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Problem with beeswax tealight candles

13 years ago

Help! I bought a large lot of beeswax tealights on ebay and they are all burning wrong. The flame is extremely low; about as small as a flame can get before it goes completely out. I have 14 burning at once in a holder and they are all behaving the same way. When I turn out the lights to see the flames each wick is barely a glow.

I've had beeswax tealights before, and this has never been a problem for me, although I have experienced this issue with beeswax pillar candles (which is why I have given up on them and only burn the soy pillars now).

I tried pouring the wax out of one, but that only helped for a bit and then, tiny flame again. I have emailed the seller but as I'm waiting to hear back, I wondered if anybody else had any thoughts about why this might happen. Thanks for any help!

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sunnyca_gw
13 years ago
Nope but I got a witch candle for Halloween & it didn't sit straight so I took a knife & was scrapping off the bottom of it to even it up. I was talking to my daughter at the time. Suddenly she said, mom you sound "funny" like you've been stung by a bee! I said oh, that's crazy, I'm just scrapping off bottom of a candle.....Well I took a look at the scrappings & I could make out some bee parts,a wing & leg & realized candle made with used beeswax. I had to take 2 Benadryl but at least didn't have to go to hospital like I usually do. Don't know what would have happened if I had lite the thing. I tossed it in trash & don't buy any candles from China. They put lead & other metals in stuff for babies & toothpaste & kids jewelry so who knows what they put in the tealights. I got a can light looked like round box of mints for DD couple years back that was scented & you take lid off & burn, when it got about 2/3 down all of a sudden a big flame shot up & scared DD & her DD have to death, lucky for them it was sitting on the metal stove so didn't cause a fire. Be careful!
casal
13 years ago
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OK, coke out the nose laughing at the spammer's thinking prefab homes are a solution to bad candles or bee allergies. Can't someone kick this person off Gardenweb?
atizzy_yahoo_com
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If your beeswax has a lot of honey it, the wicking will get clogged and can extinguish the flame altogether. There is no way to tell how much honey is in beeswax, so each batch of wax is different. I am continuously trying to get enough honey out of the wax to get properly burning tealights!!

All beeswax is "used". The bees produce wax to store their brood, honey and pollen in. The various shades of beeswax represents how used or old the wax is. Typically, the darker the colour, the older the wax. I am surprised that someone found a whole bee in it! That sort of thing is easy to filter out.

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