How to Fix a Tunneling Candle

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Description: Candle tunneling occurs when only the center of...

Steps:

1. Fill any kind of dish with hot water.
2. Add any brand of dish soap or hand soap to the water.
3. Mix the soap with water using a spoon.

4. Place the candle inside the mix of water and soap.
5. Let the jar soak inside the pot.
6. Make sure the area on the jar that has a label is completely soaked.
7. After 5 to 10 minutes, remove the candle from the dish.

8. Use a sponge to wash and remove the label from the jar.
9. Removing the label helps you have a cleaner fix as it prevents the label from peeling off inside the boiling water and damaging your pot in future steps.

10. Fill another pot with water and place it on the stove.
11. Turn the stove to high heat.
12. Wait until the water is simmering.

13. Use oven mitts to place the candle inside the pot.
14. Wait 15 to 30 minutes for the wax to be fully melted.

15. While waiting for the wax to melt, grab two coffee stir sticks or similar objects, and tape them into a cross.
16. In this guide, I am using incense sticks.

17. Take the candle out of the pot using oven mitts.
18. Place the melted candle on a flat surface.
19. Remember to turn off the stove.

20. Use a pair of tweezers to grab and pull out the burnt wick of the candle.
21. Do not touch the hot wax with your fingers; use tweezers.

22. Place the cross that you made from the sticks on the edges of the candle jar.
23. Insert two new candle wicks inside the wax from the metal side.
24. Make sure the wicks are not close together.
25. Twist the wick around the sticks to prevent them from moving.

26. Wait for the wax to harden and remove the sticks.
27. Trim the candle wick to 1/4 inch.
28. You have fixed your tunneling candle.