Beautiful finish with this wax! What a fantastic tip about priming the wicks, I was so frustrated wickless testing that I gave up on wood, now with this wonderful tip I can revisit them :) Thanks! Super excited for next weeks video, I've been kicking around making concrete vessels so I'm sure I'll learn a ton.
The wax came out gorgeous! And yeah I was frustrated with wickless testing wooden wicks for months, until I realized what I was doing wrong lol. Hopefully you’ll have a better experience! Ohh and that’s awesome you make concrete vessels too, when I post the video you should definitely chime in with more tips and info. It feels like a lot of stuff is kept secret and it was hard to get started because of it 😂
Everything is toxic in the world don’t ya know 😂😂😂 but yeah the sealer has low VOCs and non-flammable and water based but definitely isn’t natural haha
@@HawthornCompany You are so right! I never even thought about this for years when burning candles, suddenly I am learning candle making as a hobby during pandemic and got caught up in the search for an ideal but probably non existing bit of it in facebook diy groups :D If you can share your ideas about these type of dilemmas, I am confident, most will enjoy hearing your point of view and you might even ease some of the unnecessary pressure some chandlers are feeling
This was great! It's meant to be I have been researching on diy vessels and purchasing items -how great to have a real tutorial before I make my first set! Thanks!
Nice I’m glad I came across your video very interesting I am new at candlemaking but with saturating the wick with wax would it be much easier if you would just put the wooden sticks in the wax that you are already melting in the presto pot just an idea would that work also I love how you made a link for everything that you were using thank you for sharing this video great tip
I have ordered all 3 waxes from SixteenSeventeen and they are so unproblematic!! I love them so much. I didn't have to do much testing to get the wick/vessel/wax combo correct.
@@HawthornCompany The Coconut Soy😍 mainly because I use it the most. I’m still testing my Luxury line with the coconut apricot wax. The shortage is interfering😞
this video helped so much, went looking for a soy bliss review after I just ordered some happy to say I don’t regret it, hopefully my experience is as good as yours !!
Can't wait to find out what sealer you will use. I'm in some concrete making groups. This is a big problem we are having. Cause sealer needs to be heat resistant and non toxic and we have not able to find one that is both
Everything seems toxic these days haha but some things are less than others, the one I use is non flammable and low VOCs. What concrete group are you in? I want to join!
This was the most helpful video on Soy Bliss I’ve seen yet. Thank you so much! I don’t know if you have already talked about this, but do you prefer Soy Bliss to Coco Apricot Creme?
Can you do a candle testing video? I’m starting my candle business but don’t know where to start. I have my FBN business account and all but now what hahaha
No problem! I’ll test them with different wicks until I find the right combination, and then I’ll make full candles with my favorite wicks out of the testing bunch
@@HawthornCompany Hi!!! I’m sorry. I’m still confused. :( So, you have candles poured with no wicks (gold vessels). Do you melt and add wicks? Sorry! I’m new to candles.
Haha no problem! We’ve all been there. I prime the wicks like in the video by heating wax onto the wicks and letting them dry out like on a paper towel, and once it’s dried I insert the wicks by sliding the wick into the candle jar. You don’t need to remelt the wax in the jar, you should be able to push the wick in. If the wick doesn’t work, and it burns funny, then you can remove the wick with pliers and re-insert a new wick. This keeps the cost of testing materials down.
I’m new so forgive me but what is the purpose of a wickless test? Do you do this often for whatever reason? Can you do a video showing how you actually add the wick after the wickless test? & I would love to suggest a video of how to properly get rid of sink holes with a heat gun :) thank you!! Love your channel
Loved your video! Another method of inserting the wick without having to separately prime is to wait for the bottom of the candle to harden, once it hardens then insert the wick. That way the wick cures and dries with the candle. I also dip the top of the wick in the wax before inserting. :)
OH MY, I was so excited when I got the notification, thank you for the review. I ordered soy bliss and im excited more now to start playing around with them. BTW i could listen to you all day and I didn't think the video was long, lol One question, do you recommend the .4 wooden wick since this is soy or is the whisper .03 better.
Yes and no. It could give you a better burn rather than using dried wicks, which means the hot throw will be improved that way. But the bulk of your hot throw will be dependent on your fragrance oil (like only 40% of my oils are strong throwers, not all oils will throw well), percentage, technique, and cure time.
I absolutely love your videos and all your work is just beautiful! Great job! I wish I can do the same. I am new to candle making and soap making so I'm watching lots of video tutorials. By far, yours is the best for me. Can't wait for your next video.
That makes me so happy 😍♥️ good luck on your candle journey! I’m new to soap making too (cold process), I hope to be good enough one day to make tutorials on it too~
I haven’t decided yet, honestly I’ll probably end up switching between the two because both are always sold out lol. It’s so hard to get coconut waxes right now 😩😭
Is it sweating when the candle is burning or when it’s cool? Cause sweat when it’s burning is just from the heat of the flame, it’s not actually oil seeping out. If it’s sweating when it’s cooled down and sitting in a room, that’s definitely sweating haha
Hi Jessica. I tested some of my soy bliss in my aura vessels and having a hard time wicking, the flames are high. I've tied .04 .75 -, .03. 75 CB and the .02 .75 whisper and booster.. I'm using WW Saffron & tabbaco.. I'm So lost.. any advice
I like .02 crackling booster .625 the best for mine, but my jars also get hotter than other jars since mine are made with a metal coating, so a smaller size wick is better for me. Keep in mind your oils play a HUGE roll on your flame, it could be your oil. I’m also experimenting with mixing in 5% SP487 to see if it helps with the harder to wick oils (like your tobacco one). But yeah I would stick to .02 wicks for sure, and for oils that drown I bump it to a .03 - but never use a .04
I just love watching your videos. It’s so therapeutic, please make more!
Beautiful finish with this wax!
What a fantastic tip about priming the wicks, I was so frustrated wickless testing that I gave up on wood, now with this wonderful tip I can revisit them :) Thanks!
Super excited for next weeks video, I've been kicking around making concrete vessels so I'm sure I'll learn a ton.
The wax came out gorgeous! And yeah I was frustrated with wickless testing wooden wicks for months, until I realized what I was doing wrong lol. Hopefully you’ll have a better experience! Ohh and that’s awesome you make concrete vessels too, when I post the video you should definitely chime in with more tips and info. It feels like a lot of stuff is kept secret and it was hard to get started because of it 😂
I love your little pour pots.
Haha thank you! They are little expresso milk pots 🙌🏻
@@HawthornCompany Cute! I might need to find some.
I always look forward to your videos. My favorite time ☺️☺️
Aww! That makes me so happy to hear that 😍
Me too! I hope she grows on her channel
Yay! I just blew off a whole zoom meeting to watch this! Thanks for sharing. 😇😇
Hahaha 🙌🏻🙌🏻 yaaas that’s awesome.
so excited for the cement vessel and sealant video
Everything is toxic in the world don’t ya know 😂😂😂 but yeah the sealer has low VOCs and non-flammable and water based but definitely isn’t natural haha
@@HawthornCompany You are so right! I never even thought about this for years when burning candles, suddenly I am learning candle making as a hobby during pandemic and got caught up in the search for an ideal but probably non existing bit of it in facebook diy groups :D If you can share your ideas about these type of dilemmas, I am confident, most will enjoy hearing your point of view and you might even ease some of the unnecessary pressure some chandlers are feeling
This was great! It's meant to be I have been researching on diy vessels and purchasing items -how great to have a real tutorial before I make my first set! Thanks!
Ohhh this is perfect timing then!
I love your content, so helpful. Do I need to prime traditional cotton wicks when testing?
Nope! Cotton wicks are good to go right out of the bag. They are already coated with wax
@@HawthornCompany Thank you!
wish i could speak like you, so sweet of a voice 😂
Hahah it’s a curse and a blessing. Most people think I’m like 12 when I talk on the phone because of it 😂
Nice I’m glad I came across your video very interesting I am new at candlemaking but with saturating the wick with wax would it be much easier if you would just put the wooden sticks in the wax that you are already melting in the presto pot just an idea would that work also I love how you made a link for everything that you were using thank you for sharing this video great tip
I have ordered all 3 waxes from SixteenSeventeen and they are so unproblematic!! I love them so much. I didn't have to do much testing to get the wick/vessel/wax combo correct.
That’s awesome 😍 which one was your favorite?
@@HawthornCompany The Coconut Soy😍 mainly because I use it the most. I’m still testing my Luxury line with the coconut apricot wax. The shortage is interfering😞
Where did you get your shelves? They are so beautiful!
Love your heatgun. What brand is this?
this video helped so much, went looking for a soy bliss review after I just ordered some happy to say I don’t regret it, hopefully my experience is as good as yours !!
Oh yay! Let me know what you think of it 😍 I’m still testing it right now but it’s a super easy wax to use!
Thank you. I learnt something new about wick testing.
Yay! Glad to help 👏🏻
I just love this channel
🙌🏻🙌🏻 I’m so happy to hear that
Can't wait to find out what sealer you will use. I'm in some concrete making groups. This is a big problem we are having. Cause sealer needs to be heat resistant and non toxic and we have not able to find one that is both
Everything seems toxic these days haha but some things are less than others, the one I use is non flammable and low VOCs. What concrete group are you in? I want to join!
DIY concrete & cement candle vessels
Concrete candle making
This was the most helpful video on Soy Bliss I’ve seen yet. Thank you so much! I don’t know if you have already talked about this, but do you prefer Soy Bliss to Coco Apricot Creme?
Just wondering as well. What is your preference and why?
Great video!
Can you do a candle testing video? I’m starting my candle business but don’t know where to start. I have my FBN business account and all but now what hahaha
Great info always so helpful
♥️ glad I could help!
Is there an update on the testing with this wax
That was also my conclusion from wickless testing wooden wicks. Conformation 💫
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Soy bliss and coco soy from WW are completely different? Or do you think they perform the same?
They are different but they perform relatively the same in my opinion. I like the throw on soy bliss more
I’ve been wanting to try the Soy Bliss- Can’t wait to see how the HT is for you. 😊
I’ve been testing it and the HT is pretty killer with wooden wicks!
@@HawthornCompany how many days do they need to cure
Hi! What size wicks did you use with this wax?
@@vanessaboykin3887 I actually changed to Soy 10 and so far love the wax- still testing wicks😊
Hi! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! What do you do with the wickless testing candles you poured?
No problem! I’ll test them with different wicks until I find the right combination, and then I’ll make full candles with my favorite wicks out of the testing bunch
@@HawthornCompany Hi!!! I’m sorry. I’m still confused. :( So, you have candles poured with no wicks (gold vessels). Do you melt and add wicks? Sorry! I’m new to candles.
Haha no problem! We’ve all been there. I prime the wicks like in the video by heating wax onto the wicks and letting them dry out like on a paper towel, and once it’s dried I insert the wicks by sliding the wick into the candle jar. You don’t need to remelt the wax in the jar, you should be able to push the wick in. If the wick doesn’t work, and it burns funny, then you can remove the wick with pliers and re-insert a new wick. This keeps the cost of testing materials down.
I’m new so forgive me but what is the purpose of a wickless test? Do you do this often for whatever reason? Can you do a video showing how you actually add the wick after the wickless test?
& I would love to suggest a video of how to properly get rid of sink holes with a heat gun :) thank you!! Love your channel
Loved your video! Another method of inserting the wick without having to separately prime is to wait for the bottom of the candle to harden, once it hardens then insert the wick. That way the wick cures and dries with the candle. I also dip the top of the wick in the wax before inserting. :)
This is a great idea too!! I wish someone would have told me about all of this before I started a year ago, so it’s good to share knowledge 😂😂
@@HawthornCompany Same 😅. Thanks for sharing!
OH MY, I was so excited when I got the notification, thank you for the review. I ordered soy bliss and im excited more now to start playing around with them. BTW i could listen to you all day and I didn't think the video was long, lol One question, do you recommend the .4 wooden wick since this is soy or is the whisper .03 better.
When I was testing it, a .03 works better and sometimes you’ll need a .02 depending on the oil.
@@HawthornCompany thank you Jessica. Your the best😘
I ❤️ your channel, and thank you for this information!
Thanks for watching ♥️
I cant find any information on 6046 either xp so I feel the struggle.
Exactly! If you were using 6006 it would be easy but there’s no info on your wax either
Do you think priming your wood wicks help with the hot throw?
Yes and no. It could give you a better burn rather than using dried wicks, which means the hot throw will be improved that way. But the bulk of your hot throw will be dependent on your fragrance oil (like only 40% of my oils are strong throwers, not all oils will throw well), percentage, technique, and cure time.
Your thoughts on soy 10? Was that also hard to sick compared to soy bliss?
Also what % do you use using tw30? Thanks
15% with tw-30 and soy 10 is easy to wick too but the hot throw on soy bliss is better IMO
@@HawthornCompany thanks. Any wicks you prefer using with soy 10?
I absolutely love your videos and all your work is just beautiful! Great job! I wish I can do the same. I am new to candle making and soap making so I'm watching lots of video tutorials. By far, yours is the best for me. Can't wait for your next video.
That makes me so happy 😍♥️ good luck on your candle journey! I’m new to soap making too (cold process), I hope to be good enough one day to make tutorials on it too~
I pour my wax over the wicks as I pour into a jar. Is that good to prime or should I preprime them all?
Nope what you’re doing now is perfect 👌🏻
Are you moving away from coco apricot onto soy? if so, any reason why?
I haven’t decided yet, honestly I’ll probably end up switching between the two because both are always sold out lol. It’s so hard to get coconut waxes right now 😩😭
@@HawthornCompany urgh the supply shortage struggle is reallll 😩
Girl tell me about it 😩😩 I’m going to be a wax expert at this rate with how many times I’ve had to change LOL
@@HawthornCompany 😂😂
A lot of my friends swear by the CDN wicks for this wax
I believe Soy Bliss is the same wax as Virgin Coconut Soy, no? I could be wrong but I was told it was in a candle group.
Nope soy bliss has no coconut in it, it’s a completely different wax. Made by the same manufacturer though!
@@HawthornCompany ah okay thank you for clarifying!
I may try soy bliss at a later date. I have about 35lbs of soy 10 and I am having wicking issues and sweating at 8% 🙄🥴
What? Really? Are you heating to 200°? Soy 10 is another fortified soy so it needs a higher temp, and pour it by 185°
@@HawthornCompanyHaha, I'll try pouring at 185°. I've been pouring at 195-200°. Maybe I need to stir longer for soy.
Is it sweating when the candle is burning or when it’s cool? Cause sweat when it’s burning is just from the heat of the flame, it’s not actually oil seeping out. If it’s sweating when it’s cooled down and sitting in a room, that’s definitely sweating haha
@@HawthornCompany When it cures, it fine. When it sits out, I'll notice the sweating.
@@HawthornCompany Ok. My new batch is fine now. It was so cold that week and the rooms held variant temperatures. Thank you.
Hi Jessica. I tested some of my soy bliss in my aura vessels and having a hard time wicking, the flames are high. I've tied .04 .75 -, .03. 75 CB and the .02 .75 whisper and booster.. I'm using WW Saffron & tabbaco.. I'm So lost.. any advice
I like .02 crackling booster .625 the best for mine, but my jars also get hotter than other jars since mine are made with a metal coating, so a smaller size wick is better for me. Keep in mind your oils play a HUGE roll on your flame, it could be your oil. I’m also experimenting with mixing in 5% SP487 to see if it helps with the harder to wick oils (like your tobacco one).
But yeah I would stick to .02 wicks for sure, and for oils that drown I bump it to a .03 - but never use a .04
@@HawthornCompany thank you so much 🥰.. I'll try that