My Soy Wax Pulls Away From the Glass Around the Middle of the Jar but Stays Attached at the Top and Bottom — Why?
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The base is held and the top is fed. The middle of a tall jar has neither, which is why it is the band that lets go.
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My Soy Wax Pulls Away From the Glass Around the Middle of the Jar but Stays Attached at the Top and Bottom — Why?
Because the three heights of a jar are three different thermal situations. The base loses heat downward into whatever it is standing on and is pinned by the weight of wax above it. The top stays molten longest and is open to the air. The middle has neither a free surface nor a surface to rest on — its only route out is sideways through the glass. Treat the jar as three bands and the pattern stops being mysterious.
3 bands
3.6 cm each on a jar standing 10.8 cm without its lid · mapping existing candles costs ₹0 and a strip of masking tape; the three-jar confirmation pour is ₹1,769.05 of materials · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why the middle and not the whole wall? Because heat leaves the base downward and the top upward, but the middle can only lose it sideways through the glass. Soy contracts as it solidifies, and the mid-height is where that contraction has least to hold on to — no bench under it, no reservoir of molten wax above it.Why does the top stay attached? The top surface is the last part to solidify. Wax there settles against the glass while it is still fluid, and anything you do afterwards — a top-up pour, filling a wick well — re-wets that band specifically.
Why does the base stay attached? The base cools together with the glass it is touching, and the column of wax above presses it against the bottom and lower wall as it sets.
Is this worse in tall jars? The longer the column, the more pronounced the pattern tends to be — and a curved or tapered vessel often shows the band at its narrowest point. Remember the patch itself is an air gap, not moisture; it looks dark because light reflects at two surfaces there instead of one.
The short answer
A band is a height pattern, so measure heights: stick a strip of masking tape up the side of the jar, mark three equal bands, and score each band on each face. Four faces × three bands = twelve observations per candle, from candles you already have.
Three readings, not one: the bench surface temperature, the air temperature at mid-jar height, and the air above the tray. Those three numbers describe why the three bands behave differently.
The first changes are free: insulate the base from stone or steel, take the tray out of any air stream at bench height, and decide deliberately whether you single-pour or top up.
In this guide
Dark band = where makers most often find the gap. The middle is not weaker wax; it is the only height with a single heat path and nothing mechanical holding it. Score the three bands separately and the pattern becomes a number you can work with.
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Straight answer
Why does soy wax separate around the middle of a jar while the top and bottom stay attached?
Because the three heights of a jar are not the same problem. At the base, wax and glass are in contact with a bench and cool together, and the whole column above presses that wax against the bottom and the lower wall while it sets. At the top, there is an open surface: that band solidifies last, settles against the glass while it is still fluid, and gets re-wetted by anything you do afterwards — a second pour, a top-up, filling in a wick well. The middle has neither. Its only route for heat is sideways through the glass, there is nothing beneath it to cool with and no reservoir of molten wax above it to feed it as it contracts, and a draught at bench height arrives at exactly that height. Soy contracts as it solidifies and keeps responding to temperature afterwards; in a tall vessel, the mid-height is simply where that contraction has least to hold on to. That is as far as this can honestly be taken — no contraction rate, coefficient or threshold temperature is published anywhere in CSI's range and none is invented here. What you can do is make the pattern measurable. Stick a strip of masking tape up the side of a candle you already have, mark three equal bands — 3.6 cm each on a jar standing 10.8 cm without its lid, like the Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid — and score each band on each of four faces. Twelve observations per candle, for the price of a pen. Then confirm with a three-jar pour that varies one thing: base insulation, pour temperature, or single pour against top-up.
One line: the base is held and the top is fed; the middle has one heat path and nothing to hold it, so map three bands before you touch a raw material.
Band-mapping needs a tall clear jar and three temperature readings. Apothecary Glass Candle Jars with Dome Lid at ₹212.40 for the 500 gm size and a Pen Thermometer at ₹354 cover both.
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Three heights, three thermal situations
Everyone talks about a candle cooling. Almost nobody asks which part of it cools, in which direction, and what is holding it while it does.
Set a tall jar of molten wax on a bench and three things start happening at once, at three different heights. Air above the open surface carries heat away upward. The bench underneath draws heat downward, faster if it is stone, tile or steel and slower if it is wood. And the glass wall lets heat out sideways along the whole height. Those three paths are not equally available to every part of the wax, and that inequality is the entire content of this symptom.
The base band has the bench. Glass and wax there change temperature more or less together, which matters because a gap opens when wax and glass stop agreeing. It also has the weight of everything above it, pressing it outward and downward as it stiffens. The top band has the open surface, so it is still liquid when the bands below have gone solid — and a liquid wets glass completely. If you top up, or if you pour a second time to fill the well that forms around the wick, you flood that top band with fresh molten wax and it re-bonds.
The middle band has the glass and nothing else. It is enclosed above and below by wax that has already set, so it cannot be fed, and it has no surface in contact with anything that would cool with it. It is also, in a real workshop, the height at which air moves: a pedestal fan, a split-AC vent or a doorway draught travels across a bench at roughly the height of the middle of a jar, while the base sits in the still air of the tray and the top is partly shielded by the rim and the lid. Three different situations, one of which is systematically harsher.
The three bands compared · per height band of one jar
What each band's heat path is, what holds it, and what you can change for free
| Band | Height on a 10.8 cm jar | How heat leaves | What holds the wax to the glass | The free lever |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 · top | 7.2 – 10.8 cm | Upward from the open surface, plus sideways | It is still fluid when the bands below have set, so it wets the glass completely | Decide deliberately whether you top up — and if you do, record it |
| 2 · middle | 3.6 – 7.2 cm | Sideways through the glass only | Nothing mechanical; nothing molten above to feed it | Keep the tray out of any air stream at bench height |
| 1 · base | 0 – 3.6 cm | Downward into the bench, plus sideways | Cools with the glass it touches; pressed by the column above | Put a wooden board or folded cloth between jar and stone or steel |
The mistake: calling a mid-height band "bad wax" and ordering 10 kg of something else. A band is a height pattern, and a bag of wax does not know how high up the jar it is. If one wax genuinely holds a tall jar better than another that is a real and testable thing — but it is tested with candidate waxes poured into your actual jar on the same day and scored band by band, not by replacing a bag and hoping. Buying 10 kg to find out costs ₹5,074 for CSI 464 or ₹6,370 for CSI 468, and then you re-test your wick and load on the new wax as well. Map the bands first; the mapping is free.
Band-mapping candles you already have
This is the rare diagnostic that costs nothing and can be done this evening on candles that are already poured. You are not making anything; you are turning a vague impression into a grid.
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Make a tape ruler for your jarMeasure the filled height of the wax — not the jar, the wax. Divide by three and stick a strip of masking tape up the outside of one jar with two marks on it. On an Apothecary jar standing 10.8 cm without its lid, three bands are 3.6 cm each. Use the same strip on every candle so the band boundaries are identical, and label the bands 1, 2 and 3 from the bottom.
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Mark four faces on the base and score twelve cellsWrite N, E, S and W on the base, then score each band on each face from 0 to 3 — 0 clean, 1 faint edge, 2 one defined patch, 3 large or multiple. That is a twelve-cell grid for one candle. Do it under one fixed lamp, at one fixed distance, against a printed grid behind the glass, because a reflection changes with the light and you need every candle judged the same way.
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Repeat on at least six candles and total the bandsSix candles give you seventy-two cells. Add them by band: band 1 total, band 2 total, band 3 total. If band 2 is clearly the largest number and bands 1 and 3 are small, you have confirmed the pattern in your own product rather than in a forum post — and you have a baseline to measure every future change against.
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Take the three temperature readings that explain the bandsWith a pen thermometer, read the bench surface where the jars stand, the air at mid-jar height about a hand's width from where a jar would be, and the air just above the tray. Write all three down with the date. If the bench reads much cooler than the air, you have a base-cooling story; if mid-height air is moving, you have a middle-band story.
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Check whether the band sits at a shape changeMany vessels are not straight-sided. The Apothecary jar's page describes a curved apothecary silhouette, with an outer rim diameter of about 10 cm and a base diameter of about 10 cm — and a curve between those two points. If your band 2 score concentrates exactly where the wall changes direction, the vessel's shape is part of the story, and that is a jar-selection question rather than a wax question.
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Pick one variable and go to the confirmation pourYou now have a band profile and three temperatures. Choose one thing to change — base insulation, pour temperature within the wax page's stated window, or single pour against a deliberate top-up — and run the three-jar pour below. One variable, same pot, same day, same bench. Resist changing two; it is the mistake that makes this subject feel unsolvable.
Score the wax height, not the jar height
Divide the filled height into three, not the jar. A jar filled to the shoulder and the same jar filled two-thirds full put their mid-height in completely different places relative to the wall, the curve and the air. If you change your fill level — for a lighter candle, or to save wax — your band map moves with it, and a change you think is a wax effect may just be a fill-level effect. Note the fill height on every row of the log.Seven reasons a band forms mid-height, and how to separate them
Candidates with checks, not verdicts. Each row names the observation or paired test that moves it up or down, and every one of the first four is free to try.
Differential for a mid-height band · per height band
Seven candidates, the band signature each would give, and the test that separates it
| Candidate | Expected band signature | What else you would see | The check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air moving at bench height | Band 2 high, bands 1 and 3 low, often biased to one face | Outer jars worse than inner; follows whether a fan or AC is running | Pour one batch with the air source off, one with it on, same pot, same day |
| A cold bench surface | Band 1 unusually clean and band 2 sharply worse just above it | Stone, tile or steel bench; the bench reads cooler than the air | Half the batch on a wooden board, half on the bare bench |
| Single pour with no top-up | Band 3 worse than usual, so the band looks higher up | A visible well or dip around the wick | Half the batch single-poured, half topped up; log the top-up temperature |
| Pour temperature | A band that shifts height as the temperature changes | Hotter pours can help the wall and hurt the top surface | A short ladder inside the wax page's stated window, judged on wall and top |
| Column height itself | Wider band in tall jars, little or none in votives | Same wax, same day, different vessel heights | Pour the same wax into a tall jar and a short jar from one pot |
| Jar shape or curve | Band concentrated exactly where the wall changes direction | Repeats in the same place on every jar of that model | Band-map a straight-walled vessel and a curved one from one pot |
| Fill level | Band appears to move when you change how full you pour | Nothing else changed; only the wax height did | Pour two fill levels in identical jars and map both from the wax line |
Notice what the table cannot do, and why. It cannot tell you that a particular jar's glass is thinner at mid-height, because no CSI container page publishes a glass thickness or an empty-jar weight, and only 18 of the 78 listed containers state a numeric diameter at all. The Apothecary jar is one of the more fully described: it states heights with and without the lid, an outer rim diameter, a base diameter, a fill capacity range and a hot-pour limit, and it describes its glass as thick-walled — but "thick-walled" is a description, not a millimetre. So the argument here rests on what the pages say plus what you measure, and weighing ten empty jars yourself is a perfectly respectable way to see how much they vary.
Don't fix a band by overfilling. A tempting shortcut is to pour higher so the band sits lower and the lid hides it. It does not reduce the gap, it reduces your ability to see it — and it changes the wax weight, the cost per candle, the headspace, the way the lid seats and the first melt pool. If you want to hide a cosmetic gap, hide it honestly: a frosted or coloured vessel, or an opaque label, is a legitimate commercial decision made on purpose. Changing fill level to conceal a defect is a change to the product you are selling, made for a reason you have not written down.
The three-jar confirmation pour
Three tall jars is enough to confirm a band hypothesis, because each jar gives you twelve scored cells and the band totals are what you are comparing. Keep the wax, the oil, the load, the wick configuration, the pour temperature, the bench and the day identical, and change only the one thing your map pointed at.
Three-jar confirmation pour · materials and cost
Three 500 gm Apothecary jars at an 8% load, with every figure's working
| Line | Packs bought | Pack price | Used | Cost of what is used |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 1 kg + 500 g | ₹507.40 + ₹260 | 1,380 g | ₹700.21 |
| Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil | 100 gm + 50 gm | ₹300 + ₹170 | 120 g | ₹360 |
| Apothecary Jar with Dome Lid · 500 gm | 3 jars | ₹637.20 | 3 jars | ₹637.20 |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2) | 20 wicks | ₹188.80 | 6 wicks (2 per jar) | ₹56.64 |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 1 sheet · 40 | ₹100 | 6 stickers | ₹15 |
| Materials consumed | 3 candles | ₹1,769.05 | ||
| Cart total | ₹2,163.40 | leftovers reusable | ₹589.68 per test candle |
Worked out above: at a stated fill of 500 g and an 8% load each jar takes 460 g of wax and 40 g of oil. Wax 3 × 460 g = 1,380 g at ₹0.5074/g = ₹700.21 · oil 3 × 40 g = 120 g at the 100 gm rate of ₹3.00/g = ₹360 · jars 3 × ₹212.40 = ₹637.20 · wicks 6 × ₹9.44 = ₹56.64 · stickers 6 × ₹2.50 = ₹15. Two wicks per jar is a starting point for a vessel this wide, to be settled by your own burn test — wick count is not what this test measures, so keep it the same in all three jars. CSI live pricing, September 2026.
On temperature, respect both ceilings. The CSI 464 page states a pour temperature of 80–90°C; the Apothecary jar's page states it is "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C". Those two stated figures overlap only between 80°C and 85°C, so on this pairing 85°C is your ceiling — and if you run a pour-temperature ladder, it runs inside that narrow overlap, not up to 90°C. Write the reading you actually used at the first jar and the last.
The CSI principle
A defect with a height has a cause with a height. Measure up the wall before you shop.
Bands are the most legible pattern in this whole subject, because they point at a path heat took rather than at a material. A fan at bench height, a granite counter and a skipped top-up all leave their signature at a different band — and none of them is in the bag of wax.
What to buy for a tall-jar band test
A tall clear vessel that publishes its dimensions, a premium wax to qualify in it, and the instrument that turns three bands into three numbers. Each card lists every pack and the per-unit maths.
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Tall, clear, and unusually well described
Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid (2 sizes)
The right vessel for band work, because it is tall enough for the pattern to appear and its page actually gives you numbers to measure against: height with lid approximately 13.2 cm, height without lid approximately 10.8 cm, outer rim diameter approximately 10 cm, base diameter approximately 10 cm, a stated fill capacity of about 500 g to 700 g across the two sizes, a curved apothecary silhouette, glass described as thick-walled, and "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C". Note the page's own quirk: it gives the same dimensions for both the 500 gm and 700 gm variants, so measure the one you receive before you divide it into bands.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 500 gm | ₹212.40 | — |
| 700 gm | ₹250 | — |
₹212.40 for the 500 gm size · ₹250 for the 700 gm Buy the Apothecary jar
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Premium, and completely silent on appearance
Premium Coconut Soy Wax
The wax a maker reaches for when a 500 g apothecary candle is being priced as a luxury item — and the clearest illustration of why a band test is not optional. Its page states only that it is "Suitable for a wide range of container types and candle applications". No fragrance load, no melt point, no add temperature, no pour temperature, nothing about appearance and nothing about glass adhesion. At ₹920 a kilo it is CSI's dearest soy-based container wax, which makes the cost of guessing high: ₹423.20 of wax in a single 500 g candle. Hold it at 8%, pour it into the actual jar, and score three bands before you commit to a collection. The page also calls itself Virgin Coconut Soy Wax in the body copy.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 500g apothecary candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500g | ₹460 | ₹920 | ≈1 |
| 1 kg | ₹920 | ₹920 | ≈2 |
₹423.20 of wax per 500 g candle at 1 kg pricing Buy Premium Coconut Soy Wax
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Three bands need three readings
Pen Thermometer for Candle Making
The whole band argument rests on heat leaving in three directions, and you cannot discuss that without numbers. Use it for four readings on every band test: the wax at the moment of pouring, the bench surface under the jars, the air at mid-jar height and the air above the tray. Those last three are the ones nobody takes, and they are the ones that explain why band 2 behaves differently from bands 1 and 3. At ₹354 it is bought once and used on every batch for years, and it is the only way to keep pour temperature from becoming a hidden variable in a test that is supposed to have one.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Default Title | ₹354 | — |
₹354 once, then every batch for free Buy the pen thermometer
Qualifying a tall jar for a collection? CSI 464 at ₹2,537 for 5 kg (₹507.40/kg) or Premium Coconut Soy Wax at ₹920/kg will pour about ten 500 g candles per 5 kg. Above the listed packs, bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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Tall jars, premium pricing and the reject you can see
The jars that show a band most clearly are also the jars with the most money in them. That is not a coincidence — it is the reason this matters.
A 70 g votive with a faint mid-height mark is a minor matter. A 500 g apothecary candle in thick clear glass, priced as a gift, with a visible band at eye level is a different commercial object entirely — and the wax alone inside it is worth several times a votive's whole bill of materials. Run the arithmetic at the three fill sizes below and the reason to spend an evening band-mapping becomes obvious.
Wax value at risk per candle · three vessel sizes, three waxes
What the wax inside one candle costs, so you can see what a cosmetic reject actually throws away
| Fill | Wax at 8% load | CSI 464 ₹507.40/kg | Luxury Soy Chunks ₹599/kg | Premium Coconut Soy ₹920/kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 g votive | 64.4 g | ₹32.68 | ₹38.58 | ₹59.25 |
| 150 g jar | 138 g | ₹70.02 | ₹82.66 | ₹126.96 |
| 500 g apothecary | 460 g | ₹233.40 | ₹275.54 | ₹423.20 |
| 700 g apothecary | 644 g | ₹326.77 | ₹385.76 | ₹592.48 |
| Plus the vessel | ₹31.86 for the clear votive · ₹94.40 for the 150 g clear jar · ₹212.40 and ₹250 for the two Apothecary sizes | |||
A single rejected 500 g apothecary candle made on Premium Coconut Soy Wax throws away ₹423.20 of wax and ₹212.40 of glass before the oil, the wicks or your hour. One band-mapping evening and one three-jar pour at ₹1,769.05 is less than three rejected candles of that kind. That is the real argument for doing this properly, and it is the same argument the commercial end of this series makes at scale: the number that matters is cost per visually acceptable candle, not cost per kilo. Where the band sits in the broader diagnostic sequence is set out in the two-day timeline post, and the cleaned-against-as-received comparison is in the twelve-jar split test.
Heat leaves a tall jar three ways, and only one of those routes passes through the middle. The band is a map of the route, not a verdict on the wax.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. A maker with a band in a ₹920-a-kilo wax is the easiest customer in India to sell a different kilo to. We are instead telling you that the first three things to change — insulating the base, moving the tray out of an air stream, and deciding deliberately whether you top up — are free, and that a strip of masking tape will tell you more than a new bag will.
Every price, pack size and dimension on this page comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Jar dimensions are quoted exactly as the Apothecary page states them, including its own note that both size variants carry the same stated dimensions. Only 18 of CSI's 78 listed containers publish a numeric diameter, none publishes a glass thickness or an empty-jar weight, and "thick-walled" is a description rather than a measurement — so every argument here rests on stated text plus what you measure yourself. On wax, only CSI 464 and CSI 468 mention glass adhesion at all, as wording with no figure, method or threshold; Premium Coconut Soy Wax, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, Natural Soy Pearl Wax and Coconut Wax state nothing about appearance or adhesion, and we say so rather than filling the gap. No contraction rate, coefficient, adhesion score or threshold temperature is published by CSI and none is invented here.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does my candle separate only in the middle of the jar?
Because the middle has one heat path and nothing holding it. The base loses heat downward into the bench and cools together with the glass it is touching, pressed outward by the weight of wax above. The top is an open surface, so it is still fluid when the rest has set and wets the glass completely. The middle can only lose heat sideways through the glass, has no bench beneath it and no molten wax above to feed it as the soy contracts — and bench-height draughts arrive at exactly that height.
Are tall jars worse for glass adhesion than short ones?
The pattern tends to be more pronounced the longer the wax column, because a tall jar has a bigger middle region that is neither fed from above nor cooled with the bench below. It is not a published property of any vessel, so test it rather than assume it: pour the same wax from one pot into a tall jar and a short one on the same afternoon, band-map both, and compare. Tall jars also tend to be the expensive ones, which is why the arithmetic of a reject matters more there.
Will a second pour or top-up fix a mid-height band?
It will mostly help the top band, because that is where fresh molten wax lands and re-wets the glass. It is unlikely to do much for the middle, which is already enclosed by set wax by then. Test it the honest way: half the batch single-poured and half topped up, same pot, same day, then compare band totals rather than overall impressions. Record the top-up temperature as well — it is a second pour and it has its own number.
Should I put something under my jars while they cool?
It is one of the first free things to try, especially on a granite, tile or steel bench. A wooden board or a folded cloth slows how fast the base loses heat downward, which can change how bands 1 and 2 relate to each other. Prove it rather than adopting it: half the batch on a board, half on the bare bench, one pot, one day, then band-map both halves. Take the bench surface temperature with a ₹354 pen thermometer first — if it reads close to the air temperature, this is probably not your lever.
How do I measure the three bands on my jar?
Measure the filled height of the wax, divide by three, and stick a strip of masking tape with two marks up the outside of one jar — then use that same strip on every candle. On an Apothecary jar standing a stated 10.8 cm without its lid, three bands are 3.6 cm each. Mark four faces on the base too, and score each band on each face from 0 to 3. That gives twelve cells per candle and six candles give you seventy-two — enough to see a real band pattern.
How much does the three-jar confirmation pour cost?
₹1,769.05 of materials, or ₹589.68 per test candle at a 500 g fill and an 8% load: 1,380 g of CSI 464 at ₹700.21, 120 g of Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil at ₹360, three Apothecary jars at ₹637.20, six Thick (C2) wicks at ₹56.64 and six stickers at ₹15. The cart is ₹2,163.40 with usable leftovers. Band-mapping candles you already own costs ₹0 — do that first, and only pour once you know which single variable you are testing.
Measure up the wall first
Three bands, four faces, twelve cells per candle — and a mid-height band becomes a heat path you can change for nothing.
Apothecary Glass Candle Jars with Dome Lid at ₹212.40 and ₹250, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260 for 500 g with a stated 80–90°C pour, Premium Coconut Soy Wax at ₹920/kg, Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil 100 gm at ₹300, Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each and a Pen Thermometer at ₹354. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the three-band model, the tape-ruler map and the three-jar confirmation pour apply to any supplier's wax and any tall clear vessel.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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid – for Artisan Candle Makers — 500 gm ₹212.40, 700 gm ₹250; stated "Fill capacity: ~500 g - 700 g (2 sizes)", "Height (with lid): Approx. 13.2 cm Height (without lid): Approx. 10.8 cm Diameter (outer rim): Approx. 10 cm Base diameter: Approx. 10 cm", "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C", described as a thick-walled vintage apothecary-inspired vessel; the page gives the same dimensions for both size variants. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074; stated "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", "Melting Point 80°C – 90°C", "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C", "excellent glass adhesion", "reduced frosting compared to conventional soy waxes", "Low frosting, minimal blooming". Premium Coconut Soy Wax — 500g ₹460, 1 kg ₹920; the page states only "Suitable for a wide range of container types and candle applications" and calls itself Virgin Coconut Soy Wax in the body; no load, melt point, add or pour temperature, appearance or adhesion. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 10 kg ₹6,370, the only other CSI wax page mentioning glass adhesion. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599. Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil — 15 gm ₹81.42, 50 gm ₹170, 100 gm ₹300 (₹3.00/g), 500 gm ₹1,420, 1 kg ₹2,832. Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) — 20 wicks ₹188.80 (₹9.44 each); the Thick (C2) 10-wick variant is currently sold out. Candle Wick Stickers 1 sheet of 40 ₹100 (₹2.50 each). Pen Thermometer ₹354. Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram ₹31.86 per jar and Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) ₹94.40 per jar, quoted in the value-at-risk table. Planning assumptions, labelled: fragrance load is calculated as a share of the finished candle, so a 500 g candle at 8% is 460 g of wax and 40 g of oil, a 700 g candle 644 g and 56 g, a 150 g jar 138 g and 12 g, and a 70 g votive 64.4 g and 5.6 g (the CSI wax pages that state a load phrase it as a percentage of total wax weight; both conventions exist and this page states which it uses). Wax cost per candle = 1 kg price ÷ 1,000 × wax grams: CSI 464 ₹0.5074/g, Luxury Soy Chunks ₹0.599/g, Premium Coconut Soy ₹0.92/g. Test consumption: 1,380 g wax at ₹700.21, 120 g oil at ₹360, 3 jars at ₹637.20, 6 wicks at ₹56.64, 6 stickers at ₹15, total ₹1,769.05, or ₹589.68 per test candle; cart ₹767.40 + ₹470 + ₹637.20 + ₹188.80 + ₹100 = ₹2,163.40. Two wicks per 500 g apothecary jar is a planning starting point to be settled by the maker's own burn test, not a stated specification. Where a wax and a jar each publish a temperature limit, the lower governs: CSI 464's stated 80–90°C pour against the Apothecary jar's stated 85°C hot-pour limit gives a working ceiling of 85°C. Band heights are derived from the jar page's stated 10.8 cm height without lid, divided into three equal 3.6 cm bands, and the guide instructs readers to divide the filled wax height rather than the jar height. No contraction rate, coefficient, adhesion score or threshold temperature is published by CSI and none is stated here. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.