COCO-8300
COCO-8300 coconut wax: the 34 C low melt
Hydrogenated coconut oil that clears at 34.5 C, low enough that it softens on a windowsill in July. It is included here mainly as a blend component and as the easiest grade on the site on which to demonstrate a full melt pool.
Melt band 20–90 °C — every live specimen pinned at its own interval
20 °C55 °C90 °C
| First softening | 30.5 °C | Surface yields to light finger pressure. |
|---|---|---|
| Slab stage | 32.5 °C | Pourable but still slushy at the edges. |
| Clear point | 34.5 °C | Fully liquid, no seed crystals left. |
| Congeal point | 29.0 °C | Surface skins over on cooling. |
| Phase width | 4.0 °C | Clear point minus first softening. |
| DSC peaks | 31.8 °C · 33.9 °C | Calorimetry peak temperatures, 2 °C/min ramp. |
| Crystal β′ | 26.5 °C | 5 nm · 55° |
The short C12 to C14 chains that make coconut wax burn so cleanly also make it soft. A needle penetration of 12 units is the lowest figure on this site, and 6.8 % shrinkage is what stops it pulling away from a glass wall at all.
On its own it is a poor candle. As a 20 to 30 % component in a soy or paraffin base it does something no other grade here does: it drops the clear point by 4 to 6 C while raising oil binding by roughly half, which is the cheapest way to stop a high fragrance load from weeping.
Crystal forms
| Form | Transition | Layer | Tilt |
|---|---|---|---|
| beta-prime β′ | 26.5 °C | 5 nm | 55° |
Same-family shrinkage comparison
Shrink — the filled bar is this grade, the hollow bars are its family siblings
- COCO-8300 6.8 %
Known failure modes
| Trigger | Threshold | Known failure modes |
|---|---|---|
| COC-SLUMP | ambient → above 30 C | The candle slumps and the wick leans. Store below 25 C and never leave it in a parked car. |
| COC-LEAN | blend ratio → above 40 % of base | A majority-coconut blend will not hold a wick upright at room temperature. Keep it at or below 30 % of the base. |
Burn records for this grade
| Date | Burn report | Hour | Pool ⌀ mm | Soot 0–10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-30 | COCO-8300 in a 68 mm tin, 20 hours | 20 | 61.0 | 3.6 |
Protocol
- P-01 blind cold-throw panelFive-panellist blind sniff panel, trimmed mean of five scores
Other live specimens
- BEE-9400 Beeswax 11.5% · 88
- PARA-1275 Paraffin wax 12.9% · 21
- PARA-2281 Paraffin wax 16.8% · 9
- PARA-4625 Paraffin wax 14.2% · 15
- PARA-4780 Paraffin wax 13.5% · 17
- SOY-415 Soy wax 9.6% · 34
- SOY-4641 Soy wax 8.4% · 22
- SOY-P22 Soy wax 10.8% · 29