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Delicious Richly Scented Soy Candles Delight All!
Scented Soy Candle Making Together Is a Holiday Delight!
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Delicious Soy Candles Brings Fragrant Scents To Holidays
Everybody loves rich, aromatic, delicously scented soy candles. A few things will be important for you understand before you begin attempting to start making soy candles for your home based candle business, personal hobby, or just for gifts. However, there is an art to the process, and the uneducated novice can easiliy make “expensive” mistakes. Making errors in judgment can be costly, even dangerous because you may waste the soy wax, essential oil or fragrance oils, even candle wicks, or possibly even cause a fire from improper wicking.
You need to decide before jumping into any project, exactly what you want to make. Once you have made that decision, then you need to purchase the correct wicks for your particular soy candle wax, and even candle type you intend to make. Pillars, tea lights, votive candles will all need different sizes and lengths. How much fragrance or essential oil will your particular candle wax will hold. What’s to much, what’s too little? Third, but equally important, is the type of wax you are purchasing right for the candle you desire to make?
When mixing soy candle waxes with fragrance or essential oils there are known techniques that need to be followed or problems can occur. Take a look at some of the problems I have seen frequently occuring, which I have posted on my FAQ page.
Plus everyone wants the most fragrant candes possible. So learn how to do it right, keep records of what you do, how you do it. (My book provides a test record sheet) Overtime, you will save yourself many repeats of failures, and the abiltiy to reproduce successes. When you find that “one” candle idea that gives you your own Unique Selling Proposition, don’t find out to late, you don’t remember what you did.
Have fun, and don’t forget how important candle safety is. Read the candle safety articles so you are informed, and follow all safety guidelines outlined in my books. Click Scented Soy Candles to obtain your copy of How to Make Scented Soy Candles and Tealights, Candle Makers Tips, Tricks, and Techniques.How to Start a Candle Making Business from Home, and Scenting Your Soy Wax Candles.
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Confusion About Lead In Candlewicks of Soy Candles
Is There Lead in Today’s Candlewicks?
Soy Candles are sometimes made with a solid core in the candlewick, but in today’s market, the core of the wick can be made from zinc or tin. Recently I saw a post on another blog talking about lead in wicks. I felt it was necessary to post a response to that article, because lead in candlewicks was banned in the US Marketplace in 2003.
Candle manufacturers and their suppliers here in the United States are represented by the National Candle Association (NCA); a major trade association. Purchase your candle wicks from a reputable candle supplier.
Use of lead wicks was voluntarily discontinued during the mid-1970s, and they asked every US candle manufacturer to agree not to use lead wicks and sign a formal pledge to this effect along with all NCA members. However, if you have any doubt about the metal core containing your candle wick, get a white piece of paper and rub the wick on it. A lead core will leave a gray mark. If you have any doubt , dispose of it.
Just be careful when you’re purchasing inexpensive foreign imported candles, as not all countries apply the same quality standards, and you would still be wise to question cheap imported candle wicks.
Remember it is not just what is in the wick being burned, but what candle wax the candle is made from. Paraffin wax candles still give off 11 known carcinogens, so you can still be polluting the air in your hom, whether a lead wick is used or not.
If you make your own scented soy candles, you will know you are burning a natural candle wax in your home.
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Candlewic Sale 50% Off Custom Wicks Two Weeks Only!
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Minimum purchase of 1,000 wicks. You spec it, we’ll build it! This easy-to-use feature of the Candlewic web site lets you specify the exact makeup for your candle wick assemblies from the wick material and length to the sustainer base and wax coating. Conditions apply*
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Sale prices valid for internet orders only. Sale ends October 21, 2010.
Products have been adjusted to sale price.
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Make Your Scented Soy Candle Business Blow Away Competition
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Beat the competition! Make it “no contest!“
Find your own unique selling propostion (USP) when you want to make your start-up scented soy candle home based business stand apart from everyone else in the crowd. Make their offerings just HOHUMDRUM ordinary candles. When you develop a loyal customer base, they will come back to you time and time again to buy, expanding your sales revenue.
Here’s a new twist to consider. Promote going green. So how do you sell exceptional scented soy candles better than anyone else’s? Read the rest of this entry »
Candlewic’s Spring Sale Ends Thursday, April 29th
Candlewic’s Spring Sale is Here!
Hurry, Limited Time Offer by Candlewic. Sale ends on Thursday, April 29th.
That is right, Candlewic is having their Spring Sale! There are 4 sales to choose from. 25% off 1 lb Scents, Free Pouring Pot, 50% off 1 lb EVO Dyes, or BOGO Wicks.
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Scented Soy Candles Video How to Double Wick
Double Wick Scented Soy Candle How to Video
Double Wick Scented Soy Candle How to Video
How To Make Double Wicked Scented Soy Candles Video
When it gets right down to it, the larger container candles need more candle wick. This is necessary to provide the appropriate amount of heat required to create a melt pool that fully covers the candle surface. If you do not have the correct wick sizes, or quantites, tunneling will occur because the full surface of the wax is not consumed as the wax is burned.
See the article I wrote on candle burning problems for more specifics.
So on that note, I made this double wicked scented soy candle using a tangerine fragrance, and turned it into a video. Because wick placement correct wick placement is so important, I showed you one of the ways that I use the wicks in combination with a dowel rod, and a glue gun to secure the candle wicks exactly where I want them before I pour the soy candle wax.
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Burn Soy Candles the Right Way
What not to do when you light your scented soy candles for the first time!
You have made beautiful scented soy candles!
Success at last!
However, if you do not burn your highly scented soy candles correctly the first time they are lit, they may never burn correctly during the remaining lifetime of the candle. Read the rest of this entry »
My soy candle wick is burning itself out
Soy Candle Wicks Burning Out Problem
Reply to: My soy candle wick is burning itself out, how do I fix the problem?
I would suggest that you check the length of your candlewick. Is it to short? If you are trimming the wick shorter than 1/4 inch, the flame can be extinguished by the melting soy wax as it pools around the candle. Also, if your candle wick is to small, it will not consume the soy candle wax. Soy candle wax is a fuel for the wick to burn, and it will drown from lack of combustion.