Lunar Dance 666 said:
Ye true. I was thinking that you'd probably jave needed a ratio of 10gram oil on 1 or more grams beeswax..
At least this is the ratio for chapstick. And if you overdo it on the beeswax itd become unuseable. Way too solid.
Anyway you do what you think is best.
Also, I think you should still be able to ask your family about start-up tips for your business even if yours is not going to be connected to theirs.
I have some experience marketing, but they don't really want to hear it from me, they are stubborn.
i have a rough plan in my mind
get the materials, molds and equipment ect make a bunch of high quality candles, give samples to local occult shops, i live in a area where there is a lot, i'll find an audience using FB, although i hate fb for obvious reasons, its ads are an easy way to get the basic return customer to find my site, simply put ads on occultish pages, gothic clothing pages(althtough these customers may buy for decoration only not being a return customer), ect (most of the pages ive found on fb are pretty corrupted as everyone can assume, but none the less i know that some people from these groups will buy, and be return customers, i'll sell on Ebay, as there are not a lot of high quality black candels on ebay, i'll only do FB ads for about a month to group my placement on jewgle, then when i have a decent page seo rank for jewgle ill be able to have a decent flow of returning traffick. i might have this coupled with paid ads on instagram, as well as an instagram account and pinterest
page having all the candles and ingredients, in nice picture format, ofcourse i'll keep this all seperate from my IP, and my website i have a hosting service picked out that doesnt require personal information. In the end it will just look like im some jo blo selling high grade candles. I might even make a video series on youtube how to make your own candels that would drive perpetual traffic as well, and i could have some affiliate links to materials and equipment i use. ofcouse all this would be transparent.
i don't like to make money off of anyone without them knowing it.
My uncle and his wife are just selling there candles at flee markets i believe. which i could better yet, sell them in bulk to people already selling candles. like all of us here my time is my most valuable thing. The only thing i have to do a lot of research on is keywords, for seo, what molds i want to buy, and how im going to theme my site, or niche out the product, and im taking my time with this, because i want to make this a nice professional online business from this, a decent side income for myself, and a nice product for anyone who is looking for truly Natural Black Candles. might go with the theme of only going to be Black candles. im in between putting all candle color option on the site, or making a site for only black candles and customization, and a site for all different kinds of colored candles, I've seen people sub niche sites out like this before and it seems to have worked for them, but may be two much hassle at first. the customization theme also might be enough of a uniqueness factor but i do also see a lot of people doing this on etsy and ect.
I love every ones input, thanks for your replies