How To Avoid Surface Cracks - Candle Making

What can we do about those pesky surface cracks, craters, and air pockets on our candles?
This video is one of many lessons included in the Soy Wax Candle Making Fundamentals Course. Read more about that here: armatagecandle...
In this episode we’ll break down the primary reason these imperfections appear on our candles, what their impact is on the burn, and what you can do about it to improve your process.
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[@aradhyaagarwal7970]

I so needed it. I was trying to to the wickless candles, I saw a bump kind of thing. Like the wax was going down from the middle. Also, I saw a crack in the same thing. Thanks for the video and explaining the reason behind it!!♥️

[@iluvdramarock]

I had similar issue. When I have deep container that happen, the crack part. When I had the shallow container, it was smooth no issue. With my deep container, I have warmer that designed for candle warmer, it smell great. When it cool, still have crack. So, I gave up on heating the gun since I am always gonna get crack when it cool. I pour at 165 ish. Room temp from 75 to 80 degree with the humidity on average 45%. I lived in south Florida. I need to keep my eye on this. Update: so I tried again with wick but this time I poured at around 150ish and it came Smooth top. Rm temp 78, humidity 51%. I was so happy! Oh yes I used a rack and cover. I think that what help. Hope this tip help. The issue I had before was wickless candle. So the wickless part will have crack. But my wick might not because it won’t melt all of it.

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[@chadmikaels]

I keep my home at 22 degrees C when I make candles but still get cracks and air pockets. I heat wax to 185 and add FO and pour at 165

[@pinkkhearts]

Thank you so much

[@emmythecloser]

Wow thanks

[@mbae7865]

Should we heat the jar before pouring wax to avoid jar separation?

[@bigoldgrizzly]

not a candle maker myself , but would have thought that insulating the jar and a polystyrene board placed on the rim would slow the cooling and setting enough to prevent these problems

[@ArmatageCandleCompany]

Differential cooling sometimes does strange things.

[@carmensanchez5472]

Thaks for the video!! Isn't warming up a the container another good option?

[@chantelgraham7941]

Can I poke holes and use the heat gun, if I made the candles 3 weeks ago?

[@ttisol]

Thanks for this video! I've been having issues when using the heat gun. If the top is quite uneven and i have to melt more than just a thin layer of wax, the candle ends up having a puddle of oil after a couple of days. It doesn't happen every time but more often than not. Any ideas what may I be doing wrong? :/

[@ArmatageCandleCompany]

The puddles usually happen to me when I've overloaded my wax. Heat gunning the top may be damaging the wax capacity enough that it can't "recapture" the oil it was able to hold from good stirring at the higher temperature. Not really sure without seeing it, unfortunately!

[@ttisol]

@@ArmatageCandleCompany I generally use 7% to 9% with 464 so it shouldn't be a matter of too much FO. My current guess is that I may be holding the heat gun too close to the candle, which is close to what you mentioned about messing the capacity of the wax to recapture the oil 🤔. I didn't have this issue the first few times I used a heat gun, though, and I don't think I've changed my method. The wax also sets weird, a bit like if it had sand on top, instead of smooth.

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[@christianeatass]

Hello!! Can this be applicable to all types of wax?

[@deniacobb7400]

What temperature should you pour the melted wax into the vessel to prevent surface cracks

[@ArmatageCandleCompany]

Ideally close to the temp of the melted wax. Doesn’t have to be extreme, but higher is helpful.

[@glasgowjohn7831]

to the air to the cool to the container skeet skeet

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Taking too much time in telling the problem than giving the solution