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was in the process of tearing down for the day and a gust of wind made the tear down a little more exciting.

I can only tell it's made from palm wax for now, but I have no idea how this special texture is formed—whether it’s the pouring temperature or the wax formula. I’d really appreciate everyone’s help.

I love Woodwick brand candles but they’re so expensive so I just made my own! I didn’t follow any tutorials or anything and just kind of winged it. The flame started tunneling pretty hard so as the wax melted and slowly put the flame out I kept inserting more pieces of wicks into the center and now the flame is stable!

Definitely made me feel better.

Overdue follow up to a previous post.

After much trial and error, I did find the sweet spot for my 100% pure beeswax pillars. The #5 square braid cotton is perfect for a no-drip 2in diameter pillar.

The photos show the melt pool after about 2h 15m of burning.

After dipping the wick and folding the rim in, it's good for the next burn.

Would this work as a candle drying station?

My girlfriend runs a small candle business and she’s been getting a ton of orders lately. I’ve been trying to figure out how to help her scale up specifically on the drying/curing step. Since our space is limited I came up with this setup using a grow tent + bakery rack + 4” inline duct fan. But I’m not sure if this would allow enough airflow for off-gassing.

I don’t want to ask her because I want to surprise her with this. And apologies for the AI slop, just wanted to visualize the setup.

I lit this coconut apricot candle I just made using 6% pumpkin spice fragrence oil and 2 blocks of pumpkin color for the 2 lbs of wax. I heated to 176 degrees and made this cement vessel using Cement-All. The double wicks are CBN-3 wicks from Hive and Honey Candle Company.

This photo was taken 15 minutes into burn. All of a sudden the flames dropped and almost extinguished. Only thing I can think of as I thought I noticed hairline cracks forming a circle around both wicks. Sinkhole underneath possibly? Any advice or criticism is welcome. Thanks for your time and attention.

I also must mention I made this candle today and didn’t cure the candle. Unsure if not curing the candle is the culprit?

Cherry was first. Lemon was second.

Now strawberry 🍓

Same process — 3D model in Blender,

resin printed master, 10 Shore A silicone mold.

The seed texture was the most challenging part —

hundreds of tiny indentations that all need

to transfer cleanly into the wax.

Second photo is the full burn.

Red wax pooling on white ceramic —

didn't expect it to look this dramatic 🔥

What fruit should be next?

Hi everyone! This is my first time posting here. I'm trying to make macaron candles (wax melts). The macaron shell turns out okay, but faced a lot issues with the whipped wax cream.

1. The cream hardens too fast, and difficult to "pipe" out of the tip (I used normal piping bag, and close star tip). The wax pushed out the tip instead.

2. I re-do another batch and manage to pipe out successfully this time, but by the time the "cream" dried, it started to look very cracky and brittle instead of smooth and fluffy

A few details - I used 80/10/10 blend of container soy, pillar soy and beeswax. I melt altogether, stir vigorously to introduce air bubbles and put into the piping bag and around 50~60 degree.

*Sorry, english is not my first language. I tried my best to describe.*

I got this from another crafter's destashing and I'm on the fence about destashing it myself. It's pretty and works fine, I'm just not sure I'm actually going to make a snowflake shaped votive size candle and I'm not sure it would be something I'd do as a topper like I would a flower. I'm going to destash some other molds I decided I'm not going to use so I just need to decide if this is going in that box or not.

Hi everyone ! I’m in the middle of candle testing and my candle would burn fine and perfect , up until this point . When the candle is melted to half way of the tin, I noticed black build up on top of the candle wax. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong … my hot throw and cold throw is perfect! But for some reason when my candle is burnt down to half of the tin, it does this . Please anyone help, if you have tips and tricks please let me know! ( the wax I’m using is coco apricot wax and 10% FO )

Hello, just bought a new wax burner and I noticed white smoke after I put a wax melt on it! Is it normal?

Same thing is happening to another wqx burner I own and I didn't noticed till now!

Crazy stuff. This is only about 15 minutes after pouring, I could actually see it crystalize right in front of me! GB 464 with Candle Science Amber Liquid Dye 3 drops for 16 oz (worked previously) and High Tea fragrance oil at 7%. Added oil and dye at 180f, poured at 160f in pre-warmed vessels as usual. Lab temperature today about 65f (also typical, it's usually really cold in here). The wax didn't appear to be bubbly and I poured it slowly and gently as usual too. I pour on a silicone mat to keep my marble countertops from cooling the wax too fast.

I know this dye can act weird, but has anyone else tried this FO and know if it acts wonky? If the oil is fine I may just make it in plain instead of dyed wax.

I've been using the 6oz and 8oz rose gold tins from candlescience as my primary vessels, but CS discontinued them and are almost completely out at this point. I've ordered the silver versions to start using, but I'd love to still have the rose gold as an option as well. Does any one know of any other candle suppliers that sells both sizes? I've found the 8oz in a couple places but have had no luck finding the 6oz

What they look like for reference: https://www.candlescience.com/containers/8oz-rose-gold-candle-tin/?variant=120-pc-case