RobsCreations

...well, it depends on the wax! I've been making candles for 3 years now and I have experienced several problems myself before finding the right temperature to end up with flawless nice candles. If you decide to make candles: take your time, use a thermometer and check the temperature of your melted wax before pouring, always ! It happened to me several times that, because I was in a rush, I poured the wax soon after I have melted it and I ended up with really ugly candles! If you pour at high temperature you may end up with fragrance loss (evaporation), frosting (this is a frequent problem with soy wax), massive shrinking (not good for container candles), cracking on top. If you pour at a very  low temperature you can have jump lines , wax can start to solidify in the container and so on... Full post on  FROSTING HERE . In my experience, buying certified frosting-resistant soy wax only partially limits the problem... Two golden ru...

Definitely not the first post on paraffin candles, but here there is a new 'effect' I want to talk about.  These white-ish lines (also called jump lines) can be an anti-aesthetic trait on some candles (I hate them on glass jar candles), but in some specific cases (like this one) they really give the candle a beautifully textured look making it appear vintage!  The secret? I let the melted paraffin cool down for quite a bit before pouring it in the mould, and I have poured it quite slowly.  The white-ish ridges/lines appear because as soon as the wax touches the mould's walls, it hardens. Mould's temperature remains constant and, without any external heat source, it is impossible to re-melt these lines.