canadian sites. I buy most of my candle stuff from Village Craft also (they have a large selection of FOs that are of very good quality), as for my bath and body supplies I've been using Scent Sanctuary http://www.scentsanctuary.ca/ but I will be honest and say I think their Fragrance Oils are nothing near the quality I'm used to from other places so I don't buy FOs from there. They are all weak OOB. I love that both VCC and Scent Sanctuary use DHL, those guys are inexpensive and I always get my stuff within a week. Also Scent Sanctuary has great prices on everything.

I have just also placed my first order from Soap Craft http://www.soapcraft.ca so we'll see how these guys are. Shipping was very inexpensive from Soap Craft, only 15$ for like 20lbs of oils and butters.

New Directions is great also but they are expensive, especially with shipping. http://www.newdirectionsaromatics.ca/

I have also been very tempted to order from Canwax http://www.canwax.com/ and Voyageur Soap http://www.voyageursoapandcandle.com/

but I have to pay via Paypal and those two are a pain, one doesn't Paypal, the other I have ordered from via email and not gotten a reply in several days.

As for my Fragrance Oils, I get most of them from US sites, if I had to pick just one it would be Natures Garden, their FOs are of awesome quality, great prices and shipping is very reasonable. http://www.naturesgardencandles.com/

I hope this helps!

Melany

[dublon]

I have also been very tempted to order from Canwax

http://www.canwax.com/ and Voyageur Soap http://www.voyageursoapandcandle.com/

but I have to pay via Paypal and those two are a pain, one doesn't Paypal, the other I have ordered from via email and not gotten a reply in several days.

Melany

I don't know the Voyageur company at all, but Canwax is an excellent company to deal with.... Extremely fast shipping, not too expensive, they take paypal (if you don't know how to use their paypal... pm me and I'll give you the code you need to put in.., and they always return phone calls and or emails!! If you don't hear from them within 24 to 48 hours, is because they might not have received your email order, so call them!! Unless SJ was on vacation, but even then I have had excellent service from them within the last two years that I've been buying there!!

New Directions has excellent quality soap supplies.... a tad expensive on their shipping, but if you order enough, it's worth it! But for just one or two items...ouch!!