Making candles

[Funny honey]

any Tricks and tips from you guys, I’m guessing I’ll make a mess.

Wick type thickness?
Anyone add anything to it?

It’s just abit of fun for a rainy day got plenty of it building up

 

[Erichalfbee]

Thorne have a wick thickness guide
It’s pretty spot on except you need thicker for tea lights
You will have to have a trial burn as your wax will vary every year
Those silicone sprays are paramount for releasing candles from flexible moulds
Make sure your wax has set properly before release

 

[Popparand]

Thorne have a wick thickness guide
It’s pretty spot on except you need thicker for tea lights
You will have to have a trial burn as your wax will vary every year
Those silicone sprays are paramount for releasing candles from flexible moulds
Make sure your wax has set properly before release

Do I hear the voice of experience?

 

[For want of a better word]

Tripple filter bees wax before dipping candles... dirty wax can smoke and explode.
Put a disclaimer label on anything you try to sell!!!
C Wynne Jones are a lot less expensive than Thornes
Good quality cleaned beeswax sells for more than honey..... we have sold cosmetic grade Cornish cappings wax for as much as £20/kilo in the past.

Yeghes da

 

[Erichalfbee]

Do I hear the voice of experience?

Yes including the mistakes on the way

 

[Funny honey]

Tripple filter bees wax before dipping candles... dirty wax can smoke and explode.
Put a disclaimer label on anything you try to sell!!!
C Wynne Jones are a lot less expensive than Thornes
Good quality cleaned beeswax sells for more than honey..... we have sold cosmetic grade Cornish cappings wax for as much as £20/kilo in the past.

Yeghes da

Thanks good to know, I’m just having a play at the minute

 

[Beefriendly]

we have sold cosmetic grade Cornish cappings wax for as much as £20/kilo in the past.

We sell 1 oz beeswax blocks (filtered) @ £1.50 each. Over £50 a kilo, a highly profitable sideline that saves making candles ......and we sell a lot of them. I only wish I could get that price for all of my filtered beeswax stocks.

 

[MerryBee]

Beeswax makes a mess if you spill it on your kitchen work tops - and you will.
If you protect the work top with a length of silicone coated baking parchment the wax peels off easily when cold and you can put it back in the pot.

 

[For want of a better word]

We sell 1 oz beeswax blocks (filtered) @ £1.50 each. Over £50 a kilo, a highly profitable sideline that saves making candles ......and we sell a lot of them. I only wish I could get that price for all of my filtered beeswax stocks.

Have you seen the price of the new poncy beeswax wraps?

..... fitted an extra secure Chubb padlock and bar to the wax shed and cleaned up the "Rottweiler... go on make my day" sign!.... and given his teeth a good sharpening.

Yeghes da

 

[beebopper]

Tripple filter bees wax before dipping candles... dirty wax can smoke and explode.
Put a disclaimer label on anything you try to sell!!!
C Wynne Jones are a lot less expensive than Thornes
Good quality cleaned beeswax sells for more than honey..... we have sold cosmetic grade Cornish cappings wax for as much as £20/kilo in the past.

Yeghes da

How does one know beeswax is cosmetic grade? I ask because I have somebody who has asked for just that for her products but did not know if my wax was of a suitable quality so played it safe and said I don't think it is.

 

[Funny honey]

Any one add anything to them seems people like adding coconut oil

 

[For want of a better word]

How does one know beeswax is cosmetic grade? I ask because I have somebody who has asked for just that for her products but did not know if my wax was of a suitable quality so played it safe and said I don't think it is.

Processed by "boiling" in de - ionised water and filtered to death... so that there are no traces of contaminants
Have tested at a certified lab for micro crystalline inclusions ( other non beeswax waxes) and put through a mass spectrometer / ion capture spectrometer or whatever they call it... to check for Chlorampnenicol and other contaminants often found in imported ( Chinese) bees wax.

Then it is pharmaceutical grade

This costs!

Yeghes da

 

[beebopper]

Processed by "boiling" in de - ionised water and filtered to death... so that there are no traces of contaminants
Have tested at a certified lab for micro crystalline inclusions ( other non beeswax waxes) and put through a mass spectrometer / ion capture spectrometer or whatever they call it... to check for Chlorampnenicol and other contaminants often found in imported ( Chinese) bees wax.

Then it is pharmaceutical grade

This costs!

Yeghes da

Not simple then!!

Thanks,