More on Professional Flexible Silicone Molds

I have been hearing from many of you about a post I made a little while back. So I have decided I will visit the subject again. It seems it touched a hot button with many of you....... to be honest, I am happy it did, until I started reading the reactions from you all, I thought maybe there were only a small few of us feeling the same way. Now, I know that is NOT the case.

Let's talk about silicone molds........ or if you wish flexible molds. Let me start by saying that even before the  recent purchase of the Nelson & GSM Masters from Glowlite Candles, Elizabeth, formerly Glows Candle Molds, we were always collecting research and info in this area........ watching to see what others were doing, to see what was working or not working. trying to learn what really made a good working, sturdy mold.

Then one day we stumbled on Glow's Candle Molds........ started talking to Elizabeth, felling in love with the quaility of the molds themselves. Not just the shapes, the way they are built, they way they are meant to last, that these are in fact professional, production quality molds. that were never intended to be sold to the public. These are candle factory production pieces and built to last.

Now, let's compare that to ANY that you can purchase on the internet at this time........ be it Ebay, or websites..... yes, there are some "knock off's" already starting to appear....... made from low grade silicone, or imports from china, that from warnings that have been issued. you must beware.... unsafe chemicals in the silicone.  You have some very nice designs made of lower shore grade silicone that start ripping apart the very first or second time you use them.

This is the rule, rather than the exception everywhere you try to buy. I have bought more than my share of these. each time ending up disheartend. I suppose the old saying here is true, you get what you pay for, except for the fact that you can get the better quality silicone and shore and a properly made mold for about the same cost....... and have it last rather than rip apart in several pourings. Or not be full of poison or chemicals you can only guess what they are, and made heren in the states.

From doing this research, an important thing to learn and keep in mind if you have ever bought from Glow's in the past..... do not connect color of mold with being made of the same silicone and being made with the same workmanship. Silicone's can be the same color and not the same shore... you will be unhappy.

Finally, take very little comfort when a supplier lists anything in the Flexible mold family  as Professional..... Professional Production Quaility is the benchmark....... Professional Kitchen Candle Maker? What is that supposed to mean?