What is so special about soy candles?
Five years ago, when the soy candle fad was at it’s peak, many of our retail customers asked us to make soy candles. In 1997, when we decided to make a vegetable candle, we tried every wax we could find from all over the world, including soy wax. We liked palm wax because of its superior scent loading ability, melt point and firmness. But anytime a new wax blend was introduced, we would test them to compare all the vegetable based waxes. We just couldn’t get the same quality candle with either 100% soy candles or the soy wax blends. Also, you can’t make tapers or pillars from either pure soy wax (which is used less and less) or a “soy” wax blend containing a significant percentage of soy. We worked with soy manufactures for five years trying to come up with a soy pillar blend that burns as well as paraffin pillars. This year we all gave up. Then our sister factory in Indonesia came up with a 100% palm wax pillar. We are still testing it with various fragrance loads of pure essential oi
