Use tealights longer

Tealights are usually burned "in one go". Often repeated lighting fails because the wick has already burned down. This tip shows how to use tealights longer.

Hi, this tip is probably only a rather limited circle of users, but for the user in question, he is certainly the more valuable. Personally, I use tealights on my house altar, each burning for about fifteen minutes, sometimes more a day. I have noticed that tealights, if left to burn in these short intervals, become unusable after being lit several times, because the wick is already burned, although there is still enough wax in the bowl.

This has always been against the grain, you waste over the years tons of wax in this way. Therefore, I have tried the following: After I have blown out the tealight, I stroke with a toothpick some of the still liquid wax on the wick up (before the first firing they are also waxed there). This wax residue then serves as a "jump start" at the next lighting until the wick has sucked in liquid wax again.

You could also dip the wick in the hot wax, but I have already broken off the wicks. Thus, one can then invest a little more in the lights themselves, because at quite cheap burns not even the entire area, but only a narrow core of wax in the tealight center. I hope you liked the tip!

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