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Getting started

From wax to product

By Dwight Davis, Founder

Updated

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The order matters: the temperature question comes before everything, because it eliminates containers rather than adjusting them.

One: find your pour temperature

Not your melt point. The temperature at which you actually pour, which for soy blends is commonly well above 120 F and for paraffin higher still. Write the number down, because it is the filter that decides which half of this shelf you are shopping from.

Two: choose the container that tolerates it

PP at 240 F and glass at 300 F both clear any normal wax pour. PET at 120 F does not, and 112 of the 224 containers here are PET. This is one constraint, not a preference, and it is the one people discover by deforming a case of jars.

Three: settle the fill weight by weighing

Fill a jar the way you intend to fill production, let it set, and weigh the wax. That number is what goes on the label, and it is the only honest route to it. Do not compute it from the jar capacity.

Four: design the label to part 500

Principal display panel, weight in both avoirdupois and metric, type size set against the panel area, only the listed abbreviations. Each of those is a short rule with a number in it, and together they take an afternoon.

Five: decide the pack before the artwork

A six-pack of melts is a multiunit package and declares the count, the quantity of each unit and the total. If the inner units are sold separately they each need a compliant label of their own, which changes the print job.

Keep the five answers together

Pour temperature, container, measured fill weight, label spec and pack format. Change the wax or the fragrance load and the weight moves, which means the label moves, which is why these live in one document.

Do not start from the jar you liked

Picking the container on looks and then trying to make the pour work is the sequence that produces a case of deformed jars. The temperature filter takes one minute and leaves 112 containers to choose from on appearance, which is plenty.

References

16 CFR 500.7, Net quantity of contents, method of expression, which requires the declaration to be in fluid measure if the commodity is liquid and in weight or mass if it is solid, semi-solid or viscous, unless a firmly established general consumer usage and trade custom says otherwise. law.cornell.edu
16 CFR 500.25 and 500.27, on permitted variations from the stated quantity and on how a multiunit package declares the count, the quantity of each unit and the total. law.cornell.edu
Written from federal regulation and from the catalog’s own material data, not from a pouring bench. Net quantity rules are federal and state weights and measures officials enforce their own programs alongside them. Anything here is a starting point rather than clearance for a specific label.