Additives for Soy and Parrafin Candles

Palm Stearic Acid

This triple pressed Stearic Acid is a derivative of Malaysian Palm. This additive will improve a candles burning time, and give an opaque or white appearance. Recommended use for SOY WAX, Vegetable and Paraffin Wax is 2 to 9 Tablespoons per Pound of wax. Natural (SOY WAX) candle makers use this to harden their wax blend for votives and pillar candles. Palm Stearic will help increase the fragrance load in soy and will help you achieve a smooth, even finish to your candles.

UV Light Stabilizer

A small amount of this additive goes a long way in preserving the quality of color in your candles, especially if your candles will be displayed in a sunny window or you plan to do outdoor craft shows. Purple is the worst for fading under UV light, followed by red.
Use about 1/2 teaspoon per one pound of wax.

Universal Wax Additive

Universal Wax Additive (UA) is used to help fragrance oil bind to the wax, aids in the retention of the scent, helps reduce mottling, and helps to reduce bubbles. It adds gloss to candles and helps retain translucency in the more translucent waxes. You can add from 1 teaspoon per pound of wax up to 2 tablespoons per pound of wax to your recipe

Kemamide

Kemamide powder is used as a mold release. Add 1 teaspoon of Kemamide powder per pound of wax to make your candles release from the mold more easily.

If you want a glow-through quality in your candle, add some Paraflint to your wax (use no other additives), 1 teaspoon per pound of wax. Paraffin wax is naturally translucent but it tends to bare snow-spots or mottling. No additive will make paraffin transparent, but Paraflint can clarify it, providing a cleaner glow. Having a relatively high melt point, Paraflint needs to be melted separately from the wax with a higher heat source. Adding 20% makes a good veneer, which will help reduce dripping.
Melt point is approximately 208° F (98 C).

Vybar

Vybar 103: higher melt point Vybar used in molded candles to lock color and scent in wax. Use 1 teaspoon per pound of wax as a hardener, and to make candles opaque.

Vybar 260: lower melt point Vybar used in container and votive candles to lock color and scent in
wax. Use 1 teaspoon per pound of wax as a hardener, and to make candles opaque.

Vybar 343: Used in mottling wax candles. Helps lock in color and fragrance and will make your candle more opaque.

Luster Crystals

A manmade wax polymer. Your colors will comebrighter, your candle will burn longer, and the wax will be opaque. This is great if you are making white candles.

Clear Crystals

The clear crystals areanotherpolymer that hardens the wax like luster crystals but makes the wax more transparentwhen burning. The candle will have a glowing effect.

Microcrystaline Wax

Excellent as an additive for candlemaking. Micro wax 175 will add rigidity to tapers, help wax adhere to the walls of the container candles, and reduce or eliminate mottling in pillars (without adding much opacity). Recommended usage is 2% (2 teaspoons per pound of wax). Micro wax 175 is also available in pre-measured cubes. Due to its high melt point and pliability, pure microcrystalline also makes a good sculpting wax for art projects and lost wax processes. Melt point is approximately 175 F (79 C).
There are many grades of microcrystaline wax that are use for different purpose. This is one example of microcrystaline wax.

Plastic Additives

Plastic additives is mostly used when you're making embedded and hurricane candles in order to achieve a stronger wax and translucent appearance. Plastic additives require heating over direct heat source before adding to thecorrect temperature wax.

Mineral Oil

For a mottled look,you can add approm 2-3 TBSP mineral oil to 1 pound of wax.