Use Boiling Water Pour boiling water into the container, leaving room at the top. (If your candle is made of a soft wax, such as soy wax, you can use hot water that’s not boiling.) The boiling water will melt the wax and it will float to the top. Let the water cool and remove the wax.

The hack is beautifully simple: just fill your candles with boiling water (or heat the water once it’s in the jar) and watch as the heat melts the wax, causing it to bubble to the top. Then, once the wax has cooled back down, you can simply apply pressure and watch it pop out, for you to reuse however you please.

Make Some Unique Wax Melts Clean out an ice cube tray or a small bun tin tray and set it aside. Remove the wax from the old candle jars you will be recycling with a spoon (remove the wick and clean the jar out so you can also recycle this for another use).

You can make plasma by heating a gas. So basically the microwaves start knocking the crap out of all the particles (the gas/flame created by the candle) that are already pretty goddamn hot. This either adds or removes lots of electrons from the particles, thereby making them either – /+ charged.

How to melt your wax: Place wax in glass jar. Put jar in pot of water on medium low. Let wax slowly melt.

Is glass microwave safe? Yes, glass is almost always microwave safe.

Beeswax melts at approximately 145° which is very easy to achieve with a microwave and if you overdo it, you’ll lose most of your beeswax to the sides of your microwave. The same is true if you don’t stir your beeswax.

Beeswax is considered nonpoisonous, but it may cause a blockage in the intestines if someone swallows a large amount. If an ointment is swallowed, the medicine component may also cause side effects or poisoning.

The wax monoesters in beeswax are poorly hydrolysed in the guts of humans and other mammals, so they have insignificant nutritional value. Some birds, such as honeyguides, can digest beeswax. Beeswax is the main diet of wax moth larvae. The use of beeswax in skin care and cosmetics has been increasing.

Double boiler – partially fill the bottom pan of the double boiler and place the top pan on top. Within this top pan, place the beeswax. Turn on the stove to a medium low heat and wait for the wax to melt. As the wax melts, make sure the bottom pan does not burn dry.

Beeswax needs to be heated quite high in order to melt- about 150F or so. I’ve only soaped with beeswax twice, but for what it’s worth, each time I did so, my beeswax and oils did not become melted and totally clear until 200F registered on my Thermapen (I heated them on my stovetop in my stainless soaping pot).

Beeswax has no expiration date. It is best to store it in away from heat. I leave mine in the bag it is delivered in to keep dust off of it. It can develop bloom( light powdery substance that come out from within the wax).