Candle Question

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For those of you who make candles, I have need of your expertise and knowledge.

I make candles professionally, but I have only ever used pre-treated pre-tabbed wick assemblies. I am branching out into making palm wax pillars. In order to do this, I have to order spools of untreated wick. (The only wick assemblies I can find locally are 6" long at most, and no, I do not want to order online as I can avoid shipping charges by using this company exclusively, thus saving me money.)

My question is, how long do you soak the wick in your wax in order for it to be "fully treated"? And then how do you avoid the wick getting lumpy once you pull the wicks out of the wax?

And because you're all being so helpful, I will post a picture from my product photoshoot late last week.

Soap Spheres! Little spheres of soapy goodness, made from the bits leftover when I bevel the full-sized bars. :)


Thank you! :)