Waxing: A healthy alternative to pouring lead on New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve without lead casting is unthinkable for some, it just belongs to it. We've been keeping this as a tradition for a long time. A good alternative is wax casting.
From now on you can no longer buy a set for lead casting (new EU regulation) as it has been proven that toxic fumes are produced. According to the Environment Agency, lead oxides are formed on heating and enter the respiratory tract. As of this year, no foundry set will be on sale anymore. But many still do not want to renounce tradition.
Just as well it goes as an alternative, namely also with residual wax of tea lights, Advent candles and co. Time and again accumulate at home remnants of candles, these can be melted in advance before and fill in small silicone molds. There are already such great silicone molds for z. As ice cubes in different forms. You can prepare the whole thing during the year and pick it up in a cupboard, so you always have stock in the future.
So instead of using lead, you take a piece of wax, because that solidifies after liquefying just like lead in the cold water.
