Slatkin Candles

DarlingDino · ‎05-09-2014

I thought I would mention something I noticed about the way Harry says to put out his candles. I have been burning my pumkin and leaves candle, the leaves smells nice but not a real good throw and the pumkin does not have a throw at all even though it smelled good on cold sniff. Anyway I have also been burning the balsam and fireside and both have real good throw. Harry says to put out with a lid, and I have been doing that with all four of these candles, when I lit the pumkin yesterday, it smelled like smoke!! Now that did happen with the other three candles, but I have started taking the lid back off when the flame is estingished and letting the smoke out to see if that helps, my other candles smelled fine yesterday but I will not let the smoke stay in the candle from now on which creates another problem of smoke in the room, so I just ordered from amazon something called a wick dipper. the idea is you use this to dip the wick into the wax and then straighten it back up so there is no smoke, but then you have to clean the wick parts out of the candle, anyway I am going to go and light my pumkin one more time and if it smells like smoke I will have to throw it away. I will post back with what happens.

Susan Louise · ‎03-14-2010

@DarlingDino wrote:
I thought I would mention something I noticed about the way Harry says to put out his candles. I have been burning my pumkin and leaves candle, the leaves smells nice but not a real good throw and the pumkin does not have a throw at all even though it smelled good on cold sniff. Anyway I have also been burning the balsam and fireside and both have real good throw. Harry says to put out with a lid, and I have been doing that with all four of these candles, when I lit the pumkin yesterday, it smelled like smoke!! Now that did happen with the other three candles, but I have started taking the lid back off when the flame is estingished and letting the smoke out to see if that helps, my other candles smelled fine yesterday but I will not let the smoke stay in the candle from now on which creates another problem of smoke in the room, so I just ordered from amazon something called a wick dipper. the idea is you use this to dip the wick into the wax and then straighten it back up so there is no smoke, but then you have to clean the wick parts out of the candle, anyway I am going to go and light my pumkin one more time and if it smells like smoke I will have to throw it away. I will post back with what happens.

@DarlingDino Do you wipe the lid clean after each time you snuff out the flames?

DarlingDino · ‎05-09-2014

I just reread my post and I made a mistake, so far the other three candles do not have the smoke smell, I dont know why, but they are more stronger then the pumkin but I do not want to take a chance with them. I could carry them outside to take the lid off but the candles are hot at that time. So I am just going to keep putting the lid on these and then taking it off right away until I get the wick dipper and try that. I am not going to start another candle until I figure this out so I wont ruin any of them. I have the pumkin burning now and hope the smoke smell is gone from it but I do not know yet. I guess the smoke smell gets into the melted wax and changes the way it smells. You would think Harry would know this.

DarlingDino · ‎05-09-2014

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@Susan Louise No I have not done that, I guess I could try that also. I was just putting the lid back on the candle and leaving it there until the next burn. When I took the lid off, I would turn it upside down a take the mushroom tops off of the wicks, and relight. I have been doing this ever since I recieved them and did not notice anything until yesterday. I burn the fall ones during the day and the balsam set at night. The other three are fine, but I am no longer going to leave the lids on them, I am taking them off and letting the smoke in the room, which I do not like but I dont want to ruin the candles. I was researching how to solve that problem and found out about the dip wicker, they have nice sets of these on amazon

TenderMercies · ‎06-03-2017

I would just put the lid over the top lightly then remove it when the wicks go out. You can put the lid back on properly once the smoking stops. The only reason he's telling us to use the lid to extinguish them is because blowing out any candle could cause the wax to go everywhere or fly back in your face and injure you.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@TenderMercies wrote:
I would just put the lid over the top lightly then remove it when the wicks go out. You can put the lid back on properly once the smoking stops. The only reason he's telling us to use the lid to extinguish them is because blowing out any candle could cause the wax to go everywhere or fly back in your face and injure you.

@TenderMercies Everyone needs a candle dipper, though the tip of a knife works well.

lucymo · ‎12-13-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@TenderMercies wrote:
I would just put the lid over the top lightly then remove it when the wicks go out. You can put the lid back on properly once the smoking stops. The only reason he's telling us to use the lid to extinguish them is because blowing out any candle could cause the wax to go everywhere or fly back in your face and injure you.

@TenderMercies Everyone needs a candle dipper, though the tip of a knife works well.

I have two candle dippers, snowman and brass. But I feel safer using the lid method until the flame is extinguished. Just me, I guess. I'd rather wipe the lid clean than the dipper too since I'm basically lazy.

@mousiegirl @mousiegirl @DarlingDino

ripka junkie · ‎03-11-2010

@DarlingDino I burn candles every day so I burn a lot of candles. I have a drawer I keep the lids to the candles I burn I do not toss once the candles are burned. I use these lids to cover when I am ready extinguish the candle for the night. I love HS cut glass lid and will not use for that.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@lucymo wrote:
@mousiegirl wrote:
@TenderMercies wrote:
I would just put the lid over the top lightly then remove it when the wicks go out. You can put the lid back on properly once the smoking stops. The only reason he's telling us to use the lid to extinguish them is because blowing out any candle could cause the wax to go everywhere or fly back in your face and injure you.

@TenderMercies Everyone needs a candle dipper, though the tip of a knife works well.
I have two candle dippers, snowman and brass. But I feel safer using the lid method until the flame is extinguished. Just me, I guess. I'd rather wipe the lid clean than the dipper too since I'm basically lazy.

@mousiegirl @mousiegirl @DarlingDino

@lucymo The candles I use don't have lids, so have to use the dipper or else I get soot.

SHOPR · ‎04-17-2013

@DarlingDino, I burned the Autumn Pumpkin twice, each time 2-3 hours or until there was a full melt pool at least. Each time I extinguished it as you said, with the lid, and left the lid on. I also noticed that it smelled heavily like smoke the last time I opened it. Being mostly a wax melter, it didn't dawn on me to quickly remove the lid after it extinguished. :-(

So far I've only scooped out and melted some of the Banana Maple Pancake and Toasted Vanilla Cupcake candles. I'm getting such strong scent from them this way that I'm not sure that I will attempt to burn them at all. I've removed some wax from them, so they might not burn just right at this point anyway.

I have no experience with a dipper. If I could start over, I would have removed the lid immediately after the flames went out and continued doing that.