Make-It Monday (on a Tuesday) Recycled Wax Tart Melts

 I love those scented wax tart melts.  Awhile back I found an EBay shop that makes homemade palm wax tart melts and they smelled heavenly.  I think they smelled just as good or better then the popular Yankee Candle brand.  I used them so much that I knew that I would have to keep ordering them. At the rate that I was melting my wax tarts, it was going to get pricey. There had to be a better way! Then I realized that I could do this myself,  and I did!  Every time I would melt one, I would save the wax.  I just put it all in a Gallon sized zip lock and stored it away and recycled it to make new tart melts.


This is what you will need:

A sauce pan for melting the wax on the stove.  Don't use one of your good sauce pans or pots that you use for cooking, because you will not want to use this pot again!  I picked up a two dollar used one at a thrift store and use it specifically for my wax tart melts.







A mold for the wax.  I used a Wilton heart shape candy mold. This mold comes with two molds, each has 8 hearts -16 total. These molds are cheap and it's easy to pop the tarts out because it's plastic and flexible. I got mine at Michaels.

Parchment paper or wax paper.  





Fragrance oil. You can use any fragrance oil scent that you like.  (I also got this from Michaels.) However, keep in mind that the used wax will still have a little fragrance left, so you will need a similar fragrance or one that will compliment what little fragrance is left over in the used wax.



Directions:

1) Lay out parchment paper and put molds on top.  (Pouring the wax into the molds can be really messy. The parchment paper makes it easy to clean up any spilled or dribbled wax.  Once it has hardened, just scrape it off or push it off.  Don't throw it out. Save it for later, or melt it right away. As you can see from the picture, I did not use parchment or wax paper. Big Mistake! I had a tough time trying to get the wax out of my grout! So use the paper, it will save you a lot of time in the clean up process!)


2) Melt used wax on the stove.


3) Once the wax is melted, turn down the heat, and add desired amount of fragrance using a medicine dropper.  It's up to you how much you want to use. I used Cinnamon Sticks and Apple Cinnamon - 12 mls of each for my amount of wax.

4) Pour wax into molds. Wait for wax to harden and then pop them out of the molds.

Now you have recycled wax tart melts, and a very nicely, scented kitchen, I might add - it was great!
You can do this over and over.  Next time I'm going to start from scratch with new wax and food coloring, and I want try other scents. Can't wait!