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Home » Upcycle A Used Jar Candle Into Two Items (and how to remove the candle wax safely)
Upcycle A Used Jar Candle Into Two Items (and how to remove the candle wax safely)

Upcycle A Used Jar Candle Into Two Items (and how to remove the candle wax safely)

10/16/2017 By Deborah T

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When you burn a jar candle down to nothing, don’t toss it! Because you can upcycle a used jar candle into two useful items in just a few minutes.

I burn candles all the time. In fact, I love the warm glow and the delicate fragrant scent. As most of you know, I’m a thrifty DIY’er. But candles are a luxury that I don’t mind spending my hard-earned cash on.

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I hate throwing away those nice, sturdy jars that they come in. So I looked online and found all kinds of tutorials on removing the wax with boiling water. But that somehow looked labor-intensive. Boiling water, rinsing, and repeating until the wax melts away seemed a little bit dangerous, even!

Then I remembered that my mother used to freeze her burnt down votive candles to remove them from their holders and decided to try her freezer method. It worked!  Once I got wax free from the jar, I realized that the wax was still quite fragrant and could be placed in my wax melter to use it a little bit longer.

Here’s how I got the wax out of the jar.

FREEZE THE CANDLE

Firstly, I placed the jar candle in the freezer overnight. No cheating. It must be solidly frozen.

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Remove wax from a candle jar and transform the empty jar into two useful items.

GENTLY BREAK THE WAX

Use a butter knife to gently break the wax. Score the wax then use the dull butter knife blade to press down. The wax will break.  Repeat this a couple of times and the wax will pop right out of the jar.

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Score the frozen wax, then press the knife blade straight into the wax to break it up.

REMOVE THE WICK FROM THE WAX

Remove the wick from the wax. Then trash the wick. Place the wax into a zip top bag to use in your wax melter the next time you need fresh wax.  That’s useful item number one!

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Upcycle the wax from the candle into wax for your wax warmer.
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Once the candle wax is broken up, remove the wick.

REMOVE THE LABEL

Pull the label off the candle jar. There may also be one on the bottom of the jar. I removed both so the jar had a nice clean look.

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Remove the label from the now empty candle jar.

WASH THE JAR

Use hot water and dish liquid to clean the jar inside and out. This will remove the residue from the label and any leftover bits of wax inside the jar. Dry it off to prevent spots.

FILL THE JAR

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Fill the empty, clean jar with whatever you’d like.

I decided to use the jar to hold my makeup sponges and keep them clean. It’s a nice, heavy jar that I won’t easily knock off of the bathroom vanity.  This vanity jar is useful item number two.


I was very glad that I decided to skip the boiling hot water. Because it really looked very messy. Once the candle was frozen solid, the rest of this upcycle literally took less than 5 minutes to complete.  As a result, my jar candle was upcycled into wax for my wax warmer and a vanity jar for my bathroom.

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Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.
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About Deborah T

Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.

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