More candles! Here’s my second batch of Ecosoya CB 135 test candles cooling:
An aerial view of the new batch of test candles as they cool down:
I noticed that this Ecosoya CB 135 soy wax has a shiny appearance to it. To the point where it looks oily, I only put 1oz of strawberry shortcake fragrance oil with a pound of wax which I believe is 6% FO. Tealights are easy to make with the pre-tabbed tealight wicks.
Through the magic of the Internet, the candles have cooled!
Oh but look it’s ugly tops again. 
And it’s glossy to the point it looks oily again. I really liked the smooth tops and silky look of the candles I made with the Ecosoya CB Advanced soy wax much better than this wax. At least this time, there’s no large sink holes like the last time. I think maybe because i poured it at a lower temperature, around 120 F degrees.
And there’s the dreaded wet spots and frosting! The wet spots with this wax is way worst than the Advanced wax. These wet spots really make it look like it’s actually wet but it’s not, it’s cooled solid.
Through the magic of the Internet again, it’s time to light up the candles! I guess it’s not really magic to light them after they have cooled, it sounded good. 
I started the front candles in the above picture a half hour sooner than the back ones. They are all the same wax formula except for the 7oz tumbler in the front. The 8oz mason jar in the front had an ounce less wax because I ran out in this batch. The pink one in the tumbler is actually a remelt of the previous testers. The other candles had a tiny bit of the previous tester wax to give it a slight pink tint and very little fragrance. It is basically an unscented, colorless candle.
Tada! It’s 3 hours later and the testers are going ok. The Eco 10 wick in the 7oz tumblers which are 3″ diameter at the top is too big for this container. It was burning really hot and strong. After awhile it was smoking a bit with that black soot, yuck!
And here is the back candles after about 3 hours of burning. If the Eco 10 wick burned too hot in 7oz tumbler, the Eco 8 should have been better but it was still a bit too hot in my opinion. As you can see, out of the 3 different wicks in the same wax formula, the Eco 8 had a more complete melt pool on this first burn session. From what I read, you shouldn’t get a complete melt burn during your first session. Sometimes even the second session doesn’t produce a full melt pool.
Both CD 8 and LX 18 seems ok…they are burning better than the previous CD 10 and LX 20 which were disastrous in the 8oz mason jars.
I’m currently on my 3rd burn session and the Eco 10 is definitely too big for the 7oz tumbler, it’s mushrooming, sooting, and I have to put it out because I can smell the smoke. I probably won’t take pictures of it until it gets down towards the end of the burn. The tops of the candles after it solidifies still look bad, moon craters as some folks would call them.
Oh here’s an odd ball pic of a finished tester. The tealights always burn fine and with very little wax remaining. My soy tealights actually have less remaining wax than the ones I’ve bought so that makes me happy. I think I may make a bunch of tealights with this wax. I’m not happy with the performance of this wax. I love tealights and I could use new tealight cups but I don’t. I just reuse the ones I have without bothering to clean them out, no point if it’s for personal use.
HTP 104 did not burn that well in the 8oz tin. I think I need to wick up since there was too much wax in my opinion left over at the end of the burn.
With all these candles going, I don’t even need to turn on the space heater, the room gets pretty toasty with all the candles burning! It’s ambiance and heat. 
