#upcycling a candle jar

[wytho]

I’m confused what it got up cycled into?

[emmaleecrick]

If you freeze it instead the wax pops out in a few minutes and you can resuse it in a wax melter!:)

[TheRealMrsMVP]

Does no one notice the fact she's "upcycling" by ruining a candle that had appears to have LOTS of hours of burning left

[spritals]

Freeze it, than use a paring knife to gently split the wax. All comes out in pieces. Faster and you can reuse the wax for candles if you’d like. (If it smells nice, drop the wax in an old stocking toe, tie it off and toss in knickers drawer…. Ol’ skool !! 😀

[silivrengamer]

The freezing method uses a lot less (wasted) water because the frozen wax can be broken up easily in one step. It works so we’ll because the wax will contract way more than the glass will do it separates from the glass on its own.

I do appreciate the suggestion of using a pot of boiling water to do this. A lot less water waste.

[lyndsay._.x]

When you light a candle you need to let it burn until there's a layer of melted wax across the whole top. Otherwise you're going to end up wasting a perfectly good candle and so much time trying to clean half a candle out of a jar.

[mandybeck]

I put mine in a pot of water and boil the water until the wax melts then dump it out. It's fun seeing everyone's different ways of doing this! 😊

The resin is so beautiful!

[angelamanning]

I love what you did to the top of the candle lid. Pretty!

[curlyq]

Freeze it!! Much easier than hot water and the mess. It pops right out! And if it doesn't, after freezing just put it in a bowl of hot water until it does. Very thorough too what you did of course, good job 👏

[carveylover]

You can melt the wax out and then pour it out. The wax is still usable that way. It just looked like you wasted a bunch of perfectly good wax my friend.

[rye]

I use my candle jar on the warmer on my stove and I add fresh wax melts to it. That way the wax doesn't go to waste and I still get used out of every bit of scent that was in it.

[simon_s]

Если это воск, то можно было прогреть на водяной бане. Тогда не пришлось бы марать салфетки. Или залить кипятком, чтоб масла всплыли на поверхность и подождать, пока они остынут.

[stacierogers]

The cleanest and simplest way I have found is just using the warmer on my coffee machine. They also sell candle warmers and those little warmers to keep your coffee cup warm.

[iheartbridalcouture]

I use to freeze mine and pop them out in two pieces ☺️

[goldenmolelover]

gonna be honest, putting resin in a jar that clearly had good wax left to burn is more harmful than just recycling an empty jar

[unicornkitteh]

I dont think you can call this "upcycling". The amount of waste being produced to reuse this far outweighs what is believed to be saved by not throwing the jar in the bin (and before you get on me about "it gets recycled", no it doesn't. A very small amount of the stuff youre recycling actually gets recycled. The majority goes in a landfill. Broke my heart when I first learned the truth about this.... like why bother with the smoke & mirrors to give people the illusion that we are putting in an acceptable effort to recycle, when we aren't? Call it out for what it is)

[breannac]

I like the part where she shows what she even made

[charlene]

What was the end result?? I don’t get what it was in the end.

[BananasRcrazymkup]

You made that so much harder than it needed to be

[mamapatterson]

I always soak the jar in hot water. Just to the brim (water doesn’t touch the wax) and then I pour it out or scoop it out. It’s less messy this way and you can save the wax bits and burn them in a wax burner.