Cleaning Candle Jars

CLEANING
CANDLE JARS

‚ Place your 8 oz, 16 oz, 26 oz, 32 oz or specialty jar in the freezer for 30 minutes.
‚ Remove jar from the freezer & pop out the frozen wax.
‚ When the jar returns to room temp, place the waxy jar on a baking sheet in a cold oven, turn it to 200 degrees. Set your timer for 10 minutes.
‚ After 10 minutes or once your remaining wax is melted, put the melted wax and metal wick holders in a non-melting disposable container. Discard. Use a paper towel to wipe away remaining waxy residue.
‚ While your jar is still warm, pull both labels off.
‚ Using a damp cloth, wipe out the lid and remove label.
‚ Run jar and lid through one cycle in your dishwasher.

The result is a beautifully clean, recyclable jar. Every effort to recycle makes a difference for our environment!

WARNING:
Oven and jars are HOT! This is only a recommendation to clean waxy jars. Gold Canyon Candles is not responsible for any injury that occurs during the process.

Getting the Smell from the Jar Lid

Dear Maven,

How do you get the smell out of the candle lid? I would like to re-use the container as a sugar
container. However, I do not want the sugar to smell like Cinnamon Garland. I have tried many things to get the smell out, including Homeology All Purpose.

Wow—another example of reduce, reuse, recycle. Way to go! Gold Canyon has the most powerful fragrance on the market and with this high quality it’s no wonder you can’t get that smell out. You can though—it just takes a little time.

Take the plastic ring off of the glass and wash them both with very hot soapy water, letting them soak 30 minutes or so. Rinse and allow them to dry. If the plastic ring still has a smell, let it sit in a bowl of baking soda for a week. Wash the plastic ring, let it dry and smell again. If it still has smell left, do another bowl of baking soda for a couple of weeks. That should do it!

I know it sometimes take a little extra work to repurpose something, but it’s all worth it. Plus, who else will have such a beautiful custom-designed diamond cut glass sugar container?

Your partner in going green,
Maven

Uses for Empty Jars

Uses for Empty Jars:

Decorations – Your imagination is the limit on this one.  Put rocks in the bottom, or fish tank pebbles, or any number of other things. 

Plants – You could plant something small in one of these.  Hmm.. Maybe I could grow some kitty catnip!

Artwork - Layer sand, or other items into your jars.  Best with one that you can put the lid onto.

Bathroom Storage - Fill with cotton puffs, hair pins, whatever else floats around on your counters.

In the Kitchen - Some of the jars would make great drinking glasses!  (make sure they are well cleaned first)

Candy Jars - Enough said

Empty Scent Pods - Great to store small items like paperclips or craft supplies.

How to Clean your Jars Out

Be thrifty, be green. Salvage glass candle jars and make them purposeful again turning them into unique holders or accent pieces. You can use empty jar candles, candle holders or candle accessories containers as places to store supplies in the office; as food containers for candy, spices, flour, sugar or tea bags in the kitchen; as storage for buttons, safety pins or craft items in the spare bedroom; as everyday containers for storing cotton balls, soaps or cotton swabs.

1. Only use this method of cleaning when 1/2” or less of wax remains in a candle jar. Turn oven to 200 degrees, place candle jar on a baking sheet and warm in the oven for 30 minutes or just until wax is liquefied. CAUTION: Candle jars will be hot to the touch.

2. Pour wax into a disposable heat safe container. Use a disposable towel to wipe out any remaining wax in the candle jar.

3. Squeeze Wax Remover into candle jar; wipe clean.

4. Spray candle jar with Gold Canyon’s natural cleaning product, Homeology™ All Purpose, rinse in hot water and dry.

Cleaning Candle Jars

Be thrifty, be green. Salvage glass candle jars and make them purposeful again turning them into unique holders or accent pieces. You can use empty jar candles, candle holders or candle accessories containers as places to store supplies in the office; as food containers for candy, spices, flour, sugar or tea bags in the kitchen; as storage for buttons, safety pins or craft items in the spare bedroom; as everyday containers for storing cotton balls, soaps or cotton swabs.


1. Only use this method of cleaning when 1/2” or less of wax remains in a candle jar. Turn oven to 200 degrees, place candle jar on a baking sheet and warm in the oven for 30 minutes or just until wax is liquefied. CAUTION: Candle jars will be hot to the touch.


2. Pour wax into a disposable heat safe container. Use a disposable towel to wipe out any remaining wax in the candle jar.


3. Squeeze Wax Remover into candle jar; wipe clean.


4. Spray candle jar with Gold Canyon’s natural cleaning product, Homeology™ All Purpose, rinse in hot water and dry.


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