Candles burn longer if you freeze them first. The longer the better. By freezing, the "aging process" is accelerated. Tealights reach almost twice the burning time. Bar candles up to three times...
Especially with very cheap tealights, the wick often burns much faster than the wax melts, sometimes after just over 2 hours. Once the wick has burned off, wait until the wax has regained firmness....
Cut up a H-milk carton on top. Prepare as many ice cubes as you want to make the candle. Pour it loosely into the container. Slowly melt the scraps of candles in an old pot. Now pour the liquid wax...
Needed: Color pigments, if possible white wax residues, - darker go only for dark colors - empty cans (small narrow for example of green peas, mushrooms) A large sausage glass. Glass is important,...
Yesterday I lit a scented tealight. The candle wick burned to 1 mm above the wax, extinguished and could no longer be made to burn. Throwing away is out of the question. So I thought about how the...
Hello, who now has a lot of candle wax left after Christmas can make very different colored candles. And so it goes: A thick cardboard as a base must come from. Make holes in the cardboard into which...
Now, just before Christmas, that suits! Who has not always been annoyed that if you blow a candle with a puff always something wax on the tablecloth or elsewhere scattered. It also happens that the...
Candles pour for Easter. Now it's almost time again, spring and Easter are coming. Did weather today times my craft stuff digged out and that's among others come out of it. You need per egg candle:...
I like to decorate our candles. Since we burn candles every night, I am happy when they get a "new look" every now and then. I do not use any sticky wax or anything like that. I enclose some...
I have many small table lamps that are equipped with tealights. When a tealight burns for a while, the wax becomes liquid in it. Then I add a drop of pure natural scented oil, lemon, orange, rose,...