candle making

savingmummy

My friend makes tea cup candles and melts wax using an old saucepan.
She pours it directly into a tea cup through a tea strainer to catch old burnt bits and never had a problem.

Exploding sounds worrying:eek:

VfM4meplse

I've never found a string wick to be effective in practice. In the end I just threw my odds and sods away .

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Thanks for all the replys.

sillyvixen

if you want to colour white wax when using old candles melt a wax crayon to colour the mix - cheap crayons rather than crayola work best.

t-elle

I think I got this tip from MSE...get a tart burner to use up ends of candles. This was recommended for leftover Yankee candles, too expensive to waste any of the lovely scent.

p0lly

Hello I have just reused some of my Yankee candle wax. I used an old clean baked bean tin and stood it in hot water over a low heat til melted then poured into an old candle jar. I got the wicks from ebay its a lot cheaper than buying a new candle and has the same lovely smell. I thought I would have a go as I probably wont be buying any more yankee candles. HTH

I_luv_cats

When I make candles I use two saucepans, one with boiling water in and the other with the wax in.

Really it's down to your imagination what you can think up.

I've whisked up wax to make some nice candles and made scores in others and added additional colours to create scenes.

Trouble is I don't like to burn them!!! (give as gifts)

Triggles

This is why I buy the little "tarts" from Yankee Candle. I bought a number of them in a good sale two years ago - still using them. Just pop them out of the burner when done, put in a zip-sealed bag, and reuse whenever you like. They re-use for ages!! Much cheaper than buying the more expensive candles. And tart burners are quite inexpensive - I think you can get them for £4 at Sainsburys.

I_luv_cats

Triggles wrote: »

This is why I buy the little "tarts" from Yankee Candle. I bought a number of them in a good sale two years ago - still using them. Just pop them out of the burner when done, put in a zip-sealed bag, and reuse whenever you like. They re-use for ages!! Much cheaper than buying the more expensive candles. And tart burners are quite inexpensive - I think you can get them for £4 at Sainsburys.

I bought an ornamental lemonade market stand / stall tart burner from a charity shop for a few quid. (and it's made by yankee candle!)

Looks rather elegant.

hakeber

i re melt candle wax in the oven
1 break up the bits into an old tin can add bits of crayon if you want to colour
2 place tin on baking tray and put in oven till melted
3 sellotape string or wick to the inside base of clean tuna tin and tie other end around a pencil. balance pencil across tin
4 when some of the wax has melted pour into tin ( use an oven glove tin is hot) return tin of wax to oven and repeat process until tuna tin is full. This helps stop the wax sinking in the middle of the tin as it hardens. which it does if you just pour the wax in in one go.
5 leave to cool then trim wick
Also same process for tea cup candles.

bek - hope that isn't too confusing.

bek