Brand New Home Made Candles - Tutorial
$10
2 Hours
Medium
This tutorial will show you how easy you can repurpose old pieces of candles. I recommend to use good quality candles like Kringle or Yankee as they contain natural oils inside but normal ones with scented oils will be good as well.
Prepare:
Add to the tealight wick thicker string using thinner one.
Put tealights in jars and stabilize them using wooden sticks.
Now put all the pieces of candles in pot and melt them. It can't boil! Use very low temperature and mix it from time to time using wooden stick.
When candles will melt, add some drops of your favourite scented oil. Use as much as you want but not too much. I used 20 drops for all the jars.
Using funnel, fill the jars.
After candles cool down, cut the string 1 cm above the surface.
Now you can decorate the jar with some string and metal pendant or charm.
And ready! Enjoy! Please let me know if you find some grammar or other mistakes in words :)
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2 comments
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Very beautiful! I have so many leftover candles and jars. Just can't throw them away! Great job!
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They are really pretty.
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The headline makes it sound as if you dyed the candles but there's nothing in the directions about doing so. Could regular food dye be used when melting candles?
Those are really nice. Where did you get the jars you used?