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How to SAFELY Start a Candle Business- Insurance and Safety Tips - YouTube
Channel: Tiana Coats
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hello everyone welcome to my super
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impromptu video
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at i think it's 10 p.m right now 9 15
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p.m so today i've got
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my coffee and i've got my notes
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and i've got something to say
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so obviously by the title and thumbnail
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we are going to be talking about
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candle safety especially for you know
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candle businesses a lot of people are
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starting to handle businesses i don't
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know if it's a pandemic i don't know
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what it is
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but i've been scrolling like the past
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week or so i've been scrolling through
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my youtube and i keep getting
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recommended like
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new candle people that i've never seen
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before on the platform like new people
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doing
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candle business videos candle tutorials
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and all of that stuff
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and i think it's great that people are
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starting their businesses and
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you know trying to work for themselves i
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think that's super amazing but i think
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it's
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um we need to say something about candle
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safety
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insurance testing candles burning
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candles and the risk that comes with
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selling candles so that is what i'm
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going to talk about
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today in this video so i've got my
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notebook here so
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i'm gonna be reading off of this
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notebook but you guys know i've been
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making candles
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since 2015 and the testing process is
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like
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testing these candles takes a very long
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time to like get the formula right
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get you know the wick right and
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everything like that it's a constant
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test i'm always like
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still testing um my current product even
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though
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you know it's been out for a while it's
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still gone through some changes and
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stuff like that
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so with that said you know when you
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start a candle business
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you are running the risk of somebody
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catching their house on fire
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or some type of candle accident even the
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big candle businesses have had this
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happen to them
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i actually was scrolling through tick
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tock recently and i saw
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this video and i think it was a bath and
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body works candle that was totally
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like engulfed in flames in somebody's
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bathroom
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and they also like threw water on this
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candle which is a big no-no you smother
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candle fires
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and if you take a closer look at the
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candle
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in on the toilet you can tell that this
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person doesn't trim their wicks
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and let me tell you the average candle
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burner does not trim
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their wicks even though we put our
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warning
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labels on and and for me i even put it
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inside the box too so that they can see
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it but people still
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do not trim their wicks so that is a
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very common thing that happens
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with candle consumers and let me tell
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you what happens when you don't trim a
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wick especially with double or triple
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wicks
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it actually increases the chances of
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something like this happening
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where the candle can catch on fire so
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what happens is as the wick gets longer
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i mean that's just a whole bunch of
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carbon buildup and
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it's just going to create bigger and
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bigger flames and let's say the candle
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is you know halfway burned and you have
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these huge
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flames inside of the candle especially
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with paraffin candles you can actually
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ignite the whole candle and it just golf
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engulfs in flames
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and i really think that's what happened
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in that video so if you plan
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on having a candle business and if you
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plan
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on expanding and growing and selling
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tons of candles
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it is probably inevitable that you are
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going to run into
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to an accident like this where someone
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is going to have a
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candle engulfed in flames and you know
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god forbid they're not watching their
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candle and something happens to their
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home and it damages
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their property or something like that
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the more candles you sell
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the higher of a chance you have of this
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happening
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so how do you protect yourself and your
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business you need candle insurance and i
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think a lot of people may be confused on
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what candle insurance is or the proper
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candle insurance to have
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so this is something that i talk about
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in my online course but i definitely
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think this needs to be public
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information if people are going to be
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like selling candles and stuff
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but i grabbed a snapshot of the soap
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makers guild and this is just one
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company that offers
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product liability insurance now if you
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look at this
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little snippet of their insurance and
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explanation of insurance
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general liability insurance does not
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cover
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if your candle burns up somebody's home
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so
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general liability insurance is like say
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you're on google and you type in
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candle insurance you may get a whole
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bunch of companies
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that have that say they cover candles um
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but it's general liability insurance
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now that is something you could
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potentially have like there's nothing
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wrong with having general liability it
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could be something you use
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when you attend a craft show so
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basically if you attend a craft show and
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you have a booth up
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you would want general liability
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insurance in case somebody trips over
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you know a extension cord in your booth
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and falls and hurts themselves that's
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what general liability insurance is
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it does not cover if this candle goes to
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somebody's house and it burns somebody's
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house because of like negligence or
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something
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so that's why you need product liability
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insurance
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anything like that now if your home your
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home may be a different situation so you
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might have to
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get with you know your mortgage or
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whatever to make sure that you are
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covered
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for your home since you're making you
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know your your products in your home
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in case something happens while you're
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making your products that may be a
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different story
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so as far as covering this candle when
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it goes to the customer's house when it
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ships
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you need product liability insurance and
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if you look on the soap makers guild
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it tells you general liability insurance
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covers costs when someone gets hurt on
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your property um or like you know for
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example in your craft booth
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and then product liability insurance
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covers you know when someone claims
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there is harm or injury from the use of
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your
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products now because this product is
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meant to catch on fire there are not
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many companies
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that come that give product liability
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insurance to candle makers
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now soap makers guild has this and it
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also i believe covers if you make
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soap obviously so if you do soap or
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candles
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it covers this and also indie business
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network has
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product liability insurance for your
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candles now these
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two places are memberships so you have
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to
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join their membership and then you are
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able to buy the product liability
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insurance
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now i joined indie business network and
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it was about
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500 something for the whole year after i
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joined their program
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and bought the product liability
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insurance so i'm a part of a wholesale
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like uh website called range.me and he
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even asked me like we had a call the
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other day he was like do you have your
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product liability insurance like
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when you get your products and when this
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product let's say walmart wants to put
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this product on your shelf
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you need product liability insurance on
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your products
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so that's you know it's definitely a
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must for your candles
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general liability is something that you
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can buy if you go to a craft show or do
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some little in person
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you know selling there are companies
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that do offer
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general liability but i'm so tongue died
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there are companies that offer general
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liability
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um that have like day by day plans so if
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you just need for the day
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or for a week or whatever you can do
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that too
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so that covers insurance just be aware
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of what kind of insurance you're buying
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when you sign up for an insurance
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plan so of course you know a lot of
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people i have seen people say well i
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have warning labels do i really need
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insurance warning labels do not do
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anything
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for you when someone takes you to court
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okay
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you're not going to say well i put a
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warning label on it you know that's not
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that's not going to cut it you need if
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someone ever takes you to court for a
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candle
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you're going to need to cover all sorts
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of costs and
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this is not going to do anything for you
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so you of course always need to put the
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warning label but you need
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insurance if you do plan on selling
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these candles
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you know online or wherever now also
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touching on insurance i see a lot of
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people putting different things in their
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candles be aware of what you put in your
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candle i like to say any
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decoration that you put in your candle
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is just another liability so
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be aware so on my candles these are just
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wax
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strawberries i've seen people put all
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sorts of
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different things like plastic straws
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i've seen people put metal spoons in the
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candles and i know that
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you may instruct the customer you have
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to take the thing out before you burn it
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but again a lot of people don't read
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they may leave it in there
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they don't know the risk of leaving it
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in there so
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be aware that when you put stuff like
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that into the candle
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that's just kind of another liability
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putting herbs and crystals into a candle
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you can do that but you have to purchase
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additional insurance
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i know i have seen a ton of people with
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urban crystal candles and that's fine
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but make sure
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that of course you are testing the
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candle making sure
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it burns safely and purchasing
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additional insurance to cover
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you know the herbs and crystals in the
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candle so
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running this candle business i just know
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that people
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do not trim their wick as they should so
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when you're testing your candle just
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test it
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as if you know burn it for several hours
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at a time
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or you know test it to make sure that
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even if the candle stays lit for eight
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to ten hours
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that it's not going to totally engulf
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inflame and i know that it's not your
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responsibility
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even though we do put the warnings we do
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tell people do not burn these candles
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for more than four hours
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trim the wick just in case they do abuse
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the candle
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make sure that you are testing the
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candles to to make sure it doesn't go
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too crazy
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i know people will still have lots of
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soot on their walls you'll see
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you'll walk into places and there's like
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a big like line of soot where the candle
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was
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you can't really prevent this from
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happening you can just try
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your hardest to make sure the candle
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burns nice and slow
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so i know you can't once you hand this
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over to somebody
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it's up to them to light the candle
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appropriately
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and burn it for four hours but in
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reality a lot of people don't
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do that so try your hardest to make sure
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the candle is safe
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so another thing when you are you know
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mixing
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your candle up if you see a pool of oil
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on top of the candle or a pool of
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you know droplets of oil after the
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candle has
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you know rested that's fragrance oil and
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that it can be flammable
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i think i saw a comment on a youtube
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video where someone said they had like
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these pools of oil
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but they really like scent throw so they
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didn't mind the pools of oil
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you do know the pools of oil are
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flammable so that is why
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the bottles have flash points on them
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the flash points have nothing to do with
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you mixing the candle at a certain
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temperature
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the flash points are the temperature
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that oil catches on fire so if the flash
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point let me pull something here
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so for example the flash point on this
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peach nectar candle is 212 so at 212
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degrees
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this oil standalone can catch on fire so
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that's pretty much what the flash point
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is so imagine if you have a double wick
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candle
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and you have mixed the candle wrong to
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where there's a pool of oil
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on top and your candle reaches 250
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degrees
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or you know with that pool of oil on top
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then that can potentially
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that oil can catch on fire so that is
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what the flash point is
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when you're making the candle just make
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sure that everything's incorporated and
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there's no
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oils leaking out of the candle that
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means there's too much oil you need to
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dial it back or
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add some type of additive to your wax so
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that you don't get pools of oil
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on the candle okay so
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that was kind of my little thing that i
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wanted to say
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hopefully it helped you guys out there
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if you were wondering how you can safely
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start your candle business
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i would just hate for you know someone
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to start a candle business who's very
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happy very excited they see all the
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candle videos they see everyone's
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creations
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and then you don't get all of the
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information that you need
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to safely start your candle business so
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i hope that helped you out if you have
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any questions about anything i said
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please leave a comment down below and
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i'll try to get to it
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but thank you guys for tuning in and i
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will see you guys
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on the next one bye
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