How to Make Your Own Tealights

1. Put out your aluminum or clear plastic tealight cups on the work surface, make sure it is a FLAT LEVEL SURFACE
2. If you are tabbing your own wicks, do that now. For instructions of how to tab a wick, visit our section on How To Tab A Wick
3. Set the tabbed tealight wicks in the tealight cups. Try to get them at center, although during pour they will probably shift to one side a little

NOTE: Some candle makers prefer to pour the wax first and place the tabbed wick in the tealight cup right after the wax is poured. The choice is yours. We advocate the pre-placement of wicks in the tealight cups to reduce the chance of wax overflow and drips from the tealight cup.

You will need either a steamer pot or deep sauce pan, and you will also need a melting pot with a pouring spout. These two items create a double boiler to melt down your wax.

Fill the bottom part of your double boiler (the steamer pot or the deep sauce pan) with about two inches of cool water, and place on the burner set to high temperature. Place pieces of wax to be melted into the melting pot with a pouring spout, set the melting pot in a boiling water, and attend to it as the wax liquefies. When the water begins to boil, turn the heat down to medium low or low.

If you have a large block of wax and need instructions on how to safely break it into smaller pieces, please visit our section on How To Break Up Wax Blocks

When the wax is entirely liquid (i.e., when there are no solid chunks any longer in the pot) you have successfully melted the wax.

Our 130 degree container candle wax melts at about 130 degrees F. The wax will continue to grow hotter as it remains in the double boiler. The temperature of the wax should get to 190 degrees F.

A simple double boiler using an old sauce pan and a meting pot with a spout.