Are you storing your wax melts properly?
A better question could be, do you know HOW to store your wax melts?
With workshop filled with wax melts, I need to keep them all perfect and high quality to preserve their fragrance before they get to you. So, here's what I do, and what you should do to keep those melts smelling as good as the day they were made!
Keep 'em Cool!
The best way to store your wax melts is keeping them in their original packaging in a cool, dark place like a cupboard or drawers. Keeping them in their original packaging to stop the melt from touching things that might suck the oils out of it, like paper, or from transferring its own oil onto another melt.
What if your original packaging won’t stay closed?
Don't worry if they won't stay closed. You can always use glue dots to keep them closed, wrap them up in tinfoil or use a clean, plastic box that only contains that one fragrance from the same vendor in there. As long as the melt is air tight and not in contact with paper, a different fragrance oil or heat, you shouldn’t experience any scent loss with it.
What Temperature Does Soy Wax Melt?
So, we know heat will melt a wax melt, but what temperature does soy wax melt at?
Melting starts at 60°C for soy wax melts, around 70°C for paraffin wax melts and this is when the fragrance oil and wax will start to separate from each other. Keeping your melts away from heat sources, like radiators and direct sunlight.
Direct sunlight may also cause your melts to change colour due to the UV rays, but this won’t affect your wax melt, but the heat will.
The Colder the Better?
Not exactly. Keeping your melts cool to prevent scent loss, but that doesn’t mean put them in the fridge or freezer. Putting them in a fridge or freezer can actually affect the scent throw too. It can cause the fragrance oil to separate from the wax too. So, let's just avoid extreme temperature changes!
Now you know how to keep them as strong as you first got them!
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