With little birthday cake candles, a good huff and puff is fun and safe but with fatter candles with wick pools of molten wax you might well blow wax over your furnishings or worse - someone else, so take care!
There is also a smouldering after a candle is blown out that produces smoke for a while. If you have a lot of candles this adds up to a lot of smoke!
Also the smouldering can eat away the wick and leave a shorter wick than ideal for next burning.
For the above reasons we recommend dipping the wick into its wax pool either directly or after gently blowing out. Of course you need to then lift it straight again afterwards or you have buried it!
This makes no smoke and pre waxes the wick for next time.
We commonly use scissors, cutlery or a metal implement for this but at your own risk you may find your fingers are hardy enough to dip in the wax first after blowing out gently and then dibbing the wick under and back again.
The antique snuffers sometimes sold are not a lot of use for anything except perhaps snuffing dinner candles in hard to reach places.
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