Make a candle at home with no wax. It burns for 40 hours and will make your apartment smell amazing!
What You'll Need:
- Jar (Bonne Maman jam jars work great!)
- Vegetable Shortening
- Crayons
- Scented Essential Oil
- 100% Cotton String
- Scissors
- Nut (hardware)
- Skewer Stick
Steps:
- Clean and dry a clear jar to hold the candle in
- Fill jar with vegetable shortening and leave about 1 inch of space at the top
- Microwave the jar for 2 minutes to melt the vegetable shortening
- Melt crayons in the microwave, pour in the jar, and mix to add color to the candle
- Add a tablespoon of scented essential oil
- Cut about 1 foot of the cotton string
- Tie one end of the string to a nut
- Drop the nut in the center of the jar and loop string around the skewer to set the wick
- Freeze for thirty minutes
- Cut string to leave about 1/4 inch of the string for the wick
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