
I took home a Honey Candles® Paris Pink Votive to burn as a memorial candle. I prefer votives because they are enclosed as they burn. I used a standard snug fitting glass votive cup (something I always recommend to you). Then I put the glass holder with the votive into a pottery cut out Celtic candle holder. The candle light then shines through beautifully. I like votives because they will burn all day, 15 to 16 hours.
I lit the votive and it wasn’t long before it burned a track through the side as you can see in the first photo here. Then wax started running out the side into the cup. What the heck? After a while there seemed to be a big pool of wax in the center and the votive didn’t seem to be burning it up fast enough. It spit and sputtered. I heard words coming out of my mouth that I have heard from our customers. Things like, “The wick seems defective. “ or “The wick is too small”.

Than my next thought was, this is going to be a fine mess to clean up. How am I going to get that wax out of that cup if this votive won’t burn? Yikes, I can’t let that happen. Then suddenly I realized I had become one of my own frustrated customers. What would I tell a customer that this had happened to?


The next morning I saw how easy it was going to be to take the metal tab out of the bottom so that I could put a new votive into the cup. Please see the last photo. I forgot to mention that I had put a tablespoon of coarse pickling salt in the bottom of it which makes the tab easier to remove. If you want, you can just pop another votive in or you can clean everything out and wash the cup in hot soapy water and start over if you wish.

If you are interested in finding out more about burning our beeswax votives you can visit this link:
or if you want to see our selection of beautiful beeswax votives we have them on our on-line store. We even have some scented with 100% pure Essential oils in our Honey Candles® Essentials line. Honey Candles are 100% Canadian made beeswax candles!