Wax melts on tiny containers are the future, not the essential oils, silly me!

Essential oils smell good, they improve your mood, and make your house smell wonderful. They are also pricey, and not as effective as one had hoped they would be. In fact, essential oils on wax heaters seem to almost never work, it's a bizarre but true incident. But there is one perfuming technology that absolutely does work, blows other means to make one's place sweet-smelling. Using wax melts. I have put wax melts on the top containers of warmers and that has served me well until now, almost six years at this point.

There is however a downside. You have to get rid of the wax when it's still warm, and it's easy to get rid of. It sticks everywhere even after setting and cleaning as not as easy as washing off an oil spill. So once one has committed to a flavor with wax melt, that melter will forever only take that aroma unless one wants to invest 30 minutes clearing the gunk out.

Thanks to my research in perfuming, I have discovered another way. People online use silicone cups used for making single servings of cupcakes as containers for wax melts and put those on top of warmers. No need to clean up the warmer, and since it's silicone, super easy to clean off. Even then those silicone cups aren't cheap and I wasn't really feeling like it would be worth it. There was a consideration to maybe do my own resin casts, but it would be too much of an effort for not a lot of reward.

Then it hit me. What I was looking for was a small container that can keep molten wax in and tolerate decently high temperatures. What other cheap, disposable implement might I have in my possession that does it? That's right, the empty alminum 'cups' of the votive candles I light for my wax warmers! I can reuse them to be wax melt containers. In their former lives they held molten wax, so they're designed for the purpose, they can take the heat, and I have hundreds of those, so I can treat them as disposable, that's what I've been doing with them all this time!

With that, the wax-melt technology makes a lot more sense.

You will hear more on this in the future.