Can we please talk about candles..

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I get my green tea from two of my resellers. Rooibos tea and two kinds of green tea. Gunpoweder green tea and the expensive kind by the ounce. I mix the two green teas to lower the cost and rooibos I use half and half with the green tea mix.

I'm a fan of teas too, and I've been looking for Lapsang Sechuan to buy but none here. I just love the scent of wet earth.

The problem I have with scented candles is after a short while I don't smell them anymore, so I don't invest in them. So I prefer candles that give a pretty tone to the room. Red containers, and glass containers that have a kaleidoscope of colors.

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When I go back to the store that sells my candles that also sells the teas I will find the fresher and greener green teas name. It has a fresher taste to it and is not as old as teas I think then in bags or the gunpowder green tea. I use the coffee maker and then put it in the refrigerator and drink it cold with ice.

I had already been thinking about developing a loose leaf tea product. Basically the teas ordered in bulk from good sources in 50lb quantities at a time could serve the purpose of facilitating packing jobs, labeling jobs and otherwise. However for now I have to much candle stuff to do to even attempt to design a new product to create opportunity.

Nathan Young

Haven`t thought about candles in a long long
time - but i remember i made candles when
i was around 10, had to dip a string in a
kettle and build the candle slowly layer
by layer, it was frikkin awesome actually
remember i dipped in several different
colors and ended up with a rainbow candle

Some candle makers will do that but then the last layer will be scented only. Fragrance is a very expensive component.

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Ah, i see.

Also, i remember i gathered up alot of used
up candle ends, melted those and made new
candles out of them - very cost efficient, but
the color was kinda yellowy-brown-pukeish
not pretty to look at, i probably shouldn`t
have melted it all in the same pot

That would be from a collection of soot, wick particles and natural aging of waxes and in certain environments greater collections of dusts during relights and then the dust mixing with the hot wax. Plus you also have U.V factors but I do not know entirely. Some grades of waxes will only allow 2-4% fragrance but that is why I like soybean wax, least the higher end grade I have that allows for up to 12% saturation. When I recycle candles it's from container candles that are not exposed to long to dust particles and when I do recycle it's mixed in with newer waxes. The candle recycling program ended for now however it was part of a program that the old candle acted as a coupon. I will re-introduce it as resource recovery as the tins it is good enough benefit but the problem is the labeling such as the warning label that degrades easy and does not remove easy. The solution likely is a removable label with finer finish to hold the integrity of the inks in my in house printing.

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Wow, you really know your candles
impressive

Most of what I have learned has cost me money first to learn the hard way.

I love the scent of pear, even though I can't handle the gritty texture of eating real pears. I once had a bottle of pear bubble bath when I was little, and it was pure heaven. Just recently, I found some pear scented candles at Cost Plus World Market. They make me so happy! I hope pear becomes the new popular scent, like cucumber melon was.

I am adding cucumber melon and already have pearberry in tins. Just I do not sell them through stores. Pearberry is very strong but yellows in glass with UV alterations. The scents I use are so very strong that some I cannot be picky with because they are so good. So tins it is for pearberry.

I am allergic to scented candles.

Cheaper fragrances exhibit more often the symptoms. For people that are allergic I am working on 100% essential oil and non-scented.

It's not whether it's a cheap fragrance or an expensive one - real flowers cause the same problems (I hate the lylac tree in our yard!)

Yeah the florals will always cause someone allergies. Some have more general allergies that they have said my oils do not make them have the symptoms. Ones that smell like perfumes and then the candle fragrance.

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