Candle Care

March 4, 2010

What Can You Do with a Bag of Chunks

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Bag of Chunks from BGs Candles

Bag of Chunks from BG's Candles

What can you do with a Bag of Chunks? 

Normally a Bag of Chunks is purchased to be used in a Burner.  If you don’t know what a burner is, it is a electronic device that melts wax emitting the scent of the wax into the room the burner is located in.  You can see a selection at www.bgscandles.com/burners.htm that you can place a small amount of wax chunks into from your Bag of Chunks or a larger amount to fill it up.  Do make sure not to overfill the container on the burner or it will run over making a mess of wax.

Another was is using it as Potpourri.  You can place your Bag of Chunks into a glass container, basket or any other container of your choice to allow the aroma of the scent to fill a room.  The scent will only last a short time, like a few days.  Then you can put it into your burner to enjoy the remaining scent.

If you want, you can place a Bag of Chunks into a closet, like your linnen closet.  The scent will fill the closet and contents with the scent you choose, like sheets and pillow cases.  We often have used scented fabric softner sheets in the dryer to obtain the same effect, only a Bag of Chunks will provide a longer lasting aroma than the softner sheets.

Place them in a drawer with linnen napkins and you will have the same effect.  Or hang a small amount from your car rearview mirror and fill your car with the aroma that will last a lot longer than the little green tree you buy at any store.

You may be storing clothing for the summer or winter, so put a Bag of Chunks into the box or container and it will keep a fresh scent instead of that musty odor.

These are just some of the ways you can use a Bag of Chunks.  If you have any suggestions, please leave your comments. 

And as always, thank you for visiting with us and our web site where we have over a hundred scents you can choose from to make your Bag of Chunks.

 

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March 4, 2008

Trimming The Wick - Part 3

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 Trimming The Wick - Part 3

Now that you know the importance of trimming the wick, there is a little tid bit that will help you descide who you want to make your candles.  Yep, there is a difference that will help you and add to the safety of your candle use.

One important aspect of ever bruning candle is the trimming of the wick, but what happens when you forget?  Your candle continues to burn.  That can lead to a fire.  We have all seen the evening or morning news about a fire started with a candle. 

Well, most people just don’t use candles becasue they fear a candle will cause a fire.  Or that only use them for a short time period.  Your careful use of a candle and trimming the wick will insure your risk of a fire is deminished.  Not only can it be deminished, your use can be inhanced.

One of the things we do is add a little extra to each of our candles by using the wick holders in our votives and tea lights that is taller.  What happens is your candle, a votive or tea light will extinguish itself before it reaches the bottom of the holder.  Two reasons for this addition in our votive and tea lights.

First, your votive holder will not crack from the escessive heat when a votive burns down to the bottom. 

Second, the taller wick holder extinguishes the flame leaving a small abount of wax in the bottom of the holder.  The same applies for our Tea Lights.

You may let them burn bacasue your just forgot about them in your busy life, so this added feature will help prevent a fire.  Don’t take this for granted by any means.  Please remember to extingusih all candles when you leave or retire for the night.

The Trimming of the Wick still is your best way to prevent a disaster.  If you leave and have been diligent in trimming your wicks, you will have helped prevented a disaster.

Thinking about the proper use of your candles, like trimming the wick, will bring you more enjoyment in the end.  The aroma of your choice will last longer.  The burning effects will bring the desired effect you desired in the first place.

All from Trimming the Wick.

We hope you enjoyed this section and have learned to be safe with usinging your candles.  That’s why we are here, to help and to provide the best possible candles for your use.

To see a selection of our Votives or Tea Lights simply click on one of these links. 

www.bgscandles.com/votives

www.bgscandles.com/tea

We are here to help you get the most from your candles no matter where you buy them.

Check back with us for more candle information and suggestions for your best use of your candles.

Thanks for visiting with us.

www.bgscandles.com

 

 

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Trimming The Wick, Part 2

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Trimming The Wick, Part 2

In the first part of this Blog post, we covered the need for trimming the wick.  In this post we will try to show you why.

 Take a look at this picture and see if you can tell which votive candle had the wick trimmed - The Right or Left?

 Triming the Wick

If you chose the left, you are right.  Both of these votives have burned down to the end, yet the one on the left still has more wax left.  The one on the right has burned down to the wick holder at the bottom of the votive holder and has left black soot all along the inside of the votive holder.

This was casued by not trimming the wick allowing the wick and wax to incompletely burn which produced the soot.  This soot also was emitted into the room the votive was burning in.

This is why it is so important to trim that wick after two hours.  You get a longer burning candle no matter what type you are burning and you don’t get the soot.  It doesn’t matter what type of wax you are burning with either.  Incomplete burning will emit soot from any type. 

When the wick is too tall and not trimmed, this is what you get.

This should help you to understand the importance of taking the time to trim the wick of any candle you are burning.  Alsways remember you have a candle burning and never leave a candle unattended. 

We hope this helps.  We are here to serve your candle needs.  We have lots of choices to choose from.  Just check out the Specials page on the web site.  You just might find something you would love to add to your decor.

Until the next entry,  Have a great Day!

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