Candles in MASON JARS and using them after?

OMG...the wax is a B*&TCh to clean out! Unless someone else has a better idea, I wouldnt use them for drinking glasses. Definately yes for flower vases and other uses that are not related to food or drinks.....

Uugh dammit. haha

I wonder if I could find some sort of liner so the wax wouldn't get on the mason jar class?? Any ideas anyone??

Or just buy those already made soy candles in mason jars. But I am scared that will just be too much money. Although I do have a friend's mom who is interested.. we'll see what she has to say!

MY FMIL bought candles that were in glasses and uses the glasses as drinking glasses now. From what I understand, if you put them in the freezer for a period time the wax will come off of the glass much easier.

Ohhh....didnt think of freezing them! And there isnt some kind of "film" left over? I will have to try it.

as for a liner....I would hate to put something else in there that could potentially catch on fire....

and actually drinking wax should be THAT bad for you, right? :-)

What about putting a little sand in the bottom of the jar to catch drips? Then just dump out the sand afterwards.

It can't be that bad... they used to always made those wax candies- like the wax lips and "soda" bottles

I wonder if I could find like a smaller glass jar or a votive that is already in a cup to just plop inside the mason jars..

Wouldnt the glass heat up?? even with tea lights?

DUDE! All you have to do is pop them in the freezer overnight and the wax comes right out! Works with any glass candle holder, no matter how melted the wax is.

How does this magic wooooorrkk? haha I will try it with a candle I have at home.. hmmm

Use colored sand or salt at the bottom and the waz will melt into that and can be dumped out very easily afterwards.

We've used antique mason jars w/ votives many times. Freeze them, depending on how the wax has cooled it'll either fall out or can be chipped out. You can then pour boiling water in the jars to soften and remove the remaining wax. To prevent adding the wax to the city's sewer system allow the hot water to cool that you've used to remove the wax debris, skim the water and trash the wax. Mason jars are produced to be boiled during the canning process, even the antique jars. The sand suggestion for the bottom of the jar was a good one, it'll allow you to "nest the candle" in the jar so that it will b level and will absorb most of the melted wax.

@justine took the words out of my mouth! freeze them

Thanks everyone for the ideas and help! time to do some experimenting!

We put sand in the jars to hold the candles. We needed to anyway because the bottom of the jars wasn't quite flat and the candles would have tipped if we hadn't.