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How to Make New Candles From Recycled Wax
by Jenni Ovington
Ever get frustrated when your new pillar candle drowns in its own wax and will no longer light? Don't get mad, get even - that is, get even more candles out of it by making new candles from your own recycled wax. From saving the wax of old candles, and with only a few tools, you can make your own tapered dinner candles or fill up glass jars to make new candles.
If you're feeling brave go on and ask your friends and neighbors for their old candles as well. Before long, your collection will grow big enough to not need to purchase new candles for several months. You'll feel empowered and self-reliant recycling your otherwise unwanted goods, you'll be taking frugality to a whole other level and keeping your carbon footprint down by not going out and buying new candles all of the time.
What you will need to make tapered dinner candles:
Ball of kite string
Preferably a galvanized steel vat to hold the candle wax in when melting
Large galvanized steel or hard aluminum jam pot to hold the vat in
Washing line or twine
Empty 2 liter plastic bottle with the top cut off
A pair of scissors
Old candle wax of a similar color
How to make tapered dinner candles:
1. Fill your jam pot halfway with water and put it on the hob (stove top) to boil
2. Place your vat in the jam pot so that the jam pot is acting like a double boiler or bain marie
3. Allow the wax to slowly melt adding bits of wax of the same basic color (i.e. all cream / ivory / white) at a time and stir with either a tall wooden spoon or piece of bamboo cane
4. While the wax is melting use your washing line or twine to create a line about 2 meters (6 or 7 feet) safely in the air between two strong posts or similar
5. When the wax has turned to liquid, take the vat out of the jam pot and off of the heat and put the vat low down enough to dip into on a surface covered with towels
6. Fill your empty plastic bottle with cold water
7. Cut pieces of kite string approximately 24" long
To start the process of making dinner candles simply hold the piece of kite string in the middle and dip it in the wax so that the entire kite string is covered except for a couple of inches in the middle where your fingers are holding it.
Quickly dunk the kite string in the plastic bottle of cold water. Shape the kite string so that your string is hanging down on either side of your fingers. You are in essence making 2 dinner candles at the same time which will be connected in the middle.
Continue the process of dunking the kite string into the melted liquid wax and then straight into the cold water until the candle becomes thick enough to look like a store bought dinner candle. This process will take approximately 4 minutes. When you become more proficient, use each hand to hold a piece of kite string alternately dunking wax and water so that you are making 4 dinner candles in the same 4 minutes.
When the candle is finished carefully hang the middle of the kite string where your fingers were over your washing line or twine. Let it stay there for 24 hours and then simply use scissors to cut of the adjoining candles so that they become single dinner candles.
How to fill glass jars with recycled wax
Start by collecting wax of various similar color families together. I even save the bottom bit of colored tealight candles - you'd be surprised at how much wax you can get from those! Even if you have, for example, several shades of blue from dark to light, that is ok. The final color of the wax will be somewhere in the middle and will be your own. It's part of the fun to see what color you will end up with. I've used glass jars from the Yankee Candle company and other glass tumblers that originally had a candle in it. Simply dig out any old wax left in the glass containers, cut out any remaining wick and place it with similar colors.
What you will need to fill glass jars to make new candles:
Ball of kite string
Cleaned and empty glass containers
Those silver wick holders for the bottom of the candles (optional)
Small wrench or pliers (optional - for use with the silver wick holders)
Bamboo skewers or metal skewers
A pair of scissors
A double boiler or bain marie
Measuring cup with spout
How to make new candles:
1. Fill your bottom pot of your double boiler halfway with water and put it on the hob (stove top) to boil
2. Place your smaller pot inside the double boiler and allow the wax to slowly melt adding bits of wax of the same basic color (i.e. all shades of pink) at a time and stir with either a wooden spoon or piece of bamboo cane
3. While the wax is melting cut off a piece of your kite string so that it is approximately 2" taller than the top of the glass container you wish to use
4. If you've bought the silver wick holders, then put the kite string through the holder leaving a tiny amount of string underneath it and pinch the top of the silver holder with pliers or a wrench so that the string can no longer fall through it and place the silver wick holder with wick attached into the bottom of the glass jar with the wick standing up (it doesn't matter at this point if it is leaning on the edge of the glass jar)
5 If you do not have the wick holders, simply place the wick into middle of the glass jar so that the string nearly touches the bottom of the glass
6. In either scenario, you will now want to hold a skewer horizontally over the glass container so that it is resting on the top rim and wrap the extra 2" you have of kite string around and around it so that it no longer moves
7. When the wax has turned to liquid, quickly pour it into your measuring cup with spout
8. Fill your empty glass container with the wax making sure not to hit the wick / skewer
9. When the wax has cooled and is no longer liquid, remove the skewer and cut off the extra wick leaving just about an inch of wick on the top for burning
About the Author
Jenni Ovington is a designer and manufacturer of organic cotton textiles as well as owning her own business, HomeMattersMost, which also carries hundreds of products for every room of the home. homemattersmost.co.uk
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