Best wick for wax firestarters?

Hey all. Time to make wood stove firestarters from the scrap wax I've diverted from the landfill.

I'm doing this on the cheap (mostly scrounged or reused materials).

What sort of natural rope/twine would work best as a wick? Jute? Manila?

Beeswax is too precious for me to use as fire starters!

I pour the slum gum into old egg cartons and cut the individual cells up to use as fire starters.

Odds and ends of old candles get melted down and I dip the ends of pine cones in the wax or pour wax over the cones while they are sat up in the egg carton trays.

The wax is scrap paraffin. I use broken egg cartons sometimes; other times it's half-used tea lights. In either case I need a double wax-coated wick to generate heat fast.

Twigs would make good stuff to dip in wax for fire-starters.

Junk mail would be my go to make fire-starters.  Put a spoonful of wax , let dry then crumble the junk mail.

Used paper towels rolled up and dipped in wax.

Another idea would be dryer lint if you use a dryer, I don't.

I believe there was a thread about making herbal fire-starters.

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:What sort of natural rope/twine would work best as a wick? Jute? Manila?

Maybe test, but I expect both of those would work well. Or cotton twine. I've made candle wicks of twine that's like slightly heavier kite string. Works well, but burns up too fast. Probably a non-issue on a firestarter. A cotton ball with just a little vaseline on it will light from just a spark and burn around five minutes. Lay that on your firestarter and let the wax cover one end, leaving the cotton exposed on the other end, that ought to do the job. And if you don't have match or lighter handy, you could use a flint and steel.

As Anne and T Melville said, I use dryer lint.  I just take lint, rub Vaseline on it and use it as is.  No wick.

I wonder if I took a dry cattail head and dipped it in an inch of wax. Lots of surface area there, and a convenient handle.

Edit: this might also work with cooking oil that's no good for anything else.