Recommendations: Use cotton balls to clean wax melts up.

Dear Reader,

This week's recommendation is a little bit of a housekeeping tip that I learned from somebody who sells those nifty scented wax tarts. When you've used all but a little bit of your wax tart, take a cotton ball and run it around the inside of the still warm bowl of the warmer. It will soak up the melted wax. It may take two or three cotton balls, but it will clean it up right quick and easy. If you save them, they make good emergency fire starters.

Then you have the situation where you've basically run out of scent but have a ton of wax left. This is a great opportunity to make your own candle. Tie a cotton string to a pencil and a nail to the other end of the length. Place this in a jar so that the nail rests in the center of your jar. Pour your wax leftovers into the jar and let it harden. And as the majority of the wax leftovers sit in the jar hardening up, you can clean up the still liquid bit left in your warmer with those cotton balls. 

If you have access to candle wicks, they work a lot better than your cotton string for making your own candles. To stick the end of the wick with the weight on it down, dip it in your melted wax and quickly stick it to the middle of your jar. Then hold the wick in a vertical orientation (this way your candle burns evenly) and add your wax. If you want to scent your candle, while the wax is still liquid add one to two drops of scented oil. NO MORE.