My Finished Candles Have Huge Flames Because the Wick Is Too Large — Can I Replace the Wick While Keeping the Same Wax and Fragrance Formula?
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Your wax is fine. Your oil is fine. Your load is fine. One variable out of five is wrong, and it happens to be the one that decides whether a candle is safe.
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Yes to the formula and no to the candles. The wax, the oil, the load and the jar all carry forward untouched; the wick cannot be exchanged inside set wax, and a large flame is a safety fault rather than a matter of taste. The requalification is far cheaper than makers expect.
₹245.52
the entire material cost of requalifying this formula on three candidate wicks — nine test candles poured from the failed batch's own recovered wax into its own jars, so only the wicks and stickers are new spend · 2.0% of the batch's ₹12,374.76 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Can I keep the wax and fragrance formula? Yes, completely. The recovered wax from an unburned batch still holds the oil at the load you poured, so wax, oil, load and jar all carry over unchanged. You are changing one variable out of five, which is the cheapest kind of change there is.Can I swap the wick without repouring? No. A wick set in cured wax is bonded along its length and tabbed to the base. You melt the wax out, wick a clean jar, pour the same wax back — and then you test it.
What does the requalification cost? ₹245.52. Nine test candles, three wicks each tried three times, all poured from recovered wax into recovered jars, so the only new spend is ₹223.02 of wicks and ₹22.50 of stickers. Plus fourteen days.
Is there a smaller wooden wick at CSI? No. CSI lists one wooden wick product with no stated size, so sizing down means changing family — to Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) or Thick (C2) — or changing the jar.
The short answer
Count the variables before you count the rupees: wax, oil, load, jar, wick. Four of the five are unchanged, so this is a requalification of a known formula, not a reformulation — which is why nine test candles settle it instead of ninety.
Test in the jar you sell, never in a votive: a wick result transfers between candles of the same internal diameter and nothing else. Nine test candles poured in the failed batch's own jars cost nothing extra in glass and are the only test that answers the question.
A big flame is not a feature: a taller, unstable, sooting flame in a hotter jar is a safety outcome. No care card, no shorter burn window and no discount converts it into a sellable candle.
In this guide
Four rows shaded, one row solid. That ratio is the whole economics of this rescue: you are not rebuilding a recipe, you are requalifying one that already works against a component you chose badly — and the test set can be poured entirely out of the failed batch.
The two cotton candidates
Eco Candle Wicks · C1 ₹5.90 · C2 ₹9.44
The control · one listing, no stated size
Performance Wooden Wicks · ₹590 for 10
Wooden wick too hot for your jar?
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Straight answer
Can I replace an oversized wick and keep the same wax and fragrance formula?
The formula carries over entirely. The candles do not. In a batch of 40 poured into 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jars at a weighed fill of 170g each — 156.4g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and 13.6g of Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil at an 8% load — the wax, the oil, the load and the glass are all still exactly what you chose. Only the wick is wrong, and a wick set in cured wax cannot be exchanged in place: it is bonded along its length, tabbed to the base, and any replacement dropped into the void it leaves is an undocumented candle. So you melt the wax out, wick clean jars, pour the same wax back, and requalify. Here is the part makers do not expect. Because the test candles can be poured from the failed batch's own recovered wax into the failed batch's own jars, the requalification costs only its wicks: three Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹59 as the control, three Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹9.44, three Thin (C1) at ₹5.90, and nine stickers at ₹2.50 — ₹245.52 in total, against a batch that cost ₹12,374.76 in materials. That is 2.0%. What it also costs is fourteen days, because the cure restarts, and CSI lists one wooden wick product with no stated size, so sizing down means moving to cotton rather than to a narrower wood.
One line: four of the five variables survive untouched, the fifth has to be bracketed in the jar you actually sell, and the whole requalification is ₹245.52 because the test candles come out of the batch you already paid for.
Sizing a wick down? Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹188.80 for 20 and Thin (C1) at ₹118 for 20 cover a bracket and a repour, and Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹590 for 10 keep the control honest. All three per-piece prices are on the product pages.
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Five variables, one change — and why that is good news
Most batch disasters are formulation problems wearing a costume. This one genuinely is not, and that changes everything about how much testing you owe.
A container candle has five variables that interact: the wax, the fragrance oil, the load, the vessel and the wick. Change several at once and you are developing a product from scratch — which means a full test programme, weeks of cure, and a real chance that nothing passes. Change exactly one and you are requalifying: confirming that a known formula still performs when a single component moves. The distinction is not semantic. It sets the size of the test.
Requalification against reformulation
What each variable change obliges you to retest, and how big the test has to be
| What changed | Wick result still valid? | Throw result still valid? | Test size | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing — same batch, more units | Yes | Yes | Spot-check one | Consistency, not qualification |
| Wick only — this batch | No | Partly — pool area changes release | 3 jars per candidate | One variable, one axis. The formula is already proven |
| Fragrance oil only | No | No | 3 jars per oil, full cure | Different oils behave differently in the same wick and wax |
| Jar only — different internal diameter | No | No | 3 jars per wick candidate | The wick was matched to a diameter, and the diameter moved |
| Wax only | No | No | Full programme | Melt behaviour, load ceiling and pour temperature all move together |
| Wick and oil and jar together | No | No | Full programme | A failure tells you nothing about which change caused it |
Your batch is on row two. That is the cheapest row on the table, and the trap is to behave as though you are on the last row — to use the disaster as an excuse to change the wax as well, or try a different oil "while we're at it". Resist that. Change one thing and you will know what fixed it. Change three and you will be back here in six weeks with a different symptom and no idea which decision to reverse.
Keep two candles from the failed batch, unburned
Before you melt anything, set aside two of the 40 and label them "control, wooden wick, date". They are your only physical record of what the formula smells like and what the fault looked like. When the requalified batch comes out at day 14 you will want to burn one of these beside it, and if the throw is different you will want to know whether that is the wick or the second heat cycle. Two candles is ₹618.74 of materials at this batch's rate — cheap evidence.What "huge flame" tells you, precisely
"Huge" is a feeling. Before you commit 6.2 kg of wax to a repour, convert it into observations you can write down, because the same words get used for two quite different faults and only one of them is a wick size problem.
Observation to diagnosis
What each sign points at, and whether it makes the candle unsellable
| What you see | Most likely cause | Sellable? | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flame markedly taller than your tested candle's, consistently, in still air | Wick oversized for this jar and wax | No | Size down and requalify — this guide |
| Flame dances and flickers with no draught in the room | Wick drawing more fuel than the pool can steadily supply | No | Size down and requalify |
| Visible smoke; soot on the rim or up the inside wall | Incomplete combustion from over-wicking, or an untrimmed wick | No if it recurs on a freshly trimmed wick | Trim, relight, observe; if it returns, size down |
| Carbon mushroom building on the wick tip within an hour | Over-wicking, sometimes combined with a high load | No | Size down; check the load against the wax page's stated ceiling |
| Glass uncomfortably warm to hold after two hours | Too much heat for the vessel — an over-wicking outcome | No | Size down. Never manage this with a care instruction |
| Tall flame only on the first burn, settling afterwards | Untrimmed wick out of the box | Yes, with a trim instruction | Trim before the first burn and re-observe |
| One or two jars out of forty, the rest fine | A wick that drifted or a tab that lifted — not a sizing fault | Those units, no | Pull those units; the batch may be fine |
The last two rows are the ones worth checking before you commit. A tall first flame on an untrimmed wick is ordinary and is fixed with a trim; a fault on two jars out of forty is a placement problem, not a sizing problem. A sizing fault is consistent. Burn three jars from three different points in the pour, and if all three look the same, you have your answer. If they do not, you are reading the wrong guide and should look at wick drift instead. For the burn behaviour itself, candle flame too high: how to fix and why is my candle wick mushrooming go into more detail than this page needs to.
The mistake: managing an oversized wick with the care card. Three variants of this get proposed, and all three transfer your problem to a customer. Trim it shorter — trimming sets the length above the wax, not the wick's thickness, so the flame returns to the size the wick dictates within minutes. Tell them to burn for a maximum of one hour — a candle whose safe operation depends on a stranger obeying an instruction is not safe. Sell it as a "bold, strong-burning" candle — that is marketing applied to a hot vessel. CSI's Candle Wick Trimmer page recommends trimming to 1/4 inch before every burn, and you should print that on every candle you sell. It is good practice on a correctly wicked candle and it is not a fix for this one.
Sizing down when there is no smaller size
The obvious move is one size narrower in the same wick. On CSI's shelf, for wooden wicks, that move does not exist.
This is where honesty matters more than a tidy answer. CSI lists one wooden wick product — Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) — and its page states the pack contents ("One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs") and nothing about width, thickness or the jar diameter it suits. There is no C1-and-C2 style ladder in wood. So if a wooden wick is running too hot in your jar, you have exactly three honest options, and none of them is "buy the smaller wooden one".
Three routes when the wooden wick is too large for the jar
What each one changes, what it costs, and what you keep
| Route | What changes | Cost per candle | What you keep | What you give up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Move to cotton — Eco C2, then C1 | Wick family: no crackle, a different flame shape and a slower pool | ₹9.44 or ₹5.90 | Wax, oil, load, jar, and the ₹49.56 to ₹53.10 a wooden wick was costing you | The wooden-wick character your customers may have bought it for |
| 2. Move to a wider jar | The vessel — so the load maths, the fill weight and the price all move | New glass, from ₹47.20 to ₹212.40 depending on the jar | The wooden wick and its character | Your 40 existing jars go back on the shelf; the product is a different SKU |
| 3. Repurpose into a wickless product | The product category | ₹29.50 per wax melt container | Everything, including the wax and the jars | The candle. You are selling melts instead |
Route one is the default and the cheapest, and it has a pleasant side effect: a wooden wick at ₹59 each in the pack of 10, ₹47.20 in the pack of 50 and ₹41.30 in the pack of 100 is by far the most expensive wick CSI lists, while Eco C1 is ₹5.90 and C2 is ₹9.44 flat at every pack size. Sizing down to cotton takes ₹49.56 out of the cost of every candle at the 50-pack comparison. That does not make it the right choice — a wooden wick sells a particular kind of candle — but it is worth knowing that the correction is not a sacrifice.
Don't tame the wick by changing the wax. The instinct is to reach for a harder or higher-melt wax so the pool develops more slowly and the flame calms down. It will change the burn, and it will also change the fragrance behaviour, the stated load ceiling, the add temperature, the pour temperature and the surface finish — five things at once, in service of one. You would no longer be keeping the formula you asked about in the title of this page. If the wick is wrong, change the wick. How to choose the right candle wax is for when the wax genuinely is the variable.
The three candidate wicks
Nine test candles, three wicks. The failing wick is one of the three, because a bracket without a control tells you that something changed but not by how much. Every price below is per piece and every claim below is quoted from the product page or marked as not stated.
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The control · keep three jars on the wick that failed
Performance Wooden Wicks | Imported
Include it. Three jars on the wick you already know is too large give you the reference point that makes the other six readable — you will be comparing flame heights and pool times against something, and "against my memory of last month" is not a measurement. The page states that "One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs" and states nothing about size or jar diameter, which is precisely why the original choice went wrong. The price ladder is the steepest of any CSI wick: ₹59 each at 10, ₹47.20 at 50, ₹41.30 at 100 — the only CSI wick where buying more genuinely lowers the per-piece cost.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹590 | ₹59 |
| Pack of 50 (Save 25%) | ₹2,360 | ₹47.20 |
| Pack of 100 (Save 30%) | ₹4,130 | ₹41.30 |
₹177 for three control wicks at the 10-pack rate See Performance Wooden Wicks
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The first step down · and what the jar page itself recommends
Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2)
Start here rather than going straight to the thin wick, because an over-correction produces a tunnelling batch and you will be reading a different guide next month. There is a useful piece of evidence for this jar in particular: the 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar page states "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks" — one of very few CSI jar pages that names a wick at all. That is a stated recommendation from the vessel's own listing, which is a better starting point than any general chart. The wick page itself states no diameter; C2 exists only as a Shopify variant name. Price is a flat ₹9.44 a wick from 20 pieces to 1,000.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Thick (C2) / 10 Wicks (sold out) | ₹94.40 | ₹9.44 |
| Thick (C2) / 20 Wicks | ₹188.80 | ₹9.44 |
| Thick (C2) / 50 Wicks | ₹472 | ₹9.44 |
| Thick (C2) / 100 Wicks | ₹944 | ₹9.44 |
| Thick (C2) / 500 Wicks | ₹4,720 | ₹9.44 |
| Thick (C2) / 1000 Wicks | ₹9,440 | ₹9.44 |
₹9.44 per wick, flat to 1,000 · ₹377.60 to rewick all 40 Buy Eco Candle Wicks C2
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The insurance leg · in case C2 is still too much
Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1)
Three jars on C1 cost ₹17.70 and they exist so that a failed bracket does not cost you a second fortnight. If C2 still runs hot in your jar and you have no C1 data, you order wicks, wait for them, pour again and wait another fourteen days. If C1 is already in the bracket you simply read the answer off the table you have. This is the cheapest insurance on the page. The same caveat applies — no diameter is stated, C1 is a variant name — and the price is a flat ₹5.90 a wick from 10 pieces to 1,000, with no saving for buying deep.
| 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 |
₹17.70 for three jars of insurance Buy Eco Candle Wicks C1
Priced above: Performance Wooden Wicks (imported) ₹590 for 10 (₹59 each), ₹2,360 for 50 (₹47.20 each), ₹4,130 for 100 (₹41.30 each) · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59/10 to ₹5,900/1,000, ₹5.90 each throughout; Thick (C2) ₹188.80/20 to ₹9,440/1,000, ₹9.44 each throughout · Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each) · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599/kg at 1 kg · Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil ₹7,646 per kg (₹7.646/g) · 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap ₹310 per 5, ₹3,100 per 50, ₹6,200 per 100 (₹62 each at every pack) · Wax Melts Containers Empty ₹29.50 each · Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82 · Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter 1 litre ₹2,360.
The nine-candle requalification
Three wicks, three jars each, everything else held constant — and poured in the same jar you sell, at the same weighed fill, from the same wax. That last point is not a detail. A wick answer is only valid for the internal diameter it was tested in, so a result from a 70g votive tells you nothing about a 200ml Salsa jar.
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Melt out nine candles, not fortyRecover the wax from nine jars only and leave the other 31 sealed and labelled. If the bracket fails you have lost nothing; if it passes, you melt the remaining 31 knowing exactly which wick you are pouring onto. Warm the jars gently in hot water or a low oven, lift the plug, pull the old wick and tab, then melt and strain.
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Weigh one filled jar, and use that number for all nineThe 200ml Salsa page states capacity in millilitres, not grams — "The 200ml capacity provides ample space for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" — so there is no published fill weight to work from. Pour one jar to the level you want, weigh it, subtract the tare, and that is your fill weight. Every test jar gets that exact figure on the scale. Guessing by eye reintroduces a variable you have just spent money removing.
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Label the nine jars before the wicks go inW1–W3 wooden, B1–B3 Thick (C2), A1–A3 Thin (C1). Write it on the base, not on a sticky note. Fit each wick with a fresh wick sticker and centre it with a Wick Centering Device at ₹118 for five or a Steel Wick Holder at ₹50 a piece.
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Pour all nine from one melt at the stated temperatureThe Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states fragrance added at 80–90°C and a pour at 70–80°C. You are not adding fragrance — it is already in the recovered wax — but the pour temperature still applies, and pouring all nine from a single melt removes any melt-to-melt variation between the three wick groups. Record the actual thermometer reading with a Pen Thermometer at ₹354, not the target.
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Cure fourteen days, lids on, in a closed cartonThe wax page states a cure of a minimum 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing. Take the two weeks. This is the part of the rescue that cannot be shortened with money, and it is the real reason a wick mistake is expensive.
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Burn all nine on the same day, in the same room, and score themTrim every wick to the same length first. Burn for up to three hours. Every hour record: pool diameter with a ruler across the rim, flame height against a fixed reference, flame stability, soot on the wall, mushrooming, and how warm the glass is to hold. The winner is the wick that opens a full pool in a reasonable window with a steady flame and no soot — not the one with the biggest pool soonest. The scoring sheet in how to test hot throw before launching a candle fragrance covers the throw side.
The CSI principle
Count your changed variables before you count your losses. One changed variable is a test. Three is a new product.
A maker who changes only the wick knows exactly what the next result means. A maker who changes the wick, the wax and the oil because the batch failed anyway has thrown away the only useful thing the failure gave them — a formula that was already proven.
Why it only costs ₹245.52
Because nothing in the test is new except the wicks. Set the numbers side by side and the reason becomes obvious: the expensive lines in a candle are the wax, the oil and the glass, and all three are already in your workshop. Here is the batch, and here is the test.
40-candle batch and 9-candle requalification · CSI live pricing, September 2026
What the batch cost, what the test costs, and where the difference comes from
| Line | In the 40-candle batch | In the 9-candle test | Source of the test material |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | 6,256 g · ₹3,747.34 | 1,407.6 g · ₹0 new spend | Recovered from nine of the failed candles |
| Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil | 544 g · ₹4,159.42 | 122.4 g · ₹0 new spend | Already dissolved in the recovered wax |
| 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar | 40 jars · ₹2,480 | 9 jars · ₹0 new spend | Washed and reused from the same batch |
| Performance Wooden Wicks | 40 wicks · ₹1,888 | 3 control wicks · ₹177 | New |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) | — | 3 wicks · ₹28.32 | New |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | — | 3 wicks · ₹17.70 | New |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 40 · ₹100 | 9 · ₹22.50 | New |
| Total | ₹12,374.76 · ₹309.37 per candle | ₹245.52 of new spend | 2.0% of the batch |
Worked out above: the batch is 40 candles at a weighed fill of 170 g, at an 8% load calculated as a percentage of finished weight — 156.4 g of wax and 13.6 g of oil per candle. On CSI's own convention, load as a percentage of total wax weight, the same candle is 13.6 g of oil against 156.4 g of wax, or 8.70%. Wax 6,256 g × ₹0.599/g = ₹3,747.34. Oil 544 g × ₹7.646/g (the 1 kg rate) = ₹4,159.42. Jars 40 × ₹62 = ₹2,480, listed as ₹310 per pack of 5, ₹3,100 per 50 and ₹6,200 per 100 — a flat ₹62 at every pack size. Wooden wicks costed at the 50-pack rate of ₹47.20 each × 40 = ₹1,888; three control wicks for the test costed at the 10-pack rate of ₹59. Stickers ₹2.50 each. Test wicks ₹177 + ₹28.32 + ₹17.70 = ₹223.02, plus ₹22.50 of stickers = ₹245.52, which is 1.98% of ₹12,374.76. The nine test candles consume 1,407.6 g of wax and 122.4 g of oil, all of it recovered — worth ₹843.15 and ₹935.87 respectively at list, which is why counting them as new spend would overstate the cost of the test by more than seven times. Two candles kept as controls are ₹618.74 of materials at ₹309.37 each. Transfer loss on the remelt is not given a figure here; weigh yours.
One number in that table deserves a second look. The wooden wicks in the batch cost ₹1,888 — more than the glass, and half of what the wax cost. A wick is usually the cheapest component in a candle, but a wooden wick at ₹47.20 a piece is not, which means an oversizing error on wooden wicks is genuinely expensive in a way the cotton version is not. If you move to C2 at ₹9.44, the same 40 candles carry ₹377.60 of wick instead of ₹1,888. Worth knowing before you decide which route you are taking.
Keeping the formula is free. Proving it still works on a different wick costs one fortnight and the price of nine wicks — and there is no third option where you skip the fortnight.
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Repouring all 40 after the bracket? Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹472 for 50 or Thin (C1) at ₹295 for 50 covers the batch with spares, and Performance Wooden Wicks step down to ₹47.20 each at 50 and ₹41.30 at 100. For recurring volumes, bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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Reading the jar page before the wick page
Short, and slightly counter-intuitive. On CSI's catalogue the wick pages are the ones that state the least: the Eco Candle Wicks page gives no diameter at all, and the Performance Wooden Wicks page gives no size at all. The jar pages sometimes state more. The 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar page says "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks", which is a specific, published starting point that would have saved this entire batch.
So the habit to build is: read the vessel's listing first and write down anything it says about wicking; then measure the internal diameter yourself, because pages publish outer rims and base diameters and those are different numbers; then choose two candidate wicks and bracket them. Three lines on the batch sheet — measured internal diameter, what the jar page states about wicks, what the wick page states about diameter (often "nothing") — and the wrong wick stops being able to get into a batch by accident.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The whole point of this page costs us money: we are telling you that the cheapest correct answer is to move off a ₹47.20 wooden wick and onto a ₹9.44 cotton one, and to pour your test candles out of wax you have already bought rather than buying more. We would rather you pour a batch you can stand behind.
Every price and pack size here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Wick specifications are quoted only where the page states them. The Performance Wooden Wicks page states its pack contents and no size; the Eco Candle Wicks page states no jar diameter and C1/C2 appear only as Shopify variant names; CSI lists one wooden wick product, so we do not offer you a narrower one. The "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks" line is quoted from the 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar listing. Flame observations on this page are relative and descriptive; we publish no numeric flame-height limit because that is not something CSI measures. Transfer loss and labour are yours to measure.
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Frequently asked questions
Does changing the wick mean I have to change the fragrance load too?
No. The load is a property of the wax and oil you mixed, and melting the batch out and pouring it back does not alter it — nothing is added and nothing is removed in an unburned recovery. What changes is the melt-pool area the new wick opens, and pool area is release area, so the perceived throw may differ even at an identical load. That is a reason to burn a control candle from the old batch alongside the new one, not a reason to add oil.
Is there a smaller wooden wick at CSI?
No. CSI lists one wooden wick product, Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported), and its page states the pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs and says nothing about width or jar diameter. There is no ladder of wooden sizes to step down. Your honest routes are to move to cotton — Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 or Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 — to move the candle into a wider jar, or to repurpose the wax into a wickless product.
Can I test the new wick in a cheap votive instead of my real jar?
No, and this is the most expensive shortcut in wick testing. A wick result is valid for the internal diameter it was tested in and nothing else. A 70 g votive and a 200 ml jar present completely different circles for the pool to open across, so a pass in one says nothing about the other. Pour the test in the jar you sell — and since the test jars come out of the failed batch anyway, the glass costs you nothing.
Should I go straight to the thinnest wick to be safe?
No — over-correcting produces a tunnelling batch and another fortnight of cure. Step down one stage and bracket: three jars on Thick (C2) as the primary candidate, three on Thin (C1) as insurance, three on the wooden wick as the control. Nine candles, ₹245.52, one answer. Running C2 alone and discovering it is still too hot costs you a second order, a second pour and a second cure.
How tall is too tall for a candle flame?
We do not publish a number, because CSI does not measure flame heights and a figure invented here would be worth nothing to you. Judge it relatively and by behaviour: taller than the candle you previously tested, consistently, in still air; flickering and dancing without a draught; smoking; sooting the glass; mushrooming within an hour; a vessel that is uncomfortably warm to hold. Any two of those, repeatable across three jars from different points in the pour, and the wick is too large.
Can I sell the batch as a "strong burning" candle and warn customers?
No. A candle whose safe behaviour depends on a customer obeying an instruction is not a safe candle, and an oversized wick is a safety fault rather than a style. Print the standard care guidance on everything you sell — CSI's Candle Wick Trimmer page recommends trimming to 1/4 inch before every burn — and size the wick correctly as well. The two are not substitutes. Remelt the batch, or turn the wax into wax melts at ₹29.50 a container where no wick exists.
Keep the formula, change one variable
₹245.52 and fourteen days requalifies a recipe you already proved — because the nine test candles come out of the batch you already paid for.
Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) ₹188.80 for 20 and Thin (C1) ₹118 for 20, both flat per piece to 1,000 · Performance Wooden Wicks ₹590 for 10, ₹2,360 for 50, ₹4,130 for 100 · Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 for 40 · Wick Centering Device ₹118 for 5 · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar ₹310 for 5 at a flat ₹62 each · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599/kg · Wax Melts Containers ₹29.50 each. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Prices and stated specifications are CSI's; the variable matrix, the observation-to-diagnosis table and the nine-candle requalification 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; two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Performance Wooden Wicks | Imported ₹590 for a pack of 10 (₹59 each), ₹2,360 for 50 (₹47.20 each), ₹4,130 for 100 (₹41.30 each); page states "One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs" and states no wick size or jar diameter. Eco Candle Wicks | Eco Wicks for Candle Making — Thin (C1) ₹59/10, ₹118/20, ₹295/50, ₹590/100, ₹2,950/500, ₹5,900/1,000, a flat ₹5.90 each; Thick (C2) ₹94.40/10 (currently sold out), ₹188.80/20, ₹472/50, ₹944/100, ₹4,720/500, ₹9,440/1,000, a flat ₹9.44 each; the page states no jar diameter and C1/C2 appear only in Shopify variant names. Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each); the 100-sticker sheet is currently sold out. Wick Centering Device ₹118 per pack of 5. Steel Wick Holder ₹250/5, ₹500/10, ₹1,250/25 (₹50 each); page states a 3-hole layout for single, double or triple wicks and a fit for most jar diameters up to 9 cm. Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82; page states "Trim your wick to 1/4 inch before every burn for the best results!". Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299/500 g, ₹599/1 kg, ₹2,995/5 kg, ₹5,999/10 kg; page states a recommended fragrance load of 8% to 13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, fragrance added at 80–90°C, pour at 70–80°C, and a cure of minimum 48 hours ideally one to two weeks before burn testing. Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil ₹130/15 gm, ₹410/50 gm, ₹790/100 gm, ₹3,840/500 gm, ₹7,646/1 kg — 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack, above which pricing is a WhatsApp quote and listed per-kilo prices are ceilings. 200ml Salsa Amber Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap (Golden Lid) ₹310 per pack of 5, ₹3,100 per 50, ₹6,200 per 100 — a flat ₹62 each; the page states "The 200ml capacity provides ample space for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" and "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks", states no dimensions, and gives capacity in millilitres rather than grams. Wax Melts Containers Empty ₹29.50 each, flat from 5 to 100. Pen Thermometer ₹354. Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter 1 litre ₹2,360. Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹47.20 each; Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid ₹212.40 for 500 gm — quoted only as the price range for a wider jar. Assumptions, stated as assumptions: the batch is 40 candles at a fill weight of 170 g, which is a figure you weigh rather than one the jar page publishes, at an 8% fragrance load calculated as a percentage of finished candle weight (156.4 g wax + 13.6 g oil), equivalent to 8.70% on the percentage-of-wax-weight convention CSI's product pages use; wax priced at the listed 1 kg rate of ₹599/kg and oil at the 1 kg rate; one wick and one sticker per candle; wooden wicks in the batch costed at the 50-pack rate and test control wicks at the 10-pack rate; a 14-day cure before burn testing, within the window the wax page states; a two to three hour burn as the test session. No numeric flame-height threshold is published because CSI does not measure one. Remelt transfer loss is deliberately left without a figure — weigh your own. Fragrance loads and temperatures are formulation limits published on the product pages, not regulatory limits. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.