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Cremino candles: the first approach to a wood wick...

Ok, let me be 100% honest: when I saw the wood wicks for the first time I literally fell in love with them!
I absolutely wanted to try them, so I placed an order at Mondo bougies and decided to start a pretty challenging project without having looked for any information about wood wicks first!

This time I got inspired from an Italian chocolate called Cremino! For this reason I've also bought from my beloved supplier a CHOCO-PRALINÉ fragrance. 

If you want to try and make the Cremino candles you'll get the recipe with all the technical details by following this link to my FB page.

It would have been a perfect piece of work if I didn't have troubles in keeping the candles lit!!!!

I tried many things to sort the problem out..and to cut a long story short let me tell you that you should ALWAYS DOUBLE THE WICK WHEN USING 100% SOY WAX!

They do look incredibly real, don't they???

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