I’m Comparing Two Wick Suppliers for Commercial Production — What Should I Record Beyond Melt-Pool Diameter to Determine Which Wick Actually Performs Better?
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Eco C2 ₹188.80 for 20 · every C2 pack in stock Cotton Braided ₹120.00 for 10 · flat per wick Weighing Scale ₹354.00
Two wick suppliers · one production candle
Record what differs once both pools are full, and let the spread decide.
★★★★★
"Good fragrance 👍"
Sooraj RVerified buyer · Aug 2026
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Fresh and soothing"
Yashvi ShahVerified buyer · Jul 2025
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Quality of the wick is good for jar candles, team can work on the pricing and delivery timelines."
Monika DeepVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Quality wick, works very well"
AshwiniSep 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★☆
"Good quality .... if possible delivery date would be try little bit quick please"
Subhankar RoyVerified buyer · Sep 2024
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
★★★★★
"Good fragrance 👍"
Sooraj RVerified buyer · Aug 2026
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Fresh and soothing"
Yashvi ShahVerified buyer · Jul 2025
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Quality of the wick is good for jar candles, team can work on the pricing and delivery timelines."
Monika DeepVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Quality wick, works very well"
AshwiniSep 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★☆
"Good quality .... if possible delivery date would be try little bit quick please"
Subhankar RoyVerified buyer · Sep 2024
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. They are general reviews of the products named on each card, not assessments of the advice set out below. Wording is unedited.
✓ Prices verified 29 September 2026, stock checked per size ✓ MSDS and IFRA documentation on request on WhatsApp ✓ Raw materials only — CSI does not sell finished candles
CSI Wick Lab · Commercial Matrix
Once two wicks both reach the glass, pool diameter stops choosing. Record flame height, carbon, soot, grams per hour and the spread across five wicks per pack, blind, and buy the supplier whose wicks behave like one.
5 wicks
per supplier, one melt, coded blind · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What should I record beyond melt-pool diameter when comparing two wick suppliers? Trimmed flame height, mushrooming, soot, flame-to-glass, grams burned per hour, and, above all, the spread between wicks from the same pack. Add bench checks before any burn (length, straightness, tab crimp, weight per ten) and the lot code on every pack.Why isn't pool diameter enough? In a jar where both wicks reach the glass, both pools read "full". In our worked example the two suppliers' pools differ by at most a couple of millimetres, while one supplier's flame heights spread 4.5 times wider than the other's.
How many wicks should I test? Five from each supplier's pack, one per candle, poured from one melt into identical jars, coded by someone else so the scorer can't tell the suppliers apart. Ten candles.
What does it cost? In our worked example (CSI's 150 g jar, CSI 464, 8% Blue Ocean), ten candles use 120 g of oil and 1,380 g of wax: ₹2,290.00 of materials with five Eco C2 as one arm, before the other supplier's wicks, labour, freight, packaging and GST.
The short answer
The record: bench (length, straightness, crimp, weight per ten, lot code), then per session flame height, pool at 1/2/3 h, depth, carbon cap, soot, flame-to-glass and grams per hour.
The deciding number: spread inside each pack. Two suppliers with the same average can differ widely in how predictable each wick is, and production lives on the worst wick in the box.
The order of judging: any gate failure first; then spread; then the mean against your target; then price, stock depth and lot traceability.
The honest limit: CSI publishes no wick-performance data, and the Eco page states no wick dimensions. If CSI is one of your suppliers, this record is how you hold us to account.
In this guide
- Straight answer: what to record
- Why pool diameter can't separate two suppliers
- Before any burn: the bench inspection
- The burn record, field by field
- Running it blind, five wicks per pack
- Spread within a pack: the number that decides
- Choosing a supplier from the record
- Ten candles, costed
- Buying for a supplier comparison
- Frequently asked questions
Worked example: five candles per supplier in CSI's 150 g jar (6.3 cm inside on our assumed wall). Pool diameter, where many comparisons stop, barely separates them; flame height and grams per hour do. The flame band is a commonly used rule of thumb; every reading is illustrative, not CSI data.
One arm · Eco C2 ₹188.80 for 20 · in stock
Eco Candle Wicks: inspect twenty, burn five, keep fifteen as the reference lot
Grams per hour · ₹354.00
Candle Making Weighing Scale: the field that shows a hot wick first
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Straight answer
I'm comparing two wick suppliers for commercial production. What should I record beyond melt-pool diameter to decide which wick actually performs better?
Record the things that differ between wicks once both pools reach the glass. On the bench, before burning: length, straightness, tab crimp, weight per ten wicks, pack count and the lot code. In every session: trimmed flame height at fixed hours, pool width at 1, 2 and 3 hours, pool depth at the end, carbon cap, soot, flame-to-glass and grams burned per hour. Test five wicks from each supplier's pack, one per candle, in candles poured from one melt and coded by someone else. Then judge in a fixed order: a supplier whose wick fails a burn gate in any candle drops out for that jar; between two that pass, the tighter spread across its five candles wins unless its average sits outside your target; only then do price, stock and lot traceability break a tie. The winner still needs a full-life test before production.
One line: both wicks can fill the jar; the better supplier is the one whose five wicks behave like one wick.
Is CSI one of your two? Then the CSI arm is the Eco C2 20-pack (₹188.80) for jars where C2 is your rung, or Cotton Braided (10 for ₹120.00) for jars over 8 cm by its page. Twenty wicks let you inspect a whole pack before you burn five.
Eco C2 20-pack — ₹188.80
Why pool diameter can't separate two suppliers
A full pool is a pass mark, not a score. Two wicks can both earn it and still be very different products.
Melt-pool diameter is the natural first measurement, and for choosing a size it is essential. For choosing between two suppliers of nominally the same size it runs out quickly. Once both wicks reach the glass in a given jar, both read "full pool". In our worked example both suppliers' candles reach 61–63 mm in a 63 mm inside by three hours; even the narrowest, 61 mm, is 94% of the surface. Pool diameter has nothing left to say.
What it cannot show is how much heat each wick makes getting there, how cleanly it burns that heat, and how consistent one wick is with the next. Those show up in flame height, carbon, soot and the rate at which wax disappears. And because you will buy hundreds or thousands of these wicks, consistency matters more than any single candle's result. A supplier whose average wick is fine but whose occasional wick runs tall will give you the occasional customer complaint, and you cannot tell which candle on the shelf has it.
This is a different job from checking a new carton from a supplier you already use. If your approved wick suddenly gives smaller flames, comparing the new lot with the old one is the new-carton comparison. Here you are choosing between two sources for the first time, or deciding whether to switch.
Argued against our own interest: CSI publishes no wick-performance data, no burn rates, no flame heights and no tolerances for its wicks, and the Eco page states no length or width in the text we captured. We cannot tell you that our C2 is more consistent than anyone else's. If you are comparing our wick with another supplier's, run this record blind and buy whichever wins in your jar.
Before any burn: the bench inspection
Some differences are visible before you light a match. Find them with a ruler, not a flame.
Inspect a whole pack from each supplier, not just the five you will burn. You are looking for two things: whether the two suppliers' "same size" is physically the same, and how much one wick varies from another inside each pack. Record every wick with its pack's lot code.
Bench record · per wick, both suppliers
No burning · a ruler, a scale and a flat surface · fields are our recommendation
| Field | How to read it | What a difference suggests |
|---|---|---|
| Lot code, pack count, date received | Copy from the pack; count the wicks | No lot code means no way to trace a later failure to a batch |
| Length, tab to tip | Steel ruler, to the millimetre | Short wicks may not reach your fill height; record it against your jar (Cotton Braided's page states 10.16 cm) |
| Straightness | Lay on a ruler; note the largest gap between wick and ruler in mm | Bent wicks set off-centre and lean, which voids burn sessions |
| Tab crimp | Hold the tab, gently twist the wick: does it rotate or slip in the crimp? | A loose crimp can let the wick tilt or lift during pouring |
| Weight per ten wicks | Weigh ten together on the same scale; repeat with a second ten | A large gap between suppliers' "same size" hints at a thicker or more coated wick |
| Coating and feel | Note stiffness, coating evenness, loose fibres | Uneven coating can burn unevenly; note it, don't over-read it |
None of these bench readings is a burn result, and none of them should pick the supplier on its own: a heavier wick is not automatically hotter, and a slightly bent wick can be straightened. They tell you which candles to watch and give you a baseline for the next carton. Any wick that fails straightness or crimp on the bench is replaced by another wick from the same pack before pouring, and the replacement is noted, because how many failed is itself a supplier fact.
The burn record, field by field
Eight fields per session. Every one of them can be read without touching the glass.
Burn every candle in still air, in sessions of about three hours with a full cool-down between, trimmed to the same 5–6 mm before each session. Record the same fields at the same hours for every candle. How you store and code these records over hundreds of tests is the burn-data organisation post; this is what goes into each line.
Burn record · per candle, per session
Same hours for every candle · thresholds are commonly cited rules of thumb or our judgement, not CSI data
| Field | When | How | Why it separates suppliers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weight before and after → grams per hour | Start and end of each session | Same scale, same spot; grams lost ÷ hours burned | The most direct heat reading; a hot wick eats wax faster |
| Trimmed flame height | 1 h and 3 h | Side-on photo against a ruler set behind the jar | Many makers use about 2.5–5 cm as a practical range |
| Pool width | 1, 2, 3 h | Photo from above with a ruler across the rim | Separates suppliers only before the pool reaches the glass |
| Pool depth | End of session | Wooden skewer near the wall, after extinguishing | A common target is about 0.5–1 cm |
| Carbon cap | End of session | Photo of the wick tip: none / bead / cap wider than wick | Mushrooming often precedes soot |
| Soot | Each check, and the rim after cooling | Smoke trail in still air; white-tissue wipe of the cool rim | Clean burning is a page claim until you see it |
| Flame-to-glass and lean | Each check | From above and side-on | Lean from a bent or loose wick shows up here |
| Oddities | Any time | Self-extinguishing, flicker in still air, wick curling, after-smoke | Rare events matter when you buy a thousand |
A worked example of the grams-per-hour line: a candle weighed 148.0 g before a three-hour session and 132.6 g after has burned 15 g, which is 5.13 g per hour. Use the same scale throughout; the CSI scale page states no resolution, so check yours against a known weight before you start. Turning grams into a throw-per-gram score is a different question, answered in the diffusion-or-heat post; here grams per hour is simply a heat and consistency reading.
Use the masking gates as pass marks
The five gates in the masking checklist (flame, soot, mushrooming, heat observation, flame-to-glass) work as pass marks here too. A supplier whose wick fails a gate in any candle is out for that jar, whatever its other numbers say.Running it blind, five wicks per pack
If you know which wick is whose, you will find a reason to prefer one. Take the labels away.
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Choose the candle you will actually sellYour production jar, wax, oil and load, not a convenient test candle. Our worked example is CSI's 150 g jar with CSI 464 and 8% Blue Ocean (12 g + 138 g); yours should be your highest-volume product. Measure the jar's inside at rim, middle and base first.
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Draw five wicks per supplier at randomAfter the bench inspection, a second person takes five wicks from each supplier's pack at random (not the five straightest), writes codes 1–10 in random order, and seals the key with each code's supplier and lot.
3
Pour all ten from one meltOne wax bag, one oil lot, one pour session, jars from one batch, poured in the coded order so neither supplier always gets the first or last of the pot. Hold every wick centred while the wax sets (a Steel Wick Holder or two sticks).
4
Cure identicallyBlue Ocean's page says "Cure soy wax candles for 48-72 hours before burn testing"; many makers wait about a week. All ten cure together, in one place.
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Burn three sessions, record every fieldTen candles in one still room, spaced apart, positions shuffled each session so no supplier always sits nearest the door. The recorder sees only codes. Wick tops can differ visibly, so the recorder reads numbers, not impressions.
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Open the key, then keep burning the winnerAfter session 3, unseal the key and apply the decision table below. The winning supplier's five candles carry on to about 1 cm left; that full-life result, not the three-session comparison, is what approves the wick.
Why five per pack? Fewer than five and a single odd wick dominates the spread; many more and the test stops being affordable for a small business. Five is our judgement, and it is enough to see whether one supplier's range is clearly wider than the other's. If the two ranges overlap and you need certainty, repeat with five more from a second pack of each, which also tests consistency between lots.
Spread within a pack: the number that decides
Averages sell wicks. Ranges keep customers.
Here is the worked example behind the diagram. Every reading is illustrative; your numbers will differ. What matters is the shape of the comparison.
Worked example · five candles per supplier · session 1–2 readings
150 g CSI 464, 8% Blue Ocean, CSI 150 g jar, 63 mm inside assumed · illustrative figures, not CSI data
| Field | Supplier A (5 candles) | Supplier B (5 candles) | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trimmed flame at 1 h, mm | 32 · 34 · 31 · 35 · 33 (mean 33.0, range 4) | 28 · 41 · 33 · 46 · 30 (mean 35.6, range 18) | Means 8% apart; B's range is 4.5 times A's |
| Grams per hour, session 2 | 5.0 · 5.3 · 4.9 · 5.4 · 5.1 (mean 5.14, range 0.5) | 4.6 · 6.2 · 5.1 · 6.8 · 4.8 (mean 5.50, range 2.2) | B's fastest burns 48% more wax per hour than its slowest |
| Pool at 3 h, mm | 63 · 63 · 62 · 63 · 63 | 63 · 63 · 63 · 61 · 63 | No meaningful difference |
| Carbon, session 2 end | small bead on 2 of 5 | bead on 4 of 5, largest on the two tallest flames; no cap wider than the wick yet | Both pass the gate; B's carbon tracks its hot wicks |
| Soot, flame-to-glass | none | none | Both pass so far; keep watching |
| Bench: straightness, crimp | 0 of 20 rejected | 2 of 20 bent, replaced from the same pack | Consistent with B's wider spread |
On averages alone, B looks only a little hotter than A. On spread, B is a different product: two of its five wicks run near the top of the flame band and burn noticeably faster, and they carry the largest carbon beads. In production you cannot pick the good wicks out of B's box, so the customer who gets wick B4 gets a hotter, faster candle than the one you tested on B1. Supplier A's wicks behave like one wick.
Spread is also why you test in the candle you will sell. A wick that varies a little might be harmless in a jar where it sits mid-range and a problem in a jar where it already runs near the top of the band.
Choosing a supplier from the record
Decision table · after session 3, key opened
Judge in this order; stop at the first row that decides · our judgement, labelled
| Order | Question | If one supplier fails | If both pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Any burn-gate failure (flame over the band, soot, a carbon cap wider than the wick, heat, flame-to-glass) in any candle? | That supplier is out for this jar | Go to 2 |
| 2 | Spread: is one flame-height or grams-per-hour range more than about double the other? | Prefer the tighter supplier, if its mean is inside your target | Go to 3 |
| 3 | Mean against target: which sits nearer the middle of your band and pool depth? | Prefer the centred one; it leaves margin for jar and oil variation | Go to 4 |
| 4 | Commercial: price per wick, stock depth, lot codes on packs, response on batch questions | Prefer the traceable, stocked one | Either; keep both on file |
Price comes last on purpose. A wick is one of the cheapest components in a candle: at CSI the C2 is ₹9.44 a wick at every pack size, the same ₹9.44 in a pack of 1,000. A few paise saved on a less consistent wick are lost on the first returned candle. When the comparison is close, ask each supplier how they mark lots and whether one order can come from a single lot; ask us the same. Whether to commit to a thousand wicks once a supplier has won is the 1,000-wick purchase gate; cutting the number of wick SKUs you keep is the SKU consolidation audit.
Mistake: crowning the winner after three sessions and ordering production stock. What happens: the comparison chose the more consistent supplier in the top of the candle; late-burn heat, deep pools and flame-to-glass commonly show in the final third. Fix: carry the winner's five candles on to about 1 cm left. If one fails late, the supplier choice may still stand, but the wick size for that jar needs a fresh bracket (how many sizes close a bracket).
Ten candles, costed
Bill of materials · ten-candle supplier comparison · worked example
Blue Ocean 100 g + 50 g · CSI 464 1 kg + 500 g · Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) · Eco C2 20-pack as one arm · CSI live pricing, 29 September 2026
| Item | Bought | Used by ten candles | Cost of what is used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil | 100 g ₹495.00 + 50 g ₹247.00 | 120 g (12 g × 10; 30 g left) | ₹593.80 |
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 1 kg ₹507.40 + 500 g ₹260.00 | 1,380 g (138 g × 10; 120 g left) | ₹705.00 |
| Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) | Pack of 10, ₹944.00 | 10 jars (₹94.40 each) | ₹944.00 |
| Eco Candle Wicks, Thick (C2) (supplier A arm) | 20 wicks, ₹188.80 | 5 burned, 20 inspected | ₹47.20 |
| Supplier B's wicks | their pack | 5 burned, a pack inspected | their price |
| Materials consumed, excluding supplier B's wicks | 10 candles | ₹2,290.00 |
That is ₹224.28 a candle before the wick. Costs are worked examples and exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST. From nothing, including the scale, the cash outlay is ₹2,996.20. For a jar over 8 cm, swap the C2 arm for five Cotton Braided wicks (₹60.00) and recost the wax and oil for your fill weight. Blue Ocean's 15 g is ₹1.26 a gram dearer than its 100 g, so it is not the economical way to buy for ten candles.
The comparison doubles as the start of full life
The winner's five candles are not wasted: they carry straight on to about 1 cm left. So the extra cost of comparing two suppliers, over testing one, is the other five candles, roughly half the bill above.Buying for a supplier comparison
Five items, chosen on page statements, price and stock on 29 September 2026. CSI publishes no wick-performance data, so nothing here is ranked on burn results. If CSI is not one of your two suppliers, you need only the constants: wax, oil, jars and a scale.
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wick · one arm, if CSI is one of your two suppliers
Eco Candle Wicks — Thick (C2) 20-pack
If CSI is one of the suppliers on your bench, this is our arm, and it gets no favours in a blind test. The 20-pack lets you inspect twenty wicks for straightness, length and tab crimp, burn five, and keep fifteen as a reference from the same purchase. The page describes "natural fibers like cotton and paper" and "an even flame with minimal soot or smoke" (its wording) and, in the text we captured, states no length, width or jar range, so measure them yourself. The 200 ml Salsa jar pages say "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks": one rung to test, not a rule. Argued against our own interest: CSI publishes no wick-performance data, and a competitor's wick may beat ours on spread in your jar. If it does, buy theirs.
| Pack | Price | Per wick | What it covers here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thick (C2) / 10 | ₹94.40 | ₹9.44 | five to burn, but only five more to inspect |
| Thick (C2) / 20 | ₹188.80 | ₹9.44 | inspect all 20 on the bench, burn 5, 15 kept as the reference lot |
| Thick (C2) / 50 · 100 · 500 · 1000 | ₹472.00 · ₹944.00 · ₹4,720.00 · ₹9,440.00 | ₹9.44 | production, after the winner passes full life |
| Thin (C1) / 10 | ₹59.00 — Out of stock | ₹5.90 | Out of stock on 29 September 2026; C1 20-pack ₹118.00 if C1 is your size |
Five burned wicks: ₹47.20. Per wick it is flat at every pack. Buy C2 20 — ₹188.80
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wick · the CSI arm for jars over 8 cm
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
For a wider production jar the CSI candidate changes. The page describes it as "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" and states "Height of the wick is 10.16 cm", which gives you a length to check on the bench; "preventing tunneling" is the page's claim, not a test result. Five from a 10-pack cost ₹60.00. In stock in every pack on 29 September 2026, flat at ₹12.00 a wick.
| Pack | Price | Per wick | What it covers here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹120.00 | ₹12.00 | five to burn, five to keep, for jars over 8 cm |
| Pack of 50 · 100 · 500 · 1000 | ₹600.00 · ₹1,200.00 · ₹6,000.00 · ₹12,000.00 | ₹12.00 | flat per wick; production only after full life |
Five for a wide-jar arm: ₹60.00. Buy 10 — ₹120.00
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tool · grams per hour, and weight per ten wicks
Candle Making Weighing Scale
Grams per hour is a field many comparisons skip, and it is the one that shows a hot wick before the soot does. The page describes a digital scale with an LCD display in grams or ounces; it states no capacity or resolution in the text we captured, so check yours with a known weight and use the same scale for every candle. On the bench, weigh wicks in tens: a large difference between suppliers' "same size" is worth noting before anything is lit.
| Item | Price | Per unit | What it covers here |
|---|---|---|---|
| One scale | ₹354.00 | ₹354.00 | grams per hour for ten candles, and weight per ten wicks on the bench |
₹354.00 once, used every session. Buy the scale — ₹354.00
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fragrance oil · fresh aquatic · the worked example's fixed oil
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
The fixed oil in our worked example; in yours, use your highest-volume production oil. The page states "candles (up to 10%)", describes "sea salt and ozone top notes, jasmine and lily of the valley heart, and driftwood and musk base", says "0% vanillin - no discolouration" (its claim; test anyway) and "Cure soy wax candles for 48-72 hours before burn testing". Its FAQ gives an add temperature of "typically 60-65°C for soy wax", which conflicts with CSI 464's stated 80–90°C pour; the wax page governs. Every size is in stock on 29 September 2026. Pricing fact: Blue Ocean is fractionally dearer per gram at larger sizes (₹4.94 at 50 g, ₹4.95 at 100 g, ₹4.96 at 500 g and 1 kg), so 100 g + 50 g (₹742.00) beats the 500 g (₹2,478.00) for ten candles.
| Size | Price | Per gram | 150 g candles at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹93.22 | ₹6.21 | 1 |
| 50 g | ₹247.00 | ₹4.94 | 4 |
| 100 g | ₹495.00 | ₹4.95 | 8 |
| 500 g | ₹2,478.00 | ₹4.96 | 41 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,956.00 | ₹4.96 | 83 |
Ten candles: 120 g of oil, 30 g left. Buy 100 g — ₹495.00
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wax · held constant across both suppliers
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
Both suppliers' wicks go into wax from the same bag, melted once. The page states "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" and "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C"; in the 150 g jar, rated "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C" by its page, pour at 80–85°C. Ten candles need 1,380 g: one 1 kg bag and one 500 g bag (₹767.40) leave 120 g. If your production wax is different, compare in that wax; wick results do not transfer between waxes.
| Size | Price | Per gram | Role here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260.00 | ₹0.52 per g | tops up the 1 kg bag for the tenth candle |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹0.51 per g | seven candles' worth (138 g each) |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537.00 | ₹0.51 per g | if you will re-pour the winner for full life |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074.00 | ₹0.51 per g | production; flat per gram from 1 kg |
Wax used: ₹705.00. Buy 1 kg — ₹507.40
Diwali is 8 November 2026, 40 days from 29 September 2026. Ten candles poured this week, cured about a week and burned three sessions can name a supplier by mid-October; the winner's full life follows. Send us your candle count for a quote on Eco C2, Cotton Braided, Blue Ocean, CSI 464 and the 150 g jar, with a GST invoice and dispatch date.
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The CSI principle
Buy the wick that behaves like itself.
Pool diameter tells you a wick is the right size. Flame height, carbon, soot and grams per hour across five wicks from one pack tell you whether a supplier can make that size the same way every time. Record them blind, and let the full life approve the winner.
"You never sell the average wick. You sell every wick in the box."
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CandleMakingSuppliesIndia sells the wicks, oil, wax, jar and scale named here, and does not sell finished candles. This page still tells you that CSI publishes no wick-performance data, that our Eco page states no wick dimensions, and that a competitor's wick should win if it is more consistent in your jar.
Every price was verified on CSI's live store on 29 September 2026. Stock was checked per size: the Eco C1 10-pack is out of stock on that date and is flagged where it appears; every other size shown is in stock. Wick, oil, wax and jar wording is quoted from the product pages; where a page is silent in the text we captured, we say so.
The bench and burn fields, five wicks per pack, the decision order and its "about double" spread threshold are our judgement; flame heights and pool depths are commonly cited rules of thumb; every candle reading is a worked example. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, and MSDS and IFRA documentation on request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How do I compare candle wicks from two different suppliers?
Pour candles from one melt into identical jars, five per supplier, one wick each, coded by someone else. Record flame height, pool, depth, carbon cap, soot, flame-to-glass and grams per hour every session, then compare the spread within each supplier's five as well as the averages.
Is melt pool diameter enough to choose a wick?
It is essential for choosing a size, but once two wicks both reach the glass it stops separating them. Flame height, carbon build-up, soot and grams burned per hour show the differences that remain.
How many wicks should I test from each pack?
Five per supplier is a practical minimum to see spread. Inspect the whole pack on the bench first, then draw five at random rather than choosing the straightest.
How do I measure candle burn rate in grams per hour?
Weigh the candle before and after a session on the same scale and divide the grams lost by the hours burned. For example, 15.4 g over three hours is about 5.13 g per hour.
Are two suppliers' C2 or same-named wicks the same?
Not necessarily. Wick names are not standardised between suppliers, and CSI's Eco page states no dimensions. Measure length and weight per ten on the bench and burn-test both in your own jar.
Does CSI publish wick burn-test data?
No. CSI publishes no wick-performance data, so test any CSI wick in your own jar, wax, oil and load, and compare it blind against your other supplier.
Before you switch wick suppliers
Five wicks each, one melt, one blind record: ₹2,290.00 in materials.
Inspect a pack from each supplier, burn five of each in your production candle, and record flame, pool, depth, carbon, soot, flame-to-glass and grams per hour. The tighter spread wins if it passes every gate; full life approves it. Send us your record on WhatsApp.
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Continue the read — the commercial wick matrix
- I Have Hundreds of Burn-Test Results Across Different Jars and Fragrances — How Should I Organise the Data so Future Wick Selection Becomes Faster Rather than Starting from Zero?
- I’m Buying 1,000 Wicks for Production — Should I Bulk-Buy One Size Only After Every Major Fragrance Using That Wick Has Passed Full Burn Testing?
- I Want to Reduce the Number of Wick SKUs in My Candle Business — How Do I Standardise Without Forcing Every Fragrance into an Unsuitable Wick?
- My Candle Gives Better Hot Throw with an Oversized Wick — How Do I Determine Whether the Apparent Fragrance Improvement Is Masking an Unsafe or Poor-Quality Burn?
- I’m Choosing a Wick for a 7 cm Soy Candle — How Many Adjacent Wick Sizes Should I Test Before Selecting One for Commercial Production?
- My Jar Supplier Changed the Internal Diameter Slightly While Keeping the Same External Dimensions — Should I Treat It as a New Candle System for Wick Testing?
- I Have 6 cm, 7 cm, 8 cm, 9 cm and 10 cm Candle Jars — How Do I Build a Wick-Testing Matrix Without Randomly Buying Every Wick Size?
- I Want to Stop Choosing Candle Wicks from Generic Charts and Build a Reliable Commercial Wick System — How Should I Test Jar Diameter, Wax Type, Fragrance Composition, Fragrance Load, Wick Size, Wick Count, Spacing, Melt Pool, Flame Behaviour, Glass Temperature and Full-Life Burn Performance?
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: part of CSI's commercial wick-matrix cluster (4281–4300) in the series on jar diameter, fragrance and wick. It owns the two-supplier comparison record beyond pool diameter: bench inspection, per-session burn fields, five-wicks-per-pack spread, blind coding, a decision order and a costed ten-candle plan.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on the product pages named on each card — Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil, Eco Candle Wicks, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles. They are general product reviews, not assessments of the wick advice on this page. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" appears only on reviews Judge.me recorded as verified — Sooraj R, Yashvi Shah, Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy, Jaya Sawlani. The reviews from Ashwini are published but not recorded as verified, and carry no badge. Reviews below five stars are included as published, not filtered out.
Figures verified 29 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40, 20 ₹188.80, 50 ₹472.00, 100 ₹944.00, 500 ₹4,720.00, 1,000 ₹9,440.00; Thin (C1) 10 ₹59.00 (out of stock), 20 ₹118.00; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made 10 ₹120.00, 50 ₹600.00, 100 ₹1,200.00, 500 ₹6,000.00, 1,000 ₹12,000.00; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00; Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil 15 g ₹93.22 (₹6.21/g), 50 g ₹247.00 (₹4.94/g), 100 g ₹495.00 (₹4.95/g), 500 g ₹2,478.00 (₹4.96/g), 1 kg ₹4,956.00 (₹4.96/g); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260.00, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537.00, 10 kg ₹5,074.00; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10 ₹944.00. Every other size listed is in stock on 29 September 2026. Per unit = price ÷ grams or units, two decimals.
Non-price figures: load is a percentage of total candle weight (150 g at 8% = 12 g oil + 138 g wax). The jar's 7 cm outer diameter and 85°C hot-pour wording are page statements; the 0.35 cm wall and 6.3 cm inside (31.17 cm² pool) are assumptions. Ceilings as the pages state (CSI 464 up to 10%, pour 80–90°C; Blue Ocean up to 10%). Flame height (about 2.5–5 cm) and pool depth (about 0.5–1 cm) are commonly cited rules of thumb. The candle readings, the 148.0 g / 132.6 g weighing, five wicks per pack and the decision thresholds are worked examples or editorial judgement. Costs exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST. Diwali 8 November 2026 is a calendar fact.