Slow cooker

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One of my favorite kitchen appliances has always been my crockpot (also known as a slow cooker).

It’s been a very handy tool for those times when you need to cook something, but you’d kind of like to ignore it for several hours too. But this week I learned that crockpots can have uses beyond food.

Did you know you can use a crockpot for candle making? Yes you can!

Supplies for Homemade Candles in a Slow Cooker

It turns out that a crockpot can indeed be a useful tool for making your own candles because it provides a slower, steady heat that works well for melting wax without too much hands-on attention.

And it’s easy to make several candles at once with this crockpot method because the wax melts directly in the container that will hold your finished candle.

Here are the supplies needed for this candle project (and I was lucky to have everything on hand in my craft stash already!) Here’s what you’ll need:

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