Stearin for Candle Wax - 500grams

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Candle Dyes Our wide range of candle dyes are sourced from one of the leading candle dye manufacturers in Europe. Bekro are a high quality, German based supplier which produces a staggering variety of colours and hues for you to choose from. Bekro’s highly concentrated dye flakes are easy to work with, do not alter the burn or scent of a candle and are the perfect way to add a vibrant lift to your candles. All Bekro’s beautifully vibrant colours are designed to work in all types of wax, whether natural or mineral, and only a small amount is needed to provide you with the vivid colour you want.

Pleasing Scent: Stearin wax has a natural, mild scent that can add a pleasant fragrance to your candles without the need for synthetic fragrances. This makes it a great choice for creating candles that have a more subtle and natural scent. Essential oils like peppermint, spearmint, thyme, ylang-ylang, bergamot, eucalyptus, and tea tree oil should be avoided around cats. There are many more essential oils that could poison your cat through inhalation or ingestion!

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So you can be sure they always consist of 100% beeswax. What to Look Out for When Buying Vegetable Wax Candles Note that stearin is also used to mean the solid component of an oil or fat that can be separated into components that melt at higher (the stearin) and lower (the olein) temperatures. This is the usage meant in an example such as palm stearin. Until the invention of paraffin wax in the 1850’s, this was the best wax to use to make candles. But it was very expensive and thus only the rich and the church could afford to use beeswax candles.

These are recommendations and a lot of candle making is experimenting to find what works best for you*

The Scent

Paraffin Wax and Soy Wax are the most popular wax for candle making but I thought I’d mention Beeswax and Gel Wax here as well just in case you wanted to explore your candle making options. Coloring soy wax is also a little different to paraffin or beeswax, as pigments won’t dissolve in soy and will create more pastel color. Where To Buy Soy Wax Some will argue that beeswax is still the best wax to use when making candles because it is natural. Some have reported that other waxes can emit small amount of toxins, which normally cause no problems, but in excess could. When burning beeswax candles then there are no toxins emitted at all. It’s possible that candles made from natural waxes release fewer harmful chemicals. Natural waxes include beeswax, soy, palm wax, stearin (made from vegetable or animal fats and oils), and coconut wax. A study that compared paraffin and stearin candles found that stearin candles emitted fewer smoke particles. Similarly, soy candles produced less soot than paraffin in another study. This suggests that natural wax candles are less toxic.

Being a natural resource – unlike the petroleum byproduct paraffin – stearin is completely biodegradable. For a person who lights a candle every day for years or just uses them frequently, inhalation of these dangerous pollutants drifting in the air could contribute to the development of health risks like cancer, common allergies and even asthma. Coconut wax is made from coconut oil and other natural waxes, usually soy wax. Considered moderately sustainable by HEALabel, coconuts don’t need pesticides or herbicides and are usually manually harvested. However, coconut plantations use up a lot of land and are linked to deforestation. Coconut oil is thought to be as bad for the environment as palm oil. As an example of this worldwide trend, the European Candle Association has recorded a 24 % rise within the EU between 2011 and 2016 – up to 1.45 kg (3.2 lbs) per person and year. Consumption of candles in the EU (source: Statista – released under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 3.0) Paraffin-Based Candles Are a Health HazardStearin wax is a type of natural wax that is derived from animal or vegetable sources, such as tallow or palm oil. Stearin wax has a higher melting point than paraffin wax, which makes it a popular choice for creating candles that burn brighter and longer. But beyond its performance benefits, there are several other advantages to using stearin wax in candle-making.

As people learn about these unhealthy side effects of cheap paraffin candles, other alternatives have become more popular.While paraffin wax may be sourced from dead plants and animals, the process it undergoes includes toxic chemicals, which pose environmental problems and contain many toxic substances. Stearin / ˈ s t ɪər ɪ n/, or tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate is an odourless, white powder. It is a triglyceride derived from three units of stearic acid. Most triglycerides are derived from at least two and more commonly three different fatty acids. [7] Like other triglycerides, stearin can crystallise in three polymorphs. For stearin, these melt at 54 (α-form), 65, and 72.5 °C (β-form). [3] Freund M, Gyula M (1982) Paraffin products: properties, technologies, applications. Elsevier, Amsterdam, p 121