thank you bakers for asking and bringing this subject back up, and for me, a reminder. with christmas and a two floor office move life has been hectic the past few weeks. might be for another week or so until the dust settles (and the stress) around here to focus on something besides art work, furniture, boxing and unboxing crates and carts, loading and unloading and plugging in desktops......was also asked to saw a rather large conference table in half with a skil saw. i rolled my eyes......seriously?!..........
it sold, thank you very much. i told them to hire 'two men and a truck'........lol, why should they do that when they have free labor.......all the spouses...............well some........
sorry i digress. ANYWAY, the cubes. i did some 'research', and found a number of recipes. seems those who use beeswax for the cubes find it works better to mix in a carrier oil into the beeswax; ie cocunut oil, etc, and essential oils because of the high melt temp for beeswax alone. most of the candle warmers are designed to heat cubes (wax) at a lower temp, and those cubes are not made from beeswax. usually soy or parafin, or a combination of soy and parafin. these have lower melt temps.
some folks mix in soy or parafin in beeswax, to achieve the melting temp, but i am not going to do this. i will probably experiment with a carrier oil mixed in the beeswax, and add essential oils for the fragrance, or just add essential oils and see what happens. also flavor extract oils are used.
fragrance.....
essential oils, from what i read, and depending on how many is used are often not enough to give a good 'throw' of the scent throughout the house. the lingo i learned, LOL. so to get a good 'throw' of the scent, the use of fragrance oils or flavor extract oils are much stronger. i do know that the 'scentsy' brand sure beats anything else on the market for this, but their recipe is a secret as to what they use. so would like to try and replicate the same 'throw' or strength of the scent throughout the house.
the wax does not evaporate in these candle warmers, but you can tell when the essential oil or fragrance oil has evaporated from the cube. much like adding essential oil to lip balm, if you add the essential oil when the beeswax is too hot, it will evaporate or reduce the essential oil you added. when the scent 'dies', i just empty the hot wax out, or let it cool, and peel it out. i also read where folks repurpose the wax, save it, remelt and add the oils, let it harden and re-use it again. not sure how well this works?
enhancing the natural smell of beeswax would be very cool, so i would think just adding a carrier oil one might achieve that sweet smell of the beeswax throughout the house!
cinnamon and honey..........
i will post up some recipes i found and saved a little later, maybe this evening, for sure by tomorrow!
again, thanks bakers for asking!
