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The Easiest Way to Clean Wax off a Menorah

December 30, 2019 By Karen Cooper 2 Comments

After eight nights of Hanukkah every year, we’re left with a menorah covered in wax. Even if we use the so-called “dripless” candles, we seem to always have drips and globs of wax left to clean off. And I’ve never found a great way to clean off all that wax…until now! I’ve got the secret for the easiest way to clean wax off a menorah!

It's hard to clean wax off a menorah but I found the easiest way to clean wax off a menorah

If you follow the blog on Facebook, you may have seen a crazy video about things you can do with a dryer sheet. And that got me thinking…would that work to get stuck-on wax off a menorah?

It did!

Here’s what you do:

Fill a sink or bucket with hot water. Put the menorah in, along with one dryer sheet.

Add a dryer sheet to hot water for the easiest way to clean wax off a menorah

Let soak for at least an hour. (I ended up letting mine soak for more than that, but mainly because I got distracted doing other things and forgot to come back to it!)

After it has soaked, take the dryer sheet and rub it over the wax spots on the menorah. Use it to wipe out the candle holder cups, too. Use a toothpick to remove any wax or wicks still stuck in the candle cups.

The wax came right off!

Shiny and clean after using the easiest way to clean wax off a menorah

Even older wax that had been stuck in the candle holder cups for years came out!

The easiest way to clean a menorah even took the old wax and wicks out of the candle holders

Seriously, this is the cleanest this menorah has ever been, and we’ve been using it for almost 20 years!

Now, I will say that I did this project with a metal menorah (as you can see). I do not know if it would work on a plastic menorah, although I suspect it would. And, while I did some research on whether a dryer sheet could harm any metal surfaces, I didn’t find anything that said it would. In fact, I found a lot of information about dryer sheets being used to clean various metal surfaces, including cars and faucets!

Even if you don’t have a Hanukkah menorah, I bet this would work for other metal candlesticks, too!

I’m not sure what’s in a dryer sheet, but it’s a little miracle-worker!

You won't believe what I used to find the easiest way to clean wax off a menorah

 

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About Karen Cooper

Hi! I'm Karen. I call myself a “recovering lawyer” - I traded in my power suits for power tools and a life of DIY adventures. Join me for DIY, home decorating, repurposing and upcycling, and organizing projects and tips as I transform a 1929 Tudor bungalow into our home. I believe in merging old and new to make a house a home.

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Comments

  1. Ivory says

    December 24, 2017 at 9:04 am

    Oh thank you so much for this post, because I often find myself trying to remove candle wax after using candles. For our family, this post is so welcome, because we use candles often, then left with, “how do I remove all this wax”? Happy Holiday’s

    Reply
    • Karen Cooper says

      January 25, 2018 at 12:37 pm

      Awesome! Hope you had a great holidays!! Happy New Year!!

      Reply

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