How You Can Know Your Candle is Pure Soy

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How you can know that your candles are made with 100% soy ... frosting.

With time, candles made with 100% soy will form tiny, white, frosted-looking crystals on the top of the wax and/or on the sides of the jar. It looks very similar to the white frosted look that sometimes appears on chocolate. Most people don't mind frosting and many even like the effect. In fact, many customers have said they look for frosting as a sign that the candle is indeed made with soy and not paraffin. You can remove this frosting by buffing the candle lightly with hosiery.

Some soy candle manufacturers add paraffin wax (called a parasoy blend) to their candles to eliminate frosting. The soy used in candles crafted at Witchcrafts Artisan Alchemy™ IS NOT one of these soy-paraffin blended waxes. My shoppe's soy manufacturer is committed to providing you with paraffin-free candles and therefore does not add paraffin to the certified kosher pure soy wax it manufactures specifically as an eco-friendly alternative to paraffin and soy-paraffin wax blends. My pure soy wax is a top-of-line quality eco-friendly wax, and because of this, is more expensive than other waxes (which is why my candles cost a bit more than the candles from other shoppes who use paraffin or soy-paraffin blends).

While I have experimented with my dyes, fragrance oils, and pour temperatures to keep frosting to a minimum, some frosting is nevertheless to be expected with all pure soy candles.

Pure soy candles whose surfaces are glossed with candle gloss don't form frosting as quickly and as easily as pure soy candles whose surfaces are not glossed. I do offer a few glossed candles at my shoppe, but most candles are not glossed and do form frosting with time.

So, when you see the frosting form, you can be assured that your candle is made with 100% pure soy wax and NOT with a soy-paraffin wax blend.

Naturally Preserved, Only the Finest Oils at WITCHCRAFTS™

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A bit about my stock oils - My premium quality stock oils (from which individual item oils are crafted) are made in very small batches. Set with all relevant recipe required botanicals, gemstones and other curios, importantly and unlike many other crafters, each stock oil made at WITCHCRAFTS™ is naturally preserved with certified organic Rosemary extract, the number one choice of traditional herbalists for the natural preservation of hand made perfume oils, cosmetics, creams, lotions, and other herbal compounds. Rosemary's concentration of the key antioxidant rosmarinic acid allows me to use it very sparingly with effective results - both of these advantages are essential for stabilizing oil shelf life without influencing the exquisite aromatic nature of the premium quality oils I offer to you at WITCHCRAFTS™. Naturally preserved, premium quality oils, and only the finest ingredients is what you will receive when you purchase an oil from WITCHCRAFTS™.

EMail Address Change

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I've cancelled my paid email account and will not renew it. My public free email is linked near the masthead. I won't be sending out any email announcements regarding my email address change.

Shamanic Judaism, 2nd Video On Double Portions

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Oops? I posted the first shamanic Judaism video twice (a double portion) the first time (correct now). The second video (part 3) is now available for viewing here or here or here. Take another look ... and hear more of the story.

New Focus For Craftwork - Practical Jewitchery

Soon, within the next week or so, I am planning to update and redesign Craftwork Of A Jewitch toward a closer, more concise focus on the practical aspects of Jewitchery. The blog will be less a personal blog (although I will still draw upon my own experience) and more a basic teaching tool. Learn along with me.

Stay tuned.

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