Container candles with beeswax - how to??

December 17, 2003

get them to not shrink while they are cooling? The few I have tried

does that and the end result is a itsybitsy tine gap between the

candle and the tin. Suggestions on what to blend the beeswax with, to

keep this from happening?

Fragrant Blessings,

Ylva

December 17, 2003

, ruby_mama2001 wrote:

> get them to not shrink while they are cooling? The few I have tried

> does that and the end result is a itsybitsy tine gap between the

> candle and the tin. Suggestions on what to blend the beeswax with, to

> keep this from happening?

>

> Fragrant Blessings,

> Ylva

Hi Ylva,

I'll bow to the desicisions of the _real_chandlers, but I wonder if

you could blend the beeswax with some container soywax? I notice when

I blended beewax with the bayberry, it shrank much less - I guess b/c

bayberry is softer and less dense.

What other exciting projects are you working on?

virtual milkbone 8==8 for Fiona.

JenB

December 17, 2003

Small giggle JenB and some bones back to your furry babies :-D

I don't have any container soywax and can't get it here, and no

bayberry wax either to my knowledge :-( Sigh, poor me living on this

side of the world...at least it's rather peaceful, one should count

ones blessings :-)

Hmm, I have made some very vanilla body lotions - special order -

yohooo, made myself a new face cream (i just love that part, cooking

up new things just for me), made a natural beeswax and rose candle,

sold my friend some shea- and cocoabutter plus a small amount of the

VODCC I got in a coop, made some lava lamp lipgloss - that was FUN -

for my niece and today I made a special perfume for her (she is 11) -

vanilla infused VODCC and jojoba, natural beeswax, vanilla abs,

sandalwood, green and red mandarine plus pink grapefruit. It turned

out exatly the way I had imagined it in my mind, so I'm more than

pleased and it got my friend Bärbel green with envy ;-P

Now I'm off to bed, after attending Sam's Christmas show at school.

How cute can they get at the age 6-9??? If I got some nice pics out

of it, I'm going to post them later this week.

Fragrant Blessings,

Ylva

December 17, 2003

Wouldn't a veggie stearic help prevent this? Or can you mix it with beeswax?

I've never made a 100% beeswax candle so I don't have that knowledge.