soy327 Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I'm wondering how you people can defend a petroleum product:mad::mad: yuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 defend? we don't need to defend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairieannie Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I'm wondering how you people can defend a petroleum product:mad::mad: yuck!Bahahahaha!! You're funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topofmurrayhill Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) I'm wondering how you people can defend a petroleum product:mad::mad: yuck!That uninformed comment really bugs me, and my irritation has nothing to do with candlemaking.I don't defend petroleum products. I celebrate them them.Without petroleum products, life as you know it would fall apart. Most of your possessions would vanish. Most of your roads would be unpaved. Many of your relatives, friends and acquaintances would have died of perfectly curable conditions, or maybe you wouldn't have lived this long yourself. 150 years of technological progress would vanish.You think of petroleum as just something that's burned for fuel. It's not. It's the underpinning of our modern life. Almost everything around you at this moment is made from materials derived from petroleum and most of those materials cannot be replaced. Petroleum derivatives are necessary not only in the composition of those products, but in their manufacture. Without petroleum products, it's not that you'd need something else to fuel your car - it's that your car couldn't be made. You'd have a horse hitched outside your house.Back to candles. Many different things have been used as candle fuels and were replaced as better materials were discovered. Paraffin was and still is the best candlemaking material ever found. There is nothing better or even as good to replace it. More vegetable oil is used in candlemaking these days than before, not because it's better but because it's gotten a lot cheaper. The reason soybean oil is cheap enough to use for candles is that it's grown in vast quantities in our country. Tending these fields are vehicles and aircraft partially constructed from and fueled by petroleum products. Applied to these fields are pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers derived from petroleum products. With the help of materials, fuels, lubricants and solvents made from petroleum products, these crops are transported, refined and manufactured into useful things.Without petroleum products, you wouldn't have your soy wax.Thank God for petroleum, one of the natural fruits of our good Earth. Edited October 25, 2009 by topofmurrayhill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmeroo Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I offer both...I advertise soy candles but I always let my customers know that I do make paraffin too. As far as this wax is better than that one..I honestly believe it is whatever the consumer wants! Who cares what the chandlers personal opinion is, your in business to sell, right? Whatever the consumer wants the consumer will get whether it be from you or not.They will find the product they want. There isn't anything in this world,anymore, that is 100% healthy for you! Not even the air that you breath. Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella1952 Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 What's this about vegetable broth stella? It is also listed on tuna cans packed in water, not just tuna packed in oil.It appears on the ingredients in oil-packed and water-packed tuna, even solid white albacore. Gotta read the ingredients listed in 4 point type to find which ones DON'T contain the crap. :rolleyes2 For folks trying to eliminate soy from their diet, food producers sure don't make it easy to read the ingredients! Google "vegetable broth in canned tuna" and see what all comes up about this useless ingredient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candybee Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Petroleum isn't just in your car, road paving, and parrafin candles, its also in that Wonderbra your wearing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella1952 Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Petroleum isn't just in your car, road paving, and parrafin candles, its also in that Wonderbra your wearing!Not if ya don't wear one of those silly things!!!:laugh2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Not if ya don't wear one of those silly things!!!:laugh2:I don't wear a bra - SO THERE!!! (lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candybee Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I'm not wearing one now either. The girls like their fresh air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scented Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I don't wear a bra - SO THERE!!! (lol)TMI to you and Stella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topofmurrayhill Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 It's not TMI. I want more information. Like how does CareBear get away with not wearing a bra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassy-girl Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Pencil Test:yay: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topofmurrayhill Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Pencil Test:yay:Yeah, but what about headlights? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8-GRAN-ONES Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 from soy, to headlights...how did this happen...:laugh2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella1952 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 TMI to you and Stella.Just to clarify, my remarks were directed at WONDERbras, not all bras in general. So there's even MORE information to add to the excess already shared! :laugh2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 (edited) thanks for the clarificationand despite my advanced years AND having 2 children I can pass the pencil test with flying colors. (eta: we need a smiley with hooters) Edited October 27, 2009 by CareBear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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