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How To Make Soy Candles

By: Lee7

Soy candles are natural and burn cleaner then paraffin candle wax. The popularity of them is growing. Although soy wax is a little bit more expensive then paraffin wax, people who have used and made soy candles are quickly becoming addicted to them.

Soy wax is a vegetable wax that is made from soybeans. The oil is extracted from the soybean flakes and hydrogenated. The majority of the world’s soybeans are grown in the United States in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. It is believed that soy candles burn cleaner then paraffin candles. This is true to an extent. All candles emit soot. There is no way around that. But, paraffin candles emit black soot while soy candles emit white soot. While soot is not harmful to people, white soot is a little cleaner then black.
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The Truth About Soy-Based Inks

By: Peter Warrior

Theoretically, soy-based inks are supposed to be the solution to the environmental problems associated with petroleum-based inks on millions of tons of paper deposited in landfills. Here are a few things you should know about soy-based inks.
They’re environmentally friendly-but not biodegradable. Soy-based inks are environmentally friendly to the extent that they don’t release volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) into the air, as the usual commercial inks do. However, they also use heavy metals to create some colours-and these can be harmful to the environment as well.

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