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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Till the end?
What causes the sweet savour-- the wooden wick or the melting of the candle wax,
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Actually I'm going to be experimenting with the woodwick.
They seem to be scented until they finish...I mean we mix the scent with the melted wax and the scent is super strong and we don't go light on it.
I'm going to experiment with adding scent to the oil we soak the wood wicks in so that the scent will possibly infuse into the wood wicks.
As of now we add the oil scents just to the wax then pour the candles....now if people are adding their scents while the wax is too hot it may cause their scents to evaporate or cook out....that wax gets up to 180 to 200 degrees.
So we let the wax cool to just under 150 then add the oil and pour.
The main reason to that is that as wax as well as anything else cools it contracts and it can leave holes on the top of the candle...cosmetic only and once it's lit the wax melts and it evens out....so to avoid that and to keep from going back and adding wax we pour when it's still liquid but close to solidifying
Now the scents are oil based not alcohol based so they don't boil off.
Now the oils we get can be used to make soaps, scrubs and shampoos and the oils are so strong that half an ounce will scent a whole gallon of soap, scrub or shampoo.
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