hello everybody this is Ariane Arsenal from Lafayette handmade soaps and today
I am doing an unboxing and making video from Village Craft in Candle
um if you've been following me for a little while you do know that I make coconut wax candles uh
once in a while and I do buy my coconut wax from them I am also an affiliate and I will leave all
of the links that you need to know about in the description box below this video so um they have
this coconut and soy wax blend that I've really been wanting to try and they also sent me other
stuff I'm not exactly sure what is in the box but they've sent me I think vessels and some candle
making equipment so let's unbox see what's in there and then make some candles with the supplies
foreign if you've ever heard about
um Village Craft and candle they do have a soy wax called the freedom wax and this one is called
Freedom coconut wax I did go online and look it up and it does have some soy so I guess like the
coconut will add like this smoothness to the wax and the soy will give some of the firmness
that holds the wax together most coconut waxes usually have other waxes Blended in
them either soy or Palm or paraffin this one is an all-natural coconut wax so I'm really really
intrigued about testing it out because I'm always looking for all natural waxes that perform well
let's take a look at the texture of this wax first of all I can see that it comes
into pellet forms which is nice really easy to handle many of this coconut waxes that I've
tried either the cocoa 83 or cocoa apricot they all come in slabs and I love flakes or pellets
foreign
it's very dry it's not like sticky or mushy or soft so
first impression I really like the texture this makes me so happy I cannot wait to get it melted
and pour it down into a jar all right let's move on to the other box and see what do we have here
okay so I got a bottle of watermelon wedges fragrance oil
and nothing has leaked very well packed so watermelon wedges
it does smell like watermelons and then here what's this [Music]
[Applause]
oh we got the lids probably for the vessels that are right in here so let me get this out of here
foreign oh I think I opened the box no it's not upside down it's the vessels that are
oh wow look at these beautiful tumblers I I really like tumblers they these are really nice they have
a thick bottom which in my opinion makes better candles than thinner ones because when they're
very thin the bottom can become really really warm and then it can heat the surface which the candle
is burning on anyways it's always recommended to burn your candle on a heat safe surface or to put
it on a heat safe coaster to eliminate the risk of burning your surfaces and look at these little
oh so cute these little wooden Lids are just beautiful very simple very chic I really really
like them um so now that you've seen the jars that I got and the wax let's make some candles
so the first step is probably to get my wax melted but I'm I do have an appointment this
afternoon so the first thing I'm going to do today rather than melting my wax is just cleaning out
the vessels and then making sure they're dust free and all clean and the way that I do this
I use a 70 rubbing alcohol spray and I just spray a little bit in each candle
and I mean you could do this with water it just takes longer to dry
and then I use a microfiber cloth and then I just wipe each candle down so this removes any
dust any anything that would be oily I will be gluing my Wicks to the bottom once I make
these candles and I want to make sure that my either my wig sticker or my glue will stick on
the bottom very well so that I don't have a wick on the loose when the candle burns down
okay okay Second Step before I go I'm gonna go on the Village Craft and Kendall website
and I'm gonna check all the information related to the coconut soy Freedom wax so that I know if
they have any WIC recommendations if they have a fragrance load recommendation what temperature I
should be melting adding my fragrance to and pouring into the vessel and I will start by
making just one single candle to test my Wick and then once I have a good result we will be making
a whole bunch of candles but in this video I'll be making one candle and I'll show you how I do
my wig testing which is pretty simple actually okay I am ready to pour this test so let's do a
little candle mat together so what I do um I know this is probably gonna hold 200 grams of melted
scented wax um and I did read on the website that this wax can hold up to 10 percent fragrance oil
I'm gonna go with eight uh eight is kind of my magic number when it comes to candle making so
it's very easy to do without you know a calculator so this is 200 mL I mean 200 grams so we're gonna
do 16 grams of fragrance oil and I'm talking with my chalk stick here because I like to write things
down on my table when I work just to not forget my measures so I'm going to write 16 grams of
FO and then 184 [Music] then grams of Wax and of course we're going to use the watermelon wedges
fragrance oil this is going to be a summer candle and we're just going to leave it white
for now so I'm going to take my melting pitcher and I'm going to pour some wax in there [Music]
don't you just love pellets
okie dokie I really like these metal stirring spoons when I make candles because if I melt my
wax I can leave them in and I'm not worried that they're going to be melting because
they're not plastic so I'm going to use a direct heat source to melt this today when
you do this always stay near your wax do not leave it unattended waxes you know oil-based
and it can catch fire if you overheat it so stir and monitor constantly when you do this
when making a test candle like this I do use the direct heat method it's faster and also
my wax melters are too big to melt a little quantity of wax like this but when we do make
Bigger Productions we do work with two of these melters and these are from Stanley handcrafted
the wax has melted it is at 170 Fahrenheit and the the poor recommendation is at 160
um so I'm going to wait just a little bit we're
gonna add the fragrance oil and pour directly into a jar without any Wick
when making a small batch or just one candle sometimes it's hard to pour out
of these bottles without making a mess so use a chopstick and lean it against the the rim
of your bottle and then gently pour so that the fragrance oil Glides down that chopstick
now we're adding 16 grams of the watermelon fragrance oil
and see so easy up Dean
oh it smells so good yum yum
now I'm not sure how long I have to stir this before pouring but most soy
waxes require one to two minutes of stir while coconut waxes usually require less
time so I'm gonna go for around a minute and then I'm gonna take the temperature and pour
okay we are at 198 grams I got some of the waxes still on my pitcher I do have quite a
lot of space between the the wax and the rim um I think if I remake these I would probably fill
them a little more maybe at 210 215 so uh but this is a good test anyway so I'm gonna let
this harden up and then I will come back once it's set to add in my Wick and show you my test tricks
the wax has been cooling for about an hour and a half it's still warm to the touch but
it's perfect because I need to drill a hole down the middle of this wax so that I can
insert a test wig so I'm going to use this wig centering tool just to find my middle
this looks good and using a skewer I'm just gonna make a hole all the way down just like so
and then I'm gonna go grab a a wick without a wig Tab and I'm going to insert it directly into the
wax please note that when I do make candles for selling for the purpose of you know offering to
my customers I always adhere my wigs to the base but for weight testing I do it this way because if
I do my burn test and it doesn't perform well it's easy for me to pull that Wick out and then put a
different one and then start the wick test again and or the burn test and see if it's behaving well
so I'm gonna let it solidify this way I could remelt the top a little bit just to make sure
that my wig is you know is very well set into the wax and then I'll come back to burn it
um and voila just like so so we have a little bit of bubble action right here
if you have some voids that do happen in your wax these are also useful as you can poke
into the wax and release the air that is entrapped Within
all looks good and I will be back tomorrow
finally I did let this candle harden up and cure for a good week you can let it cure
for up to two weeks for a better Centro but I want to do a burn test performance on the the
wax the milk pool and how fast or how big the flame Burns and how fast it consumes the wax
so I'm going to trim to about a quarter of an inch and let's Light It Up
when you make candles the most important thing is to test test your candles you
do not want to be selling a candle made with a wick a wax and a fragrance that
you've never used before you want to make sure that your candle is safe so
before pouring 12 jars I make one because this is a new vessel this is a new wax and
a new fragrance oil so I'll be back in a couple hours and show you how it behaves
this candle has been burning for a little bit over four hours I like to push my test a little
bit over the edge I also like to do some power Burns I'll do that but not today so for the first
burn cycle I'm really really happy um I can touch my jar and it's not overwhelmingly hot as you can
see I'm not burning my fingers if you really want to test like what heat your jar is you can always
use an infrared thermometer and this container is at a smooth 33 Celsius which is 88 fahrenheit
which is very very acceptable now as the candle burns down on subsequent burn tests um it may get
a little bit hotter because it will retain more heat as it goes down the container really really
happy I'm really pleased also um I don't know if you can tell the wax has almost melted all the
way to the edge and I'm pretty confident that it's going to keep melding and pulling the wax
down as it burns I don't like to have any grab on my vessels but on the first burn it's normal
to have a little bit of it and as I said the the more it burns down the more heat and it will take
care of that right there so it's going to be time to blow this candle up I'm really really happy
um I cannot wait to test with other fragrances using the freedom coconut wax from Village Craft
and candles it's made by American soy Organics I think they are one of the only Distributors here
in Canada so it's a very very very good very good test now if my Wick would have been too
big or too small I could have told by the height of the flame and also when your flame is too big
it becomes longer and it kind of dances this way and it makes like black smoke this one you can see
it doesn't so that's also very good but because this is a test if it would have been too big or
too small I could have just like blow the Kindle out pull the wick out and then on the next day put
another one in and it's so easy to test this way um this is how I do it now so let's blow
this baby up and thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time all the information
that I've mentioned in this video will be in the description box so make sure to take a look and I
will also put all the links that I can up here um in the little eye all right thank you so much and
see you soon and thank you to Village Craft and Kendall for sending me these goodies to test out
laughs