Traditionally candles have been made from tallow or animal fat, whale oil, beeswax, paraffin, which is a by-product of refining petroleum, and more recently soy and other vegetable oils. Gel wax is also a newer kind of wax for candle making. What is gel wax? It is a mineral oil or hydrocarbon. To make gel wax they thicken the mineral oil with a particular polymer. This makes the wax clear and makes it burn slowly.
There is a patent on gel wax, which Penreco holds. The company uses the name VersaGel?C for commercial purposes. There are three grades of gel wax: low, medium, and high density. The low density melts the easiest and pours well. It can only use 3% fragrance oil and it can’t be embedded. The medium density gel wax melts and pours well. It will hold 5% fragrance and can hold embeds like small beads and shells and glitter. The high-density gel wax is somewhat harder to melt and it doesn’t pour as easily as the other two. But dense pigments can be suspended in it. The embeds should be non-flammable. It can use 5-6% fragrance.
Gel wax is clear and this enables candle makers to do interesting things with it. Candle makers make aquarium scenes. When lit the flame creates an unusual glow because of the candles clear quality. Gel wax is used to make container candles. It burns and melts at a higher temperature than paraffin wax. Because of the higher temperature and because it has to be melted with direct heat unless a presto pot is used-one must be extremely careful when working with gel wax. The only fragrances that work with gel candles are oil-soluble fragrance oils that means non-polar.
Some of the containers that are good to use with gel candles are roly-poly glass, ivy bowls, but basically they need to be heat resistant and crack resistant. Some candle makers don’t like to use the bowls as they say they hold the heat more so. The thing is that all candle containers have to be heat and crack resistant and they can’t leak. So heat resistant containers. The stories out there concerning gel candles that exploded come from people making candles from containers like fish bowls and martini glasses; neither of these is tempered to resist heat, if anything just the opposite is true. A good container for making gel candles or any container candles is the old standby canning jars, which are made to resist heat and cracking. Jelly jars are also made to take high temperature. That has made both of these containers perennial favorites of candle makers.
It is wise to take into consideration that even a heat resistant container can crack. You can take proper precautions: don’t ever leave the candle lit and go out of the room, put it on a heat resistant surface, and keep it from any flammable material. This is important to do with all candles. Remember, safety comes first.

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In any business, spending less and making more money is the object. So when a retailer is looking for candles containers she needs to go wholesale. Scouring a few directories for suppliers will net her the information she needs to get her candle containers wholesale.
One of the neat kinds of containers is pottery: taupe, green, red, or blue. These are hand poured pottery containers. Round decorated polish pottery containers are a charming choice. Many times a closeout for glass candleholders can be located offering really good prices. Here are some examples: a case of 240 glass apothecaries in bulb shape for $122. 40 or round small glass votive candleholders-a case of 108 for $49. 68.
The thing to always remember about using glass containers for candleholders is that it has to be glass that is made for withstanding heat. This ability to take the heat and not break is why canning jars and coffee mugs are popular containers for candles. The 166,000 results for wholesale coffee mugs should help her find a good supply. She can locate some adorable custom coffee mugs in cases of 36 and get assorted designs. An example of pricing is three dozen for $3. 95 apiece and going up to 12 dozen at $3. 78 each. If she has clientele that well go the price she needs to charge for designer coffee mugs they well sell. Otherwise, non-designer coffee mugs are a good choice. These are trendy containers for making poured candles.
Another way to get wholesale candle containers is to buy from package and container companies. Also search for suppliers of natural and hand made soap. Many of these companies also trade in candle goods; they may have votive, taper, wedding, scented, bun, soy, and jar candles. In jar candles alone there are so many luscious scents: citrus, currant, honeysuckle, lemon, vanilla, and aloe to name a few of the wonderful fragrances. These nose pleasers attract customers like bees to flowers in the spring and summer. That is what pleasing her customers and building her retail business is all about-finding candles, candleholders, and candle containers that people like and want to take home.
When making an effort to find bargains there are some searches that pertain to wholesale candle containers that she will find helpful: wholesale candle jars, candle fragrance oils, wholesale candle wax, candle wicks, wholesale votive candles, wholesale candle fragrance, candle glass jars, and candle and soap making supplies. Selling some of these related items is one practical way to expand her cache of products. If she begins to sell candle or soap making supplies she is drawing in a new, but related audience of customers. This tactic has the potential to substantially increase her customer base.
Our retailer now has loads of ideas for candle containers, candles, and related goods that are perfect to include in her stock. She can take the “ball of wax” and run with it and get her candle business rolling along to the bank to make some nice deposits.

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• Highest concentration of essential oils – will fragrance a whole room not just the area around the bottle.

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