5 Homemade Candles For Emergencies

In today's video, we will see how you can make some emergency

candles

with the supplies you should have at home. Guys, we have an amazing new t-shirt. This is a limited edition, so get yours now by clicking the link in the description below. Guys, it's always good to be prepared even though we are in the age of technology and we always have phones and flashlights in our house. Sometimes there is a power outage. There may be an emergency. It would be nice if you knew how to make your own emergency

candles

. and the good news is that you can do it using some household items.

I have a lot of supplies here today and we want to see what kind of candles and lanterns we can make with these, so let's get started, this is the basic idea we're going for. try making several different types of candles and lanterns using household materials and if they work try making a giant candle out of leftover supplies for our first emergency candle, we'll start with the simplest one and you may have seen this on the channel before of making a butter candle, in the past you saw Grant make these butter candles. They are great because they are very simple to put together.

He used butter and tissue paper and that's really all you need. I'm going to try something different. I'm going to add one more thing to the mix, very simple to find in your home. Toothpicks. Okay, let's look at eight tablespoons. Technically, this should be an eight hour candle, but what are we going to do. Actually, we'll just divide it in half. Let's try two different versions of this. We'll see which one burns better. It's not a perfectly even cut, but that's okay, the way Grant showed you before grabbing a piece of tissue paper. What we are going to do is fold it into a triangle and then we are going to roll it up, that will be our wick.

Now he used a chopstick for this one too, but in a different way than What I'm going to do: I'm going to go ahead and grab one of these chopsticks. We'll make a hole directly through the butter and then use the toothpick to poke this piece of tissue paper into that hole. stick it in now here's the difference: we used the toothpick last time to just stick that piece of tissue paper into the center of the butter. What I'm going to do this time is I'm actually going to keep the toothpick in the butter. So actually, I'm going to take a piece of tissue and what I'm going to do is grease it to make sure it's waxed.

You will see here. In fact, I have some commercial candle wicks and To start with, they are wax that keeps them from burning too quickly and they burn before the candle melts, so I'm going to use our butter to wax this piece of tissue paper and we're going to wrap our in quotes waxed. tissue paper around it, the reason I want to do this is because when the butter melts it will start to sink and I'm worried that with our little wick here what will happen is it will actually fall into the butter and go out.

I hope the toothpick keeps it stable. Go ahead and trim Grant's method which works phenomenally well. I just want to see if this one will too. First, you can even see that the size of the flame is different. Yes, you can get this one. to light, but it won't be as bright as our little stick, so we'll continue with this while we move on to the next one for our next super simple candle. We will use things that you should be able to find in In your kitchen we will almost always use a little vegetable oil and a little salt, so here I have some handy super small and very useful jars, they have a very nice glass body but they also have a glass lid. plastic, so if we need to make a hole through these, we can, we have our little jar and we're going to fill it with salt, you don't need to fill it all the way to the top, then we're going to take our oil and we're going to make sure the salt is completely saturated, so you want it to be firm enough that if you put a toothpick in here, not only will it fall out perfectly, but you'll also be able to see this nice, thin layer of vegetable oil on top that's what you're looking next what we're going to do is take our toothpick, you might want to dip it into the oil and salt mixture just to make sure again that it's nice and saturated and there's a few different ways you can do the next step.

If you have a cotton t-shirt, it has to be 100 cotton or cotton balls or here I have 100 cotton tea towels, you can use those too, let's move on. and start with the cotton balls and this is super simple. What we're going to do, we're going to separate that cotton ball and wrap it around our toothpick. Go ahead and saturate your cotton as if it were your toothpick. The important thing. The important thing here is to make sure there are no gaps. If you have gaps in the cotton while wrapping it, it may not burn the same way.

Put it on the candle, cut it a little closer to size and it took off right away. Is incredible. The salt and vegetable oil candle will work in a pinch. If you need a light source, let's go ahead and try some other types of materials just to see if they also work normally now when you make a candle. commercial candle wicks some people do this differently some people put a little glue in the bottom of their container and then fill it with similar pieces of maybe soy flakes, things like that around it or wait until you have filled the container or a jar with a melted wax before dipping them in and just make sure it stays, this is going to be a little bit more difficult.

I'm going to go ahead and poke it with a toothpick, hopefully it will stay if you have candle making supplies at home to start. I'm not sure why this would be your option, but let's see if it works now. Let's try a piece of towel wick. This is not a polyester blend or anything else. It is 100% cotton. Otherwise, it would melt first. What I'm going to do is go ahead and make sure that this is nice and saturated with that vegetable oil as well and then what we're going to do is use a toothpick like we did with the butter candle. and we're going to push that piece of cloth down, let's go and our kitchen towel, so here we have toilet paper and a toothpick, this is our commercial wick and this is a kitchen towel, these are all just salt and vegetables.

Oil is a very, very easy way to make a quick candle in a pinch, something I want to point out while we were making our little jar candles, our butter candles actually did something interesting, the one I wanted to try where I wrapped a piece. of toilet paper around a toothpick that went out Grant-style that he did right here this was just toilet paper that got in the piece of butter that one is still going to award that wins the next thing we are going to try is to make a candle of one hundred hours if you have an emergency kit at home you probably have one of these but we are going to try to make one ourselves this is quite simple what you are going to use is any type of wax and a very simple tent To start, we have to use crisco from different ways you can make a hundred hour candle like this.

You can actually get candle making supplies, like those soybeans we talked about earlier, with little pieces of wax or just melting candle wax and pouring them into the jar before putting the candle in, I'll try this another way, we'll use crisco, which is gross, so you can try tamping down the crisco or whatever thick wax or grease you're using to make sure there's really no air bubbles, so I'm going to look at the length here where our crisco ends. I'll make it a little bit taller and we'll shave it as needed if you have a candle that's longer than your mason jar just be careful not to cut the wick if you have to do this and I want to do a side by side comparison with this one and this one, so I'm going to make sure that I cut them to the same length, both of our candles so that we have a control test and the one that we're actually going to put on our 100 hour candle.

Here's the really tricky part, just a piece of paraffin wax holds our candle. instead normal candles we'll light them at exactly the same time here we go okay we'll leave these lit behind me we have a gopro set up so you can see the time lapse of how these we're going to burn let's see what happens so for our last emergency flame we are going to try to make an oil lamp and this is incredibly simple, all we need is a glass jar, something that is one hundred percent cotton, this can be a piece of t-shirt or if you have cotton cord, which is what I'm going to use a little bit of wire and a little bit of oil.

This is the most complicated part of one of these oil lamps. Actually, we have to make a hole in the top of the glass jar now in case of need, you can do this even with a stone if necessary. I've seen people do this with chisels and nails in an emergency. You may not have this, but there are other ways to do it. We will go. go ahead and use a chisel and a hammer if you decide you're cutting a flat piece of fabric or even if you have a flat piece of fabric, it's like you know a strip, you can use a flat chisel because I have I have a round bead here trying to Make a kind of round hole for it to pass through.

You want it big enough to be able to pass not only the cord but also the oil itself, but not so big that it will fall out if you do. too big, that's okay and I'll show you why it's perfect, that should be able to happen. I hit him upside down those last few times. The reason is that it means that the cable will be able to pass through. You can trim the wick, but. It's not going to slide back into the jar, so something I want to point out while I've been working on these other different types of candles, we actually lost a couple more, yeah, our butter candles went out, but if you look at our three here that we have in salt and oil this was our commercially available wick there is a small flame but it is barely there this here this is our toilet paper and toothpick now while it is still burning you will notice that we had a lot of smoke you can see a burnt edge at its around and this is our tea towel, okay, we've got our jar, we've got our cord, we've got our oil, we've got the hole in the jar, so we're ready to go, so if any of you have ever used a oil lamp before, it has a fairly simple system: it has a wick that goes down into the oil, it is absorbed by the material that comes out of the top and that oil is the fuel itself. so that's what we're replicating here, make sure you have more than the width of the jars.

The reason is that with an oil lamp, although it uses oil as fuel, you need to trim the wick from time to time. time that's why we have this hole here so we can take out the wick and then we can trim it as it burns, so that it's a little bit wrapped around the bottom to make sure our wick stays where we need it. Let's go ahead and use our wire. The good thing about this is that this doesn't have to be an exact science. What we're going to do with the wire is we're going to wrap it around our wick like that. our wick is going to stay exactly where we put it and now we want to make sure it's completely saturated in the oil, so we're going to submerge everything to try to squeeze out the excess oil.

You don't want this to be like this. soaked that is now dripping everywhere, as you can see, it's a big opening there, so what we're going to do is find the length that you want, we're going to trim it down to where we need to use this wire and just leave it loose. circle because this is attached to the rest of the wire, that wick isn't going anywhere, so now what we're going to do is trim that wire and we're going to trim our width to where I need it and that's it, nice bright light, more brighter than anything else we have now.

Less smoke and this one will last longer. There are a few ways you can make candles, but I don't feel like it. We've explored all the options here, go big or go home. I'm very proud of myself. Hey Nate, yeah, come here. I made a thousand-hour candle. What is this? It's a candle. Remember how I said I would make emergency candles today. What type of emergency are you expecting? I was expecting, you know, a bunch of dishes and other things to start saying, be our guest. It seems to be made of toothpaste, no, no, crisco, oh okay, that should burn a little better than toothpaste.

At least yes, how long do you think it will burn? I don't have a good prediction, it seems like a lot of fuel and it could last a while, yes, but you are proud of me, very proud, you should be proud. Guys, that's not all, you know, we always have more for you to see. Go ahead and click the box at the top to watch our latest video and I'll see you in the next one. We talk to you.