[Nfb-krafters-korner] Candles

Blindhands at aol.com Blindhands at aol.com
Sun Jan 5 16:48:40 UTC 2014 

Brambleberry has several melt and pour soaps made out of different  
ingredients  to choose from  Check them out 
brambleberry.com
 
This is where I will suggest you purchase your supplies from, but wait  
until I can go over and check to make a suggestion regarding a supply  list.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 1/5/2014 5:40:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
scopist65 at gmail.com writes:

Oh, this  sounds interesting.  I know soap making people use fragrance,
natural  or synthetic kinds.

I wonder what one pour wax is made  of.

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Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 7:34 PM
To:  nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  Candles

I did not make soap from scratch.  I used the melt and  pour  soap.  

Now as far as candles go I used jars and  pottery, sugar bowls, pitchers,
coffee cups, wine glasses and ceramic  stuff. That was my uniqueness.  I
poured candle wax into a lot of  different unusual type of things.  I even
poured into sugar bowls and  salt and pepper shakers.  My sales approach was
once 
you burned  your candle you could wash out the pottery and use it.   Glear  
glass jars left me with trying to figure out how to color the  wax.   You
have 
that one correct.  If I did it pink,  then they wanted it  yellow.  So with
the pottery all the wax I  kept white.  

I used a one pour wax which heats up to 130 F  degrees which is nothing like
the jell wax that is something like 220 F  degrees.  Now I used cotter pins
to hold my wicks in place.  Well  I would take a bit of wax which is like
butter and put it on the metal disc  on the end of the wich and feel with my
hands and fingers the center of the  bottom of the jar or container and 
stick
it  in place.  my hubby  would  take the wick and cotter pin[one of my 
candle
suppliers told me  about this one and sold the long cotter pins]  and would
put the  cotter pin and tape the cotter pin with masking tape across the  
top  of the opening.  The pouring pots have a  pouring spout and   handle 
and I would use a frying pan with water in it like a double  boiler.   I
would 
stir it with a wooden spoon until you felt  that the wax was  melted.  When 
I
poured the wax into the  container I would hold my finger  down into the
container and pour  slowly.  The one pour wax is not that hot  to pour and 
as
soon as  I felt the wax hit my finger, I would pull it out and  instantly  
the
wax hardened and cooled on my finger.  I did not get burned   and you did 
not
pour again.

The hotter waxes cool unevenly and when  it set it would leave a depression
in the center of the candle so you had  to repour to even it out.  With the
one pour wax, you did not have to  heat it up as high and it set up 
perfectly
level .  I would Leave the  containers until the next day to be sure
everthing was set and I would move  them as the wicks where masking taped in
place and help in place with the  cotter pins.

I had to purchase a talking food scale to weigh my wax and  know how much
fragrance oil to pour into the melted wax.  I did not  make pounds.  I  did
one container at a time.  The more I  did the more I had a better idea  of
how much wax was needed for each  container and I would weigh it out and
measure the gragrance oil so all my  candles had the same proportion of wax
to scent in it.

I had gotten  a cheaper food scale, but it did not last long and I wanted a
more precise  tool so I think I paid something like $150 for my scale.  I
could  weigh in grams and my teenage kids would kid me that Mom was the  
drug
dealer.

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com    


In a message dated 1/4/2014 6:16:43 P.M. Eastern Standard  Time,
shelbiah1 at gmail.com writes:

I have  not tried soap making  for the same reason. I am nervous about the
lye. I  also like my  candles to be in jars. Also a bit worried about 
pouring
hot  thick  liquids, especially if there is something across the top of   
the
container such as a pencil to hold a wick up. I am sure that there  is  a
method to do this I just can't think of it.   
Shelbi


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From:  Nfb-krafters-korner   [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On
Behalf Of David   F
Sent: January 4, 2014 5:59 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and   artists'
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Candles

Oh, candles. Do  you  use soy wax or natural wax such as from candelaria 
nuts
or the  paraffin  which I heard is dangerous.  I have heard of people  doing
candle  carving or sculpting.  But not for me.  I just  wanted to  use
interesting found objects, old jars, etc. to hold  them.

I  emailed for a time with Delores Boone who wrote a book  about soap than
BARD  did.  But the lye scared me.  It gets  very hot.    


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