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Well, Karen Doherty (VP of Marketing at Exaclair) is a mensch. That's really all I can say. When I asked if she needed anyone to review J. Herbin sealing wax, she sent me five sticks to try! :cloud9: I put up a (hopefully) thorough review on my blog, which you can see right here.

 

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They look really nice. Thanks for your review. I picked up some faux wax from Pendemonium because I'm a bit worried about how the real wax will hold up in the mail or from rough handling. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm not sure that it'll look quite as nice as the Kings Wax from J.Herbin.

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They look really nice. Thanks for your review. I picked up some faux wax from Pendemonium because I'm a bit worried about how the real wax will hold up in the mail or from rough handling. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm not sure that it'll look quite as nice as the Kings Wax from J.Herbin.

 

I have a box of 'real' sealing wax and have had percentage luck mailing it. I don't like the plastic wax but it seems to hold up better through the mail- which sort of kills the original reason for sealing wax.

 

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They look really nice. Thanks for your review. I picked up some faux wax from Pendemonium because I'm a bit worried about how the real wax will hold up in the mail or from rough handling. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm not sure that it'll look quite as nice as the Kings Wax from J.Herbin.

 

I have a box of 'real' sealing wax and have had percentage luck mailing it. I don't like the plastic wax but it seems to hold up better through the mail- which sort of kills the original reason for sealing wax.

 

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I would look at the Cire Souple from J. Herbin. I haven't personally used it, but if the King's Wax I tried is any indication of the quality, it should be very nice. The Cire Souple is specially designed to hold up to the postal service, I think.

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Excellent review! About how much of the stick was used to make the impressions?

 

Very little, maybe 1/2 an inch per seal? It was barely noticeable, anyway.

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I would look at the Cire Souple from J. Herbin. I haven't personally used it, but if the King's Wax I tried is any indication of the quality, it should be very nice. The Cire Souple is specially designed to hold up to the postal service, I think.

 

I also bought sticks about a quarter in diameter and 14 inches long for $7 so the Herbin and others seem a little pricey to me. As well jewlers dop wax has a deep red color that just says 'seal' to me.

 

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I would look at the Cire Souple from J. Herbin. I haven't personally used it, but if the King's Wax I tried is any indication of the quality, it should be very nice. The Cire Souple is specially designed to hold up to the postal service, I think.

 

I have been using the Forest Green Cire Souple wax since August and have sent a little more than half a dozen letters from Colorado to Pennsylvania in the mail with seals made from it, all the seals survived. You don't want to make them too thick, and the wax is tenacious enough that you really don't need too!!

 

Oh, and I did some flexibility tests before I placed them on envelopes to be sent through the mail, you basically can bend these in half and they wont break, very flexible in my opinion!!

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I received some of the King's wax and some Cire Souple wax as well. They are both superior in quality to all the other waxes I use. I tried them because I was wondering why they were so much more expensive than all the other waxes, and now I know why. I actually melt more of the Herbin wax than I need, because when I leave some in the spoon, I can mix it with cheaper waxes and it improves their consistency.

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