To make your own CottonPad FireStarters you need to save all the candle waste and few empty Pringles cans. You also need an old pot. I bought one from a second hand shop. After this you can't use it anymore for cooking.
Wash the cans by hot water and decorate them by craft paper (or pretty pics from old magazines etc.) You don't need any new candle wax or anything. Just melt the candle waste in a pot. Don't put the pot straight on the fire/heater. Use pot-in-pot method. Place the candle waste pot into a bit bigger pot where is some water. This water begins to boil and warms up your candle pot. Then the candle waste begins to melt. Use some tool to pick up any trash from the melting wax. Be careful; it is H O T.
Dip cotton pads in the melt wax. I used old extra forceps which I don't need anymore for cooking. Place the pads to dry on the baking paper. For about 100-120 pads are enough for one Pringles can.
Cut the dried and hardened pads. In this way it is fast and easy to set them on fire and use to light up your fire place. You don't need any color to dye them up. I used white, brown, red and a bit blue candle waste. It turns out usually just grey. But who cares! You are going to burn them anyway so no extra chemicals are needed.
Keep the cans there where it is easy to use them... but not too close the fire place. Pretty cans can decorate your home. Practical and once again; waste is used to make something new and to reduce the amount of pollution on our beautiful but suffering PlanetEarth.
