Recycle/ Re use/ Re fill your yankee candle jar
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Learn how to remove old wax and recycle your yankee candle jar. Whether you want to refill it with more wax, or use it to store accessories, this is an easy way to clean up your jars. Will work with almost all other candles/ jars too :) This technique could be use by crafters to empty jars and reuse for other purposes. Please be careful if you are a child, and find an adult to help you.
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I cleaned a jar yesterday. I put it in the freezer for about 4 hours. When I took it out, I noticed the wax cracked (because it shrunk from the cold) and I removed it in one piece. Clean as a whistle. Then the label peeled off in one strip and because the bottom label didn't, I let the glass get room temperature and removed that one. No mess whatsoever. :)
I loved this way of doing it. Shame on all you haters. Not only did the wax come out in 10 minutes but my house smelled wonderful. Another reason I liked this way of doing it was after adding the boiling water a 2nd time it softened all the the little tid bits left behind after the the large piece was easily removed, making it clean with soap and water in 5 minutes. I personally wouldn't want old candle jars in my fridge. Takes up to much room and looks disgusting. Thanks for the tip love.
This was waaay more painful than it needed to be. Wax will shrink away from the container and pop out easily if you freeze it. Easy peasy. None of this crazy mess. Just throw the whole thing in the freezer for a day and then pop the wax out. I can't believe people go through all of this trouble when they don't have to at all.
seriously, I was surprised at how complicated this was. why not melt the wax pour it out then add the boiled water then clean off any remaining wax.
I just poor in hot water leave it while I'm out and pull it off the top when the waters cooled door. No need to clean the glass either!
Also to add if you burn a candle correctly you wouldn't have that much wax either
Matthew Ryczko I agree with you, but wouldn’t the jar break in the freezer? I’ve not had much luck with glass cups in the freezer before.
Won't the freezer crack the glass?
I love the freezer method but does anyone know how you pop the wax out of a Yankee jar where the opening is narrower than the piece of wax?
The number of Yankee jars I've thrown out.... I cannot believe I didn't think of hot water! A very good hack and good to see too that boiling water doesn't crack the jar. I've got a couple of jars from Christmas so will definitely be trying this method. Thanks :)
It's also the poor man's lava lamp lol!
A much simpler and less messy way is to sit the jar in a bowl of boiling water. The edges of the wax will melt after a few minutes and will slide out easily.
Thanks my wife and I have done this also. The ones with tight lids make good food storage containers. 😊Many, many uses.
This will block your drain pipes with wax and waste so many resources when you can just put the jar in the freezer and the wax will pop out or if not just cut the wax in half.
yep
I just cleaned out a large Yankee candle jar. I put it in the microwave for two minutes, broke up the now very soft wax with a knife, scraped the sides whilst still melted, then poured in boiling water, let it stand for five minutes. then empty out the water and scrub inside with a normal dish scrubber. job done ! just to give it an extra clean and remove the scent im soaking it in soapy water over night cos I want to use it to make a plant terrarium. was a lot easier than the method shown in this video
The video was reasonably well made, the information was useful. However, the comments that followed were far more helpful, specifically about using the freezer and using the leftover wax in a warmer. Two excellent ideas.
Here's what I'm doing with almost empty but not usable Yankee Candles in a jar: I'm using a butter knife and part the wax in four pieces, get it out of the jar and reuse the leftover wax as waxmelts. They work like the normal yankee waxmelts and so you don't have to throw away so much wax. For the empty jars, just wipe them out with baby wipes and clean them as she does in her video.
I work for Yankee Candle and the best way to get the use of that excess wax at the bottom of the candle is to pop it out the excess wax and put it in a melt burner, it has the same properties are the wax melts:)
But how do you pop it out of a glass jar???
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Katie Johnson Place your jar in the freezer, it shrinks it and it will just pop out. Don't use metal, like a metal knife. Try and use a plastic spoon or knife
Aimee Roden
I put mine in the freezer for a day, pop it out and use as tarts!!! Then just wash containers
If the water is left to cool for longer you can ease out the wax just before it starts to reset,( keep touching it every so often to test it) which avoids all the mess that was wiped out with tons of kitchen roll. Then wash the jar with hot soapy water.
or you can actually just wait more! like 5-6 hours, till wax is hard enough just to pick it up with your hands! and that's it! no hot water, no messy paper towel!
Thanks for the advice in the comments about freezing. Far cleaner solution, yes - and won’t potentially cause a wax berg for the water authorities to have to sort out at great expense - and you know who’ll end up paying for that in the long run!
Once I’ve got the leftover wax, I snap it into pieces and then feed it into my next Yankee candle, giving more hours of scent and not wasting the leftover wax from the old candle. Also, you can experiment with scents. I currently have midsummer’s night and lavender - lovely! Mind that you only put small pieces in at a time though, or else you can oil log the wick.
Or perhaps you could use them as wax melts.
Just heat water in a sauce pan then put the jar in it (but the water shouldn't enter the candle jar) & when the wax is kind of completely melted just poor it into the trash can and wipe the wax that left with tissue. Then just wash it with soap. It's easier and cleaner. I tried this today. Sorry if I made some grammar mistakes, it's not my native language.
TY for this vid - beautiful kitchen!
My heart broke watching this - I just take a spoon and scoop out the leftover wax. I then add it to a wax warmer and keep it in there until the scent is gone. Some can go weeks depending on how much or little you use your warmer.
ITA it will clog your drains if you dump the melted wax from your clean jar down the pipes. If you place the empty jar on a wax warmer plate if you have one, once the jar is warm you can take a paper towel and wipe out the leftover wax along the sides.
Yankee Candle - nor any other candle co. for that matter - would ever endorse using a wax warmer for any purposes other than their Tarts, melts, or oils. But I've never run into any problems using both these methods. Less messy, too!
What a huge mess you made. All you have to do is put them in the freezer, they pop right out, no mess. You have a nice kitchen by the way.
Yankee candle wax is quite soft, I use a paring knife and score the wax into segments, once you've cut through it'll come out easier, I save the segments to put in my tart burner :-)
+ChickenChento That's a good idea. :D
Just a helpful tip, this would be a lot easier if you let it sit overnight. the wax will harden again and you can just take it out in 1 clump without all the mess and waste of paper towels.
I love Yankee candles.. And will definitely reuse the jars. I never pay £24 to £25 full price which is ridiculous. I've been getting my large jars end of range/out of season for £7 to £12 a jar from Julian Charles. Great value.
Thanks! I got the wax out in a slightly different way but used your video for how to clean out the remaining wax up the sides, the soot, and the bottom of the wick. Thanks for sharing :)
I tried that technique, it's pretty good, but it requires too much work. What I do is stick the jar in the freezer for about 15 minutes, that should make the wax pretty hard. I then take take a large kitchen knife and poke the bottom of the candle jar and the candle wax breaks into pieces for easy removal. After that I take the jar and add dish washing detergent with some hot tap water, letting it sit for 5 minutes, if there's any wax residue left on the bottom or around the jar I use a Scoth brite Stainless Steel scrubbers to remove that, and some soot if there is any. Try that and let me know how it works for you.
Joe De Jesus this sounds like a great idea
im sorry but you made a really simple task difficult
I use this method as well, but I allow the water to cool all the way and break the wax that solidified and use them as tart melts, or if there is a significant amount of wax left melt it in a smaller jar on a mug warmer and add a wick to it and let it cool for a new candle. You can enjoy the scent and candle longer that way and have a clean jar!
Like you i use this method it less messy and you cut always push it down around if it a yankee jar candle to free the water then with a sharp knife warmed in hot water cut across middle then the two halves should come out. I am thinking of cutting it when it is just at the soft set point to put my mark of segments and then leave to cool fully then push the knife into cut lines and break up should come out a lot easier then cut after fully cold.
I like to put my candle in the freezer and then take a knife to crack the wax it comes out easier and whatever wax I have left I use in my tart warmer. This is just my personal preference,because I like to use whatever wax I have left that I can't finish burning.
Zhou can freeze the wax and then break it up and use the left over wax in a scented warmer for wax or essential oils.
You can also just take a box cutter and slice through what is left. That is how I clean mine :) Less than 5 minutes.The wax is hard, and I just make gentle cuts through it and it pops right out. I collect the old wax and reuse in a warmer.The only thing I have trouble with is getting rid of the used wick stuck at the bottom. Hence why I am here looking for help.
Thank you so much for sharing this technique. I have been trying to get some wax out of a jar for months. watched your video yesterday.. tried it today and the wax is no longer in the jar.. one happy Lady lol
I used up the softened wax by rolling into small balls and using them in my oil burner! No wastage at all :-)
i put my jars in a small crock pot once they get down to the bottom. the wax melts and smells wonderful. You can also chunk it out and put it in a tart melting pot. Then you can reuse the jars!
I just pour hot water in mine, add some dish soap and leave it be for a few hours. The leftover wax rises to the surface and becomes solid again. Then you can just pop out the was disc and rinse the jar. The dish soap gets rid of all the greasiness as well.
if you pop the jar in the freezer for about an hour(wth the lid off )the remainder of the candle will easily pop out and then can be broken up to use as wax melts. No waste at all.
first I used it for the smell now I use it for the stash. thankxx
I love your English accent xoxo sounds near or out of London. From Massachusetts!
this is great thanks! especially as i couldnt be bothered to heat p a pan etc! If you have an oil burner, you can actually keep the left over chunks of wax and melt it in there! A bit like their wax meltlets you can buy :D then everyone's a winner!
that's what I do:P
You know you can just run the Base of the jar under a hot tap and eventually it just disconnects from the jar in one lump and you just take it out.. Much less messy..
Warm the jars up in a pan of hot water, once melted pour the wax into cupcake moulds to make disc’s for the wax melter/burner
Thanks, I'll try that next time. I've almost finished another! LOL :)
Nilla Watson so helpful thank you
I have a candle jar warmer that's for jars that also comes with a tart wax bowl. I just put it on the warmer to get more use at the end. It even liquifies it so i could pour it out and quickly wipe the inside with a paper towel.
Thanks! I’m going to use my leftover Black Cherry Yankee candle wax in my burner.
If you decided to do it using this method you should have waited until the wax hardened in the jar. It wouldn't have been messy
I thought this was going to be a video on how to refill the candle. Am I the only one?
Thanks for the tips. I have never been able to smell a Yankee candle and am done wasting my hard earned money on a candle I can’t even smell. #TeamBathAndBodyWorks
I just put mine on the top on really low. Job done.
If you use a tin foil instead of paper towel you can re use that old wax with out bits of paper in it. makes easier clean up peals right off tin foil
if you want to do it this way just put the candle in the fridge after the wax has lifted and it'll be solid when you take it out, less mess!
Recycling is always the way to go but we need to find another way of removing the wax so we're not using paper towels and potentially saving a tree. A number of subs seem to have great solutions, waiting till wax rises and hardens. Then using it as a melt.
It's only one paper towel, the tree has already been cut down, and not using one paper towel isn't going to slow the production of a whole industry
You're right, if you are the only one in the world trying this technique. But have you given any thought that many people think as you do..."it's only one paper towel" and if you put them all together you'll see that they do add up. It's the big picture that needs viewing.
Thank you for sharing, Your video is very useful.
If you put a little bit of washing up liquid into the jar before putting the water in it will rise a lot quicker and you won't have to make your knife dirty x
I thought this was a video about ideas on reusing and upcycling the jars I just spent 9 Minutes watching you fish wax out of the jar. Emptying my jars has never been that difficult
You could also reuse your wax in so many ways...tarts ...new tea light....smaller candle.....thanks 💜
A much simpler way is to put in the microwave for 30 seconds than crack and scoop out that way you can use wax in a tart burner than wash out the jars
If you let the wax completely cool it will come off in one big piece at the top
Thanks heaps it worked well :) easier than I thought.
Your a life saver thanks xx
"RE FILL" !! ERM ? WHERE...? didnt see that,... at all. mmmm..
Nice sink.
I know that this was nine years ago but you should've what's a candle wax solidify and you coulda reused it as a new candle or wax melt
You can just cut the wax into four and empty it out then wash it out peel the label off the use sticky stuff remover to get the residue done! X
The only Yankee candle that I find to smell the house up is the Witch's Brew Halloween candle. which ones do you find that do the same and smell really good?
I just order 130 dollars worth of Yankee candles. I got some votives, and a few medium and large jars.
it was very useful.. thank you so much :)
If you purchase a candle warmer you can enjoy the scent from the remaining wax at bottom of the jar candle . You can then pour out any old wax to clean up the jar to reuse. The scent smells good till the last drop of wax!
Anne Martino that's what I'm doing.
Thank u for posting
All that hassle just to get the wax out when you could of just cut wax with knife and got it out anyway and melted it and then washed the jars in less time.Yankees expensive as it is so wouldnt of ruined the wax with water.However i know that alot of ppl use your method and i am sure they found your tutorial helpful.
Thanks so much.
I don't put mine in the freezer. I start using a paring knife when I see the candle running out while it's still lit. once the candle goes out I spin the knife in the candle and it pops right off. took me 30 secs
A little to wasteful for me but some good tips. :)
Just done it thanks xx
i would've waited til the wax are hardened again and then remove from jars. this is too messy hun
How in the world did you come come up with this idea? I can’t believe what I see. Is this real, please wake me up.
you can use the rest of the wax in a wax buners xx
I out mine int he fridge overnight then just ease the whole thing out with a butter knife, takes a couple of minutes!
wow. very useful. thank you so much.
A good time to start peeling off the label as well. Clean off the soot first I'd say.
Looks messy. I use my candle warmer. To warm up and remove it.
If you waited longer you could of pulled the wax out. Then you could of reused the wax and not waist the paper towels
This method is very time consuming and very messy. I have much easier way just stick the candle into the freezer . The cold helps to shrink the wax , the take a knife and poke it , the wax brakes very easily, no mess left behind, after I usually boil it of wash it with detergent, and put in in the dishwasher to get rid of the smell, which stays no matter what u do ...
Ok video but I self taught myself to these steps years ago, I thought this video would show you how to refill them with another wax candle or scent.
Ok just heat up the wax pour it out the wipe it out with a paper towel.
Don't waste the wax put the jar on a wax melter electric or tea light
okay where the rest of it the lady didnt show us how to put recycled candle wax inside the jars
I did this but the wick holders didn't come loose like yours did. How do I remove those?
Heidi Johnson I put mine in the dishwasher and it seemed to work
how about tips to get those pesky labels off the jars? Sometimes it is difficult to get them off
catmusicgirl if not impossible! If you find a way let me know 😀
I just put them in the freeze for ten mins and it pops out.
But why though?!
Goddamn, that was a painfully long video to watch. i should have just looked at the comments.
so much trouble i can do 8 jars in 15min..boom
you should of melt the wax on the hob and made wax tarts
this is so unnecessarily messy you could just wait until the wax hardens
Microwave 2 minutes
You could've just melted it :P but u did try :)
When you fill them with water. Is it hot or cold??
Boiling.
Omg what a mess!
too much trees sacrifice d for this project
What a mess! If you allowed the melted candle wax to cool completely (several hours later), it would've hardened and come out in one piece. I think you need more practice at this.
I have tons of these jars around the house. The way they are shaped make it impossible for the wax to come out of the container. The top is slightly smaller than the bottom, as you can see in the video, the top part goes in then out. That makes it impossible for the wax to come out when its frozen
IWillGertrudYourSoul I have a jar similar to this (wide at bottom and narrow at the top) and actually emptied one yesterday.....I melted the leftover wax with boiling hot water, allowed it to cool for a while and when it almost solid but not completely rock hard (while it was still maleable, soft and shapeable) I removed it in one piece. Honestly it's not that difficult when you know how. :)
Afia B I know that method, but with the freezing it it wouldn't work with a jar like that. The one thats just straight would do fine.
IWillGertrudYourSoul that's exactly what I'm telling you though, it does work with a jar like that (yankee candle jar) as that's what I emptied. Just don't let the wax solidify till it's rock hard, it has to be maleable.
IWillGertrudYourSoul the person who made this video even made a mess of the red candle wax, which was totally unnecessary as that candle container is straight and the wax would've come out in one piece, no problem once the wax was hard. I hear what you're saying about the narrow tops on some candle jars, but it's really not very hard to remove the wax without making such a huge mess :)
What in the devil is happening here? This simple task is not at all this difficult or messy.
Don't do this! 😳
Alot of hassle. I just chuck mine out and buy more.