Wick Management
Candle wick management is crucial for ensuring a candle's optimal performance, safety, and longevity. The wick plays a vital role in controlling the flame size and burn rate, directly impacting the candle’s burn time and the quality of the scent throw. A wick that is too large can lead to a flame that is too high, creating excessive soot, smoke, and an uneven burn, while a wick that is too small may struggle to sustain a proper flame, resulting in tunneling and wasted wax.
Getting the best from your candle...
Always keep your wick trimmed to 4mm, before you light and during the burn.
There is a possibility that a candle may start to smoke slightly and may have a large flame. You will need to extinguish the candle and trim back as noted above. If you trim the wick back too much you may have a low flame – if this does happen all you will need to do is extinguish the candle, pour out any molten wax and re-light. Avoid trying to remove wax around the base to create a longer wick as this will not help. It may take some time to burn back at an optimal rate but be patient!
Where you place your candles is important. Avoid all areas where there are heat sources such as heaters, fires as this will make your candle unstable and may result in a rapid burn. Never leave candles unattended and keep them out of reach of children and pets. Place them on a suitable holder which is heatproof as the vessels can become very hot.
Please do not add any fragrance oil/essential oil to your candle. They have already been mixed with the correct quantity of fragrance oil to ensure the burn is even and hot throw of scent is optimal. You may impair the quality of your candle by adding any further fragrance.
Finally, soy way is a natural product and for your first burn ensure the melt pool of wax reaches the entire surface of the vessel, as this will create a memory burn, and your candle will burn evenly when you relight. The longer you burn your candle at any one time, the better it will burn.
Long burning encourages a wide wax pool, which uses as much of the fragrance oil in the wax as possible. Failure to do so can result in your candle tunnelling and leaving much of the wax on the side of the vessel reducing the burn time of your candle.