My Candle Burns Cleanly but Extremely Quickly — Should Burn Rate Still Make Me Reconsider Wick Size?

My Candle Burns Cleanly but Extremely Quickly — Should Burn Rate Still Make Me Reconsider Wick Size?

 

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Yes, and the reason is uncomfortable: a clean burn passes a list of appearance checks, and not one item on that list is a measurement of how much wax left the jar. Your candle has passed the exam it was given. Burn rate is a different exam.
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appearance checks a clean, fast candle passes — none of which measures grams consumed · the eighth check costs ₹354 and four hours · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
If the burn is clean, is the wick right? No. Clean means even top, no soot, no mushroom, no tunnel, clear glass, steady flame, pool to the wall — seven things about how the candle looks. Consumption is a weight, and nothing on that list weighs anything.

So does burn rate still matter? It is the only thing that decides what the customer actually gets. In a 130 g jar at 8% — 119.6 g of wax — a rate of 8.4 g/hr and a rate of 5.6 g/hr give very different candles out of identical ₹142.18 of material.

How do I measure it? Weigh the whole candle — jar included, lid off — before and after a timed session, then divide the loss by the hours. A ₹354 scale is the entire capital requirement.

And if the rate is too high? You bracket. CSI lists two Eco cotton sizes (C1 and C2) plus cotton braided and wooden wicks, with no stated diameters for C1 or C2 — so "one size down" exists only from C2 to C1. Below that your levers are wick construction, wick count, jar diameter and fill weight.
The short answer
A clean burn is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one: it rules out several faults at once, which is exactly why it feels conclusive. It rules out nothing about rate, because rate is not visible.
Put the eighth check on the list: grams per hour, from a timed session on a weighed candle. Add it to your build sheet permanently and the question never comes up again.
Fast and clean is the hardest version to catch precisely because nothing is wrong with it. There is no complaint to investigate until a customer counts the hours — and at a ₹1,000–₹2,000 price point, some of them do.
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In this guide
Seven checks a clean candle passes — and the one nobody runs 1 · Even top after cure — PASS    2 · No soot on the glass — PASS    3 · No mushrooming — PASS 4 · No tunnelling — PASS    5 · Pool reaches the glass — PASS    6 · Steady flame — PASS 7 · Little or no wax left at the end — PASS   ·   seven checks, seven passes, zero weights recorded 8 · Grams of wax consumed per hour — NOT MEASURED  ·  the only check with a unit 119.6 g of wax in a 130 g jar at 8% · at 8.4 g/hr → 14.2 hrs  ·  at 5.6 g/hr → 21.4 hrs Same jar · same wax · same oil · same ₹142.18 of material · both burns clean
The seven checks are what "clean" means, and a candle can pass every one of them while spending its wax half again as fast as it needs to. The 8.4 and 5.6 g/hr figures are illustrative readings from a maker's own session — no CSI page publishes a burn rate — and the hours are simply 119.6 divided by each rate.
The eighth check
Candle Making Weighing Scale · ₹354
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Straight answer
If my candle burns perfectly cleanly, is a fast burn rate still a reason to change the wick?
Yes, because the two judgements come from different instruments. "Clean" is the verdict of your eyes on roughly seven things: an even top, no soot on the glass, no mushroom on the wick, no tunnel, a pool that reaches the wall, a flame that sits still, and little wax left at the end. Every one of those is worth checking and not one of them is a weight. Consumption is grams, and grams need a scale. Run the eighth check and the picture changes immediately. In a 130 g jar poured at 8% — 119.6 g of wax and 10.4 g of oil — a candle measured at 8.4 g/hr gets through the jar in about 14.2 hours, while one at 5.6 g/hr takes about 21.4 hours, from identical material costing ₹142.18. Both can be immaculate. One is a better product. Which one you have is decided by the wick, and the way to find out is to weigh the whole candle before and after a timed session on a ₹354 scale. If the rate is too high, remember what the correction actually looks like here: CSI lists two Eco cotton sizes, neither with a stated diameter, so "one size down" exists only from Thick (C2) to Thin (C1). Past that you change construction, count, jar diameter or fill — not a number on a chart nobody publishes.
One line: a clean burn means seven appearance faults are absent, which is good news and says nothing at all about how fast the wax is leaving — weigh it.
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What a clean burn actually proves

Nothing in a beautiful candle is trying to tell you that it is expensive to own.

Start by giving a clean burn full credit, because it has earned it. If your candle produces an even surface after cure, keeps the glass clear, leaves no carbon ball on the wick, opens a pool all the way to the wall, and finishes the jar without a ring of waste, you have already solved most of the problems that bring makers to a guide like this one. That is a genuinely well-built candle in every respect that can be photographed.

The trouble is the word "most". Appearance faults are the symptoms of a mismatch — too little wick for the diameter, too much fragrance for the wick, a pour too hot for the glass, a cure too short for the wax. Absence of symptoms tells you the mismatch is not severe. It does not tell you where inside the acceptable band you have landed, and the acceptable band is wide. Two candles can both be faultless to look at and differ substantially in how much wax they burn in an hour.

There is a second reason clean-and-fast is the hardest version to catch: it produces no complaint until much later. A sooting candle generates an email in week one. A tunnelling candle generates a photograph. A candle that burns beautifully and dies early generates a quiet non-reorder, several months after the batch has shipped and long after you could have traced it to a wick decision. The only way to see it is to have measured it before you shipped.

The mistake: treating "no faults" as "optimised". A fault list is a floor, not a target. Makers build a quality checklist from the problems they have personally had — soot once, a tunnel once, a mushroom once — and when a new batch clears the list they stop testing. But the list was assembled from visible failures, so it can only ever catch visible failures. Add one line with a unit to it, permanently: grams per hour, measured on a timed session, recorded per build. It is the only line on the sheet that a photograph cannot provide, and the only one that scales to a comparison between two jars of different sizes.
Why your own clean candle is the best control you will ever have
A clean, fast candle is an unusually good starting point for a test, because it has already eliminated the confounds. You are not chasing soot and rate at the same time. Keep one unit of the current build aside, unburned, as the reference, and pour your candidates beside it with everything else held fixed — same wax, same oil, same load, same jar, same cure days, same trim, same session length. One variable, one week. Cure matters here: the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing, and a candidate cured for four days against a control cured for fourteen is not a comparison.

The seven checks, and the eighth

Set out properly, the list makes the gap obvious. Each row is a real check worth keeping. The right-hand column is the honest statement of its limit.

Appearance checks · what each one rules out
Seven visual checks, their value, and what each cannot tell you about consumption
# Check What it genuinely rules out What it says about grams per hour
1 Even, unblemished top after cure Pour temperature and cooling-rate faults; a glass too cold for the wax Nothing. This is set before the candle is ever lit.
2 Glass stays clear — no grey film Deposited carbon, the hard stop that ends a configuration outright Nothing. A clean-burning wick can still be a thirsty one.
3 No mushroom on the wick tip A wick drawing more material than it can finish burning at the tip Little. It narrows the range; it gives no figure.
4 No tunnel — wax clears to the wall An undersized wick for the diameter, and buried hot throw Nothing on the upper side. Tunnelling is the opposite failure.
5 Pool reaches the glass within the session A pool too small to release fragrance from the whole surface Nothing. Reaching the wall quickly is compatible with any rate above it.
6 Flame sits steady, does not flare The flame-side hard stop. Keep this one absolutely. Nothing with units — flame height has no repeatable measurement.
7 Little wax left when the candle dies Waste the customer paid for and could not use Only in combination with hours. On its own it is a volume, not a rate.
8 Grams consumed per hour Nothing visible — and everything commercial It is the figure. (before − after) ÷ hours.

Row seven deserves a note, because it is the one makers offer as a rebuttal. "My candle finishes the jar cleanly, so surely it is efficient." Finishing the jar is about how much of the fill was reachable, which is a different and equally important question — it is what the leftover-wax posts later in this series are for. A candle can consume 100% of its fill and consume it twice as fast as it needed to. Completeness and rate are independent. You need both numbers, and only one of them is visible.

Putting a number on the missing check

The measurement is deliberately dull. Dull is the point: a procedure you can repeat identically in December is worth more than a clever one you will improvise differently each time.

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Weigh the whole candle cold, lid offGlass, wax, wick and sticker — everything that sits on the scale pan. Do not try to weigh only the wax; you cannot, and you do not need to. The jar's weight cancels out of the subtraction. Record the figure in grams on the build sheet, not on a scrap of paper.
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Trim, light, and start a timerTrim to the same length you will use for every session in the test — the ₹177 wick cutter does this job as well as the ₹588.82 trimmer for test purposes. Burn for a session length that matches how your customers actually use candles, and use the same length for every candidate. Four hours is a reasonable default; three is fine; what matters is that it never changes mid-test.
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Extinguish, let it go completely cold, weigh againCold means cold — a warm jar convects air across the pan and the reading drifts while you watch it. An hour is usually enough for a 130 g jar; overnight is better and costs you nothing. Lid off again, same scale, same surface.
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Divide, then divide again(start − end) ÷ hours = grams per hour. Then wax in the jar ÷ that rate = hours from the fill. For a 130 g jar at 8%: 119.6 ÷ 8.4 = 14.2 hours; 119.6 ÷ 5.6 = 21.4 hours. Write both numbers down — the rate, because it compares across jar sizes, and the hours, because that is what the customer experiences.
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Repeat on a second session and a second unitTwo sessions on one candle tell you whether your procedure is stable. Two units of the same build tell you whether your pouring is. If those four numbers sit close together you have a measurement; if they scatter, you have a process problem to fix before any wick decision is worth making.
A 1 g scale and a short session cannot see what you are looking for. If your scale reads in whole grams and your session is two hours, a true rate of 5.6 g/hr and one of 6.1 g/hr both land inside the same handful of grams, and the difference you care about disappears into the instrument. Two fixes, both free: lengthen the session so the quantity being divided is large relative to the resolution, and run the session twice. Eight hours across two evenings on the same candle gives you a figure you can defend; two hours on one evening gives you a feeling with a decimal point attached.

It is worth being explicit about what this number is not. It is your rate, for your wax, your load, your jar, your room and your trim discipline. No CSI product page publishes a burn rate or a burn time, and nobody can hand you a target to compare against — which is precisely why the measurement is worth taking. The figure that matters is the difference between two of your own candles under identical conditions, and that difference is knowable this week.

The clean-and-fast decision tray

You have a clean control and a rate you consider too high. Pour a tray of four and you will know what to do within a fortnight. Four candles is the smallest tray that separates the wick question from the jar question, and in a 130 g vessel it is inexpensive.

The four-candle tray · 130 g jars · one variable each
What each candle in the tray is there to answer, and what the result means
Candle What changes Question it answers If it wins
1 · Control Nothing — your current clean, fast build What is the rate I am actually trying to beat? Your current build is fine and the problem was your expectation of hours, not the candle.
2 · One size down Eco Thick (C2) → Thin (C1), nothing else Is the single real downward size step in the range enough? Cheapest possible outcome: ₹3.54 less wick per candle and a lower rate. Confirm the pool still reaches the wall.
3 · Different construction Cotton Braided Wicks at ₹12 each Does a different wick build suit this diameter better than either Eco size? You have a third candidate permanently available, flat-priced from 10 to 1,000 pieces.
4 · Lower load, same wick 8% → a lower load, wick unchanged Is the wick responding to the fragrance rather than the diameter? Re-test the wick at the new load. Fragrance and dye can change how a wick performs, so a load change invalidates the old rate.
Priced above: 130 g candle at 8% = 119.6 g wax + 10.4 g oil. Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg → 119.6 g = ₹47.72 · Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil at the 100 gm price of ₹390 (₹3.90/g) → 10.4 g = ₹40.56 · one Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) ₹5.90 · one Shot Glass Jar at ₹48 if the pack is six = ₹142.18. On a cotton braided wick at ₹12 the same candle is ₹148.28. Honest caveat on that jar: the listing's title says "Pack of 6" while the body text says "pack of five" — at five per pack the jar is ₹57.60 and the candle ₹151.78. Plan on the less favourable figure and check the listing before you order a tray. Rates of 8.4 and 5.6 g/hr are illustrative readings from a maker's own session; no CSI page publishes a burn rate or burn time.

Notice that candle 4 is not a wick change at all. It is there because fragrance load genuinely interacts with wick behaviour, and a maker who changes the wick and the load in the same batch has learned nothing about either. If you intend to adjust the load as well, adjust it in a separate candle — and note that Eco Soy CSI 400's page states no maximum fragrance load at all, which is a reason to stay conservative and to hold at a figure you have burned rather than one you have read.

Four levers when "wick down" is not available

Every article on this subject assumes a numbered ladder of wick sizes. In India, with this range, you have one step and four levers.

Be clear about the shape of the range before you plan a test. CSI lists two Eco cotton sizes — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2) — and neither page states a diameter; those names appear only as Shopify variant titles. Cotton Braided Wicks state "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" and a wick height of 10.16 cm. Eco Candle Wicks Loose state "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters". Performance Wooden Wicks state no size. That is the whole published picture, and it does not contain a graded ladder. So if you are on C1 already, there is no smaller Eco cotton size to drop to, and the advice to "go down one" has run out of road.

What you can actually change · with listed prices
Four levers that move burn rate, in order of how little they disturb the product
Lever How far it goes at CSI What it costs per candle What the customer notices
1 · Wick size, within Eco Exactly one downward step: Thick (C2) → Thin (C1) ₹9.44 → ₹5.90, a ₹3.54 saving Nothing, if the pool still reaches the wall. This is the clean win.
2 · Wick construction Cotton braided ₹12 · Eco loose by the metre 5 m ₹413 · wooden ₹59 to ₹41.30 ₹5.90 to ₹59 depending on choice and pack Wooden wicks change the look and sound of the candle — that is a product decision, not a tuning step.
3 · Jar diameter 80 containers listed; a narrower jar asks less of the wick Varies — the 6 cm Shot Glass Jar is ₹48 at six per pack A different product. Honest, but it is a relaunch, not a fix.
4 · Fill weight Any figure up to the vessel's stated capacity Saves wax and oil proportionally Reducing fill reduces hours too — it lowers cost, not rate. Treat it as a pricing change the customer may notice.

The ordering is deliberate. Lever 1 is nearly free and invisible to the customer, so try it first and try it properly — a full tray, cured the same number of days, measured with the same instrument. Lever 2 gives you two or three more candidates and costs very little to stock, because Eco and cotton braided wicks are flat-priced per piece from the 10-pack to the 1,000-pack. Levers 3 and 4 both change the product the customer receives, which makes them legitimate decisions but bad experiments: change them and you are no longer answering the wick question.

Flat pricing means test small, buy late
There is no listed price advantage to buying wicks in bulk before you know which one you want. Thin (C1) is ₹5.90 per wick at 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 pieces; Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 at every available pack; cotton braided is ₹12 from 10 to 1,000. So a bracket of ten C1 (₹59), twenty C2 (₹188.80, since the C2 10-pack is sold out) and ten cotton braided (₹120) costs ₹367.80 and leaves you nothing on the table. The one wick that does step down with volume is Performance Wooden Wicks, ₹59 each at 10 and ₹41.30 each at 100 — and that is a reason to decide about wooden wicks carefully, not quickly.

What to buy

Three lines cover the whole investigation: the instrument, the one real downward step, and a third construction so the bracket is not a straight line. Every per-candle figure below is for the 130 g build at 8% costed above.

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The missing instrument
Candle Making Weighing Scale
Seven of your eight checks need only your eyes. The eighth needs this. You are weighing a whole candle — jar, wax, wick — before and after a timed session, so what you want is a pan that takes a jar and a reading that repeats. Buy it once and every subsequent wick, wax or load question in your business becomes arithmetic instead of debate. Note that the resolution of your scale sets the shortest useful session: coarse scale, longer session.
Size Price Per piece
Default Title ₹354 —
₹354 once — roughly 2.5 candles' worth of material in this build Buy the scale
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The one real step down
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1)
If your clean, fast candle is running on Thick (C2), this is the first thing to test and the cheapest possible outcome. The page describes these wicks as pairing with soy, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes and states no diameter for either size — so treat C1 as a candidate, not as a known quantity. Price is flat at ₹5.90 per wick across every pack from 10 to 1,000, which means a ten-pack test costs you nothing per wick and the saving against C2 is a straight ₹3.54 per candle. The Thick (C2) 10-pack is currently sold out; its 20-pack at ₹188.80 is the smallest available if you need C2 as your control.
Size Price Per piece
Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks ₹59 ₹5.90
Thin (C1) / 20 Wicks ₹118 ₹5.90
Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks ₹295 ₹5.90
Thin (C1) / 100 Wicks ₹590 ₹5.90
Thin (C1) / 500 Wicks ₹2,950 ₹5.90
Thin (C1) / 1000 Wicks ₹5,900 ₹5.90
₹5.90 per candle of wick · ₹142.18 total material in the 130 g build Buy Eco Candle Wicks
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The third candidate · different build
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
Worth stocking because it makes your bracket two-dimensional instead of a line of two points, and because its page actually states something: "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" and "Height of the wick is 10.16 cm". In a 6 cm jar that stated guidance points away from it, which is itself useful — a page that tells you what a product is for also tells you when it is not for you. Flat at ₹12 per wick from the 10-pack to the 1,000-pack. No CSI listing describes any wick as pre-tabbed; the braided wick roll at ₹706.82 comes with 100 separate wick tabs.
Size Price Per piece
Pack of 10 ₹120 ₹12
Pack of 50 ₹600 ₹12
Pack of 100 ₹1,200 ₹12
Pack of 500 ₹6,000 ₹12
Pack of 1000 ₹12,000 ₹12
₹12 per candle of wick · ₹148.28 total material in the 130 g build Buy cotton braided wicks
The CSI principle
A clean candle has passed every test that could be photographed. Burn rate is the one that has to be weighed.
Appearance checks are built from the faults a maker has already suffered, so they can only catch faults that look like something. Consumption looks like nothing at all. It is the only line on a build sheet that needs an instrument, and it is the line the customer eventually counts.
Found your configuration? The price per wick does not change with volume: C1 ₹5.90, C2 ₹9.44 and cotton braided ₹12, flat from 10 pieces to 1,000. For quantities above the listed packs, GST invoicing or documentation, message the bulk line.
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A last word on what to do with the figure once you have it. The temptation is to put it straight on a label. Resist that for now: a rate measured on one unit over one session is a working number for your own decisions, not a published claim. Turning measurements into something a customer can rely on needs more than one unit, a full-life burn, and a conservative figure or a range — which is a whole cluster of its own later in this series. For today, the number's job is simply to tell you whether to re-pour.

Beautiful is a photograph. Efficient is a subtraction.
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CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient advice here would be to leave a fast-burning candle alone — faster candles consume more wax, more fragrance and more wicks, and every one of those is something we sell. We are telling you to weigh it instead, because a ₹5.90 wick that gives your customer a candle they talk about is worth more to us than a ₹9.44 wick that quietly ends the relationship.

Every price and pack size on this page comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. No CSI wax, wick or jar page publishes a burn time, a burn rate or hours per gram; the 8.4 and 5.6 g/hr figures are illustrative readings from a maker's own session, included only to show the arithmetic, and your own figures will differ with your wax, load, jar, trim and room. Specifications are quoted only where a page states them, and where a listing contradicts itself — as the Shot Glass Jar's pack count does — we say so and price the less favourable reading.

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Frequently asked questions

My candle burns clean with no soot — can the wick still be wrong?
Yes. A clean burn rules out a specific set of faults: carbon deposition, mushrooming, tunnelling, an uneven top, a pool that never reaches the wall. Every one of those is a visual fault, and consumption is not visual. Two candles can both be flawless to look at and differ considerably in grams consumed per hour. The check that separates them is a weight: whole candle, lid off, cold, before and after a timed session, divided by the hours.
How do I calculate how many hours my candle should last?
Divide the wax in the jar by your measured rate. A 130 g candle at 8% holds 119.6 g of wax, so at 8.4 g/hr that is about 14.2 hours and at 5.6 g/hr about 21.4 hours. Two cautions. First, the rate has to be yours — no CSI page publishes one and nobody can supply you a figure for your build. Second, the wax left behind at the end is not available to the customer, so the honest figure subtracts it; that calculation is covered by the leftover-wax posts in this series.
Is a faster burn always caused by the wick?
No, which is why the test changes one thing at a time. Rate responds to wick size and construction, jar diameter, fragrance and dye in the wax, fill depth, trim length and the room. The wick is usually the biggest lever a maker controls, so it is the sensible first candidate — but a batch where you changed the wick and the fragrance load together has told you nothing about either. Pour a tray: control, one size down, a different construction, and a load change in its own jar.
Which is the smaller Eco wick, C1 or C2?
Thin (C1) is the smaller of the two, at ₹5.90 per wick; Thick (C2) is ₹9.44. But be precise about what that gives you: those names appear only as Shopify variant titles, and the product page states no diameter for either. So C2 → C1 is a real downward step and the only one inside the Eco cotton range. There is nothing published below C1, so if you are already there, your next moves are construction, count, jar diameter or fill — not a smaller size.
Should I use a smaller jar to make the candle last longer?
A narrower jar asks less of the wick, so it can genuinely lower the rate — but a smaller jar also holds less wax, so total hours may not improve at all. More importantly it is a different product: new photographs, new price, new perceived value. Treat vessel changes as product decisions made deliberately, and keep them out of the wick experiment. CSI lists 80 containers, from the 70 g votive at ₹31.86 upward, so there is room to design a different product on purpose.
Can I advertise the burn time I measured in this test?
Not from one session on one candle. A figure you can stand behind needs more than one unit, burned to the end of life, with the conditions stated — session length and trimming, at minimum — and it should be conservative or expressed as a range a customer can reproduce. The measurement in this guide is for your own decision about whether to re-pour. Setting a publishable claim is a separate discipline, and it is what the claims cluster later in this series exists to work through.
Add the eighth check to your build sheet
Seven checks you can see, one you have to weigh — and only the eighth tells you what your customer is really buying.
Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 for 10 and Thick (C2) ₹188.80 for 20 — flat at ₹5.90 and ₹9.44 per wick to the 1,000-pack. Cotton Braided Wicks ₹120 for 10 at a flat ₹12 each. Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399. Shot Glass Jar 130 g ₹288 per pack. Message us for pack pricing above the listed quantities, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the seven-check list, the eighth check and the four-candle tray apply to any supplier's materials.

Customer reviews: The five 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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.

Figures verified September 2026: Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 20 ₹118, 50 ₹295, 100 ₹590, 500 ₹2,950, 1,000 ₹5,900 (flat ₹5.90 each); Thick (C2) 20 ₹188.80, 50 ₹472, 100 ₹944, 500 ₹4,720, 1,000 ₹9,440 (flat ₹9.44 each), the Thick (C2) 10-pack currently sold out. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made 10 ₹120 to 1,000 ₹12,000 (flat ₹12 each). Eco Candle Wicks Loose 5 m ₹413, 10 m ₹708. Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) 10 ₹590, 50 ₹2,360, 100 ₹4,130 (₹59 / ₹47.20 / ₹41.30 each). Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs ₹706.82. Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Candle Wick Cutter ₹177; Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82. Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399. Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil 100 gm ₹390 (₹3.90/g). Shot Glass Jar 130 gram ₹288 per pack. Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram pack of 5 ₹159.30 (₹31.86 each). Assumptions stated: load is calculated as a percentage of the finished candle, so a 130 g candle at 8% is 119.6 g wax + 10.4 g oil; material per candle = ₹47.72 wax + ₹40.56 oil + ₹5.90 wick + ₹48 jar = ₹142.18, or ₹148.28 on a ₹12 cotton braided wick. The Shot Glass Jar listing conflicts with itself — the title says "Pack of 6" and the body says "pack of five" — so at five per pack the jar is ₹57.60 and the candle ₹151.78; check the listing before ordering. The 8.4 g/hr and 5.6 g/hr rates are illustrative readings from one maker's own session, not CSI data; hours are 119.6 ÷ rate (14.24 and 21.36, shown as 14.2 and 21.4). No CSI page publishes a burn time, burn rate or hours per gram for any product or combination, and none is estimated here. Stated specifications quoted verbatim: Eco Soy CSI 400 "add your fragrance or essential oils at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes, and pour directly" and no stated maximum fragrance load; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks cure "minimum of 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks" before burn testing; Cotton Braided Wicks "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm", "Height of the wick is 10.16 cm"; Eco Candle Wicks Loose "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters"; Shot Glass Jar "Fill Capacity - 130gram", "Height - 8cm", "Diameter - 6cm". No CSI page states a wick diameter for C1 or C2. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
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