It didn’t come with the candle but if you have candles with lids, it’s a great way to reuse them when you want to protect whatever you store within them. One is being used to hold toothbrushes and toothpaste and the other for holding cotton wool.īecause these are 30cl candle jars, I just happened to have a gold lid (now available in my shop) that fit on the one for the cotton wool, meaning it won’t get dusty. Of course, they don’t have to ‘match’ but I quite liked that they coordinated in this instance. I had a pair of candles from Chase and Wonder, one which I bought and one which was gifted and they made such a cute set in my bathroom. There are lots of opportunities for using these in your bathroom. So now that you’ve got a nice clean candle container, here are 10 different ways to reuse your leftover candles so they don’t just go to waste… Candle Jars for Bathroom Storage Once the candle is finished, I use a small teaspoon to get rid of as much of the wax as I can, leverage under the metal tabs that hold the candle wick in place and then use hot soapy water to get rid of any remaining residue.Īnother trick is to pop it in the freezer for a few hours – the candle wax will contract and it should just come right out (but it doesn’t always work so the teaspoon method is the one that is the most dependable for me). You’ll never pay more for using these links. This post may contain some affiliate links which means if you make a purchase using my link, I may receive a small commission from the brand as a thank you for the referral.
Update! Did you know I now sell my own range of luxury candles? Shop Swoon Worthy Scents Here. Some of them were more expensive, some of them were really cheap and some of them were gifted to me over the years by various lovely brands I’ve worked with. See? I’m pretty much a hoarder of these things. I have quite a few – I just gathered a selection of the ones I have right now in the image above. I’m going to assume that you’ve purchased a few candles or received some lovely ones as a gift here and there and now they are just languishing at the back of some cupboard somewhere because they brought you joy at some point and it just seems wasteful to toss them out.īut what do you do with candle jars after the candle is all but gone? I figured I’d show you just a few different ways I like to use them, meaning they don’t get thrown into landfill or sat in recycling and I still get to enjoy them. And what ends up happening is that I have a LOT of empty candle jars and candle containers that I just can’t bring myself to throw away. So I am a candle buyer, almost obsessively so.
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