4oz candle ?

[moniek]

If I wanted to make 1- 4 oz test candle, how much oil would I use? I use j223 wax. :undecided

[Vio]

I'm going to take a guess and don't go by what I say please. Just want to see if I'm close. I'm trying to learn. Never made a candle yet but trying to learn before doing.

Would it be 1.75 grams per 1 ounce of wax, if using 1 ounce fo per 1 pound of wax? Just curious if I'm getting this, and I'm going to have to do this too soon so I want to take a stab at it. Hope you don't mind my guess in here moniek. LOL

[Jane42]

For this wax we used 1 oz FO per lb (16 oz of wax) so, if I were making a 4 oz candle, I would use 1/4 oz FO.

HTH

[momtohaley2004]

Here is how I do mine

1. I weigh out my jar (empty jar)

2. I weigh the jar filled full (however full u would fill it with wax) with water

3. Plug those figures in to this website:

http://candleandsoap.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=candleandsoap&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.candletech.com%2Fcalculator%2Fcontainer.php

4. That gives you the amount of wax you need.

5. Take this figure and multiply by whatever percentage you want. For example if you want a 6 percent fo per candle and your candle requires 240 grams of wax you'd take 240 times .06= 14.4 grams of oil

6. Thus you would need 14.4 grams of oil.

This may not work for everyone and everyone may not feel comfortable using it but I have used this formula from day one. The candle source referred me to this formula.

[flcandles]

For this wax we used 1 oz FO per lb (16 oz of wax) so, if I were making a 4 oz candle, I would use 1/4 oz FO.

HTH

Thats exactly how i would figure it out