Lead Candle Wicks Vs. Cotton Candle Wicks

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Summary: Learn how to pick between lead and cotton candle wicks for soy candles with expert craft tips for making environmentally friendly, handmade soy candles.

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Gretchen Soares Gretchen Soares holds an Associates of Science degree in Home Economics with emphasis in Fashion. She also has a Masters degree in Fashion. She is an ownersh... read more

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Lead Candle Wicks Vs. Cotton Candle Wicks

Hi, I'm Gretchen Soares and welcome to Expert Village. Today we're going to be making soy candles. In this clip we're going to discuss the wicks; what they're made of and why we use those. For these candles I use a hundred percent cotton wicks because we have a natural soy bean product that's all natural. We wouldn't want to put any man made product in this because it would make it burn not as cleanly and not as good for the environment in the home. Also, these wicks do not have lead inside of them. When you buy manufactured candles quite often the paraffin or the wax that they use is substandard quality and in order for it to actually burn they put lead through the wick and that's what makes the candle burn. That's actually what's burning. So when you have a candle that just dwells down in the center and is only burning around the flame it's because the material the candle is made out of is substandard quality and what is actually burning is the lead in the wick. And with all of the health hazards in lead I don't believe in using those at all so we use a hundred percent cotton wicking for our candles.