I Want My Luxury Candle to Burn for a Long Time Without Sacrificing Hot Throw — How Do I Balance Wax, Wick and Fragrance Selection?
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Nobody can tell you how long your candle burns, because burn time is a number you weigh — and the wick that gives you throw is the same wick that spends your wax.
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No CSI page publishes a burn time, and this guide will not invent one. Burn duration is the jar's fill weight divided by the grams of wax your candle consumes per hour — a figure you measure on a kitchen scale in one afternoon, and the only honest number you can ever put on a label.
180 g ÷ g/h
the ceramic jar's stated 180 g fill divided by the grams per hour you measure · no CSI page publishes a burn time, a burn rate or a throw rating · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
How long will my candle burn? Fill weight ÷ grams per hour. Weigh the candle, burn it for a timed session, weigh it again, divide the loss by the hours. No CSI page publishes a burn time and no supplier can give you one, because the answer depends on your wick, your jar, your load and how long each burn session is.Why can't I have both long burn and strong throw? Because they are the same lever pulled in opposite directions. Both are set by how much wax the flame melts and vaporises per hour. A bigger wick gives a bigger melt pool, more scent released and a faster spend of the wax. The job is not to maximise both — it is to find the smallest wick that reaches a full pool, and then get your throw from load and cure instead.
What actually makes a candle burn slower? A harder, higher-melting wax body and a wick no larger than it needs to be. CSI's two additives with published rates are the Microcrystalline Wax Slab (stated 1–5% for hardening blends) and Vybar (stated 0.5–1% for soy, 1% recommended). Stearic Acid says it "helps to create a clean and long-lasting burn" but states no rate.
The cost surprise: hardening the blend is free. At 3% of total wax weight, microcrystalline at ₹299/kg replacing soy at ₹599/kg makes a 180 g candle ₹1.50 cheaper, not dearer.
The short answer
Stop looking for hours and start measuring grams: a three-session weighing test on two candles gives you a defensible burn-rate range in a week. A number copied from a supplier's page gives you nothing you can stand behind.
Size the wick down, not up: the smallest wick that reaches a full melt pool within a few hours is the one that buys you duration. Reaching for throw with a bigger wick spends the candle faster and often just adds soot.
Get throw from load and cure, which cost nothing in burn time: a fragrance percentage inside the lower of the two published ceilings, plus a 14–21 day cure, raises perceived strength without enlarging the flame.
In this guide
- The straight answer
- Why burn time and hot throw are one lever
- The grams-per-hour measurement
- Wax and melt point: what CSI actually states
- The three hardening additives and their stated rates
- The wick is the lever, and it has no published size
- Getting throw from load and cure instead of flame
- The costed six-candle trial
- FAQ
The bars carry no numbers on purpose. CSI publishes no burn rate and no wick diameter for the Eco sizes, so the only honest version of this chart is the shape of the trade-off — and the instruction to fill in your own grams per hour.
Stated 1–5% for hardening blends
Microcrystalline Wax Slab · 1 kg ₹299
The instrument this whole page runs on
Candle Making Weighing Scale · ₹354
Balancing duration against throw?
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Straight answer
How do I balance wax, wick and fragrance for a long burn without losing hot throw?
Accept first that they are one lever, not two. Both burn duration and hot throw are governed by the mass of wax the flame melts and vaporises each hour, so the goal is the smallest wick that still reaches a full melt pool, with the throw made up elsewhere. Then work the three components in order. Wax: build a harder, higher-melting body. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599/kg is the base with the fullest published specification — 8–13% of total wax weight, 10% recommended, add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C — and the Microcrystalline Wax Slab at ₹299/kg states 1–5% for hardening blends, which at 3% of total wax weight actually makes the candle ₹1.50 cheaper because microcrystalline costs half what soy does. Vybar states 0.5–1% for soy, 1% recommended, added before fragrance and colour, at about ₹4.21 more per candle. Stearic Acid claims a "clean and long-lasting burn" but publishes no rate at all, so it is a candidate you dose yourself or leave alone. Wick: bracket Eco C1 against C2, with a Performance Wooden Wick as a different type rather than a third size — CSI publishes a diameter on only two wick pages and not on the C1/C2 page. Fragrance: take the lower of the two published ceilings and start below it; Sage and Cedarwood states up to 10% in soy against the wax's 13%, so 10% governs and 8% is the first test — 166.67 g of wax and 13.33 g of oil in the Ceramic Jar's stated 180 g fill. Then measure: weigh, burn a timed session, weigh again, and divide. Six candles across three wicks and two formulations costs ₹3,868.80 including the scale and thermometer — ₹644.80 per cell — and it ends with a burn-rate range you own rather than an hours figure you borrowed.
One line: smallest wick that reaches the rim, hardest body you can prove, load and cure for the throw — and a scale instead of a burn-hours claim.
Building for duration? Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599/kg, Microcrystalline Wax Slab at ₹149 for 500 g with a stated 1–5% hardening rate, Vybar at ₹156 for 50 g with a stated 0.5–1% for soy, and a ₹354 scale — the only instrument that can answer the question in your title.
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Why burn time and hot throw are one lever, not two
A candle does not release fragrance because it is scented. It releases fragrance because it is being consumed.
Here is the physical situation, stripped down. The flame melts a pool of wax. The wick draws liquid fuel up and burns it. Fragrance oil dissolved in that liquid evaporates from the pool surface and from the flame's heat, which is what a person in the room smells. So the quantity of scent entering the air in an hour is tied to the quantity of wax that stopped being solid in that hour — and the quantity of wax that stopped being solid in that hour is exactly what determines how many hours the candle lasts.
That is why "long burn plus strong hot throw" is a constrained problem rather than a shopping list. Every change that increases throw by enlarging the flame or widening the pool also shortens the candle, in the same proportion and for the same reason. Which leaves you three genuinely useful moves: find the smallest wick that does the job properly, harden the body so a given flame melts less of it per hour, and raise the scent concentration in whatever wax does melt rather than melting more wax. Only the third of those gets you throw without paying for it in duration, and it has a published ceiling.
Every lever, and which direction it pushes each outcome
Published figure where one exists, and the honest cost of pulling it
| Lever | Effect on burn duration | Effect on hot throw | What CSI publishes | Cost per 180 g candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larger wick | Shorter — more grams per hour | Higher, up to the point where soot starts | No diameter for Eco C1/C2; two other wick pages state one | ₹5.90 → ₹9.44 stepping C1 to C2 |
| Harder, higher-melting body | Longer — same flame melts less | Slightly lower at the same load | Microcrystalline 1–5% for hardening blends; Vybar 0.5–1% for soy | −₹1.50 at 3% microcrystalline; +₹4.21 at 1% Vybar |
| Higher fragrance load | Roughly neutral on grams per hour | Higher, up to the lower stated ceiling | Wax states 8–13%; the oil states up to 10% — 10% governs | +₹21.09 moving 8% → 10% on this oil |
| Longer cure | Neutral | Higher — the strongest free lever there is | Cure "minimum 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks" on the wax page | ₹0 |
| Lid on between burns | Neutral | Higher cold throw on opening; protects the top | Nothing stated — but lids are stocked on many jars | ₹0 if the jar has one |
| Narrower vessel | Longer per gram — smaller pool surface | Lower — less surface evaporating | Only 18 of 78 jar pages state a numeric diameter | Varies; a design decision |
The mistake: going up a wick size to fix a weak throw. It is the most common move in candle making and it is usually the wrong one, because it treats a symptom of concentration as a symptom of flame size. If a cured candle smells weak, the cheap diagnostics in order are: has it cured for 14 days; is the load actually where you think it is when weighed rather than estimated; is the room competing with another scent; and did the oil go in inside the wax page's stated 80–90°C window with two minutes of stirring. Only after those four does a bigger wick earn consideration — and when it does, accept that you have shortened the candle. The full ranking of throw levers is in how to make candles smell strong without exceeding the safe fragrance load, and the wick-specific version in wrong wick size is killing your hot throw.
The grams-per-hour measurement, and why it is the only honest number
A burn-hours figure on a label is a claim about a physical property, and there are exactly two ways to have one: measure it, or make it up. No CSI page publishes a burn time, a burn rate or a throw rating, which means there is no figure in this range for you to borrow even if you wanted to. The good news is that measuring it needs one instrument you probably already own and about four hours of attention.
The arithmetic is trivial: grams per hour = (mass before − mass after) ÷ hours burned, and then burn time = usable fill ÷ grams per hour. In the Ceramic Jar, whose page states a fill weight of 180 grams, an 8% load means 166.67 g of that is wax and 13.33 g is fragrance oil. If your three timed burns average, say, 7 g an hour, then 166.67 ÷ 7 is about 23.8 hours; at 6 g an hour it is 27.8 and at 8 it is 20.8. Those are arithmetic on a hypothetical rate, not a measurement and not a claim — which is precisely the point. Substitute your own measured figure and the sentence becomes defensible.
The burn-rate record sheet
Three timed sessions per candle · you fill in the middle columns, the formula does the rest
| Session | When | Hours burned | Mass before | Mass after | Grams per hour | What this session is telling you |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day 14, first ever burn | Record | Record | Record | (before − after) ÷ hours | The first-burn rate, usually the slowest — the pool is still forming |
| 2 | Day 15, pool established | Record | Record | Record | (before − after) ÷ hours | The working rate. This is the figure to base a range on |
| 3 | At roughly half the fill remaining | Record | Record | Record | (before − after) ÷ hours | Whether the rate climbs as the flame sits deeper in the jar |
| Result | Report a range, never one number | Burn time = 166.67 g ÷ the range → a spread of hours, stated with the session length you used |
Your burn time is only meaningful with the burn cycle attached
The same candle measured in 2-hour sessions and 4-hour sessions will give different totals, because a candle burns differently once the pool is fully liquid and the glass or ceramic is warm. So if you ever put a figure on packaging, state the cycle with it — "measured over 3-hour burns" — and state that it is your own measurement. Never write a bare hours number, and never carry a figure across from a different jar, a different wick or a different load. Each of those three changes the answer.
An opaque vessel does not stop you measuring — it stops you guessing. The Ceramic Jar is opaque, so you cannot watch the pool spread up the side the way you can in glass. That matters less than it sounds, because the two things you actually need are both still available: the scale gives you the consumption rate, and looking down into the jar after a burn gives you the ring of unmelted wax at the rim, which is the real test of whether the wick reaches the edge. What you lose is the reassuring visual — and what you gain is a habit of measuring rather than eyeballing. Note also that the Ceramic Jar page states no dimensions at all, so measure its internal diameter yourself before you even think about a wick.
Wax and melt point: what CSI actually states
A harder, higher-melting wax body means a given flame liquefies less of it per hour. That is the one structural change that buys duration without touching the flame. But it has to be built from published numbers, and the range is uneven about publishing them — five of the fifteen waxes state a melt point and the rest state nothing.
Stated melt points and ceilings across the CSI wax range
What each page publishes, and what it means for a long-burn body
| Wax | 1 kg price | Stated melt point | Stated fragrance ceiling | Role in a long-burn formula |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | ₹599 | Not stated | 8–13% of total wax weight · 10% recommended | The base. Most complete published spec: add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, cure minimum 48 hours ideally 1–2 weeks |
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | ₹507.40 | 80°C – 90°C (page states the same range as its pour temperature) | Up to 10% | Alternative base at ₹91.60 less per kilo, with a lower ceiling |
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | ₹650 | 50°C – 53°C | Up to 13% | The lowest stated melt point in the range — the opposite of what a duration brief wants, but the highest ceiling |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | ₹399 | 100°F (37.8°C) | Not stated | Cheapest base; add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir 2 minutes |
| Microcrystalline Wax Slab | ₹299 | "Melting Point: High (varies by batch)" | n/a — a blend additive | The hardener. Stated 1–10% blend, 1–5% for hardening, 3–7% for pillars |
| Semi Refined Paraffin Wax | ₹220 (1 kg pack) | 80–90°C | Not stated | A high stated melt point at the lowest price per kilo, with no published load |
| Beeswax Pellets | ₹800 | Not stated | Not stated | Traditionally a hardening blend component; page states it is "ideal for container candles, votives, pillars, and tealights" but no melt point and no blend ratio |
Two cautions that follow directly from that table. First, a melt point is not a burn rate. A higher stated melt point is a reasonable directional argument for a slower burn, and it is not a measurement of one — only your scale gives you that. Second, no CSI page states a blend ratio between two waxes. If you build a soy-and-beeswax or soy-and-paraffin body, the ratio is your own experiment, and because two of those component pages state no fragrance ceiling either, the blend has no published ceiling at all: hold it at 8% of total wax weight until your own cured, burned candle says otherwise.
The three hardening additives and their stated rates
CSI lists four additives. One is a surface lacquer and irrelevant here. The other three are the candidates for a longer burn, and they differ sharply in how much their own pages will commit to.
Additives for a harder candle body · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Stated rate, what the page claims, and the cost inside one 180 g candle
| Additive | Price | Stated rate | What the page claims | Grams in a 166.67 g wax charge | Net effect on cost per candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microcrystalline Wax Slab | 500 g ₹149 · 1 kg ₹299 | 1–10% blend; 1–5% for hardening blends; 3–7% for pillars; 8–10% for detailed work | "especially useful for pillar candles, molded candles, sculptures"; melting point "High (varies by batch)" | 1.67 g at 1% · 5.00 g at 3% · 8.33 g at 5% | −₹1.50 at 3% — it replaces soy that costs twice as much |
| Vybar Additive | 50 g ₹156 · 100 g ₹312 | 0.5–2% of total wax weight; 0.5–1% for soy; 1% recommended | Add "to your melted wax before adding fragrance and colour"; heat wax to "typically 80-90°C for most candle waxes"; 1–2% in paraffin "for maximum performance" | 1.67 g at 1% | +₹4.21 at 1% |
| Stearic Acid | 100 g ₹57.82 · 200 g ₹115.64 | Not stated | "helps to create a clean and long-lasting burn for your candles" | Your decision entirely — ₹0.58 per gram | Roughly neutral — it costs about the same per gram as the soy it displaces |
Worked out above: at 8% of total wax weight a 180 g fill is 166.67 g of wax + 13.33 g of oil (180 ÷ 1.08). Microcrystalline at 3% of the wax charge = 5.00 g, leaving 161.67 g of soy; cost 5.00 × ₹0.299 + 161.67 × ₹0.599 = ₹98.33, against ₹99.83 for 166.67 g of pure soy — a saving of ₹1.50. Vybar at 1% = 1.67 g at ₹3.12/g (₹312 per 100 g), replacing 1.67 g of soy: ₹5.20 − ₹1.00 = +₹4.21 net. Stearic Acid at ₹115.64 per 200 g = ₹0.58 per gram against soy's ₹0.599, so displacing soy with it is cost-neutral to within two paise a gram. Rates are the product pages' own; the gram figures and costs are our arithmetic on them.
Do not stack all three in one pour. Each additive changes the wax body, and a body that has changed needs its wick re-bracketed. Add them one at a time, one batch at a time, with the wick bracket confirmed at each step — otherwise you will end up with a candle that burns at a rate you like for reasons you cannot identify and cannot reproduce. The Vybar page is also explicit about sequence: it goes in before the fragrance and the colour, which means retrofitting it to an existing recipe is a new pour, not an adjustment. And note the range's own boundary: Stearic Acid publishes no rate, so any figure you use for it is yours and belongs on the batch sheet as such. The stearic argument is set out in why stearic acid makes candles harder and last longer.
The wick is the lever, and it has no published size
Everything above adjusts the body. The wick adjusts the rate at which the body is spent, and it is by far the largest single influence on both outcomes in your title. It is also the one thing no supplier can choose for you, and CSI is unusually explicit about that: a diameter figure appears on only two wick pages in the range.
Every CSI wick, and what its page states about size
Two pages give a diameter. The workhorse does not.
| Wick | Stated size or diameter | Cost per wick | Role in a duration trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | None stated. C1/C2 appear only as variant names | ₹5.90 in 10s and in 100s | The lower bracket. Lowest grams per hour, longest burn — if it reaches the rim |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2) | None stated | ₹9.44 in 20s and in 100s | The upper bracket. More throw, more grams per hour, watch for soot |
| Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) | None stated. "One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs." | ₹59 in 10s · ₹47.20 in 50s · ₹41.30 in 100s | A different type, not a third size — different flame shape and a different failure mode |
| Eco Candle Wicks Loose | "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters" | 5 m ₹413 · 10 m ₹708 | Relevant only if you measure your jar at about 5 cm across |
| Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made | "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm"; wick height 10.16 cm | ₹12 in 10s · ₹12 in 1,000s | For a wide vessel — measure before you buy |
| Eco Braided Wicks | "the perfect solution for large diameter container jars" — no numeric diameter | 5 m ₹472 · 10 m ₹826 | A roll you cut to length; size still established by test |
So the honest method is a bracket, and it is a bracket of two sizes plus one alternative type — because that is what CSI lists, and a post that promised you "three wick sizes" would be inventing one. Start on C1. If the ring of unmelted wax at the rim never closes across three sessions, step to C2 and accept the shorter candle. If C2 soots or mushrooms, go back to C1 and look at the load and the vessel diameter instead. The wooden wick is worth one candle in the trial for a specific reason: it fails differently, by self-extinguishing rather than by over-burning, so it either suits your jar or it plainly does not.
Measure the jar before you order the wick
The Ceramic Jar page states a fill weight of 180 grams and no dimensions, and across CSI's container range only 18 of 78 jar pages state a numeric diameter. So the first tool in a wick decision is a ruler laid across the top of the empty vessel, and the second is the two wick pages that do state a figure, used as reference points rather than as answers. Everything else is your own burn.Getting throw from load and cure instead of from flame
This is where the compromise stops being a compromise. Raising the fragrance concentration in the wax raises the scent released per gram melted, which increases throw without increasing the grams melted per hour. It is the only lever in the set that improves one outcome and leaves the other roughly alone — and it is bounded by a published number.
Two ceilings apply and you use the lower. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks states 8–13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended. Sage and Cedarwood states up to 10% for soy wax and up to 6% for paraffin, with a cure of 48–72 hours for soy, a vanillin content of 0% and a measured flashpoint of 190°C — a flash point being a handling property, never an add temperature. So 10% is the ceiling for this pairing, three points below what the wax alone would allow, and a silent page would not have granted you the difference either.
Load steps in a 180 g ceramic-jar candle
Grams, cost, and what each step does to the two outcomes
| Load (% of wax weight) | Wax | Oil | Wax cost | Oil cost | Effect on duration | Allowed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8% (7.41% of the finished candle) | 166.67 g | 13.33 g | ₹99.83 | ₹92.83 | Baseline. Start here | Inside both stated numbers |
| 10% (9.09%) | 163.64 g | 16.36 g | ₹98.02 | ₹113.92 | Roughly neutral — 3 g less wax to spend, more scent per gram | At the oil's stated ceiling |
| 159.29 g | 20.71 g | ₹95.42 | ₹144.17 | — | No. The wax allows it; this oil does not. Use the lower ceiling |
And then the free lever, which is the strongest one on the page: cure. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing; 14 to 21 days is standard practice for soy containers. Curing costs nothing, changes no grams per hour, and routinely does more for perceived strength than a wick step would — while a wick step would have shortened the candle. If you take one instruction from this section, it is that a candle you sold on day three was a candle you underpriced in scent and overspent in wax. The cure reasoning is in why your candle needs a 14-day cure.
The CSI principle
You cannot buy both. You can buy the smallest wick that works, and take your throw out of load and cure instead.
Burn duration and hot throw are two readings from one process. Every honest gain comes from spending less wax per hour and putting more scent into each gram you do spend — and the only figure that proves it is on your scale.
The costed six-candle trial
Three wick candidates crossed with two formulations — plain soy, and soy hardened with 3% microcrystalline — gives six candles and six burn-rate figures. The scale is in the basket because without it none of this works, and a thermometer is in it because a pour temperature you did not measure is a variable you cannot hold constant.
Six-candle burn-rate trial · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Every line, the pack bought, and what the trial consumes
| Item | Pack | Price | What the trial uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | 1 kg | ₹599 | 985 g — 500 g for the three plain candles, 485 g for the three blends |
| Microcrystalline Wax Slab | 500 g | ₹149 | 15 g — 5 g in each of the three blend candles (3% of the wax charge) |
| Sage and Cedarwood Fragrance Oil | 100 gm | ₹696.20 | 80 g across six candles at 8% (₹557.12) |
| Ceramic Jar for Candle Making | 6 × 1 | ₹778.80 | Six jars at ₹129.80, stated 180 g fill weight |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | 10 wicks | ₹59 | Two candles, plus spares for re-wicking |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2) | 20 wicks | ₹188.80 | Two candles; the 10-pack of C2 is currently sold out |
| Performance Wooden Wicks | Pack of 10 | ₹590 | Two candles — the alternative wick type |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 1 sheet · 40 | ₹100 | One per candle |
| Candle Making Weighing Scale | 1 | ₹354 | The instrument that produces the answer. Bought once |
| Pen Thermometer | 1 | ₹354 | Holds the add and pour temperatures constant across six pours |
| Trial total | ₹3,868.80 | ₹644.80 per wick-and-formulation cell · ₹2,860.80 without the two instruments |
Worked out above: six candles at a stated 180 g fill and 8% of total wax weight need 6 × 166.67 = 1,000 g of wax charge and 6 × 13.33 = 80 g of oil. Three plain candles take 500 g of soy; three blend candles take 3 × 161.67 = 485 g of soy plus 3 × 5.00 = 15 g of microcrystalline. Oil at ₹6.962/g (₹696.20 per 100 g) × 80 g = ₹557.12. Basket total ₹599 + ₹149 + ₹696.20 + ₹778.80 + ₹59 + ₹188.80 + ₹590 + ₹100 + ₹354 + ₹354 = ₹3,868.80; ÷ 6 cells = ₹644.80. Materials in one finished plain candle: ₹99.83 wax + ₹92.83 oil + ₹129.80 jar + ₹9.44 C2 wick + ₹2.50 sticker = ₹334.40. A 3% microcrystalline blend brings the wax line to ₹98.33, making that candle ₹332.90.
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The hardener · stated 1–5% for hardening blends
Microcrystalline Wax Slab – Premium Grade
The one product in the range whose page gives you a published rate for exactly this job. It states "Blend 1%–10% microcrystalline wax into your main wax base", with 1–5% for hardening blends, 3–7% for pillars and 8–10% for detailed or sculptural work, and a melting point described only as "High (varies by batch)" — which is an honest non-figure rather than a spec, so treat it as a direction and not a number. The arithmetic is the surprise: at 3% of a 166.67 g wax charge that is 5.00 g at ₹0.299 per gram, displacing soy at ₹0.599, so the harder candle is ₹1.50 cheaper than the plain one.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 180g candles @ 3% blend |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500g | ₹149 | ₹298 | ≈100 |
| 1kg | ₹299 | ₹299 | ≈200 |
−₹1.50 per 180 g candle at a 3% blend Buy Microcrystalline Wax Slab
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The base · widest published specification
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks for Jar / Container Candles
The base to run a burn-rate trial on, because it publishes more of the variables you need to hold constant than any other wax in the range: a fragrance range of 8–13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, fragrance in at 80–90°C, a pour at 70–80°C, and a cure of a minimum 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, before burn testing. It states no melt point — which is worth knowing, since melt point is the figure a duration brief would most like to have. Its listed price per kilo is flat from 1 kg to 10 kg, so a six-candle trial costs the same per gram as production.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 180g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹299 | ₹598 | ≈3 |
| 1 kg | ₹599 | ₹599 | ≈6 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,995 | ₹599 | ≈30 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,999 | ₹599.90 | ≈60 |
₹99.83 of wax per 180 g candle at 1 kg pricing Buy Luxury Soy Chunks
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The vessel · a stated 180 g fill weight
Ceramic Jar for Candle Making
Chosen for one reason that matters more than looks: its page states a "Fill Weight: 180 grams" — a weight, not a volume — which is what makes every figure on this page arithmetic rather than estimate. It is the honest choice for a burn-rate study and it comes with a real limitation: the page states no dimensions at all, and ceramic is opaque, so you measure the internal diameter with a ruler and you judge the melt pool from above by the ring of unmelted wax at the rim. For a page whose thesis is that the scale replaces the eye, an opaque vessel is a feature. At ₹129.80 it is the single most expensive component in the candle.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Default Title | ₹129.80 | — |
₹129.80 per jar · 180 g stated fill Buy the Ceramic Jar
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The oil · 0% vanillin, stated 10% soy ceiling
Sage and Cedarwood Fragrance Oil
A herbal-woody single note that suits a long-burn luxury candle and, more usefully here, publishes the numbers the trial needs: a recommended fragrance load of up to 10% for soy wax and up to 6% for paraffin, a cure of 48–72 hours for soy, a vanillin content of 0% (no risk of discoloration), and a measured flashpoint of 190°C — one of only 18 CSI oil pages to state an actual flash-point value rather than a threshold. A flash point is a handling and storage property and is never an add temperature. Against the wax's stated 13%, the oil's 10% is the binding ceiling, and 8% is the first test.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 180g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 gm | ₹354 | ₹708 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹696.20 | ₹696.20 | ≈7 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,584.20 | ₹516.84 | ≈37 |
| 1 kg | ₹6,867.60 | ₹686.76 | ≈75 |
₹92.83 of oil per 180 g candle at 8% · 100 g pricing Buy Sage and Cedarwood
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Measure the empty jar and weigh itLay a ruler across the internal opening of the Ceramic Jar and write the diameter on the batch sheet, because the page states none. Then weigh each of the six empty jars individually and record the tare — ceramic varies, and every later mass reading depends on subtracting the right one. Fix the wicks now: two candles on C1, two on C2, two on wooden wicks, one of each pair plain and one hardened.
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Pour the plain trio first, then the hardened trioPlain: 166.67 g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks per candle. Hardened: 161.67 g of soy plus 5.00 g of microcrystalline, melted together until fully homogeneous before anything else goes in. Both get 13.33 g of Sage and Cedarwood added inside the wax page's stated 80–90°C window, stirred two minutes, poured at the stated 70–80°C. Record the actual readings from the thermometer.
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Cure 14 days, lids or covers on, in one placeAll six together, so they share one environment. The wax page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks; 14 days is the standard practice figure for soy containers and it is what the throw half of this trial needs. A candle burned at 72 hours will under-report its own throw and you will misread that as a wick problem.
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Session 1 — weigh, burn three hours, weighNote the mass to the nearest gram before lighting, burn for exactly three hours in a still room, extinguish, let it set, and weigh again. Subtract and divide by three: that is your grams per hour for the first burn. At the same time record the throw at 30 and 120 minutes on a 1–5 scale, and look down into the jar for the ring of unmelted wax at the rim.
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Sessions 2 and 3 — the working rate and the deep-flame rateRepeat the next day for the working rate, and again once roughly half the fill has gone, when the flame is sitting lower in the jar. Three figures per candle, eighteen across the trial. You are looking for the wick that produces the lowest grams per hour that still closes the rim ring, and for whether the hardened trio consumed measurably less than the plain trio at the same wick.
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Convert to a range, then write the sentence you are allowed to sayDivide 166.67 g by your lowest and highest measured rates to get a spread of hours. Then write it as a measurement with its method attached: "measured over 3-hour burns in our own 180 g ceramic jar". Never a single number, never a figure carried over from another jar, wick or load, and never a figure from a supplier — because no supplier publishes one.
We do not publish burn hours on a single page, and we would not believe anyone who did. Burn time belongs to a candle, not to a wax.
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Rate measured and wick locked? Scale up: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹2,995 for 5 kg and ₹5,999 for 10 kg (₹599 and ₹599.90 per kilo — flat), Microcrystalline at ₹299 per kilo, and Performance Wooden Wicks from ₹59 to ₹41.30 each across the 10, 50 and 100 packs. Recurring volumes, GST invoicing and documentation are handled directly; listed prices are the ceiling.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The page that sells the most additive would give you a burn-hours figure and an additive to protect it. This one tells you that no CSI page publishes a burn time, a burn rate or a throw rating, that our hardest-working additive is the cheapest thing in the basket, that Stearic Acid publishes no rate at all, and that the single most powerful thing you can do for hot throw is wait two more weeks and spend nothing. A maker who can state a measured burn range keeps their stockists. A maker who copied a number stops when the first customer times it.
Every price, pack size and specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which is always authoritative. Melt points, fragrance ceilings, additive rates, temperatures and flash points are quoted only where the product page states them; where a page states nothing — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks on melt point, Stearic Acid on rate, the Ceramic Jar on dimensions, the Eco C1/C2 page on diameter — this guide says so rather than borrowing a figure. The gram and rupee figures are our arithmetic on those published rates, and the burn-time examples are arithmetic on a hypothetical rate, explicitly not measurements. No CSI page publishes a blend ratio between two waxes, a soot measurement or a lab result. Stated ceilings are formulation limits, not regulatory limits.
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Frequently asked questions
How many hours will a 180 g soy candle burn?
Nobody can tell you, including us — no CSI page publishes a burn time, because the answer depends on your wick, vessel diameter, fragrance load and how long each burn session is. What you can do is measure it: grams per hour = (mass before − mass after) ÷ hours burned, then burn time = usable fill ÷ grams per hour. At 8% of wax weight a 180 g fill is 166.67 g of wax, so if your measured rate were 7 g an hour the arithmetic would give about 23.8 hours — that is a calculation on a hypothetical rate, not a claim. Report a range and state the session length you used.
Which additive makes a candle burn longer?
CSI lists three candidates and only two publish a rate. The Microcrystalline Wax Slab states a blend of 1–10%, with 1–5% for hardening blends — at 3% of a 166.67 g wax charge that is 5.00 g, and because it costs ₹299/kg against soy's ₹599/kg it makes the candle ₹1.50 cheaper. Vybar states 0.5–1% for soy, 1% recommended, added before fragrance and colour, at about ₹4.21 more per candle. Stearic Acid claims a "clean and long-lasting burn" but states no rate. Add one at a time and re-bracket the wick each time.
Does a higher fragrance load make a candle burn faster?
Not in any large way at the loads published here — moving from 8% to 10% of wax weight swaps 3 g of wax for 3 g of oil in a 180 g candle, so the mass the flame has to get through is unchanged. What it does change is scent released per gram melted, which is why load is the one lever that improves throw without shortening the candle. The bound is the lower of the two published ceilings: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks states 8–13%, Sage and Cedarwood states up to 10% in soy — so 10% governs.
Should I use a smaller wick to make my candle last longer?
Yes, up to the point where the melt pool stops reaching the rim — and not one step beyond it. A wick too small for the vessel tunnels, wastes the wax around the edges and ends up delivering less total burn than a correctly sized one. So the target is the smallest wick that closes the ring of unmelted wax at the rim across three sessions. CSI lists two Eco cotton sizes, C1 and C2, with no diameter stated on that page, plus wooden wicks as a different type — so it is a two-size bracket plus an alternative, tested in your own jar.
Which CSI wax has the highest melting point?
Of the pages that state one: CSI 464 at 80°C–90°C and Semi Refined Paraffin Wax at 80–90°C; CSI 468 states 50–53°C and Eco Soy CSI 400 states 100°F (37.8°C). The Microcrystalline Wax Slab says only "High (varies by batch)". Most of the fifteen waxes state no melt point at all. And a melt point is not a burn rate — it is a directional argument for one, which your scale then has to confirm.
Can I put a burn time on my candle label?
Only if it is your own measurement and you state how you measured it. Weigh, burn timed sessions, divide, and publish a range with the burn cycle attached — "measured over 3-hour burns" — because the same candle gives a different total in 2-hour and 4-hour sessions. What you must not do is carry a figure across from a different jar, wick or load, or take one from a supplier: CSI publishes none, and a number you cannot reproduce is a number a customer can disprove with a clock.
One lever. Two outcomes. One scale.
Harden the body, size the wick down, take your throw out of load and cure — and measure the grams per hour instead of quoting hours.
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599/kg with a stated 8–13% range, Microcrystalline Wax Slab at ₹149 for 500 g with a stated 1–5% hardening rate, Vybar at ₹156 for 50 g with a stated 0.5–1% for soy, Stearic Acid at ₹57.82 for 100 g, Ceramic Jars at ₹129.80 with a stated 180 g fill, Sage and Cedarwood at ₹354 / 50 g with a stated 10% soy ceiling and 0% vanillin, Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for ten, Performance Wooden Wicks from ₹590 for ten, and the Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the grams-per-hour method, the three-session record sheet and the wick-down principle apply to any supplier's materials.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; five longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: No CSI product page publishes a burn time, a burn rate, a throw rating or a room-coverage figure, and none is asserted here. Wax specifications as published: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "10% Recommended", fragrance add 80–90°C, pour stated as 75–80°C in the details table and 70–80°C in the how-to steps, cure a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing, melt point not stated; 1 kg ₹599, 500 g ₹299, 5 kg ₹2,995, 10 kg ₹5,999. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — fragrance load up to 10%, melting point 80°C–90°C, pour temperature 80°C–90°C (the page states the same range for both), 1 kg ₹507.40. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 — up to 13%, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C, 1 kg ₹650. Eco Soy CSI 400 — melt point 100°F (37.8°C), add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir 2 minutes, no stated load, 1 kg ₹399. Semi Refined Paraffin Wax — melting point 80–90°C, no stated load, 1 kg pack ₹220. Beeswax Pellets — "Ideal for container candles, votives, pillars, and tealights", no melt point and no blend ratio stated, Yellow 1 kg ₹800. No CSI page states a blend ratio between two waxes. Additive rates as published: Microcrystalline Wax Slab "Blend 1%–10% microcrystalline wax into your main wax base", "For hardening blends: 1–5%", "For pillar candles: 3–7%", "For detailed/sculptural work: 8–10%", "Melting Point: High (varies by batch)", 500 g ₹149, 1 kg ₹299; Vybar "Use at 0.5%-2% of total wax weight", "For soy wax, use at the lower end of the recommended range (0.5%-1%)", "1% Recommended", "Always add Vybar to your melted wax before adding fragrance and colour", heat wax to "typically 80-90°C for most candle waxes", 50 g ₹156, 100 g ₹312; Stearic Acid "helps to create a clean and long-lasting burn for your candles" with no stated usage rate, 100 g ₹57.82, 200 g ₹115.64. Sage and Cedarwood Fragrance Oil — "Recommended Fragrance Load: Up to 10% for soy wax Up to 6% for paraffin wax", cure 48–72 hours for soy, "Vanillin Content: 0% (No risk of discoloration)", "Flashpoint: 190°C" (one of 18 CSI oil pages stating a measured value; a flash point is never an add temperature); 50 gm ₹354, 100 gm ₹696.20, 500 gm ₹2,584.20, 1 kg ₹6,867.60. Ceramic Jar for Candle Making — stated "Fill Weight: 180 grams", no dimensions stated, ₹129.80. Only 18 of CSI's 78 jar pages state a numeric diameter. Wick pages: a diameter appears on only two — Eco Candle Wicks Loose "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters" (5 m ₹413, 10 m ₹708) and Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" with a stated wick height of 10.16 cm (Pack of 10 ₹120, Pack of 1000 ₹12,000); Eco Braided Wicks says "the perfect solution for large diameter container jars" with no numeric diameter (5 m ₹472, 10 m ₹826); Eco Candle Wicks C1/C2 states none, sizes appearing only as variant names — Thin (C1) 10 ₹59 and 100 ₹590, Thick (C2) 20 ₹188.80 and 100 ₹944 (C2 10-pack sold out); Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) "One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs.", Pack of 10 ₹590, Pack of 50 ₹2,360, Pack of 100 ₹4,130. Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹100. Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354, Pen Thermometer ₹354. Planning assumptions, stated as assumptions: all loads are a percentage of total wax weight (8% of wax weight = 7.41% of the finished candle, 10% = 9.09%, 13% = 11.5%); a 180 g fill at 8% = 166.67 g wax + 13.33 g oil, at 10% = 163.64 g + 16.36 g, at 13% = 159.29 g + 20.71 g; the 3% microcrystalline blend = 5.00 g microcrystalline + 161.67 g soy, costing ₹98.33 against ₹99.83 for pure soy, a ₹1.50 saving; Vybar at 1% = 1.67 g at ₹3.12/g, net +₹4.21 after displacing soy; six-candle trial uses 1,000 g of wax charge (985 g soy + 15 g microcrystalline) and 80 g of oil; basket total ₹599 + ₹149 + ₹696.20 + ₹778.80 + ₹59 + ₹188.80 + ₹590 + ₹100 + ₹354 + ₹354 = ₹3,868.80, ÷ 6 cells = ₹644.80, ₹2,860.80 excluding the scale and thermometer; per-candle materials ₹99.83 + ₹92.83 + ₹129.80 + ₹9.44 + ₹2.50 = ₹334.40; the 23.8, 27.8 and 20.8 hour figures are arithmetic on hypothetical rates of 7, 6 and 8 grams per hour and are not measurements or claims; the 14–21 day cure for soy containers and the three-hour burn session are standard practice, not published CSI figures. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack; larger volumes are quoted on WhatsApp and listed per-kilo prices are the ceiling. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.