A famous quote goes like, “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

Well, candles have a charm of their own that cannot be overshadowed by the bright tube lights!! A glowing candle can convey various emotions, such as love, passion, optimism and so on. This is the reason why candles have been favourite gift items to be gifted to loved ones.

Candles are also used widely for decorating homes. Nowadays, the use of candles is not restricted to just decorating homes or gifting to near and dear ones. Tealight candles are quite popular today that are used as tea or food warmers. A tealight candle is encased in a thin metal cover (usually aluminum cups) and liquefies completely while lit. The wick of the candle is tethered to a piece of metal that stops it from floating to the top of the floating wax and from burning before the wax does. These candles burn with an even flame and emits very low smoke.

Tealights are quite safer as compared to fuel burners for warming food. So, you can make use of these candles when you are planning to serve chocolate or cheese fondue to your guests. Make the fondue in a pot on the stove. Then, right before the guests arrive, light up the tealight candle and put the fondue in it. There will be a slow but consistent heating and you will be able to serve fresh and hot fondue to your guests.

Apart from the above use, you can use a tealight candle for accent lighting and for heating scented oil. The slow and consistent heating allows such kind of uses.

If you are a person with good creativity, you can further beautify your tealights by painting craft glue on them and sprinkle some colourful glitter, thereby adding some 'zing' factor to the candles. Then, you can flaunt your creative work by displaying them in your drawing room. You may also gift them to your loved ones...they will definitely be touched by such a wonderful gift!