Accent any area of your home with beautifully-colored glass votive holders, rather than using plain, standard candleholders. These colored works of art help bring fragrance to your home quickly with decorative votive scented or unscented candles. These wonderful candle holders can be great place settings, door prizes for the occasional party, or gifts for any hosting event.
You may here glass votive holders called ‘cups’, mostly used as candle holders. These cups can come in a multitude of colors, including blue, red, green, purple, amber, teal, white unscented votive candles, and the most widely bought color, clear, and frosted models.Various styles include tall, taper, smoked, and come in a multitude of shapes, such as square. Alos, tea light candles look good with this type.
Since blown glass votive holders can be shaped, you can find almost any design to suit your decor. You can find chandeliers made to fit them, to modern hanging accents throughout the home to match any theme.
They come also in varying degrees of quality. Most less expensive brands you find at an average retail store are painted. The better quality cups have their color set during the manufacturing process, such as with red votive cups…the color will not fade or come off. The higher quality is usually hand blown.
Tall, or stem glass votive holders, are becoming very popular as accents because they can trend send the decor of your home throughout all seasons. Best bet would be to get a matching set so you can match your theme.
Here are some glass votive candle holder ideas
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| ntemporary Tealight Candle Holders Retail: $13.99 |
Frosted Votive Candle Holders Retail Price: $9.54 |
Glass Cylinder Candle Holder Retail Price: $12.00 |
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| Glass Floating Tealight Candle Holders Retail Price: $17.00 |
Heavy Glass Candle Holder-Amber Retail Price: $4.29 |
Heavy Glass Candle Holder-Black Retail Price: $4.29 |
Today, thanks to better production, many glass votive holders are dish-washer safe, however, most high-quality votive cups take a bit more care in cleaning glass candle holders.
Whether dish-washer safe or not, the main problem is getting the wax out. Many times, people simply just throw away the cups because they do not know exactly how to clean them to re-use them. There is the hard way of cleaning the wax out…scraping, chipping away at the wax to remove it. Never fear, you are in for a much easier surprise solution to removing the wax.
Let us Look at Some Glass Votive Holders Cleaning Steps
First step: easiest step…just check to see if the wax is hardened to the votive holder or a simple wipe will get the wax out. Since candles have a naturally high concentration of oil, the votive will resist the wax sticking. You may not have to purchase any other solutions or supplies.
Second step: since wax has a tendency to spread when it is still warm, cooling the wax would prove beneficial in allowing the wax to be taken out more easily. This is important, as buying premium clear glass votive holders can get expensive and you want to keep them.
Third step: knowing now that the best attempt will come when the wax is cool, place the cup in the freezer for a few hours to cool the wax. This will then, as we learned, will shrink the wax, allowing you to more easily remove the wax.
Fourth step: now, with just a small bit of pressure, you should be able to remove the wax…it should simply ‘pop out’. If a few pieces remain stuck to the votive, use a razor blade and scrape the remainder off. If you have a less delicate votive, you could soak it in a solution of ammonia and water.
Fifth and final step: using vinegar, polish the glass votive holder until it once again shines like new.
You can find wholesale votive candle holders, if you are having a large party or for re-selling.
Some final tips…since cleaning can be messy, you would be wise to clean the colored glass votives several at a time. Also, remember not to light another candle in glass votive holders when they are still in a frozen state, otherwise it will shatter from the immediate heat applied. If nothing else, contact the customer service of the manufacturer for assistance.