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How to Use a Wax Melter
How to Use a Wax Melter
Wax melters are designed to warm or heat wax melts and release their fragrance. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials, but they all work in the same basic way.
Every wax melter (or wax melts burner) has a heat source, such as an unscented tealight candle or electricity, which heats up a metal or ceramic dish. The dish is filled with wax melts, and as they warm up and melt, they release their fragrance into your room, space or home.
FelinFach Wax Melters
Our wax melters require a tealight to warm the wax. We believe that this is the best combination to release the fabulous fragrances of the wax melts but also to add the ambience of a flickering tealight candle to your home.
Different Types of Wax Melters:
- Tealight melter: This is the simplest type of wax melter and in many ways the best. It consists of a metal or ceramic dish that is designed to hold an unscented tealight candle. The tealight candle heats up the dish, which melts the wax melts. The tealights also provide a flickering flame and create a relaxing ambience that no type of electric wax melts warmer can provide.
- Electric melter: This type of melter uses an electric coil to heat up the dish. This is a more convenient option than a tealight burner, as you do not have to worry about replacing the tealights.
How to Use a Wax Melter, or Electric Wax Melter
Every wax melts burner has two parts.
- a heating element which will warm the wax melts, and
- a dish where you place your wax melts.
Place your chosen wax melt with its fragrance in the dish on top of your melter. Start with one wax melt and if that doesn't provide enough fragrance, try adding one more.
Turn on your electric wax warmer, or if more traditionally, light your tealight and place it in the bottom of your melterer. The heat, be it electric, or a flame, will begin to melt your wax and fragrance will consequently be released into the room.
When you've had enough of your wax melt, you simply turn off your electric burner or blow out the tealight (we recommend using a wick snuffer for safety) and you can allow the wax to harden before using again. Once your wax starts to lose its scent you simply remove and replace with a fresh wax melt.
How to Clean your Wax Melter or Warmer
When to Clean your Wax Melter
Wax melts usually last for a few days of continuous use. Once they have lost their fragrance, the time has come for a clean and a new wax melt. If you replace the wax melt with one with the same fragrnace you can get away with a quick clean. However, if you replace the wax melt with a new fragrance, then it is essential to completely clean the wax melt dish to get the full benefit of the new fragrance
How to Clean a Wax Melter
Once the wax melt has completely cooled and gone hard, it should easily come out of the wax melt dish. You can always place the dish in a fridge or freezer for five or ten minutes to completely harden the wax and help this process.
Using warm (not hot/boiling) water and a touch of mild detergent, carefully wipe clean the wax melt dish with a cloth so as to not scratch or harm the glaze of your wax melter. Once you have finished, its time for a new wax melt!
FelinFach Candles, Diffusers and Accessories
Modern-Day Candle Chandler
A Candle Chandler? - "a maker and seller of tallow, wax candles, and also usually soap".
We are a modern-day candle chandler, hand pouring soy wax candles using traditional methods and skills but also other fragrance items such as reed diffusers, wax melts and candle and diffuser refills. Our wax melters require a tealight to warm the wax. We believe that this is the best combination to release fabulous fragrances but also to add ambience to your home.
Candle Safety
It is always important to treat your soy wax candles and wax melts safely and with care. Please note the follow candle care advice...
- Never leave a burning candle unattended.
- Place candles on a stable surface away from flammable objects.
- Keep candles out of reach of children and pets.
- Extinguish candles before going to bed or leaving the house.
- Do not place candles too close together.
More information on Candle Safety and Care, click here...
About FelinFach
Located in Pembrokeshire Wales, our ethos is defined in the three words...
NATURAL TRADITIONAL HANDMADE.
- Hand woven iconic Welsh blankets and Welsh tapestry blankets.
- Handmade candles, candle accessories, Candle Making Workshops and soapery.
- Natural Dyeing Craft courses.
- Yarn shop, hand dyed yarn, yarn bowls, project bags, tools and accessories for knitters and crafters.
- Welsh Gifts, souvenirs, made in Wales, handmade in Wales.
We are a proud supporter of Americymru, the Campaign for Wool, Global Welsh and Red Dragon America.
Last updated 2nd August 2024
