They're water-resistant, but we wouldn't say that they're waterproof fire starters. No. The exterior paper of your homemade fire starter will easily ignite without a wick. Waxed paper cups work ...

You'll probably want more than one fire starter, and you'll need a bunch of toilet paper tubes to make them, so start saving tubes from the trash or recycling bin well in advance of doing this ...

Then once we do that, we dip them in melted paraffin wax and it hardens right away and makes a solid brick that is then eco-friendly fire starters.” Chun said they make the paper bricks at his ...