Testing Viral $200 “Candle Beads” - worth the hype? 

Evan, from a retired firefighter, ABC extinguishers think Ash,Boom,Crackle. Ash=wood and paper, Boom=flamable liquids, Crackle = electricity.

Hi Evan and Katelyn! Wow! We are flattered that you chose Foton Pearled Candles to highlight and demonstrate! Thank you so much for taking the time to review our product! We would love to take a second to clarify a few things for you all and the viewers. 1. Good news, we are not drop shippers! :) We are proudly made in the USA, a family owned business in Fort Smith, Arkansas where we produce all our products in-house! While there are other alternatives out there, we stand behind our product (and the price) knowing that we offer the highest quality ingredients. Our pearls are made from highly purified, plant-based wax (no paraffin, phthalates or parabens), non-toxic, clean burning, readily biodegradable and compostable as well as kid/pet safe. We believe in the statement, “you get what you pay for”, and aim to provide high-quality, nontoxic candles to our consumers. 2. We do want to make it clear that we did not invent this type of candle nor claim to have! Many of us remember the sand candles from the 90s (which are simple paraffin beads), and we saw it as a way to potentially refill old candle jars to create a more sustainable way to enjoy candles. We improved on the composition and packaging, creating a plant-based version that’s nontoxic and has a longer burn time with consistent flames, and called our new and improved version, Pearled Candles. Our pearls actually burn longer than traditional candles with our 18 oz candle providing up to 120 hours of burn time! We also taught the world how pearled candles can be used to refill old candle jars, can be refreshed to look brand new every time you use it, and how they’re safer by self-extinguishing when knocked over or accidentally left burning. Love seeing you experience the safety aspect first-hand! 3. In regards to safety instructions, with the floating candles, we do recommend a minimum layer of 2 inches of pearls to keep the wick from reaching the water. The 1” of space should be between the bottom of the wick and the container you use. This way the wick will self-extinguish by just falling over before the heat reaches the container for safety. Again, we are so thankful you took the time out to do such an in-depth review of our products and glad you enjoyed using your imagination with Foton!

Evan: “it’s like candle sand” GUYS ITS A SANDLE

33:15 "I wonder if the glass would've eventually cracked under the heat." Yes, Evan. That's exactly what would happen! I know because it happened to me!!

California candle supply also has the granulated wax, $4.99 lb. They have about 10 colors.

They may want to reconsider putting Orbeez in a flammable product like a candle due to the fact that if you let the candle burn down to the level of the Orbeez they will burn releasing toxic fumes into the air.

I’d love to see a comparison of the cheap versus expensive beads!

I imagine these would ROCK in a wax melter! You could make a diy kit with wax rocks and wax succulents/petals or something to make a cute tiny zen garden and then melt the whole thing. Very zen. You could get complex with it and make a whole tiny bonzi tree from wax .

this reminds me of some candles my aunt always had at her house that were entirely transparent and made of a like... gel rather than a wax, she lit them once and they seemed to work like a normal candle and were filled with sea shells at the bottom. might be fun for you guys to try that as well!

I swear I remember buying bags of this type of wax from walmart and making candles that looked like this sand bottles. In the 90's. Then being disappointed when the wax all melted together and looked gross. Lol

Orbeez were originally designed with agriculture in mind. The idea is that you put them into the soil of a region that doesn’t frequently get rainfall. When it does rain, they swell up, and then they slowly release the water back out into the soil. You can use them in house plants too.

We had this wax in the '90s... it was called "sand wax" or similar and came in super bright colors. I got a craft kit with it and fell in love with candle making because of the candles I made with it!

Katelyn is always so smart to remember to use a control in the experiments. That's the first thing I always forget.

Apparently this company uses plant-based wax, is non-toxic, burns clean, therefore is pet friendly including around birds (of course, non-scented option is better + reasonable precautions are still recommended), and is produced in Arkansas or in their EU warehouses. As per their website. I didn't see any certifications or anything that could prove the veracity of these claims.. but at face-value: not drop-shipped. Also, they recommend only their non-coloured pearls min. 2" above water + wick not touching water for floating the pearls.

this is what I found about Orbees "Orbeez are colorful water beads primarily made of a superabsorbent polymer called sodium polyacrylate (usually made from acrylic acid and sodium hydroxide)."

For next time you want to make a terrarium candle and are afraid of placing more, there are silicon molds of succulents and rocks on diy/ali sites and you can just pour some green max in them and have a perfectly safe decoration! :)

My god, how much does Evan love his Katelyn. It shows so much. I wish I've known love like that in my life

Y'all should do a cheap vs expensive wax beads or something like that. I'm sure there is some way that y'all can make it more interesting tho lol

Apparently to make granulated wax you just spray melted paraffin wax into a container, probably using something like a paint gun the wax cools and it makes the beads. It doesn't seem that hard to make, you'd just need a nozzle that won't clog with the solidified wax. Fun video guys.

You have to be careful when you throw out your orbeez! Creatures eat them when they're tiny and then they swell up in their stomachs :(

Joobie's purring made my day. Thank you for sharing her❤️

A cat's purr to me is like pure serotonin

There are all colors of the orbeez also there is water beads for plants and floating candles. I do my candles with water beads and floating candles and have skulls in the water.

I remember doing the sand wax candle project as a kid with my mom. We poured a layer of melted wax over the top to keep the design in place so we could give them as Christmas presents.

Wax fires are SO dangerous and hard to put out, speaking from experience, so the spill test actually made the wax beads interesting to me.

Soooo anyone else know you can get this wax for a lot cheaper? It's called granulated sand wax :)

YAYYY!!! ANOTHER UNCUT!!! Hopefully one day I can actually hop on a stream, but i'm happy i can atleast watch uncuts :'D

When you guys were chanting ham it summoned my cat and she spooked me 🤣

I love how creative you are with the lives, the video overlays, different shots and different cameras!! Thankyou for putting in all this effort

Sand art, both layering in jars and also pouring sand on sticky paper to make pictures, and candle making were staple summer camp crafts growing up!

You can get tiny marble molds to make resin orbeez and then inlay them into a mold for a bigger piece, where you grind of the surface so you can basically see orbeez cut in half

i am finding it hilarious how they keep saying its soooo expensive you can go to almost any craft store and pick up a bag of candle sand between $5 and $20!

Orbeez are 50% orb, 50% bees

Supurrvisor purrs really made my day, so relaxing 🥰

Katelyn’s shirt is so cute! I thought it was a Pride shirt at first but then I looked out the window at all our snow and remembered it definitely isn’t June yet.

I've never made a candle, as a kid or otherwise, but we did love layering colored sand in glass bottles.

Back in the late 70's there was sand art all over the place. They got very complicated with flowers and cactus and all kinds of things using lots of kinds of glass containers. It started in the south west and spred all over. It was very popular.

I first saw this candle sand at a picnic setup by an event organiser. They said it was good because it's low waste and they can reuse the unmelted wax at the next event and have perfectly new looking candles each time.

The candle started smoking because of the flame on the glass and yes it would have cracked and possibly even exploded if the flame was left on the glass, no one wants flying shards of glass so Katelyn was correct in blowing the candle out

Hate to burst your bubble but you can’t put orbeeze in resin they are too wet I’ve watched loads of resin channels try and never succeed lol would look soo good though ❤

one of the first candle making videos i ever watched was about how to make the drip effect with solid candles! You pour in layers (like regular) and then take a very hot metal stick and poke down in basically the same way! or you can also pour in layers, remove the shape of the drip you want from your first layer, pour your second layer, etc. Not as easy as the beads but!! still possible!

This livestream reminds me so much of watching the sand art in art attack as a kid its unreal.

the cult canlde would have looked awesome with Black base and red pentagram too! but i agree the shadows were reeeeally cool and i liked the design in general. the black beads melting in swirls in the middle looked like dark forces moving in the wax XD nice one!

On the candles that have liquid in them, I would put a layer of melted wax to separate the two. The beads won’t sink in to water if there is something between them. I think that this is a project that needs repeating, especially if y’all are going to try and find cheaper beads. 🤔 Maybe a buy vs DYI: get a blender (and/or different methods of making wax beads) and bought wax. Then make different projects with each kind. **thoughts on pentagram candle: -I would have drawn/traced/etched a pattern/dent/trench then poured the wax out. -would have been cool to pour melted black wax as the pentagram -the crouching guy was totally running away from the summoned flame. He wasn’t a true believer, when the flame appeared he was like “uh, NOPE” 😂😂😂 Totally love y’all, Evan and Katelyn, can’t wait till your next video/project/stream.

a cultist design in a glass cup and tentacles being buried beneath as they creep up to the summon would be really cool and also the shadows would fill the room

I loved the cult candle. 10/10 best candle. EDIT: I just got to the litter candle and I lot it so much I would buy one.

Katelyn I GET you so much. That feeling like you aren’t being comprehended or listened to. I get it. Saaame. Your cult candle idea is really cool mini scene! No videos from TikTok or Instagram to pull up or compare it too. It’s really neat!

OMG I HEAR THE PURRRRRRS!!! Thank you, Evan, for capturing this blessed audio

At the renaissance fair in Minnesota they have a “booth” set up for layered candles like this. When you are done they melt the top layer to seal it up.

My grandparents had a bottle of sand art in their bathroom that was actually made from bath salts. I didn't think they made wax sand for candles.

I did these at the beach when I was a kid. They would use a blow torch to seal the top.

I didn’t even know this was a “trend” 😂 I was trying to find something like this in 2012 for my wedding and nobody had anything. I ended up making them myself by using a cheap cheese grater and a regular candle and it worked tremendously.

Litter box was such a cute idea!!!!

Lots of companies make granulated sand wax and are much less expensive! This used to be a super popular craft and ia just now getting trendy again

This brings me back to the 90's. I remember having these in craft kits to make little bead candles.

I'm glad y'all always take the needed safety precautions. Recently, a guy I had went to high school with and his new wife were making candles and somehow one exploded into flames and he jumped on top of her to save her from the flames, and they both lived but with severe burns on a huge percentage of their bodies. He was very brave for what he did. I don't know how or why it happened, but it has made me fearful to make candles.

These have been around for years. There was a stall at my local shopping centre where you could purchase a jar and fill it with what ever colours and scents you wanted. They had heaps of fun colours and scents and I got one for my first Mother’s Day from my son’s other mother. I still have it 3 years later 🖤

I love the background so much. I've spent the past like 20 minutes just looking at everything and being like "I remember when they made that! And that!!"

Try vs DIY idea!!! Have y’all seen the sand art in picture frames that flip and change the orientation of the sand with every flip. I think you guys would have soo much fun recreating one ❤❤❤

at 1:01:20 when katelyn says "Top down please sir" It made me think, some not so pure thoughts about their relationship dynamic LOL

Katelyn: "I want to do something with orbeez and resin." Me, mildly surprised she forgot the golden rule: "Ah, yes. Resin. Notoriously great with water." /j

I like this product. I got some and I was really impressed with how easy they are to use

i loved these and the candles are done soo fast comparing to other crafts done live its amazing

Thank you fod your honest reaction to the advertisement hype. $200 is a damn lot, its e.g. a third of my rent, and it's cool to know there are mode affordable options. Also i just love your videos ❤

The excitement I felt when I saw this was an hour & a half was big guys ✨️ I lost my sweet kitty that looked so much like Jubie & hearing her purr really touched my heart today 💖 thanks Jubie💖

42:50 "We'll place the cult members around the pentagram and light it, like they're doing a ritual! Won't that be nice?" 😂 ❤

the sideways fish is the drunk uncle. 🤣

Orbees take 8 hours?! I love your videos I wish I saw the live 😢

I got little versions of this from the dollar tree actually. They didn't have as much as this color selection wise and the scents weren't great, but it was cheap and fun to do with my son so it was definitely worth it.

You should do some orbeez metal casting, it looks like an anthill casting without killing all the ants

those void eyes were honestly kind of cute. they had the cute little reflections

This type of was has been around for years... I remember playing with it in the 90s as a kid, and we got it from a yard sale so it wasn't new then. And like candles made from it that were sand art adjacent but like wax grains. There's got to still be some off brand version of this wax kicking around

Aww you guys that candle sand has been around since at least the 90s I remember doing it as a kid I used to love it

I love your videos!!!! You guys are my favorite RU-vidrs!!!

So I've figured out how to make this stuff. You use a device called a granulator, and it mists hot wax into the air so that that wax cools into small crystals, and then a drum spinning around the mister collects the granulated wax, and pushes it out one end of the drum so that it can be collected. This thing takes up a lot of space, and I don't believe it's feasible to do the same thing for an at home application. You would need a pump that can handle the wax, misters that can spray the wax fine enough that it cools inside the diameter of your drum (Recommend the drum for better collection although you could remove it and use like a large tarp underneath the mister), a motor to move said drum, a collection point and shoot to collect the wax. If made here in the US I could see how this would be an expensive product. It's a niece product, with little application on large scale, and requires semiprofessional equipment to create. I think I could make something to make this stuff, but sadly I don't have the money nor patience to do it.

The plan transitions are so smooth ! Cant believe its live

Happy Sunday everyone! Evan and Katelyn, you're my favourite couple that I've never met, and Joobie is one of my favourite cats, period. ✌️& 🫶 from 🇨🇦

do a cheap vs. expensive candle beads video

Back in the late 90's we had candle sand here in the UK

My favorite type of videos ad vs reality of theirs. Which I like all of their videos but these are the favorites

Kaitlyn - "Let's use more Orbeez in shows." Earth - (heavy sigh) thinking to self, "Great, they only take 1,000 years to decompose."

It would be so cool to redo the first aquarium candle with orbees but making it a snowball (Christmas themed)

Lighting a candle while watching this stream to get the true 4D experience

They all turned out so great!

I have made similar bead by just throwing wax in a food processor. They don't come out in uniform shape, but it is a lot cheaper to make similar item

The kitty litter candle was brilliant. Very creative!

Lol my ornery side was chanting "drop it drop it" when Katelyn was bringing out the bowl of orbees.

In the Saqulant candle instead of using fake plants you can buy small plant candles

About the weird orby top of the aquarium candle: Since the candle sand also floats on water alone, you could make sure there is about an inch more water in the container than orbies. Thas way you can still have the fish suspended in orbies, but the wachs-sand is floating on water only, creating a smooth underside.

I love you guys. I get so happy when I see your video's in my feed.

I watch you guys every day and not even exaggerating I have probably seen at least every video you guys have made like 12 times

I made candles with something like that back in the late 90's-early 00's at our local county fair 😂 Also y'all should order the cheaper stuff and do a comparison video now

I'm literally 2min in and how wholesome is it watching you two experience waterbeads for the first time. If you like cloning or propagating any of your favorite plants, these work great for rooting substrate! I cloned a Gardenia and had 7 out of 8 success rate! I only expected 2-3 to make it. 😅

I think the succulent terrarium, the final flower one, and the pentagram one were my favorites! The succulent is definitely #1

Oooh you could make a zen garden candle complete with all the little tools ❤

Next you guys need to try out JELLY wax!! It’s so much fun but there is some research to do as there’s different types and they only work with specific wicks, fragrances and colorants 👍

The beads remind me of this cool little thing back in the 90s/00s in Gatlinburg, TN (or maybe Pigeon Forge or Gulf Shores, somewhere down here) where you could make little candles with beads. They had so many different colors. It was like $10 for a little votive glass and as much wax as you wanted. It burned terribly and had no scent, but it was really cool to my 10yo self.

I remember when these were a thing when I was a kid, you'd layer them however you want at the fair or wherever it was and then they'd flash melt the top layer so it would sort of lock things in place.

I'm Obsessed with the Terrarium one! Needs some more succulents though! 🌿🌱

Katelyn is so adorable..... 😊❤️ You should have tried to heat the layers to keep them from moving so you can make slanted layers, that would be really cool. 😁👍 Edit: Your recreated candle beads looks like concrete.... That would be a cool candle idea to have chunks of that that look like pieces of cinder blocks.