Calculating exactly how much wax and oil you need for any container
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- An easy math equaiton for figuring out how much wax and oil you need for any size container.
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Divide, multiply, and hope for the best. Yep, that works for me. J.K., this really did help me. Just started making candles and was trying to get this information on measuring wax. Finally got a formula for this part of making candles. Thanks so much.
This really helped me. I just started and used the other formula, calculations were off, so I will use this formula next. My candles came out beautiful, waiting to test tomorrow. Thanks again!
THANKS Marie and Jeff! Wow, this makes life a lot easier.
I absolutely love that you shared this... I've been working this math for a long time...lol
Also I would love a review of palm wax for container candles... please
"Quiet Kitty" and your cat meows in response omg LOL I laughed so hard! But great videos you have been a great help on my candle making journey I have learned so much from you if you haven't written a book please write one already lol!!
So far, I’ve done it “crazy ways” too! 😂 I can find a container to pour leftover wax in, however, I underestimated the wax for one candle I made for my sister. Ooops! I was pouring no more pina colada candles, so the wax was just slightly low. I learned a lot in the first batch of gift candles I made. My newfound “hobby” felt more like trial by fire! But......wow, did I learn a lot! Thank you or your formula, Maria and thank you for this vid, Jeff. Math is not my forte! Thanksgiving blessings to you, your family and all the chandlers watching today!
Genius!!! Thanks for sharing and helping candle makers!!!
I always wondered why I had more oil than I should. This is the best formula. Thank you sooo much for the video.
Just started candle making about a week ago. I've taken the fragrance calculator from your site and put in a total off to the right (wax + oil) - so the percentage stays the same, I can toy with the wax weight and everything else auto-adjusts. I've been using 8 oz. jars and whipping up two at at time for testing, which I only pour 7 oz. in each, and I've been messing with different fragrance loads. Knowing that I need to keep that final figure as close to 14 oz. as possible has been a huge help.
While it's not that hard to add another calculation to an Excel sheet, it might be worth it to add a "total" column to your already fantastic calculator (to make it look fancy and official).
Your videos have been invaluable. Thank you for the wealth of information.
Hi Justin... im just starting with candle making. So i'm planning to make 4 oz, and 8 oz candles. The video was confusing to me... but if i'm reading your comment correct, with a 16 oz bag of wax, you only use 14 oz, and then add 2 oz of fragrance to equal back up to 16 oz, right?
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to try this formula.
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I've been binge watching your videos for the past couple days now I want to transition my candle making hobby to a business. Thank you for all the advice and helpful content! :)
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This is so helpful!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this! I really needed this!
I'm so Thankful for this video!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Jacklin Kennedy Happy thanksgiving!!
Wow I have looked for videos like this forever lol I actually sad down for over a hour doing the calculations for how much to add to single container. I wish this was up before lol
Very good thank u so much very easy and good formula👍
Great video and thanks for the shout-out!
Maria McDonald Absolutely! If you have a website I’ll add it above
Thanks Stanley so helpful!!
Thank youJeff and Happy Thanksgiving.
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Thank you for this video. I too struggled with the same miscalculations
Do you have a video on or would you possibly be able to make one on how to find the candle burn time/how many burn hours you will get from a candle?
Thank you so much, Jeff. I use 4627, which is no good for melts, and I always end up with wasted wax and fo. This really helps. 😊
4627 does work great in little 1 or 2 oz shot containers, sometimes you see the plastic ones used for ketchup at hockey games.
I've never seen a comment section in disarray like this before, lol.
Thank you for this video. I am a bit confused as I thought that you should never fill a jar to its maximum capacity in volume with wax and FO. Its seems that this formula is doing just that. For example, if an 8oz jar should be filled to the "fill line" which ends up being about 6oz of wax and FO, shouldn't the final calculation amount to about 6 as opposed to 8?
Thank you for sharing this, Standley. This raised a question in my mind. I am just staring and I am trying to purchase a vessel for candles. The vessel has a lid. So how can I calculate how much wax to put in the container which won’t be touching the lid etc.?
Thanks for sharing
I usually just do the 'make a melt with the extras' method... 😊
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Thanks!!!
This might be a silly question but I’ve been struggling on this for a while. If you’d like to make more than one candle would you be doubling, tripling etc your numbers? Besides that This formula helped me so much, I’ve been doing every pound of wax is 1oz fragrance oil so thank you so much!
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Hey Jeff beginner here. what if you want to use a few more fragrances would the ratio be the same?
How do you convert the FO percentages to oz or grams
Sorry if this was covered - are you using fluid ounces (volume) or ounces (weight) for the oil
Hey Jeff, in doing this method, how would you justify 1oz of oil per lb of wax? I thought the ounce to 1 pound would be equivalent to about 10% but doing the calculations like this, 10% is about 1.45 oz of oil and 14.5lbs of wax. Even 8% would be 1.19oz oil to 14.8 oz wax. I purchased a few samples from candle science and Was going to make some 16oz candles until I ran into this issue.
Hi Jeff. thank you so much for your video, it's exactly what I was looking for. I have a question though, here where I live we don't get waxes already mixed (prepared) so we mix our own. I use soy wax and an additive to make the wax 'harder' (it's hot where I live and pure soy doesn't exactly work), the question is, do I use the formula base on the percentage of just soy wax or the entire waxes??? thank you!!!
Can you make a video showing how to calculate FO to wax when making big batches of candles.. using 8oz jelly jars. For example. I am making a batch of 12 jelly jars . It comes out to 6lbs of wax and I’m assuming i need 10 oz of FO but i am afraid of using that much. Is there a different method?
How do we know whether to use 8%,10%,etc.? Is it just based on preference?
So is it safe to say for 12% FO load it’s .11oz per ounce? It’s easier for me to understand by the per ounce because I use a straight 9 oz jar that holds 8.5oz wax. Thanks for any replies!
I make 2 jelly jars and 1 6 oz tin, one 15 oz apothecary and one jelly, or 4 tins and a melt with 16 oz of wax. I'm totally cool with overflow wax. I'm all about the 6 oz tins because they are very popular for me.
If I'm using 6oz containers which usually end up being around 5.5 oz or a little under 6oz and ÷ by 16=0.34 oz wax.10=0.034oz (FO)= is this correct?
I'v also seen, 5.5 ÷ 20= 0.28 oz (wax) x .10= 0.028 (FO).
I seem to get confused with oz. and lbs. Also with using 16 or 20. Can you please help the ones that are Mathematically disabled??????
It seems like you should do 5.5oz x .10 Which equals .55 Fragrance
Good thing I was good at math in school this is all I need to start with the oils lol
This is simple algebra folks. The formula for 10% oil to fill a specific number of ounces container is: x(1.10) = y
X = amount of wax in ounces
X = y/1.1
Y = amount of space you want to fill in the container in ounces.
Y=x(1.1)
If you want to change the percentage amount of fragrance just change the 1.1 to the appropriate percentage amount:
8% 1.08
9%. 1.09
And so on...
The formula stays the same other than the fragrance amount you’d like to use.
It's simple to u...but not everyone understands this.
Umm sir how was that simple I'm bad at math you helped no one
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It is basic to some, but there are of course some people that love a visual demonstration and not have someone insinuate they're stupid for not understanding.
@@StandleyHandcrafted thank you
I'm still a bit confused. At 6:53 what does the 1.45 represent.
Also.. if I’m using a 9.9oz jar and only want 7% of essential oil fragrance. What equation do I need to do!
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Hello could you help me please so I made a (16 oz) candle and I poured 308 grams of wax into the jar which was perfect. But my question is since my jar just holds 308 grams of wax how do I go by calculating it to find how much fragrance I need? And if I wanted to make to make three 16 oz jars how do I calculate that including the fragrance oil please help me break it down in depth? I want to use 12 percent of fragrance oil.
oy.. this makes my head hurt
By Jove, I think I've got it!
I am very late to this video. With these formulas I never understand how much wax to melt.. is it the 16oz or the 14.54? Anyone can assist If you know the answer.. bc today I thought I had it all figured out and definitely did it the way he said not to.
Is this just for 1 jar, so what if I'm making 2 or more jars
what if I am filling up a 8.5 jar candle vessel. how would I do the formula
What’s the formula if your using a 4.5 oz container?
Is this with melted wax? I’m really struggling... how do I know how much unmelted wax I need for a 14oz jar
Did you find out? I need to know how to calculate unmelted wax.
You weigh it on a scale.
Thank god there’s soap making and candle making calculators.
Say what?! Do tell....
X + 10% of X = 16
X + 0.1X = 16
1.1 X = 16
X = 160/11
X = 14.54😊
Sorry if this is a dumb question 🤨
But when you calculate the FO, is that against the number in fluid oz that fits in your jar, or against the total weight in oz (before it’s melted down).
Find out how much melted wax in weight your jar will hold up to your desired full level. Once you know that, use that number to calculate your FO load rate.
just curious does this formula only apply when you are trying to get the exact amount of wax/oil together for ONE candle size without any left over, or this is the formula to use regardless of if u filling one or multiple candles just because you want to be very technical; sorry if it doesn't make sense lol
malisa hopkins airs amazing you ask this question right now. I am literally in the process of making a video that asks this very question right now. I’ll have it up later this evening
But to answer early, yes this exact formula works for any amount of vessels. One or four or ten.
Also, this formula is for fragrance oil how about the wax ? How much wax... once I calculated the fragrance ?
I use a very simple formula that I learned from Craftserver.
For 16oz (total fill - wax and f.o.) with 12% fragrance oil.
16oz x 12% f.o. = 1.92oz
16oz x 82% wax = 14.08oz
Easy peasy...works for me.
Gary In Canada-if you don’t mind me asking, where do you get the 82% ?
@@whitebreading The total candle of 16 oz would be 100%...so if you want 6% FO it would be: 16oz x 6%= .96oz fragrance
16oz x 94% = 15.04 wax
Total Wax & Frag is 100% (6% FO....94% wax = 100%)
Gary In Canada, so does 32 oz = 3.8 oz of oil?
This one is so much easier to follow! Thank you
How would this work when using beeswax. Would it be the same formula using essential oils with beeswax as with soy candles using fragrances?
Carla Ferrier I haven’t worked with beeswax yet. I’m not sure what the percentages are but the calculations should be the same.
Carla Ferrier
Never mind.
Is this just for one jar? Can someone help me cause I have 10 oz jars if I make 12 jars that equals to 120oz (6 lbs of wax). Which sounds correct but once you add your FO lets say 8%. that’s where I still end up having too much left over because that added liquid increases my amount.
To eliminate any confusion on exactly how much melted wax a jar will hold (in weight), I would recommend filling a single jar with melted wax to the desired level and weigh it. That will give you a definite answer as to how much melted wax by weight each of your different size jars will hold. Be sure to notate it somewhere for future references. Once you know exactly how much wax your jars hold, you can do the formula for your wax and FO load ratio.
This is very confusing 😫
Does this method work for parasoy blend wax?
Loren Cate This calculation works for all waxes.
If your dropping down to say 8 percent would it be 0.08 ?
yes
What if the oil doesn’t have strong scent can I add more oil ? Instead 10% can I use 12.5%?
Depends on your wax type. The manufacturer should provide you with a max percentage.
I'm having a hard time understanding. So what if I wanted to make a candle with a 9 oz jar. How do I calculate exactly how much wax and fragrance oil to use? Thank you!
If you're pouring 9oz of wax and using 10% FO then the formula would look like this.
9/1.10 = 8.18 Then 8.18 x .10= 0.82.
amount of wax you're pouring/1.(%FO)= X then (X) x (%FO)= amount of oil you need in ounces.
This is the way I understood it. I hope this helps.
Omg THANK YOU! Math is not my strong point and my head was spinning trying to figure this out lol
Would it be a wrong way to calculate as in example under :
Total weight required = 16 oz
FO to be added = 10%
So 10 % of 16 Oz = 1.6 oz
Weight of wax required = 16 oz - 1.6 oz
= 14.4
Total weight including fo = 14.4 +1.6 = 16
Does calculated have anything to do with volume after melting too ?
Sorry for the late reply, I'm just now revisiting this thread. While it's true that 14.4 and 1.6 add up to 16, when you use that ratio, you're actually increasing the FO% since 1.6 is more than 10% of 14.4. Using the full formula (i.e dividing by 1.1 for wax weight) preserves your 10% ratio. Like Jeff said, it's not critical for small batches, but it makes a difference when you're pouring in bulk.
@@mariamcdonald345 thank you so much
If I only wanted to add 7% fragrance, what number would I use to divide?
That would be 1.07 Eight ounces would be 1.08 Nine ounces would be 1.09
O my lanta me and math have never been friends. I appreciate your video but my brown hurts haha
Standley, you and your work is so amazing and very insightful. However, You used 16 fluid ounces to determine the fragrance oil %, that's wrong because you're ought to scale in weight not volume. That being said, I did my maths and found out that 12 ounces equals 16 fluid ounces.
I use 464 wax, ... 1lb of wax and 1oz if fragrence smells nice, however it doesnt make the room smell (small bedroom) I usually get the melt to 180.. then add fragrance at 120.. should I add more fragrence ? Am i missing something ?? (Using cinn vanilla fragrence)
Hi Lucian, what I have realized in practice and research is that FO should be added at 180 degree F as this is a good temperature to allow wax and the FO to bind properly to get a strong scent throw!
@@SyedMZafar doesn't the fragrance burn off some at 180?.. I've seen alot of comments stating it being added at a high temp can burn alot of it off..appreciate the input .
Z Atmosphere theoretically, yes. But intuitively no. When the wax is not, molecules move from a solidified state to a gas state and therefore are rapidly moving and as such have time and availability to interact with FO molecules. In order to ensure a proper connection per molecule you have to mix it as well in order to keep molecules moving at a fast rate. This is obvious from a chemical standpoint. I know Jeff talks about the low-temp method which is also viable but the mixing part is essential due to molecule movement. When things are cold molecules don’t move rapid if not at all. When they are heated they are rapidly moving with the container. Low temp method can help but the crucial part is to continuously mix to ensure that the wax molecules are still moving enough to help them interact with the FO molecule.
@@SyedMZafar sooo would be beneficial to run 12% fragrance instead of 6% , and add it at 180? Continually stirring occasionally? I just want this to have a good scent when it's lit etc, ty for all your input and time
Z Atmosphere No problem at all, I’m not sure how the 12% fragrance load would actually work. Because the amount that would dissipate due to the high temp is variable. Plus if the right amount doesn’t dissipate tans you end up having an 11% Fragerence load you’ll end up having sweating. Imagine you had 14 marbles ( let’s say these are the FO molecules) and then you have 10 marbles (let’s say these are the wax molecules) there would be more FO marbles than Wax marbles and therefore they wouldn’t bind/connect properly with each other because there’s too much saturation. Even if 2 marbles were to be lost to high temp there’s still an excess. Sorry if that confuses you. Personally, I think you should test two ways. One following normal instructions of manufacturer with 10% FO and just gently and continuously mix with a few breaks till
Wait. The instructions say to add 1 oz for every pound. Since 16oz equals 1pound, wouldn’t I just add 1 oz?
Realcrime Exposed If that is the percentage you’re going for then yes you would.
You can do that, but it gives you a total weight of 17.6oz. That would be too much for a 160z container. If you want to know much total (wax and FO) for a specific container then use the formula. Hope that helps. But you may have it figured out by now :-)
How do I do this in ml & grams?
Convert all your units into weight (so grams) and the formula will work just the same as it does in ounces.
I’m all good with the math side of things and find it easy to calculate from my net weigh how many grams of wax and grams of FO. Where I get stuck is how do you work out how much the vessels hold in the first place (when using random containers or jars that you don’t know the volume of)? I fill the container with water to where I’d like the wax to reach (after weighing the empty jar and tarring it) but, I _always_ end up with leftover. Always. I double check my calculations and write them down so they’re at hand. It’s frustrating. It must have to do with the water weight/wax weight differing….I don’t know 🤷🏼♀️
ive learned that you should use wax to weigh and not water. Water weighs more than wax. Use your same method just replace the water with wax and let us know how that worked for you.
Shouldn't it be like..wax- double the capacity of the container, and 10% of that total weight FO or EO? 🤔 make melts from the leftover if there's any.. Right?
Dude, this is like making taxes haha. The fórmula i mean
Sorry a question for the UK viewers. Say for example you melt 200 grams of wax... if you do 10percent of fragrance oil, do u measure it as 20ml or 20 grams of FO??
I always work with grams, use grams for both wax and fo
Why the multiply by .10 after you divide? Just subtract your dividend from what Ounces you want. It still gives you how much FO is needed.
You don't need to multiple again, the difference is your amount. I did that just to show that it was 10% for those would ask
That actually worked for me :)
So if I want to make a 9oz candle, is it safe to say that I would use 8.2 oz of wax and .8oz of fragrance oil?
GypsyGoddess No it would be less than that. Probably around 7oz total
@@StandleyHandcrafted So 7oz wax, .8oz oil?
I tried 7oz and I was wayyy short of the amount I needed to fill the jar :(
So if I'm melting 2lb of wax how much oil should I put in please
It depends on the oil percentage you want to use. If you wanted a 10% ratio, you would multiple 32oz by .10
9% wound be .09
8% .08
And so on
I’m so lost I did it that way for a 10oz jar and my numbers was completely lost 😩 idk what I’m doing at at this point lol I need help 😢
Okay, I’ll play! Here’s how I do it, based on your video:
Goal: 16 oz vessel with 10% fragrance load
1st Calculation to determine wax: Wax ounces / fragrance load percentage (16/1.10 = 14.55 total wax per vessel)
2nd Calculation to determine fragrance: Wax x 0.1 (14.55 x 0.1 = 1.45oz)
For one 16oz container, I want 14.55oz of wax and 1.45oz of oil
14.55 + 1.45 = 16oz.
Note: I may have a tiny bit extra that I can use for a melt. With this calculation, my fragrance load is not over 10% as with some of the calculations in the comments. My total liquid (wax and oil) is not over 16oz as with some of the calculations in the comments. I have all these calculations plugged into an excel spreadsheet and also a row to enter in # of vessels.
Once I figured this out, I definitely did a facepalm.
Thank you for all the detail, Jeff!!
Omg i literally read what you put slowly and actually got it OMGGGGG!! Now here’s a question how do you do the math for multiple jars say 4 jars. If you could please do a break down just like you did on the one above, it would help me so much! Right now I’m using 8.5oz vessels with a fragrance oil of 10%. I want to see what you get so i can check my math to see if it matches up. I really hope you see this❤️
@@SexyChoclateThunder Hi Keisha! So happy this was helpful!! Here's the same calculation using your numbers.
Goal: 8.5 oz vessel with 10% fragrance load (x 4 vessels)
1st Calculation to determine wax: Wax ounces / fragrance load percentage (8.5/1.10 = 7.73oz total wax per vessel)
2nd Calculation to determine fragrance: Wax x 0.1 (7.73oz x 0.1 = .77oz)
For one 8.5oz container, I want 7.73oz of wax and .77oz of oil
7.73 + .77 = 8.5oz. For 4 containers I just multiplied the wax and oil x 4 and it came to 30.91oz of wax and 3.09oz of oil.
@@SharonClerico oh my good lord I got the same number and now i see how you multiplied the total amount of wax by 4 vessels to get the total of wax needed. And then the total amount of oil by 4 to get the total amount of Fo needed! Ok I’m gonna do another one of my vessels and see if you get the same numbers as me and the i have a final question about how do you do the math when you want to blend two oils. But for now my second science math was this.
My second vessel size 9.4oz
Step one: 9.4oz / 1.10% =8.54oz(wax)
Step two: 8.54oz(wax) X 0.1(Fo)=0.85(Fo)
Step three: 8.54oz (wax) t 0.85(Fo)=9.390z
Final step: 8.54oz wax times 4jars=34.160z wax
0.85oz (Fo) x 4(jars)=3.4oz (Fo)
I hope that’s correct i think I’m off by one to be exact but let me know is that’s correct and then I’ll know if I’m all the way right. My next step is to find out when i want to blend to fragrance oils how do i know how to measure the France oils so they can both add up to 10%. Your break downs REALLY HELPED ME!!! And it’s funny because I’m a visual learner but you saved my WHOLE LIFE!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ty for replying. I can’t wait to hear back from you!
@@SexyChoclateThunder Hi! I responded to this last night and now I'm not seeing my reply. Your numbers are great! My numbers were just a tiny bit different as my excel spreadsheet rounded up the 8.545 of wax to 8.55 which then made the other numbers a tiny bit different. No clue where my response went! If you don't see it, let me know and I'll type it out again but, your numbers look great!!! :)
@@SharonClerico omg Thank you so much!! You should start your own channel because I finally got now after seeing your reply. Like Keisha Mack I need to also learn how to do the math when blending two oils combine oils to get 10% fragrance load?
Hi
I wanted to know if you can explain it a bit more simpler.. I’m so sorry I just still don’t get it
I’m trying to make 4oz jars of candles and I’m just all confused .. I have been watching so many videos and I believe they say depends on the wax is when you do your calculations
And now I see your video and it really confused me more.. how come I don’t understand the formula.. it seems difficult to understand
😳
Can u show more Formulas
I was wondering why I kept ending up with extra wax!
Are u suppose to use the "fill line" amount or the actually jar size because wouldn't u have overage if u use the actually jar size?? I'm so trying to understand 😩 😂
Fill to the fill line :)
@@StandleyHandcrafted I didn't explain myself properly 😂 let's say I have a jar that's 5 oz & the "fill line" is 4 oz which one would be the correct one for the formula?
Can you do this formula in grams please
works exactly the same way in grams as it does in ounces.
is this the unmelted wax or liquid wax please
The weights would be the same
Can you explain how this formula would work if you are trying to fill 10 8 oz jars, instead of filling one jar?
John Agnello It would just be this X 10
@@StandleyHandcrafted Great, thank you.
80 0z x .10 = 8.0 oz of FO
John Agnello 80 oz x .10 = 8.0 oz of FO
BUT WHY ADD THE 1 TO .10? WHAT DOES THE 1 REPRESENT? IM SOMEWHAT CONFUSED ... THANK YOU
if X = amount of wax and y = total of wax + oil, then:
x + x* 10/100 = y
x*110/100 = y
x = y*100/110
x=y*10/11
for 16oz
x=16*10/11
x = 14.545454 or 14.55 to round it up.
The amount of oil is going to be 10% of that = 1.45
14.55 + 1.45 = 16oz exactly
I make 16oz jars. The math formula I use gives me an exact 16oz total for 10% FO:
16oz/110% = 14.54 oz WAX
16oz-14.54oz = 1.46 oz FO
14.54 oz WAX + 1.46 oz FO = 16oz candle
*I use my phone calculator*
then there's me, a non-american doing extra calculations to convert oz to g
Someone please help how much wax , scent for 8oz jar.
It depends on the oil percentage you want. I use 8%
So that would be around 6oz total (wax+oil)
5.33oz wax
.4oz oil
@@StandleyHandcrafted thank you I will give this a shot.
For 20 oz. \ 110%= 18.18 oz.
20oz-18.18= 1.82 oz of fragrance oil
So 18.18 oz of wax
& 1.82 oz of fragrance oil
Correct?
I’m so confused 🙈🙈
I'm super confused. Wax weight oz doesn't translate directly to wax fl oz volume. You've even made a video on this, and explained how you need less wax. I've experienced it myself while making candles. Why is this formula ignoring this?
Edward C This video covered this exactly. What did it miss for you?
@@StandleyHandcrafted Thank you for asking. Let me see if I can get this across without being cumbersome.
The weight of 1 cm3 of wax is 0.9 grams (water is 1 gram). So when you're calculating to fill an X fl oz container, you need to multiply X by 0.9 to determine how much TOTAL weight you need before doing any other calculations.
So if I were to take that into account, here's how I would think the forumula would go:
- Desired container size: 16 fl oz total volume
- Multiply fl oz by .9 to account for wax expansion: 14.4 oz
- Divide by the desired percentage of PO+1 (example: 1.12) to get the desired wax weight: 14.4 oz / 1.12 = 12.85
- Multiply the desired ratio of PO (.12) by the desired wax weight (12.85) to get the desired weight of PO: 1.54 oz
Final numbers desired for a 16 fl oz container with a 12% perfume load:
- 12.85 oz of wax
- 1.54 oz perfume oil
That calculation assumes that PO has the same weight/volume ratio of wax, which probably isn't accurate, but since the PO is only 8-12% of the total formula, the difference would be negligible. If PO is closer to the 1 volume/weight ratio of water, you could change the initial 0.9 expansion multiplier to 0.91 to account for the ~10% PO ratio.
Edward C
OK I see what you mean now and you are exactly right.
This video was strictly meant to show the difference between adding 10% and making the 10% part of the total weight and does factor in the expansion for figuring out new containers. Good catch.
Your formula would actually make a great part two for this video. If you don’t mind I’d love to quote the formula and shout you out and make a part two or addendum to this video.
@@StandleyHandcrafted As long as you test it first, and don't worry about the credit - we're all here to learn from you :D
I Need A 12oz VIDEO PLEASE?????
Cynda Sales
You just need to calculate for 12 oz.
It's like baking a 10 inch pie and then wanting to make a 12 inch or 14 inch pie. Just adjust your measurements accordingly......very simple.