My Three-Wick Candle Creates Too Much Heat in the Centre Even Though Each Individual Wick Is Small — Are the Wicks Positioned Too Close Together?

My Three-Wick Candle Creates Too Much Heat in the Centre Even Though Each Individual Wick Is Small — Are the Wicks Positioned Too Close Together?

 

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Three wicks · hot centre
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"Will buy more.. wonderful"
Punam SarmaVerified buyer · Dec 2024
Cinnamon Vanilla
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"Quality of the wick is good for jar candles, team can work on the pricing and delivery timelines."
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"Good quality .... if possible delivery date would be try little bit quick please"
Subhankar RoyVerified buyer · Sep 2024
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"This stirring stick is quite helpful In mixing the colours and stirring the wax …I definitely recommend this product…"
Lalitha JaganAug 2024
Bamboo Stirring Sticks for Mixing Wax
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"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
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CSI Wick Lab · Three-Wick Candles
Three small wicks in a tight triangle heat one patch of wax from three sides. Measure where your wicks really are, then burn the same wicks at three triangle sizes before you change anything else.
44.60 mm
between wicks at ρ = 0.5r in a jar 10.3 cm inside; 35.68 at 0.4r, 53.52 at 0.6r · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
My three-wick candle overheats in the centre even though each wick is small. Are they too close together? Quite possibly, and you can measure it. In a triangle, the distance between wicks is ρ√3, where ρ is how far each wick sits from the jar's centre. Wicks placed by eye often end up bunched towards the middle, so three small flames share one hot patch.

How do I prove it is spacing and not wick size? Keep the same three wicks and move only the triangle: two candles each at three circumradii (we use 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 of the inside radius). If the centre calms as the triangle widens, spacing was the cause.

Doesn't widening the triangle leave wax at the walls? Barely. In a jar 10.3 cm inside, going from 0.5r to 0.6r moves the farthest wall point out by only 0.30 mm, while wick-to-wick distance grows from 44.60 to 53.52 mm. The real cost is the glass: each wick moves 20% closer to it.

What does it cost? Six 600 g candles on 3 × C1: ₹3,225.05 in materials, jars not included. If no rung calms the centre, the wicks or the load are the problem, and CSI lists no smaller sized, tabbed wick than C1.
The short answer
The geometry: circumradius ρ; wick to wick ρ√3; wick to wall r − ρ; farthest wall √(r² + ρ² − rρ). At 10.3 cm inside: ρ = 25.75 mm gives 44.60 mm between wicks and 25.75 mm to the wall.
The test: a ρ ladder, same three wicks at 20.60, 25.75 and 30.90 mm, two candles each, judged on centre depth against depth beside a wick, flame lean and flame height.
The rule: choose the smallest circumradius that calms the centre; if none does, it is size, count or load, not spacing.
The honest limits: no CSI holder sets a triangle, CSI lists no smaller tabbed wick than C1, and CSI publishes no wick-performance data.
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In this guide
Same three wicks, three triangle sizes Jar measured 11 cm outside, 10.3 cm inside on an assumed 0.35 cm wall · top views to scale, 1.45 px per mm · ρ = distance from the jar centre to each wick · geometry only: which rung keeps the centre calm is what the burn test finds out Rung 1 · ρ = 0.4r = 20.60 mm wick to wick 35.68 · to wall 30.90 mm Rung 2 · ρ = 0.5r = 25.75 mm wick to wick 44.60 · to wall 25.75 mm Rung 3 · ρ = 0.6r = 30.90 mm wick to wick 53.52 · to wall 20.60 mm Distance (mm) against circumradius ρ (mm), 10.3 cm inside 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 15 20 25 30 35 40 circumradius ρ, mm wick to wick wick to wall farthest wall rung 1 rung 2 rung 3
Top: the same three wicks on circles of 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 times the inside radius, drawn to scale; the shaded triangle is the area the three flames enclose. Bottom: as ρ grows, wick-to-wick distance climbs steeply and wick-to-wall distance falls, while the farthest wall point barely moves. Spacing is a powerful lever on centre heat and a weak one on reach; its price is glass proximity.
Eighteen identical wicks · C1 20 ₹118.00
Eco Candle Wicks C1: hold the wick constant, move the triangle
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Bamboo Stirring Sticks: read centre depth against depth beside a wick
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Straight answer
My three-wick candle creates too much heat in the centre even though each individual wick is small. Are the wicks positioned too close together?
They may be, and the geometry tells you what to measure. Three wicks at the corners of an equilateral triangle sit ρ from the jar's centre and ρ√3 from each other. Small wicks placed close together heat the same patch of wax from three sides, and the flames can lean in and share one plume of hot air. Measure your poured candle first: the mean of the three wick-to-wick distances divided by √3 gives your actual ρ. Then run a ρ ladder: the same three wicks, oil, load, wax and jar, at three circumradii (in a jar 10.3 cm inside: 20.60, 25.75 and 30.90 mm), two candles each. Log centre depth against depth beside a wick, flame lean, flame height and how close each flame sits to the glass. If the centre calms as ρ grows, spacing was the cause: choose the smallest circumradius that calms it, because every extra millimetre outwards puts a flame a millimetre closer to the glass. If the centre stays hot on every rung, the cause is wick size, count or load, and the next test is two wicks or a lower load, not a wider triangle.
One line: measure your ρ, then burn the same three wicks at three triangle sizes; if widening calms the centre, it was spacing.
The ladder needs one wick pack: eighteen C1 from a single 20-pack (₹118.00), so every rung burns wicks from the same batch. Add a sheet of stickers (₹100.00) and a few bamboo sticks for depth readings.
Eco C1 20 — ₹118.00

Why three small flames can overheat the middle

Small wicks, close together, are one big flame with three wicks.

Each flame melts the wax around it and warms the air above it. When three flames sit close together, the wax between them gets heat from all three, and the rising air from each joins its neighbours'. The patch in the middle of the triangle is the one place in the jar that every flame heats. That is why a candle can have three individually modest wicks and still run deep and hot in the centre: the wicks are small, but the heat they share isn't. These are tendencies of how flames and pools behave, not measured CSI data.

The signs are visible without touching anything. Use the table below as a checklist on the candle you have; if you tick two or more, spacing is a fair suspect.

Signs of a crowded triangle
Observe on burns 2–3 in still air, wicks trimmed to about 5–6 mm · depth and flame figures are commonly cited rules of thumb
Sign What you see What it suggests
The centre liquefies first and runs deepest Centre depth more than about 1 cm while the edge is still thin or solid (rule of thumb 0.5–1 cm) Heat concentrated between the wicks
Flames lean inwards or tips merge Flames tilt towards the centre or join at the top Flames close enough to share one plume of hot air
Inner sides of the wicks mushroom more Carbon builds on the side facing the other wicks Consistent with hot, crowded flames (tendency)
Soot tails from the middle A smoky wisp rising from above the triangle Too much fire in too small an area
Tall flames despite small wicks Trimmed flame above the 2.5–5 cm practical range Wicks feeding off a deep, hot pool
Mistake: stepping all three wicks down because "they're too hot". Why it fails: if the cause is spacing, smaller wicks still crowd the centre, and now they may not reach the walls either. On C1 there is also nowhere smaller to go in CSI's sized range. Fix: test spacing first with the wicks you have; change size only if no spacing works.

Triangle geometry: the three distances that matter

One number places all three wicks. Three distances follow from it.

For three wicks at the corners of an equilateral triangle centred in a round jar of inside radius r, everything follows from the circumradius ρ, the distance from the centre to each wick. Wick to wick is ρ√3. Wick to wall, straight out from each wick, is r − ρ. The farthest wall point, midway between two wicks, is √(r² + ρ² − rρ) from each. The worked example is a jar measured 11 cm outside, 10.3 cm inside on an assumed 0.35 cm wall, so r = 51.50 mm and the pool is 83.32 cm² (27.77 cm² per wick). Measure your own jar's inside at two or three heights before using any figure here.

The ladder in numbers · 10.3 cm inside
Geometry at three circumradii, declared in the calculations · not a burn prediction
Rung 1 · 0.4r Rung 2 · 0.5r Rung 3 · 0.6r
Circumradius ρ 20.60 mm 25.75 mm 30.90 mm
Wick to wick, ρ√3 35.68 mm 44.60 mm 53.52 mm
Wick to wall, r − ρ 30.90 mm 25.75 mm 20.60 mm
Farthest wall, √(r² + ρ² − rρ) 44.90 mm 44.60 mm 44.90 mm
Area inside the wick triangle 5.51 cm² 8.61 cm² 12.40 cm²
What it tests Tighter than the start: does the centre get worse? The starting layout (4271) Wider: does the centre calm, and how close is the glass?

The table holds the reason this test works. From rung 1 to rung 3, wick-to-wick distance grows 50%, from 35.68 to 53.52 mm, and the area the flames enclose more than doubles. Yet the farthest wall point is the same 44.90 mm at rungs 1 and 3 and only 0.30 mm closer at rung 2. Reach to the wall is almost insensitive to ρ in this range; separation between flames is very sensitive. So widening the triangle is a strong lever on centre heat that costs very little in edge reach. What it does cost is wall clearance: 25.75 mm at rung 2 becomes 20.60 mm at rung 3, 20% closer to the glass.

One more geometric marker, labelled as geometry rather than advice: at ρ = 2r/(2 + √3), about 0.54r or 27.60 mm here, half the gap between neighbouring wicks (47.80 ÷ 2) equals the gap from each wick to the wall (23.90 mm). That is the layout in which each flame has as far to melt towards its neighbour as towards the glass. It sits between rungs 2 and 3, which is why the ladder brackets it rather than starting there. The 0.5r start is carried over from the 11 cm coverage post, where it gives the shortest reach to the farthest wall.

The same rungs in other jars
At ρ = r/2, a jar measured 12 cm outside (56.50 mm inside radius) puts the wicks 48.93 mm apart and 28.25 mm from the wall; a jar measured 10 cm outside puts them 40.27 mm apart and 23.25 mm from the wall. Scale the ladder to your own r: 0.4r, 0.5r and 0.6r.

Measure the triangle you already poured

Before you pour anything, find out where your wicks actually are.

On the candle that runs hot, measure the three wick-to-wick distances at the wax surface with a steel ruler, centre of wick to centre of wick. Average them and divide by √3 (about 1.73): that is your circumradius. Then compare it with r. A worked example: three distances of 31, 33 and 32 mm average 32.0 mm, which gives ρ = 18.5 mm, or 0.36r in a 10.3 cm jar. That is tighter than rung 1, and a likely reason for a hot centre on its own.

Also check the triangle's shape. If one distance is several millimetres shorter than the other two, two wicks are crowding each other and the hot patch will sit off-centre between them, not in the middle. That is a placement problem, and how to place three wicks evenly from a paper template is the 12 cm placement post. If the three distances are equal but small, the layout is even and simply tight, which is what the ladder tests.

Mistake: measuring the wick tabs in the empty jar and assuming the wicks stayed there. Why it misleads: wicks lean while the wax sets and can drift a few millimetres; the flame burns where the wick stands at the surface, not where the tab sits. Fix: measure at the wax surface after the pour, and re-measure on the ladder candles before you light them.

The ρ ladder: same wicks, three circumradii

Six candles, one variable. Everything else stays exactly as it was.

The worked example: Cinnamon Vanilla at 8% in Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464, a 600 g fill (48 g oil, 552 g wax) in your own jars, 3 × C1 in every candle. Cinnamon Vanilla is a demanding oil for a heat test: its page states "Vanillin content 2.5%", and vanilla-rich oils are commonly linked to more carbon on the wick. If your hot-centre candle uses another oil, use yours: the point is to hold it constant.

1
Mark three trianglesOn card discs cut to the inside diameter, draw circles of 20.60, 25.75 and 30.90 mm and mark three points 120° apart on each. Two discs per rung.
2
Fix and holdStick each tab on its mark with a wick sticker, lift the disc out, and hold the wick tops upright with a pierced card or a centering device per wick. Pour all six from one melt at the low end of CSI 464's stated 80–90°C pour range unless your jar maker states otherwise.
3
Re-measure after settingWick-to-wick at the surface, all three, every candle. A candle whose mean ρ is more than about 2 mm off its rung is re-poured (our judgement); a ladder with overlapping rungs can't answer anything.
4
Cure togetherAbout a week for all six, side by side. The oil page states no cure time in the text we captured; a week is common practice for soy.
5
Burn in 4-hour sessionsWicks trimmed to about 5–6 mm, still air, within sight, candles well apart. At 2 h and at extinguishing log: centre depth and depth beside one wick (marked bamboo stick, right after extinguishing), flame lean, trimmed flame height, mushrooming, soot, how close each flame sits to the glass, and whether the pool reaches the glass. Four hours is about 4.1 h by the rough hour-per-2.5 cm rule.
6
Read burns 2 and 3, carry the choice onAverage the two candles per rung and apply the table below. Then burn the chosen rung's two candles to about 1 cm left: heat builds lower in the jar, and a rung that passes the top must also pass the bottom.

The headline reading is the depth ratio: centre depth divided by depth beside a wick on the wall side. A crowded triangle runs well above 1, deep in the middle and shallow outside; a calm one runs close to 1. It needs no thermometer and no contact with the glass. If you own a non-contact thermometer you may log the glass at a fixed height as an extra observation, but CSI lists none and this post sets no temperature limit. Never judge glass by touch.

Mistake: putting rung 3 in a different jar batch because the first batch ran out. Why it fails: glass thickness and inside diameter vary between batches, and the wide rung is the one closest to the glass. Fix: six jars from one batch, measured inside before pouring.

Reading the ladder: spacing, size or count

The ladder answers three questions at once: whether spacing matters, how much, and when it stops helping.
Reading the ρ ladder · burns 2 and 3
Average of two candles per rung · depth ratio = centre depth ÷ depth beside a wick · flame figures are commonly cited rules of thumb · our judgement, labelled
What you see What it means Decision Purchase
Centre depth falls and flames calm as ρ widens; reach to the glass holds Spacing was the cause Choose the smallest ρ that clears the centre, keeping the wicks as far from the glass as possible; carry it to full life C1 50 or 100 after full life
The centre stays hot on every rung Spacing is not the cause; three C1 bring more fire than this candle needs Test two wicks (the coverage post) or a lower load within range; don't widen further Nothing yet
Rung 3 calms the centre but flames sit close to the glass or the glass looks hot The wide triangle trades centre heat for glass heat Reject rung 3; try a rung between 2 and 3, or fewer wicks Nothing yet
Rung 1 is clearly worse than rung 2 Confirms the mechanism: tighter = hotter Read rungs 2 and 3 for the choice Nothing
No difference between any rung Something else dominates: load, oil, draught, session length Check the room and session length first; then load Ask on WhatsApp

A pattern worth expecting (our judgement, not CSI data) is the first row with a twist: rung 2 calms the centre noticeably compared with rung 1, and rung 3 calms it a little more but brings the flames closer to the glass. In that case rung 2, or a measured rung between 2 and 3, is the answer, and the reason to stop short of rung 3 is the glass, not the pool. If you find rung 3 is the only one that works, run its full life with extra care in the final third and stop at about 1 cm; why heat climbs late in multi-wick candles is the life-cycle post, and for jar heat in the final burn, see the hot-jar post.

The second row matters for honesty. If the centre stays hot at every rung, three C1 simply put more fire in this jar than it needs, and CSI's range has no smaller sized, tabbed step to offer. The options are two wicks instead of three (the two-or-three scorecard), a lower load within the oil's range, or shorter sessions on the label. Whether all three wicks should be the same size is the identical-or-mixed post; two-wick spacing is a different geometry, covered in the two-wick spacing post.

Argued against our own interest: if your measured ρ is already near 0.5r and the centre still runs hot, skip the ladder. Spacing is unlikely to be the cause, and six candles of Cinnamon Vanilla would be money spent confirming it. Go straight to a two-wick candle or a lower load.

Six candles in grams and rupees

Six 600 g candles at 8% Cinnamon Vanilla in CSI 464, 3 × C1 each, two per rung. Your jars are not costed.

Bill of materials · six-candle ρ ladder · worked example
Cinnamon Vanilla 3 × 100 g · CSI 464 4 × 1 kg · Eco C1 20 · stickers 40 · bamboo sticks 5 · CSI live pricing, 29 September 2026
Item Size bought Used Cost of what is used
Cinnamon Vanilla 3 × 100 g, ₹483.80 each (₹4.84/g) 288 g (six × 48 g; 12 g left) ₹1,393.34
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 4 × 1 kg, ₹507.40 each 3,312 g (688 g left) ₹1,680.51
Eco Candle Wicks, Thin (C1) 20 wicks, ₹118.00 (10-pack out of stock) 18 wicks (2 spare) ₹106.20
Candle Wick Stickers 40, ₹100.00 18 (22 spare) ₹45.00
Bamboo Stirring Sticks 5, ₹118.00 3 marked as depth probes reusable
Your own jars not a CSI listing at this size 6 jars, one batch not costed
Ladder, materials consumed 6 candles of 600 g ₹3,225.05

Per candle, excluding the jar: ₹537.51 (₹232.22 oil, ₹280.08 wax, ₹17.70 wicks, ₹7.50 stickers). Every rung costs the same, which is the point of the design: you are buying information about spacing, not comparing products. From nothing, the cash outlay is ₹3,817.00. Costs are worked examples and exclude labour, freight, packaging, jars and GST. The oil margin is 12 g; weigh carefully, or buy the 500 g if Cinnamon Vanilla is already your production oil (212 g left). A kilogram fills 20 candles of 600 g at 8%.

Kit for the spacing ladder

Five items, chosen on page statements, price and stock on 29 September 2026. CSI publishes no wick-performance data, so nothing is ranked on burn results. Oil candles are counted at 48 g (600 g at 8%) and 12 g (the standard 150 g candle at 8%).

1
wick · the same three on every rung
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1), 20-pack
The ladder holds the wicks constant and moves only the triangle, so all eighteen are C1 from one pack (a second pack, or a different batch, is a second variable). The page describes "natural fibers like cotton and paper" and states no length, width or jar range in the text we captured. If your hot-centre candle is already on C1, note the honest limit: CSI lists no smaller sized, tabbed wick than C1, so if no rung calms the centre, the next move is fewer wicks or less load, not a smaller wick from us. Stock on 29 September 2026: the C1 10-pack is out of stock; the 20-pack and larger are in.
Pack Price Per unit What it covers here
Thin (C1) / 10 ₹59.00 — Out of stock ₹5.90 Out of stock on 29 September 2026
Thin (C1) / 20 ₹118.00 ₹5.90 the whole ladder (18 wicks), 2 spare
Thin (C1) / 50 · 100 ₹295.00 · ₹590.00 ₹5.90 production, after the chosen rung passes full life
Thick (C2) / 10 ₹94.40 ₹9.44 not for this ladder: changing size is a different test
Three C1 a candle: ₹17.70. Buy C1 20 — ₹118.00
2
accessory · holding three wick tops upright
Wick Centering Device (Pack of 5)
Each device is a wooden bar with one hole; the page gives "Length 4.4" (11,4 cm)", "Hole Dia 0,15" (4mm)" and says it suits openings "less than 4"". In a triangle you lay one across the rim per wick, on a chord whose hole sits over that wick; whether it rests where you need it depends on where the hole is along the bar (the page doesn't say) and on your rim, so check on arrival. One pack holds one candle's three wicks with two spare. Argued against our own interest: for a six-candle ladder poured together, a card template pierced at three points per candle does the same job for nothing; buy the devices if you prefer something rigid and reusable.
Pack Price Per unit What it covers here
Pack of 5 ₹118.00 ₹23.60 one candle's three wick tops held while the wax sets (two spare)
One device: ₹23.60. Buy 5 — ₹118.00
3
fragrance oil · vanilla-rich gourmand · a demanding oil for a hot-centre test
Cinnamon Vanilla
The page states "Vanillin content 2.5%" and "Up to 13% load for candles"; notes: "cinnamon and clove top notes, vanilla bean and sugar middle notes, and cream and butter base". Vanilla-rich oils are commonly linked to more carbon on the wick and can colour light wax over time, tendencies worth logging in a heat test. Two ceilings: in CSI 464 the wax's "up to 10%" governs, not the oil's 13% (and 13% read on wax weight would be 11.50% of total weight); 8% sits inside both. Argued against our own interest: for the ladder (288 g) three 100 g bottles (₹1,451.40) cost ₹849.60 less cash than the 500 g, though the 500 g is cheaper per gram (₹4.60 against ₹4.84).
Size Price Per gram 600 g candles at 8% (48 g) 150 g candles at 8%
15 g ₹106.20 ₹7.08 none (under 48 g) 1
50 g ₹271.40 ₹5.43 1 4
100 g ₹483.80 ₹4.84 2 8
500 g ₹2,301.00 ₹4.60 10 41
1 kg ₹4,554.80 ₹4.55 20 83
The ladder: 288 g = ₹1,393.34 at the 100 g price. Buy 100 g — ₹483.80
4
tool · the centre-depth reading
Bamboo Stirring Sticks for Mixing Wax
The ladder's main reading is how deep the pool runs at the centre compared with beside a wick. A clean bamboo stick, marked every 5 mm with a fine pen, dipped straight down for a second right after you extinguish, shows the depth as the wet line. The page describes it as for "blending fragrances & dyes in melted wax" and states no length in the text we captured; use one stick per rung so readings don't blur. Limitation: it reads depth, not temperature; CSI lists no non-contact thermometer, and nothing here is a glass-temperature limit.
Pack Price Per unit What it covers here
Pack of 5 ₹118.00 ₹23.60 depth probes: mark one per rung, keep two spare
Pack of 50 ₹1,062.00 ₹21.24 stirring for production
Pack of 100 ₹1,888.00 ₹18.88 stirring for production
Five sticks: three probes and two spare. Buy 5 — ₹118.00
5
wax · the soy the ladder uses
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
The page states "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" and "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C". Your jar is not a CSI listing at this size, so no CSI page gives it a heat figure: follow your jar maker, pre-warm clean jars and pour at the low end of the range (our judgement). Flat per gram from 1 kg, so four 1 kg bags (₹2,029.60) cover the ladder.
Pack Price Per unit What it covers here
1 kg ₹507.40 ₹0.51 per g four bags cover the ladder (3,312 g), 688 g left
5 kg · 10 kg ₹2,537.00 · ₹5,074.00 ₹0.51 per g the same per gram; production
The ladder: 3,312 g = ₹1,680.51. Buy 1 kg — ₹507.40
Skip: the Steel Wick Holder. Its page says the "3-hole layout fits single, double, or triple wick setups" and fits "up to 9 cm wide", but its holes sit in a line, so it cannot hold a triangle, and it is shorter than a 10.3 cm opening. Eco C2 for this test: changing size is a different experiment. A new jar: the triangle, not the glass, is under test.
Diwali is 8 November 2026, 40 days from 29 September 2026. Six candles poured this week, cured about a week and burned to burn 3 give you the spacing answer by mid-October, with the chosen rung's full life to follow. Send us your candle count for a quote on Cinnamon Vanilla, CSI 464 and Eco C1 with a GST invoice and a dispatch date.
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The CSI principle
Move the triangle before you shrink the wicks.
Spacing changes centre heat a lot and edge reach very little. Measure your ρ, burn the same wicks at three circumradii, and keep the smallest one that calms the centre, because every millimetre outwards is a millimetre closer to the glass.
"Three small flames in a tight triangle are one hot centre. Give them room, but no more room than the glass can afford."
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide

CandleMakingSuppliesIndia sells the wicks, centering devices, oil, sticks and wax named here, and does not sell finished candles. This page still tells you that a card template does the centering devices' job for free, that three 100 g bottles beat our 500 g for the test, that we list no smaller tabbed wick than C1, and to skip the ladder entirely if your triangle is already at 0.5r.

Every price was verified on CSI's live store on 29 September 2026. Stock was checked per size: the Eco C1 10-pack is out of stock on that date and is flagged where it appears; every other size shown is in stock. Oil, wick, wax, holder and stick wording is quoted from the product pages; where a page is silent in the text we captured, we say so.

The triangle geometry is exact for the stated assumptions; the 0.35 cm wall, the 600 g fill, the three rungs, the 2 mm re-pour tolerance, the depth ratio and the decision lines are our judgement or worked examples. Melt-pool depth, flame height and the hour-per-2.5 cm rule are commonly cited rules of thumb, not CSI data; CSI publishes no wick-performance data. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, and MSDS and IFRA documentation on request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

How far apart should three wicks be in a candle?
It depends on the jar. Wick-to-wick distance is ρ√3, where ρ is the distance from the jar centre to each wick. Half the inside radius is a common starting point for testing: in a jar 10.3 cm inside that puts the wicks about 44.6 mm apart and 25.75 mm from the wall. Then test wider and tighter.
Why is the middle of my multi-wick candle so deep?
The centre is the one patch every flame heats. If the wicks are close together, their heat and rising air concentrate there. Measure the wick-to-wick distances; if they are small for the jar, test the same wicks further apart before changing size.
Will moving three wicks further apart leave wax on the sides?
Less than you might expect. Within a sensible range, the distance from the wicks to the farthest wall point hardly changes as the triangle widens, but each wick gets closer to the glass. Watch flame-to-glass distance, by eye, never by touch.
How do I measure the spacing of wicks in a poured candle?
Measure the three wick-to-wick distances at the wax surface, centre to centre, average them and divide by 1.73. That gives the circumradius, which you can compare with the jar's inside radius.
Should I use smaller wicks if my three-wick candle runs hot?
Only after testing spacing. If the same wicks calm down further apart, size wasn't the problem. If no spacing helps, try two wicks or a lower load; CSI lists no smaller sized, tabbed wick than its C1.
Is there a holder that sets three wicks in a triangle?
CSI doesn't list one. The Steel Wick Holder has three holes in a line and fits jars up to 9 cm. A card disc marked at 120°, wick stickers, and a pierced card or one centering device per wick hold a triangle for testing.
Before you change the wicks
Measure your triangle, then burn it at three sizes.
Same three wicks at 20.60, 25.75 and 30.90 mm from the centre in a 10.3 cm jar, two candles each: ₹3,225.05 in materials in the worked example. Send us your measured distances and centre depth first; if your ρ is already near 0.5r, we'll tell you to skip it.
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Continue the read — 10–12 cm jars and multi-wick problems
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: part of CSI's cluster on 10–12 cm jars and multi-wick problems (4261–4280). It answers one question, whether a three-wick candle with a hot centre has its wicks too close together, with the triangle geometry (circumradius, wick to wick, wick to wall, farthest wall), a way to measure a poured candle's triangle, a costed six-candle circumradius ladder and a decision table separating spacing from size, count and load.

Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on the product pages named on each card — Bamboo Stirring Sticks for Mixing Wax, Cinnamon Vanilla, Eco Candle Wicks, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles. They are general product reviews, not assessments of the wick advice on this page. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" appears only on reviews Judge.me recorded as verified — Sneha Tamang, Punam Sarma, Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy, Jaya Sawlani. The reviews from Lalitha Jagan are published but not recorded as verified, and carry no badge. Reviews below five stars are included as published, not filtered out.

Figures verified 29 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Cinnamon Vanilla 15 g ₹106.20 (₹7.08/g), 50 g ₹271.40 (₹5.43/g), 100 g ₹483.80 (₹4.84/g), 500 g ₹2,301.00 (₹4.60/g), 1 kg ₹4,554.80 (₹4.55/g); Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59.00 (out of stock), 20 ₹118.00, 50 ₹295.00, 100 ₹590.00; Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40; Wick Centering Device (Pack of 5) ₹118.00; Bamboo Stirring Sticks 5 ₹118.00, 50 ₹1,062.00, 100 ₹1,888.00; Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹100.00; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537.00, 10 kg ₹5,074.00. Every other size listed is in stock on 29 September 2026. Per unit = price ÷ grams or units, two decimals.

Non-price figures: load is a percentage of total candle weight (600 g at 8% = 48 g oil + 552 g wax; the standard 150 g candle at 8% = 12 g). The 0.35 cm wall, the 600 g fill, the 0.4r/0.5r/0.6r rungs and the 31/32/33 mm measuring example are worked-example assumptions; distances are ρ√3, r − ρ and √(r² + ρ² − rρ), and triangle area is (3√3/4)ρ². Ceilings are as the pages state (Cinnamon Vanilla "Up to 13% load for candles", basis not stated; CSI 464 up to 10%, which governs; pour 80–90°C): formulation limits, not regulatory ones. The depth ratio, decision lines and re-pour tolerance are editorial judgement; melt-pool depth (0.5–1 cm), flame height (about 2.5–5 cm) and the hour-per-2.5 cm rule are commonly cited rules of thumb. Costs exclude labour, freight, packaging, jars and GST. Diwali 8 November 2026 is a calendar fact.
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