How to Make an Awesome Fire Starter That Will Burn for 17 Minutes or More

Making these with your family or friends is a great activity, where you will be doing something interesting and practical! (And awesome)

Ingredients:
- 100% Cotton Makeup Pads (purchase at walmart, dollar store, online, etc)
- Candle Wax (cheap candles from store, bags of wax, mostly spent candles from home, etc)

Directions:
1) Melt wax on hot plate, candle warmer, double boiler, or whatever works for you
2) Use pliers, chopsticks, tweezers or whatever you have handy to dip the rounds in the wax
3) Let excess wax run off dipped round, then lay on parchment paper to dry and set up
4) Stick the rounds or slices in your fire kit
5) Be an epic mountain man or woman

To Use:
1) Slightly rip from edge toward center to expose fibers
2) Light with lighter or match
3) Ignite the fire lay of your choice

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[craftingontheporchwithbill]

Something productive to do on a rainy afternoon. These work really well. Thanks for the idea about using a jar candle, since these are super cheap at Goodwill or Salvation army.
Great video.

[james]

It doesn't have to be a new innovation to be effective and beneficial. Thank you for the video!

[arctodussimus]

Put a petroleum cotton ball between two of these, and voila you have an Oreo fire cookie!
😳🔥😆

[EquipEndure]

Have you tried making these yet? Any variations you like better?

[hauk]

I like that. I'll make to keep in my Pathfinder kit with stove cup and water bottle. Any thing to make for making more enjoyable❤

[NewHampshireJack]

I get more frugal as I age. Step1. save all cotton pads teen daughter and wife use for skin care and manicures. Step 2. save all candle ends, wax from the bottom of dishes that held a candle and even from thrown-a-way candles at the local cemetery etc. Step 3. LPG is reasonable but small sticks in a gasifier camp stove or other such heat source is even cheaper. Excluding our time, our DIY fire starters are free. Just found your channel today. We are watching and enjoying from the Republic of the Philippine Islands.

[patrickbreese]

That is absolutely awesome! And those cotton pads are even cheaper at Dollar Tree..

[charlesmckinney]

That's how I make them. Carry a smokeless tobacco container full with me. Many fires in those 5 or 6 discs.

[jbutzi]

Good stuff. I have been doing it for years. I add lamp oil/kerosene to my wax.

[arctodussimus]

I like these. How do they hold up in the fire pouch on very hot days? Just wondering.
Talk about “fire cookies”:
I use cotton gun cleaning patches with petroleum jelly. Un-roll a large cotton ball, smear with petroleum jelly and layer with two cotton gun cleaning patches (new or used, doesn’t matter)... the used (oiled) gun patches are dark, just like an Oreo cookie!
Sometimes I will use my beeswax (mustache wax) instead of the PJ.

[Walter-tsvu]

You can alo you a smallnpot of heated water to melt the wax. Ty for the valuable information.

[cliffbortmes]

Looks good but I dip my cotton rounds in mineral oil or lamp oil mixed with a little charcoal lighter first and then I come back and do the final dip in wax to water proof them.

[seamore]

i would put some lighter fluid on them, then dip in wax. light even faster. just put some Zippo fluid on it.

[chdjhns]

I imagine cotton balls would have about the same effect

[kampf]

Can you light those with a wooden match?

[bruderk]

There are people who give a little lamp oil to the melted wax. What do you think about that ?

[DavidAlvarez-xymj]

Nice video, , only thing I would add is not to fully dip the cotton so your able to ignite the dry exposed cotton with a ferro rod.

[nickprague]

Be careful as wax can ignite and cause a fire. Better to do this outdoors.

[CrispyOkra]

Please, keep your heat source on its lowest setting. My sister tried to melt a candle in the over when we were little. She about burned down the house.

[Mailmartinviljoen]

Too much work. Just infuse small soft wood blocks in a jar of turpentine. Pine wood works.