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Soy Candle Burning Instructions:
Believe it or not, there is a bit of an art to burning soy container candles successfully.
Soy Container Candles
First & foremost, before each burn, make sure wick is trimmed to 1/8 -1/4 of an inch.…no more than this…this is necessary to avoid any smoking, and enables your natural wick to perform properly. It is especially important to trim as your candle is getting lower down into the jar,
and the wick is striving for oxygen.
Trim your Candle Wicks
You will notice some mushrooming on the tip of your wick (carbon build up). Always carefully clip off this mushroom, before lighting your candle. Also, if you find the mushroom gets too large after a few hours of burning, extinguish candle, clip off mushroom, and relight. If you do not remove the mushroom clump, your wick will smoke and you will get sooting on your jar.
More about Wicks in Soy Candles
Natural wicks become very brittle and can break easily. Be extremely careful when trimming. You may notice that your wick gets a slight curl when burning. Natural wicks are made this way to keep the tip of the wick in the hottest part of the flame. Therefore you may find the wax burns faster on the side the curl faces. You can adjust this by extinguishing your candle and gently pushing the wick in the direction of the slower burning wax. Then relight your candle.
Even the smallest of drafts from a ceiling fan etc., can cause a candle to burn unevenly, so rotating the jar occasionally while burning is a good idea.
Don't 'blow out' Candles
Blowing out candles is not a good idea. It will result in smoke and soot on your jar! It is best to put candles out with a Wick Dipper. How it works - gently pushes the burning wick down into the liquid wax to extinguish it. Then you bring the wick back up out of the wax...no smoke, and your wick is primed for your next burn! And the best part…they only cost a couple of dollars…
Best Burning for Soy Candles
Burn candles on heat resistant surface, away from drafts and never walk with a burning candle!
Keep candle lit until melt pool reaches edge of container... approx. one hour per inch of jar width (at least three hours with our candles). This is especially important, the first time you burn your candle, to give it a memory burn…if you don’t burn completely to the edges with each lighting, you will get wasted wax on the sides of your jar/tin. Burn for no longer than 4 hours at a time.
Discontinue use when only ½“ of wax remains in bottom of jar to avoid the glass becoming too hot.
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