Palm Wax Feathering

Feathering Palm Wax

This commercial grade Feathering Palm Wax produces interesting and creative feathered wax patterns on the surface of the candle. This wax is excellent for votives & pillars and is designed to shrink away from the mould. Sourced from RSPO certified suppliers to ensure our support for the the environment.

Specifications

Instructions

Melt the wax to the suggested fragrance temperature before adding your fragrance. Stir fragrance for at least 2 minutes and allow the wax to cool to the recommended pour temperature before pouring to your jar. Experiment with blending soy/palm to your required percentage.

• Do not pour below 65 °C as no crystals will be evident
• Stir when necessary to release air trapped in the cavity at the top of the wax in the mould
• Break hardened wax on the wax surface to facilitate stirring and topping up if necessary

Adding Fragrance to Palm Wax

You may have noticed some conflicting information above; the pour temperature of this palm wax is higher than the recommended temperature for adding fragrance. This is not a typo. It’s true that palm wax needs a high pour temperature to achieve the desired crystallising effect (that’s a whole chemistry lesson itself). It’s also true that fragrances should be added at lower temperatures, closer to the melt point of the wax. This translates to usually around 70-75’C. This is to stop the fragrance boiling off and losing some of its top notes and potency.

So it becomes a quandry, that can only really be resolved by acknowledging that one must find a balance between the competing ideals. At temperatures above 85C most of the fragrances you get from us will lose some top notes if stored at that temperature for too long. One way to find a good balance would be to pour the fragranced wax hot, i.e. at 90C, but do not let it sit at that temperature for long between adding the fragrance and pouring. Every fragrance will be different but try experimenting to see if you can add the fragrance at around 75 degrees then gently increase the temperature before pouring at around 90C. It’s a balancing act between two competing and equally true principles and, as always, testing is the best way to learn to make fragranced pillar candles from palm wax.