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Melt and Pour Soap Base is a great starter for soap making Well, so much for Melt & Pour being easy.  The actual soap making part may be easy but the creative part, the dye part, is very confusing.  I have to source new manufacturers.  And whenever you are dealing with new, big companies it takes a lot of time.  It always seems that no one wants to talk to you. I contacted one soap dye manufacturer 7 times over 2.5 weeks and FINALLY got a real person that I  could question mercilessly.  I do feel sorry for the poor...

I have always said that when I know everything there is to know about candle making that I would move on to soap.  Well, I can't say that is the case.  The candle making field is changing and growing so fast with different waxes that it is almost impossible to keep up.  So, while I don't know everything I feel that my 30 year background gives me a pretty good and strong breath of knowledge in which to draw upon.  I now venture into soap.  I go tentatively.  Maybe even kicking and screaming a little.  Soap making scares me.  No...

 Make Your Own Candle Burning Warning LabelsIf you make and sell candles you will need warning labels. You can purchase pre-made generic labels from many different sources.  But if you want to customize labels you will generally need to work with a printer to get what you want or spend hours and hours with various printing programs.  I have created a simple template that you can use with Microsoft word.  No special program needed. You can use it as is with 25UP label paper or you can manipulate the margins to match the sizes of more readily available labels.   I recommend...

How to Make Soy Wax Melts (Tarts) and Which Soy Wax to Use Melts are some of the easiest to make scent dispensers on the market today.  They come in all shapes and sizes.  You can use just about any wax to act as the base for a melt.  But not all waxes have the same scent release and mold release properties. For instance, you probably see a lot of melts that are poured into clam shells or other plastic containers.  There couldn't be a simpler way to make melts. All you would do is mix your scent into your...

Getting a beautiful black in candles has always been a challenge.  Each black color always seems to have just a tinge of red, blue or yellow.  Many blacks in soy never really look "black".  They often look just dark gray or purple.  Or some other "kinda black" looking color.  We at Candle Cocoon are working on improving the black that we have.  Our Spicebush is a very good black when enough Flutter Dyes are used.  Over the years the raw materials have changed a bit and the color doesn't seem to be exactly the same.  So we are currently working...