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Healthy Soy Wax Candles Video

Posted by KAT Saturday, August 30, 2008 63 comments

This is a great video showing the reasons why you should choose soy wax candles as the healthy alternative when you are burning candles.

Watch below and you will see some good reasons for choosing Soy Wax Candles.

I made the choice to make all my candles with soy wax, once I decided to make my own candles. I did a lot of research into the benefits and drawbacks of candles.

I was very surprised at the facts that I found out about paraffin candles.

Please make the healthy decision for you, your family and your pets and only burn Soy Wax Candles in your home from now on...........

I thank you, and the environment thanks you.


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Making Soy Wax Candles

Posted by KAT Friday, August 22, 2008 4 comments

2 candles and sunflowers
When I make candles, it gets pretty hot here!


The wax needs to be melted at 190 degrees, and that is pretty hot~



Once the wax is melted, you can add the color, but you have to let it cool a bit, before adding any of the scent, otherwise, alot of the fragrance will dissipate in the hot oil, and the candle will not smell as strong as you had planned. I make all my candles to smell the absolute strongest that they can smell, so I take this step very seriously!



The next step is to wick the container you are pouring the wax into. I like to secure my wicks prior to pouring, but some companies pour a little of the wax into the bottom of jar, and wait a few minutes, and then they put the wick into the wax before it hardens, securing the wick. Then they pour the rest of the wax for the candle. I don't do it that way..... I use "Tacky wax" which acts as an adhesive holding the wick tab to the bottom of the container, kinda like a glue dot. That way, I can pour the whole candle all at once, and I don't have a line where the 2 different pours were, and I don't have a floaty wick when the candle burns down that far!



Once my wax has cooled and I have added the color and scent, I pour it into the prepared container or jar of choice, and then I just have to wait for it to set up.

That is when I make the lables for the jars. (I am not a big enough company to have all kinds of pre-printed lables available at my disposal)



And that is what it takes to make my candles!



Please come on over and take a look at my website: http://www.katscandles.com/



I have loads of things to look at and over 100 scents that you can choose from.....




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Something off Track!

Posted by KAT Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2 comments

And now for something completely off the subject......
This has nothing to do with soy wax candles, or sunflowers.....
I just thought these were hilarious!! And I wanted to share them with you.
I received these 2 jokes from my friend last nite, and I was literally laughing out loud, with tears rolling down my cheeks!
Now, maybe it is my sick sense of humor, I don't know, but I wanted to share them anyway.
Let me know what you think!


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A Gift for my Wife
Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.
A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this:
Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie.
What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized taser. The effects of the taser were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety.
WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home.I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing!I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button AND pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I'd get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. AWESOME!!!
Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, right? There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target.I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second)and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat.
But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and taser in another.The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.
All the while I'm looking at this little device measuring about 5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, 'no possible way!'
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best.
I'm sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, 'don't do it dipshit,' reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and . . . HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!! . . .WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE HELL!!!
I'm pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire,testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs.
The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.
Note: If you ever feel compelled to 'mug' yourself with a taser, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor. A three second burst would be considered conservative? SON-OF-A-BITCH, THAT HURT LIKE HELL!!!
A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocaine, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling. Apparently I shit myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I'm still looking for my nuts and I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return!!
P. S. My wife loved the gift, and now regularly threatens me with it!

'If you think Education is difficult, try being stupid.'


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Only in Texas my friends - Only in Texas - Too bad.
A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a sheriff's deputy.
He thinks that he is smarter than the deputy because he is a lawyer from New York, and is certain that he has a better education then a cop from Houston .
He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Texas deputy's expense.
The deputy says, 'License and registration, please.' '
What for?' says the lawyer.
The deputy says, 'You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign.'
Then the lawyer says, 'I slowed down, and no one was coming.'
'You still didn't come to a complete stop,' says the deputy. 'License and registration, please.'
The lawyer says, 'What's the difference?'
'The difference is you have to come to complete stop. That's the law. License and registration, please!' the Deputy says.
Lawyer says, 'If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my license and registration; and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don't give me the ticket.'
'That sounds fair. Please exit your vehicle, sir,' the deputy says.
At this point, the deputy takes out his nightstick and starts beating the daylights out of the lawyer and says,
'Do you want me to stop, or just slow down?'

OMG! I am laughing all over again at these as I post them..... I am sick! :D

More Sunflower Facts....

Posted by KAT Monday, August 18, 2008 0 comments

Small Sunflower


Part 2 of Sunflower Facts......

Most people know sunflowers that are bright yellow with dark brown centers, but varieties are cropping up (a little pun there!) now which have orange, maroon, tan and even striped petals, and green-yellow centres. Some don't even have the center seedy covered disc, but they are completely covered with petals all over instead. (I personally don't think of these as sunflowers, but a mutant blend that someone has come up with! Give me the yellow and brown, and I'm a happy girl!)

Sunflowers are a member of the "Astor" family.

Most sunflowers are grown for the seeds and oil they produce. Each mature flower yields 40% of its weight as oil. This oil is used for cooking mostly, but is now being looked into for fuel. It is being studied as a biological source of hydrogen for potential use in biofuels. And we all know about eating sunflower seeds! The salty covered treats we ate as kids, where that was one of only a few times your mother let you spit something out of your mouth, when you had to get rid of the shell....the other I can think of is watermelon seeds..... Somehow, being a girl, and being able to spit was a big deal for me!

In 2006, the Lays Company began frying its entire line of potato chips and snacks in NuSun brand sunflower oil, cutting saturated fat by 50 percent. This was and is good news for all of us! I smile when I see the sunflower on the "Lays" bags of chips.

More to come...................

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Sunflower Facts and musings....

Posted by KAT Sunday, August 17, 2008 3 comments

The Sunflower in my Logo........

sunflower


I have a strange addiction to Sunflowers......
I am drawn to them wherever they are, and whatever their image may be on....

They remind me of my Dad who is no longer with me, and so, when I see a Sunflower, it makes me think of my Dad and makes me smile. I only started noticing Sunflowers right after he passed away, and then I learned some very interesting facts about them.

I started using a Sunflower in my logo for my candle business and it has stuck. Now that I am blogging, I am using one on my blog too!

Here are some interesting facts about Sunflowers:

The first and foremost, is that the sunflower is the only flower that reaches towards the heavens and follows the sun.....that to me is profound. This phenomenon known as heliotropism, where the head of the sunflower tracks the sun's movements.

The French word for Sunflower is: tournesol, or "turn with the sun"

The sunflowers scientific name is Helianthus. It comes from two words, Helios meaning sun, and Anthos, meaning flower.

The tallest recorded sunflower grown was 25 feet, 5& 1/2 inches tall in 1986, and was grown in the Netherlands by a M. Heijmf.

The largest recorded sunflower head measured 32 1/2 inches across its widest point and was grown in Canada.

The shortest recorded sunflower was just over 2 inches tall and was grown in Oregon using the Bonsai technique.

Sunflower heads consist of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers joined together by a receptacle base. The large petals around the edge of a sunflower head are individual ray flowers which do not develop into seed.

More Sunflower facts to come....................
(I got a million of 'em....Jimmy Durante)

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I Haven't heard alot of scents.......

Posted by KAT Friday, August 15, 2008 0 comments

Where are all the people with really good scents??
Lady shrugging shoulders



I was hoping for more comments with some unusual names of candle scents.

Does anyone else know of other weird or strange names for candles?


Please leave me your answers below...............

I sell many different candle scents at http://www.katscandles.com/ , and all of my food/bakery candles are very true to the name....

If the lable says "Hot Fudge Brownies", then that is EXACTLY what it will smell like!

If it is "Macintosh Apple", same, same.....just like a fresh juicy apple!


I have numerous people come up to me at craft shows, and comment on how they smell exactly like whatever the lable says.... and they are usually surprized at how realistic the smells are. I just stand there and smile, because usually, I have gone through the whole explanation of "how they smell exactly like what the lable says" and the person usually gives me the half-smile thingy and then picks the candle up to smell for themselves. Then they look at me with this incredulous look on their faces, like OMG! I didn't believe you!

BUT............

Then there are the scents that need explanation.........

Some of them I am describing all day long, because the lables aren't self explanatory.

My best seller and the one that needs the most explaning is:


Monkey Farts

Now I know that you are expecting a really, really disgusting smelling candle, but...

If you can just imagine everything a monkey might ingest, and then have blow out the backside, it actually smells really good! It has bananas, sweet grapefruit, kiwi, strawberry, and some bubble gum that smells like bubble yum, with an undertone of vanilla.

Now.....Doesn't that smell delish?

I can tell you that I sell more of this candle than any other, lots of sales are for the name alone, for example, customer #1 says to customer #2 that she is going to get her husband "monkey farts" because he will get the biggest kick out of it!!! And lots of sales are for the scent once customer #1 smells it and realizes that is isn't gross!


Below are some others that need explanation.......


BUTT NAKED

This has a nice combination of granny smith apples and honeydew melon, with some strawberries and pears, and hints of spice.

COCO MANGO

This is a really nice tropical scent, it is very light and begins with mango, fresh strawberries,elderberries, and ripe papaya. It has undertones of rich vanilla and toasted coconut and just a hint of soft musk.

SMOKE ELIMINATOR

This is really good to get rid of nasty smells in your house, with the aroma of juicy lime and lemon zests with hints of herbal cilantro. It covers the smell of foul odors, and is great for smokers of all kinds!

GODS LOVE

This is a best seller just from the name, but once you smell it, you'll love it! It has the scent of soft baby powder with a hint of ripened sweet mulberries.

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

A true stress-relieving aroma: Floral bouquet of ylang ylang, jasmine, rose and carnation with hints of violet and undertones of exotic woods.


I hope you have enjoyed reading into the different scents and names and seeing what goes into the scents, and that sometimes.....you just need to do some explaining.


Let me know what you think!!! Are there any scents out there that you can think of that I haven't listed, that sound funny, or need explaining?

Leave me your most outrageous candle scent............

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SoyBeans...Not just for candles...?

Posted by KAT Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3 comments

soybean farms

Soybeans are grown in many of our United States, including.....

Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio to name a few....


This is a very nice picture of a soybean farm being harvested by the newfangled machines that some farmers use today.

(It kind of looks like a Wright Brothers plane with wheels, doesn't it?)

I read that in Ohio, Columbus-based Battelle Memorial Institute, the world’s largest independent nonprofit research institute, is one of the companies leading the way in researching and developing alternative uses for Ohio farm crops including soybeans. The company received $1.1 million from the Ohio Soybean Council to develop a number of soybean-based products, including a soy-based toner to be used in printers, copiers and fax machines. The environmentally friendly ink, among other advantages, will be easier to remove during the recycling process, making for a cleaner, brighter and cheaper recycled paper.

Can you believe it??? Sounds good though, huh?


In 2003, the project received one of R&D Magazine's prestigious Annual 100 Innovation Awards. The awards, considered as the Oscars of the technology world, recognized the most significant scientific and technological achievements for 2002.
The money for the Battelle project was made possible through check-off funding, a system where farmers contribute a portion of their sales to an organization, such as the Soybean Council, to help fund research and promotion of their crop — in this case soybeans.
Battelle also has conducted research into increasing the percentage of soybean oil in PVC plastic pipes, developing soybean-based furniture coatings, and developing a soybean-based, all natural hand cleaner.

They are also generating soybean based fuel substitutes, and won't that be a kick in the pants to the big oil companies?? We can grow loads of soybeans right here in the United States, and wouldn't have to go offshore to purchase fuel. Wow, I am impressed with what I have been reading up on this.

Anyway, although I love my Soy Candles, I am glad that the soybean is being used for other things too! And it can only help the environment in the long run. For me though, the only candle to burn is the Soy Wax Candle! Longer lasting, stronger smelling, better for MY environment!

Candle Safety

Posted by KAT Tuesday, August 12, 2008 0 comments

Here are some tips for Candle Safety.....Failure to follow these safety tips could result in a fire hazard or an injury.
  • Never burn your candles unattended! Number 1 for safety.
  • Keep out of reach of Children and/or pets. Little fingers, or tails wagging are not safe around an open flame.
  • To avoid glass containers from shattering: never burn a candle that is in a container that is either cracked or chipped. The glass is weakened, and the heat can cause it to shatter.
  • Always place your candles on a heat resistant surface when burning. You can use a trivet, saucer or a pot holder in a pinch. You may think that your counter is safe, but some countertops are not heat resistant. Jar candles can get very hot when burning. Also, furniture is generally not heat or flame resistant. Think before you put your hot candles anywhere that might not be safe.
  • Keep wicks trimmed to avoid high flames and increased burning time. A large wick flame will make your candles burn faster and hotter, and could produce smoke from the increased wick size. Always trim wicks to 1/4" prior to burning.
  • Keep wicks in the center of the container. If your wick is crooked, use a butter knife or spoon to push it back to the center for even burning.
  • Avoid burning your candles in drafts. Drafts can occur from air conditioning units, fans, open windows or just from traffic in the area (people walking alot). Burning you candles in drafty areas will make your candles burn unevenly and quicker. If you notice a lop-sided burn, turn your candle every once in a while, so that the other side will melt also.
  • Never burn candles around any flamable objects like curtains, drapes, papers, etc. These can very easily catch on fire if they drift into the area of the flame.
  • Keep the candle, wax, and wick area free from wick trimmings, matches, or any flamable materials. These can catch on fire when the flame reaches them.
  • Do not keep burning your candles once the metal "wick tab" is showing, if one is used.
  • Never put a lid back on the container or jar until after the flame has been blown out and the container has had time to cool. This can cause cracks or fractures in the lid, due to the heat build-up, and could shatter if it's glass.

I hope these Safety guidelines help you and that you might have found a tip or two here that you did not know! More information will coming soon............

Let's Go Green With Soy Wax Candles!

Posted by KAT Sunday, August 10, 2008 5 comments

The term "Going Green" has become a very popular term in America today.
Everyone is becoming more concious about the planet and how we can all help out in our own little way. I have found that one way I can contribute to the healthiness of the planet, is by burning only Soy Wax Candles instead of other options.
Many people have already switched to Soy Wax Candles and may not even know they are helping the environment!

I think the reason that switching to soy wax candles has caught on so quickly is because the results can be seen when burning a soy candle compared to a paraffin candle. Soy candles burn completely and evenly, and when burned correctly, you are not left with a tunnel down the center of your candle and half of the wax unmelted once you finish burning your candle, like most paraffin candles. Soy candles also do not generally produce the ugly black smoke that paraffin candles do. (Note: All candles can produce soot & smoke if the wick is too high). The smoke is due to the fact that paraffin candles are made from petroleum products, which creates a sooty & smoky burn not related to the wicks, but to the wax. Soy wax candles on the other hand are made from soy beans which are an organic vegetable product and do not emit black smoke when burned.
So if you are looking for a great eco-friendly product that shows you have "gone green", you can purchase soy candles or give soy candles as a gift. You will be glad that you did. Just think about how good it will feel to know that you are helping the environment by only doing something you love to do anyway.....burn candles!
Just make sure that your choice is SOY!

I thank you and the planet thanks you too!

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