Hi and welcome to "La Fille de la Mer" my name is Ariane Arsenault and today I'm gonna tell
you about some testings I did for my candles, because as many of you know,
one of the brands that many candle makers were using, including me, were out of stock
They had an international shortage of their soy wax for candles so
I decided to test another brand while waiting for my usual supplier to stock
back their soy wax so I did some testings with the Golden Brand
soy wax and I'm just gonna show you what I've learned. The first thing that I did
is that I made votives and then I placed them into my status jars and I pour my
wax at about 135 degrees Fahrenheit. I did that for my 8 ounce and my 12 ounce
status jars. Here are the two candles that I test poured this morning. I am
removing the wick centering tools and checking the surface for irregularities.
When you pour soy wax, in the cool down, sometimes it creates a little crater or
a void in the surface of the wax and I want to eliminate that so I'm using
a heat gun and gently heating the surface of the wax until there no
longer seems to be a void then I'm gonna let that wax cool down again
and check the surface later to see if it fixed the issue. So there I am done with
the 8 ounce candle and I'm gonna proceed and do the exact same thing for the 12
ounce candle. Now if we take a closer look at the center of the wick I can see
that there are air bubbles that are coming out so I melted that really
nicely and made sure that all of the air bubbles were coming out and then I just
put the wick centering tool back on again and wait till this firms up for
two days before test burning. I have cut down my wicks and it's time to do
the burn test after the golden brand wax has been setting for 48 hours
this one is an 8-ounces and this one is 12 ounces and I
will be back, I'll let these burn for one hour and then I'll show you what the
burn pool looks like and how the wax and the wicks performed together. Oh! By the
way these are HTP 1212 and these are HTP 105. Here is 40 minutes
in to burning tests and the pool is almost at the edges of the container it
doesn't feel too hot, it's just warm and I will keep this burning to complete a
full hour and see if I reach a full burn pool within an hour be right back! Oh!
look at these little tea light these are perfect really happy about these.
These candles have been burning for a 1 hour and I'm pretty happy with the results as
the burn pool has reached the edge of the glass on both candles so that's a
very good sign. When you reach a full burn pool it means that from there and
on the wax will keep fueling the wick and we'll go down evenly rather than
creating a void or a crater and like digging into the wax rather than burning
down equally. So... Great! It's time to turn these off they have been burning for 4 hours
You can see that the burn pool is very nice, the flame isn't too big but
since they've been burning for a while they're kind of making little balls on
the top so I'm gonna blow these out, I'm gonna let these cool down completely
then I'm gonna trim my wicks and keep enjoying them another day. And now for
the real test making a whole bunch of candles with the golden brand you can
see that I've made the votives with the same wax that I'm pouring right now.
I'm pouring at 135 degrees F but this time I am coloring my candles and scenting
them at 5%. We made many candles with many different scents in many different
colors because we really had to restock for the shop. Here you can see the
votives through the clear wax but as it dries and hardens up the wax will be
opaque and the colors will be a bit lighter. Here they are now! This is a
different technique; we're doing a double pour so two layers. It's the same thing
basically but with two colors on top of each other. Still we had problems with
frosting and little craters or gaps creating irregularities on the surface
of our candles so we did have to use the hot-air gun and blow on top of each
candle to fix the surface. It was not absolutely perfect but it was good
enough for my expectations! I'm working with a different product so
I have to expect something different! And here they are all laid out in the shop
This candle was made using soy wax from my previous supplier, it's nice and
smooth, this was done in a single pour, with the same technique using the
votives inside but at one pour no heat gun was required to smooth out the top.
This is the only thing that was a bit more tricky to do with the Golden Brand
I had to heat gun every single candle so the tops would be smooth and even though
there was a little bit of frosting on top in my colored candles but definitely
the Golden Brand has saved my summer season as we sell so many soy wax candles
in the shop, so I'm really happy I have this wax available. I will make another
candle making video once I get my new wax back, because our supplier is
supposed to stock back up in August and they will have a new formula; so more
testings for me to do and I will keep you updated on that as well. Thank you so
much for watching, if you have any questions or comments leave them in the
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this video give me a thumbs up and I will see you later! Thank you, good bye!