SOY CANDLE TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS

COMMON SOY CANDLE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Pure soy wax is a beautlful product with countless benefits ranging from your health to it's impact on the environment.

But once in awhile, you may run into an issue with how your candle is performing for many reasons. Have no fear, we've rolled up our sleeves and reached into our bag of tricks to give you the tips you need to fix things and get back to enjoying your candle!

PROBLEM: TUNNELLING

TIP: TIN FOIL TENT

OTHER SOLUTIONS

TIP: SWIRL WAX

If you feel like your candle just needs a little nudge, sometimes the solution is is as simply as a few gentle swirls.

Using the heat generated from the existing melted wax, gently swirl the wax around making contact with the unmelted wax on the edges. The heat from the melted wax should help to melt the remaining edge wax and allow the candle to burn evenly.

If you had an excess of wax on the sides, you may find that the wax level has raised and your flame may be smaller. Just extinguish the flame, grab a little bit of paper towel or tissue to absorb some of the newly melted excess wax and re-light.

TIP: RE-CENTRE WICK

If your wick has shifted or is curving heavily to one side, it will most certainly effect the heat distribution and cause a wax buildup on one side of the jar.

The easiest way to fix this is using a wick dipper or any metal object to shift and re centre the wick.

The sooner you can identify an off centre wick and re adjust, the better as this will avoid wasted wax.

TIP: MANUALLY REMOVE WAX

If you have burned the tunnelling candle multiple times, the previous solutions are unlikely to work.

We reccommend grabbing a teaspoon and warming the spoon portion with hot water (make sure to dry the spoon before placing into the wax).

The objective is to scoop or scrape as much of the excess wax as possible from the sides of the jar. If you can create a slightly concave surface this should allow your candle to relight and provide space for the melted wax to go.

Please refer to the tin foil method to clean up the sides of the jar, and ensure your wax melt pool fully . covers the surface on this burn and all subsequent burns.