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Burning and caring for soy candles
Even a great candle is wasted by bad burning. The first burn sets the wax memory for the life of the candle, and an untrimmed wick soots and cuts burn time by hours.
This section has how to burn a soy candle step by step and how long soy candles burn by size and wick. These are the rules we use when burn-testing every batch in our workshop.
- Burning and care
How to Burn a Soy Candle Properly: First Burn, Wick Trimming, and Safety
How to burn a soy candle so it burns evenly, never tunnels, and lasts longer: the first-burn rule, trimming the wick, maximum burn time, how to extinguish, storage, and the safety checklist.
5 min read - Burning and care
How Long Do Soy Candles Burn? Burn Time Chart by Size
How many hours a 4, 8, 12, or 16 oz soy candle burns: a burn time chart, the formula to work it out for your own candle, what shortens burn time, and how to make a candle last up to a third longer.
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