Can Humidity Cause Problems With Scented Candles?
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Humidity gets blamed for wet spots, sweating and frosting. It causes none of them. Here is what it actually ruins.
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Candle Troubleshooting · Monsoon
Yes — but almost none of the ones it gets blamed for. Wax and fragrance oil do not take up water from the air, so wet spots, sweating and frosting are temperature faults. Damp air ruins the things around the candle instead: wicks, labels, cartons, stickers, powders and tins.
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real humidity failures on this page, each with its mechanism and its fix · none of them is a wax fault · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Does humidity cause wet spots, sweating or frosting? No. All three are temperature and cooling faults. Wax and fragrance oil are non-polar — they do not absorb meaningful water out of the air, so the "moisture" explanation fails at the first step. Start with are candle wet spots actually moisture.So what does humidity actually damage? Six things, all of them absorbent or metallic: wicks, labels and stickers, cartons and boxes, wick stickers, powdered colour like mica, and metal tools and tins.
Which one costs you the most money? Wicks. A damp wick is hard to light and burns badly, and it looks completely normal — the customer blames your candle, not the weather.
What actually fixes it? Storage discipline, not a purchase. Sealed containers, silica where it makes sense, stock off the floor and away from outside walls, cartons closed, and first-in-first-out rotation through the monsoon.
The short answer
Not humidity: wet spots, sweating fragrance oil, frosting on soy, oil separating in the jar and soft sinking tops. Those are pour temperature, room temperature, cooling speed and fragrance load. Read does room temperature affect candle wet spots and why does soy wax frost.
Genuinely humidity: damp wicks that will not light cleanly, labels and care stickers that peel, cartons that soften, wick stickers that lose tack, mica that clumps, and tins and steel tools that spot.
The protocol: sealed containers, silica in the absorbent stock, everything off the floor and away from outside walls, cartons closed and flat, dated bags, oldest used first. Test-burn one wick out of any bag that has stood open through the monsoon.
In this guide
The left column is what makers write to us about during the monsoon. The right column is what the monsoon is actually doing to the workshop. Nothing on the left is fixed by a dehumidifier; nothing on the right is fixed by changing your wax.
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Can humidity cause problems with scented candles?
Yes, but not the problems you are probably here for. Wax and fragrance oil are non-polar materials that do not take up meaningful water from the air, so the faults blamed on Indian humidity almost never come from it. Wet spots are not moisture — they are wax contracting away from cold glass. Sweating is not condensation — it is fragrance oil above what the wax will hold, driven out by a warm room. Frosting is crystal growth, and separation is load and pour temperature. What humidity genuinely damages is everything absorbent or metallic around the candle: wicks that go quietly damp in an open bag and then refuse to light properly, labels and care stickers that will not stick to cold glass, cartons that soften under a stack, wick stickers that lose tack, mica that clumps, and tins and steel tools that spot. Every one of those is a storage problem with a storage fix, and none of them is solved by buying a different wax.
One line: humidity does not get into your wax, but it does get into your wicks, your labels, your boxes and your mica — so the monsoon fix is a storage protocol, not a product.
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What humidity does not cause, and why that matters
Every July the same four photographs arrive on WhatsApp with the same sentence attached: "it must be the humidity". It is almost never the humidity.
Start with the chemistry, because it settles four arguments at once. Soy, coconut-soy, paraffin and beeswax are non-polar, and so are the fragrance oils poured into them. Water is polar. Non-polar materials do not hold water in any meaningful quantity — which is why wax is used to waterproof other things. Damp air cannot get into the body of a finished candle in any amount that changes how it looks or burns.
That matters commercially. A maker who blames humidity buys a dehumidifier for the pouring room, and the wet spots continue, because they were caused by pouring at the wrong temperature into cold glass. Misdiagnosis costs more than the fault does.
Misattribution table · monsoon complaints
Five faults blamed on damp air, and what is really producing them
| What you see | Blamed on | Actual mechanism | Where the fix is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudy patches where wax has left the glass | Moisture trapped against the jar | Wax contracts as it cools and pulls off a cold vessel wall. It is an adhesion fault, not water | Are candle wet spots actually moisture |
| Wet spots that come and go through the day | Rising humidity | The room warming and cooling. Wax expands and re-contacts the glass, then pulls back again | Does room temperature affect candle wet spots |
| Beads of oil on the candle surface | Condensation | Fragrance above what the wax will hold in solution, pushed out by a warm room. Taste it on a fingertip: it is oil, not water | Why is my candle sweating oil · hot weather and sweating |
| A layer of oil above set wax, or oil in the pour pot | Water in the wax | Fragrance load past the wax's stated ceiling, or added at the wrong temperature and stirred too briefly | Preventing fragrance oil separation |
| White crystalline bloom on soy | Damp storage | Soy is a natural vegetable wax and re-crystallises at the surface. Cosmetic, and it does not affect throw | Why does soy wax frost |
The one honest caveat. Water does cause faults when it reaches the wax as liquid water — a wet pitcher, a jar washed and not dried, condensation inside a cold jar. That gives spitting during the pour, pinholes and craters. It is a wet-equipment problem, fixed by drying the equipment: dry every jar and every steel pouring pitcher before wax touches it.
So the useful question is not "is it humid?" but "what in my workshop is absorbent?" Wax is not. Fragrance oil is not. Glass is not. Cotton, paper, cardboard, adhesive, mineral powder and bare steel all are — and every genuine monsoon failure below happens in one of those six.
What humidity actually does — six mechanisms and six fixes
These are the genuinely seasonal failures. Each has a mechanism, a symptom and a fix that costs almost nothing. Wicks and labels account for most of the money lost, so they get a section each below.
The real list · monsoon failures in the workshop
Absorbent and metallic materials, in order of what they cost you
| Material | Mechanism | What you actually see | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wicks | Cotton and paper braid are hygroscopic. A wick in an open bag takes up moisture from the air | Nothing. It looks identical. Then it is hard to light, the flame sits low and it may drown or go out | Sealed container with silica; date the bag; test-burn one wick from any bag that has stood open |
| Labels and care stickers | Pressure-sensitive adhesive needs a dry, room-temperature surface. Paper face stock also swells | Edges lift within days, corners curl, print cockles, the label looks second-hand on the shelf | Label a settled candle on dry glass, in the driest part of the day; store sheets flat and bagged |
| Cartons and mailers | Corrugated board takes up moisture and loses stiffness, so stacking strength drops | Boxes go soft and slightly wavy, stacks lean, a carton that held six jars now bulges | Store flat, sealed in poly, off the floor, away from outside walls; build cartons on the day you ship |
| Wick stickers | Same adhesive chemistry, plus a jar base that is cold or slightly damp | The tab lifts during the pour and the wick drifts off centre as the wax sets | Keep the sheet in its bag; press onto a dry base at room temperature; warm cold jars first |
| Mica and powders | Fine mineral powder cakes as it picks up moisture | Hard lumps in the jar, specks and streaks in the finished wax instead of an even shimmer | Airtight jars with silica, a dry spoon every time, never a warm or wet one |
| Tins and steel tools | Damp air plus fingerprints starts surface corrosion on tinplate and bare steel | Dull spots and freckles on tin lids, discoloured wick tabs, a spotted wicking needle | Dry immediately after washing, wipe down before storing, keep tin stock sealed and rotate it |
The pattern behind all six
None of these is a candle fault. They are raw-material storage faults that surface in the finished candle — the thing that failed was put away three weeks before the thing that broke. Audit the cupboard before the pour.Wicks — the expensive one, because you cannot see it
Of the six, the wick is the one that reaches the customer. A soft carton is your problem; a damp wick becomes a candle a paying customer cannot light at the dinner table. And a damp wick is visually indistinguishable from a dry one — no colour change, no smell, no stiffness you can feel.
The mechanism is simple. A braided cotton wick is a fabric, and cotton is hygroscopic. Put a flame to it and the heat must first drive that water off before wax at the base of the wick can vaporise and burn. So the candle takes several attempts to light, the flame sits low and pale, the melt pool opens slowly or not at all, and the customer reports a candle that "doesn't smell of anything" — a small flame makes a small pool, and pool area is release area. The complaint reads as a fragrance problem and is a storage problem. Wooden wicks are worse: wood holds more moisture than a cotton braid, and a damp one chars, sputters and goes out repeatedly while the customer stands over it with a lighter.
Test one wick before you pour the batch. Out of any bag that has stood open through the monsoon, take one wick, tab it, stand it in a test jar or a shallow dish of wax, and light it. Lights first time and holds a steady flame — the bag is fine. Three attempts, guttering, a low flame — that bag is damp, and forty candles poured from it are forty complaints. One Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) costs ₹5.90.
Buying behaviour should change too. Eco Candle Wicks are ₹5.90 a wick whether you buy 10 or 1,000 — there is no per-unit discount for going deeper, so you gain nothing by holding a thousand wicks through a wet season you have nowhere dry to store. If your storage is a shelf against an outside wall, buy the 100-pack at ₹590, use it, buy again. Rare case: the smaller pack is the better commercial decision.
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| Pack | Thin (C1) | Thick (C2) | Per wick |
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| 10 wicks | ₹59.00 | Out of stock | ₹5.90 |
| 20 wicks | ₹118.00 | ₹188.80 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
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| 100 wicks | ₹590.00 | ₹944.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
| 500 wicks | ₹2,950.00 | ₹4,720.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
| 1,000 wicks | ₹5,900.00 | ₹9,440.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
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Pre-tabbed · fewer parts to keep dry
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Pre-tabbed, which removes one monsoon variable: you are not also storing loose wick stickers and bare tabs that can lose tack or spot. At ₹12.00 flat they cost more than Eco C1 — the honest trade is ₹6.10 extra per candle against one less thing to keep sealed. Worth it on a small monsoon run; not on 500 festive units.
| Pack | Price | Per wick | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | ₹120.00 | ₹12.00 | Trial quantity |
| 50 | ₹600.00 | ₹12.00 | A month of small-batch work |
| 100 | ₹1,200.00 | ₹12.00 | The sensible monsoon holding |
| 500 | ₹6,000.00 | ₹12.00 | Only with dry, sealed storage |
| 1,000 | ₹12,000.00 | ₹12.00 | Festive volume |
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Wood · the most moisture-sensitive
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The premium option, and the one that punishes bad storage hardest. This is also the only wick here where the bulk discount is real — ₹59.00 each in tens falling to ₹41.30 in hundreds, a 30% saving — so storage is a money question. Buy the 100-pack only if you have an airtight box for it.
| Pack | Price | Per wick | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | ₹590.00 | ₹59.00 | — |
| 50 | ₹2,360.00 | ₹47.20 | Save 25% |
| 100 | ₹4,130.00 | ₹41.30 | Save 30% |
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Also in the wick range: Eco Braided Wicks ₹472 / 5 m, ₹826 / 10 m · Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch diameter) ₹413 / 5 m, ₹708 / 10 m · Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs, 61 m, ₹706.82 (₹11.59/m). Roll stock has one monsoon advantage: a sealed coil has far less exposed surface than fifty loose cut wicks in an open packet. CSI live pricing, September 2026 — the linked product page is authoritative.
Labels, stickers and packaging in the monsoon
A peeling label is the fastest way to make a ₹900 candle look like a ₹200 candle, and it is the commonest monsoon complaint after wicks. It has three separate causes that makers usually merge into one.
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The adhesive never made proper contactPressure-sensitive adhesive flows into the microscopic texture of a surface under pressure, and it needs that surface dry, clean and at room temperature. A jar standing in a humid room carries an invisible film of moisture; a jar just out of a cool room carries condensation. The adhesive bonds to water instead of glass and the label lifts within a week. Wipe the glass, let it dry fully, press down hard along every edge.
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The candle was still warm or still settlingLabel a warm candle and the glass contracts under the label as it cools, so the label buckles. Label only after the candle has fully set and reached room temperature — the same discipline that stops wet spots being blamed on the weather.
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The label stock itself had gone softPaper face stock takes up moisture, swells and cockles — a faint waviness across the printed sheet. Once the paper has moved, no amount of pressing makes it lie flat. Store printed stock flat, sealed in poly with the backing intact, off the floor, and print in batches you will use within weeks, not a year's worth at once.
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Pick the dry hour, not the convenient hourLabel in the driest window you get — mid-morning after the room has warmed, or a dry day between spells. It sounds fussy; it is free, and it turns a recurring complaint into a non-event. Candle Care Stickers — ₹413 per 500 at 1 inch (₹0.83 each), ₹699 per 1,000 at 1.5 inch — follow the same rules.
Wick stickers are the same chemistry in a smaller, more consequential form. A Candle Wick Sticker — ₹100 for a sheet of 40, ₹2.50 each — must hold a tab against the jar base while hot wax is poured around it. If the sheet has stood open on a bench, or the base is cold and slightly damp, the tab lifts and the wick drifts off centre as the wax sets, then tunnels down one side and scorches the glass. Keep the sheet bagged, press onto a dry base at room temperature, and warm cold jars briefly with a hot air gun (₹531) first. For wider jars, Large Candle Wick Stickers are ₹249 for 40 (₹6.23 each).
Cartons are structural, and moisture makes them less so. Corrugated board gets its strength from the stiffness of the fluting, and that stiffness drops as the board takes up moisture: a carton that held six filled jars in February bulges under the same six in July, and a four-high stack leans. Store blanks flat and sealed, off the floor, and make cartons up on dispatch day rather than a week ahead. Damp board also takes tape and print badly. The Packaging Materials collection holds 10 products.
The monsoon storage protocol
This is the whole answer to the page, in seven lines. None of it needs equipment — only the discipline to put things away properly for four months a year, which is harder than buying something and considerably cheaper.
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Sealed containers, not open shelvesEverything absorbent goes into a box or jar with a lid that actually closes: wicks, wick stickers, label stock, mica, loose tabs. The bag it arrived in is usually fine if you reseal it and put it inside a closed box. An open packet on a shelf is the commonest source of a damp-wick batch.
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Silica where it makes senseSachets belong with wicks, stickers, label stock and mica — small volumes of absorbent material in sealed containers, where a sachet can genuinely keep the enclosed air dry. They do nothing in an open room and nothing in a 10 kg wax sack, because wax does not care. Save the sachets that arrive with other deliveries.
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Everything off the floorA concrete floor is the wettest surface in an Indian workshop in July and it moves moisture upward into whatever stands on it. Racks, pallets, even spare cartons underneath — anything that puts an air gap between floor and stock.
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Away from outside wallsAn external wall runs cooler than the room, so it is where the air deposits moisture first, and cardboard stacked against it takes that up. Leave a hand's width of air behind every rack; keep absorbent stock on the inside of the room, not the perimeter.
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Cartons closed, flat and made up lateBlanks stay flat, sealed and horizontal; assembled cartons get closed, not left with flaps up collecting the room. Build shipping cartons the day they go out and you will never ship a soft box.
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Date every bag on arrival and rotateWrite the delivery date on the wick bag, the sticker sheet and the mica jar as you put it away, then use the oldest first. First-in-first-out is what stops a bag sitting through two monsoons and failing in a batch you have already sold.
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One open shelf, everything else sealedKeep exactly one working set out — the wicks, stickers and colour in use this week. It limits exposure to what you will consume quickly, and it makes the wick test cheap, because only one bag is ever in doubt.
Dispatch during the monsoon
Waterproof the outer, not the inner. A poly wrap or courier bag over the finished carton with every seam taped keeps rain off the board in transit; a soft, rain-marked box reads as damage even when the candle inside is perfect. Put the address label under clear tape or in a pouch so it survives a wet handover. Then set expectations in writing: monsoon transit can run slower, and a weathered outer does not mean a damaged candle. Two of the reviews above mention delivery timing — customers notice, and saying it first beats answering it afterwards.Argue against interest
Nothing on this website fixes humidity. Not a wax, not an additive, not a wick. The fix is a closed box, a dry shelf and a marker pen.
We sell wax, oils, wicks and packaging, and it would be convenient to tell you that some wax survives the monsoon better or that an additive solves damp. Neither is true and no such product exists in the range. Storage discipline is free, we cannot invoice for it, and it is the whole answer. The only thing worth buying is a fresh sealed pack of wicks when you doubt the bag you have.
What the customer notices, and the maker-side fix
The customer never sees any of the six mechanisms. They see three symptoms and attribute all three to you. Here is the translation between what they say and what to check.
"It took ages to light, and then it went out." A damp wick, almost always from a bag that stood open. Maker-side fix: quarantine the bag, test one wick, re-wick the affected stock rather than shipping it. Replace any candles already sold without argument — one replacement costs far less than the review. Then seal the remaining wicks with silica and date the box.
"The label is peeling off." Adhesive that never bonded, or paper that swelled. Maker-side fix: re-label on clean, dry, room-temperature glass, and change when you label rather than what you label with. Check the unused stock for waviness at the same time — if the sheet has cockled, the rest of that batch will fail too, and it is better found on your bench than on a shop shelf.
"The box arrived soft and misshapen." Board that took up moisture in storage or transit. Maker-side fix: poly-wrap the outer, tape every seam, make cartons up on dispatch day. If it has already happened, replace the outer and reship rather than explain — a customer who receives a soft box does not distinguish between the box and the brand.
One more symptom is worth naming because it is a false alarm. A customer reporting "a white film on the wax" or "patches on the glass" after a wet week has met frosting or wet spots — neither a defect, neither caused by the weather they are describing. Answer with the mechanism, not an apology, and a line on a care sticker at ₹0.83 each prevents most of these messages before they are sent.
There is a pricing angle too. Replaced candles, re-labelled units and binned wicks are real costs, and if your unit price carries no allowance for them, four wet months quietly eat the margin the dry ones earned — how to price candles in India in 2026 sets out that arithmetic, and scaling to 1,000 orders a month covers the storage side. Working back from Diwali on 8 November 2026, the wicks and labels for the festive run are being bought and stored right now, in the wettest part of the year.
Humidity never touched your wax. It got into the cotton, the paper and the glue three weeks earlier.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially useful thing here would be to sell you a monsoon solution. There isn't one. No wax in the range resists humidity better than another, no additive removes moisture, and the honest answer — sealed boxes, silica, stock off the floor, rotation — earns us nothing. We write it because a maker who loses a batch to a damp wick blames the wick, and the wick was dry when it left us.
Every price here is taken from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification take precedence. Where an item was out of stock on that pull — the Thick (C2) 10-wick pack — it is marked rather than quietly listed. Candle Wicks holds 7 products, Packaging Materials 10, and the fragrance range runs to 92 oils.
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Frequently asked questions
Can humidity cause problems with scented candles?
Yes, but not in the wax. Wax and fragrance oil are non-polar and do not absorb meaningful water from the air, so wet spots, sweating and frosting are not humidity faults. Damp air damages the absorbent and metallic material around the candle instead: wicks, labels and care stickers, cartons, wick stickers, mica, and tins and steel tools. All six are storage problems with storage fixes.
Are wet spots on my candle caused by moisture?
No — the name is misleading. A wet spot is where wax contracted away from the glass as it cooled, leaving an air gap that looks damp. It is an adhesion and temperature effect, and it comes and goes as the room warms and cools. The mechanism is in are candle wet spots actually moisture, and the temperature side in does room temperature affect candle wet spots.
How do I know if my wicks have gone damp?
You cannot tell by looking, which is the whole problem — a damp wick is visually identical to a dry one. Test-burn one. Take a wick from the suspect bag, tab it, stand it in a test jar or a shallow dish of wax and light it. A dry wick lights first time and holds a steady flame; a damp one takes repeated attempts, sits low and pale, and may go out. One Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) costs ₹5.90. If a whole batch under-performs and the candles share a wick bag, suspect the bag before you suspect the oil.
Should I keep silica gel with my candle making supplies?
With some of them. Silica works in a small sealed volume, so it earns its place in the box with wicks, wick stickers, label stock and mica. It does nothing in an open room and nothing in a sack of wax, because wax does not take up water. Reuse the sachets that arrive with other deliveries and replace them when they feel heavy.
Why do my labels peel off during the monsoon?
Three causes, usually together: the glass carried a film of moisture or condensation, so the adhesive bonded to water instead of glass; the candle was labelled before it had fully settled and cooled; or the paper stock itself had taken up moisture and cockled. Label a fully settled candle on clean, dry, room-temperature glass in the driest window of the day, and store printed stock flat, sealed and off the floor.
How should I ship candles during the monsoon?
Waterproof the outer and set expectations. Poly-wrap or bag the finished carton, tape every seam, and protect the address label under clear tape or in a pouch. Make cartons up on dispatch day, not a week ahead. Then tell the customer in writing that monsoon transit can be slower and that a weathered outer does not mean a damaged candle. Packaging Materials holds 10 products.
Fix the storage, not the wax
Six real humidity failures. All six live in the cupboard, not in the candle.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the material science, the misattribution table and the storage protocol apply to any supplier's stock.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me. They are general product reviews about quality, packing and delivery — none of them is a review about humidity, and none should be read as a test of monsoon performance. One longer review (Renu) is shortened with an ellipsis; wording is otherwise unedited. "Verified buyer" is shown only where Judge.me recorded the review as verified — Renu, Kaushiki Satarkar, Monika Deep (4 stars), Subhankar Roy (4 stars) and Jaya Sawlani. Sunita Gupta's review is published but not recorded as verified, so it carries no badge. Judge.me does not store reviewer locations, so no city is attached to any review.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing): Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59.00 / 10, ₹118.00 / 20, ₹295.00 / 50, ₹590.00 / 100, ₹2,950.00 / 500, ₹5,900.00 / 1,000 — ₹5.90 per wick at every pack size; Thick (C2) ₹188.80 / 20, ₹472.00 / 50, ₹944.00 / 100, ₹4,720.00 / 500, ₹9,440.00 / 1,000 — ₹9.44 per wick, with the 10-wick C2 pack out of stock on the pull date. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120 / 10, ₹600 / 50, ₹1,200 / 100, ₹6,000 / 500, ₹12,000 / 1,000 — ₹12.00 each. Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) ₹590 / 10 (₹59.00 each), ₹2,360 / 50 (₹47.20 each), ₹4,130 / 100 (₹41.30 each). Eco Braided Wicks ₹472 / 5 m and ₹826 / 10 m. Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch diameter) ₹413 / 5 m and ₹708 / 10 m. Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs, 61 m, ₹706.82 (₹11.59 per metre). Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each). Large Candle Wick Stickers (40 × 2 mm) ₹249 for 40 (₹6.23 each). Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413 per 500 at 1 inch (₹0.83 each) and ₹699 per 1,000 at 1.5 inch (₹0.70 each). Hot Air Gun ₹531. Collection counts: Candle Wicks 7 products, Packaging Materials 10 products, Fragrance Oils 92 products. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. The claim that wax and fragrance oil do not absorb meaningful water is a statement about non-polar materials, not a laboratory measurement, and no moisture-content figure is quoted anywhere on this page. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.