How do you saturate cotton balls with Vaseline for making fire starters? Do you melt the Vaseline & then dunk the cotton balls in?

I'm having not much luck daubing the Vaseline on the balls & it only gets on the outside of the balls.

My previous fire starters were 1" thick rolls of newspaper (tied with cotton string at 1" intervals & cut in 1" widths W/ a hacksaw) & then soaked in melted pariffin wax. But I like the light weight of cotton ball fire starters and my Fire Steel sparks seem to like 'em too.

Eric
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