Choosing Wax for Candle Making

There is no best wax. There is a wax that matches the vessel, the scent, the climate, and what you are willing to stand behind. We wanted vegan, plant-based, a decent hot throw in a real sitting room, and a pour we can repeat in Ullapool. That landed on soy-coconut. Not beeswax (we do not use animal products). Not tallow. Not paraffin.

If you are choosing for yourself

• Container candles: a container soy or soy blend. Test the wick.
• Pillars: harder wax. Soft soy pillars slump.
• Loud lid sniff: paraffin will flatter you in a shop and then you live with the rest of it.
• Vegan: plant waxes only. Read the label. “Natural” is not vegan by itself.

Then spend your energy on wick tests, not on forums. The wax is half the story. Wicks, soy, vegan.