If you decide to make your own wax, make sure you don't just melt the wax in a pan. because you can start a fire. Someone at my friends apartments caught 3 apartments in fire from trying to melt wax directly on the pan.
In order to melt it, you need to first get two pans, one smaller than another. First pour water into the larger pan and put the second one inside it on the water. Put the wax you want to melt inside the smaller pan. Then bring the water to boil. This will melt the wax, while, in turn, help prevent your wax from exploding in your face and burning you or catching something on fire.