One Wick Size Is Used in 80% of My Candles — Should I Hold Substantially More Stock of That Wick Than My Specialty Sizes?
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The wick is three per cent of your candle and four fifths of your output. Stock it like the second number, not the first.
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"Good quality wax"
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"Quality is good with good fragrance"
Avanthi CheeliVerified buyer · Nov 2025
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Yes, substantially — and it costs almost nothing, because the pack rate on Eco Candle Wicks is flat at every listed size. On the 350-candle month below, the dominant wick is 3.1% of a candle's material cost and gates 14 of the 17.5 candles poured each working day.
80% / 3.1%
share of monthly output gated by the Thin (C1) wick against its share of a ₹192.43 candle's material cost · a 3.6-month cupboard of it is ₹5,900 at a flat ₹5.90 a piece · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Should the 80% wick carry much more stock? Yes. Measured in production days, a five-working-day outage on it costs 70 candles and ₹41,930 of output; the same outage on the specialty sizes costs 10 candles and 7.5 candles. The consequences are not comparable, so the stock levels should not be either.How much does that depth cost? At ₹5.90 a piece — the listed rate at 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 pieces alike — a single 1,000-piece pack is ₹5,900 and covers 3.6 months. There is no per-piece premium for the big pack and no discount for it either, so depth on this line is a shelf-space decision rather than a money one.
What is the reorder point? At 14 Thin (C1) wicks a working day, a seven-day lead time and the reader's own 18-a-day peak, it is 126 pieces — about ₹743.40 of stock. Fewer than two listed 100-packs.
Do the specialty wicks get thin cover then? Thin in months of risk, but not always in months of stock. Performance Wooden Wicks step down from ₹59 a piece at 10 to ₹41.30 at 100, so the 100-pack is 3.3 months of cover and ₹1,770 cheaper than ten 10-packs. Depth there is bought for the ladder, not the risk.
The short answer
Measure wick criticality in production days, not rupees: 14 of 17.5 candles a day stop without the dominant size. That is four working days in every five, and no amount of wax or jar stock replaces it.
Buy the biggest pack you will consume within a sensible horizon: 1,000 Thin (C1) wicks at ₹5,900 is 3.6 months here, at the same ₹5.90 a piece as a 10-pack. Flat ladder, so no penalty either way.
Give specialty sizes a floor, then check their ladder: Thick (C2) is flat at ₹9.44, so a ₹944 hundred-pack is 2.5 months. Wooden wicks are not flat, and their 100-pack is both deeper cover and a real ₹17.70-a-piece saving.
In this guide
The top bar is the whole case. One wick size, costing ₹5.90, decides whether fourteen of the day's seventeen-and-a-half candles happen — and the deepest cover available on it, a thousand pieces, costs less than three per cent of one month's output value.
The 80% line · flat at ₹5.90
Eco Candle Wicks · 1,000 Thin (C1) ₹5,900
Specialty · steps down 30% at 100
Performance Wooden Wicks · 100 ₹4,130
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Straight answer
Should the wick size used in most of my candles carry much more stock than my specialty sizes?
Yes, and the decision is unusually easy because the cost of being generous is trivial. The reader pours 350 candles a month over 20 working days — 17.5 a day — at a 185 g wax fill with 14.8 g of oil (8% of total wax weight), retailing at ₹599. The split is 280 on Thin (C1), 40 on Thick (C2) and 30 on Performance Wooden Wicks, so the day's production is 14 + 2 + 1.5 candles. Losing C1 for the five working days inside a seven-day lead time costs 70 candles and ₹41,930; losing C2 costs ₹5,990 and losing the wooden wick ₹4,492.50. Meanwhile the C1 wick is ₹5.90 of a ₹192.43 candle — 3.1%. The reorder point is 126 pieces (₹743.40) and a sensible target is the listed 1,000-piece pack at ₹5,900, which is 3.6 months of cover at exactly the same ₹5.90 a piece as a 10-pack. Thick (C2) is also flat, at ₹9.44, so a ₹944 hundred-pack is 2.5 months. Wooden wicks are the exception that proves the rule: they genuinely step down from ₹59 at 10 pieces to ₹41.30 at 100, so their 100-pack is both 3.3 months of cover and a ₹1,770 saving against ten small packs. The entire wick cupboard — 1,000 C1, 100 C2, 100 wooden — is ₹10,974, or 5.2% of one month's output value, against a monthly wick spend of ₹3,268.60. Lead time and the 18-a-day C1 peak are the reader's own figures; CSI publishes no delivery times.
One line: count the candles each wick size switches off per day, then buy the largest pack you will use within a few months — on the Eco lines the per-piece rate never changes, so depth is free.
The whole argument, in one listed ladder: Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wicks are ₹59 for 10, ₹590 for 100, ₹2,950 for 500 and ₹5,900 for 1,000 — ₹5.90 a piece at every single rung. Buying 3.6 months of cover costs the same per wick as buying a fortnight's.
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Counting the damage in production days
Inventory arguments get settled fastest in days of lost pouring. Rupees of stock are abstract; an idle Tuesday is not.
A wick stock-out has an unusual property: it is total for the SKUs it touches and invisible for the rest. You cannot pour a 7 cm jar on half a wick, and you cannot substitute a wooden wick into a recipe you have burn-tested on C1 without re-testing the whole thing. So the right unit is not rupees of inventory but candles not poured, and from there, days.
Production days lost per wick size · 350 candles a month, 20 working days, ₹599 retail
What each outage does to the pouring schedule
| Wick line | Candles a month | Candles a working day | Share of output | Output value a day | Five working days lost | Reorder point (reader's 7-day lead time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | 280 | 14.0 | 80.0% | ₹8,386 | 70 candles · ₹41,930 | 126 pieces |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2) | 40 | 2.0 | 11.4% | ₹1,198 | 10 candles · ₹5,990 | 18 pieces |
| Performance Wooden Wicks | 30 | 1.5 | 8.6% | ₹898.50 | 7.5 candles · ₹4,492.50 | 14 pieces |
| All three | 350 | 17.5 | 100% | ₹10,482.50 | 87.5 candles · ₹52,412.50 | — |
Worked out above: 350 ÷ 20 = 17.5 candles a working day; 280 ÷ 20 = 14 on C1, 40 ÷ 20 = 2 on C2, 30 ÷ 20 = 1.5 on wooden. Output value per day = candles × ₹599. A seven-calendar-day lead time covers five working days, so five days × 14 = 70 C1 candles = ₹41,930. Reorder points: C1 14 × 7 = 98 pieces of lead-time demand plus safety stock of (18 − 14) × 7 = 28 pieces for the reader's own peak day = 126; C2 2 × 7 = 14 plus (2.5 − 2) × 7 ≈ 4 = 18; wooden 1.5 × 7 = 10.5 plus (2 − 1.5) × 7 ≈ 3.5 = 14. The ₹599 retail price, the 18-a-day C1 peak and the seven-day lead time are all the reader's own figures.
Look at the reorder-point column. The trigger for the line that carries four fifths of the business is 126 pieces, which is ₹743.40 of stock — and the triggers for the two specialty lines are 18 and 14 pieces, under ₹750 between them. Every one of those numbers is smaller than a single listed pack. That is the central oddity of wick inventory: the formula produces numbers so small that the pack size, not the policy, ends up setting your actual cover.
Count working days, not calendar days
A seven-day lead time does not cost you seven days of production — it costs you the working days inside it, which here is five. Makers who plan on calendar days consistently over-buffer, and makers who plan on "a week" without checking their own calendar under-buffer whenever a festival or a stock-taking day falls inside the window. Write your working days per month at the top of the sheet — 20 here — and derive everything from that single figure. The full conversion of stock into production days is worked through in turning 20 kg of wax into production days.3.1% of the candle, 80% of the output
Now the cost side, which is what makes this the easiest inventory decision in the business. Here is the material cost of one of the reader's candles, in the Clear Frosted Glass Jar with Eco Soy CSI 400 and Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil, built three ways — once per wick line.
Material cost per candle by wick choice · CSI live pricing, September 2026
The same 185 g candle, three wicks, and what the wick is worth as a share
| Component | Rate used | Thin (C1) build | Thick (C2) build | Wooden build (100-pack rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Soy CSI 400 · 185 g | ₹399/kg (1 kg and 5 kg) | ₹73.82 | ₹73.82 | ₹73.82 |
| Citrus Lemon oil · 14.8 g | ₹2.832/g (1 kg ₹2,832) | ₹41.91 | ₹41.91 | ₹41.91 |
| Clear Frosted Glass Jar · 1 | ₹70.80 each (5s and 10s) | ₹70.80 | ₹70.80 | ₹70.80 |
| Wick · 1 | per the ladder below | ₹5.90 | ₹9.44 | ₹41.30 |
| Material cost | — | ₹192.43 | ₹195.97 | ₹227.83 |
| Wick as a share of it | — | 3.1% | 4.8% | 18.1% |
Three point one per cent. That is what the component gating 80% of production is worth inside the candle. Put the two facts in one sentence and the policy is obvious: the item responsible for four fifths of your output is the cheapest thing in the recipe, costs ₹5.90, does not spoil, does not break and occupies almost no shelf. There is no version of this where thin cover is the clever choice.
Note what the third column also tells you. On the wooden-wick build the wick is 18.1% of material cost even at the best listed rate — which is why that line deserves a different kind of attention. There, holding stock genuinely locks up money, and the reason to buy the 100-pack is the ladder rather than the risk. Two wicks, two completely different arguments, from the same table.
Don't buy a wick's cover in proportion to its cost. The instinct to allocate inventory budget by spend share puts ₹1,652 a month of C1 well below the ₹1,239 a month of wooden wicks in anyone's attention — the two are nearly level on the invoice — while C1 carries 80% of output and wooden carries 8.6%. Allocate by what stops, then check what it costs. The same mis-ranking of consequence against spend is pulled apart in ranking materials by what a stock-out would halt.
Don't assume one wick size covers the jars it "nearly" fits. A deep cupboard of the wrong wick is not cover, it is dead stock with a job title. The Eco Candle Wicks page states no diameter — it describes them as pairing with soy wax, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes — so C1 and C2 have to be matched to your specific vessel by burn test, and the Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made page is explicit that they are "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" with a stated wick height of 10.16 cm. Before you commit to 1,000 pieces of anything, confirm that the size really is the one in 80% of your candles — burn-test it in the actual jar, at the actual load, after the actual cure.
Why the pack ladder decides how deep you go
Your formula says 126 pieces. The shop sells 100 and 500. Something has to give, and it should not be the formula's logic.
Wick reorder points are so small relative to pack sizes that the practical question is not "how many weeks?" but "which pack?". So the per-piece rate at each rung is the whole decision. Here are the three lines, with months of cover at this reader's volumes.
Every listed wick pack, per piece and in months of cover
Where the ladder is flat, and where it genuinely steps down
| Line · monthly use | Pack | Listed price | Per piece | Months of cover | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) · 280/mo | 100 pieces | ₹590 | ₹5.90 | 0.36 | Barely above the 126-piece trigger |
| 280 pieces (as 2 × 100 + 1 × 50 + 1 × 20 + 1 × 10) | ₹1,652 | ₹5.90 | 1.00 | One month, assembled from rungs | |
| 500 pieces | ₹2,950 | ₹5.90 | 1.79 | Sensible minimum order | |
| 1,000 pieces | ₹5,900 | ₹5.90 | 3.57 | The target — same rate, one delivery, one decision | |
| Thick (C2) · 40/mo | 50 pieces | ₹472 | ₹9.44 | 1.25 | Above the 18-piece trigger |
| 100 pieces | ₹944 | ₹9.44 | 2.50 | The target — flat rate, modest cash | |
| 500 pieces | ₹4,720 | ₹9.44 | 12.50 | Over a year of cover for a 11.4% line — too deep | |
| Wooden · 30/mo | 10 pieces | ₹590 | ₹59.00 | 0.33 | Dearest rung by a wide margin |
| 50 pieces | ₹2,360 | ₹47.20 | 1.67 | ₹11.80 a piece cheaper than the 10-pack | |
| 100 pieces | ₹4,130 | ₹41.30 | 3.33 | The target — ₹17.70 a piece cheaper, ₹1,770 saved on 100 |
Two shapes, two conclusions. On the Eco lines the rate never moves — ₹5.90 for C1 and ₹9.44 for C2 at every listed pack from 10 pieces to 1,000 — so the only costs of depth are the cash itself and the cupboard space, and 3.6 months of the 80% wick at ₹5,900 is a straightforward yes. On Performance Wooden Wicks the rate falls hard: ₹59 at 10 pieces, ₹47.20 at 50 and ₹41.30 at 100, which is a 30% reduction and a real ₹1,770 saved on a hundred wicks. That makes the 100-pack correct for a line that only consumes 30 a month — not because the risk demands it, but because the ladder pays for it.
And one line to avoid over-reading: the 500-piece C2 pack at ₹4,720 is twelve and a half months of cover for a wick in 11.4% of your candles. A flat ladder gives you permission to go deep; it does not oblige you to. The ceiling on any line is the point where cover outlives the recipe that needs it.
Check the small packs for sold-out rungs before you plan around them
Pack availability moves independently of price. At the time of writing the Thick (C2) 10-piece pack is sold out, which makes the 20-piece at ₹188.80 the smallest C2 buy available — a detail that matters if you were intending to top up in tens. The same applies in reverse: a rung that is listed today is not a promise about next month. Build your policy on the pack you can see on the product page on the day you order, and keep a second usable size burn-tested so a single rung going quiet never becomes a production stop.The three wick lines, priced per piece
Each card gives every listed pack with its per-piece rate, so you can see the ladder shape before you choose a depth. The dominant line comes first.
1
The 80% line · flat ladder, buy deep
Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1)
280 pieces a month, a 126-piece reorder point and a flat ₹5.90 a piece at 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000. That flatness is the licence to hold 3.6 months in a single ₹5,900 pack without paying a premium or forgoing a discount — there is neither. The page describes these wicks as pairing with soy wax, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes and states no diameter, so the C1-versus-C2 choice for your jar is a burn-test question, not a specification one. Eco Soy CSI 400's own page names Eco Wicks as its recommended wick, which is the only stated pairing available in this part of the range. One CSI customer sums the line up as "Quality wick, works very well".
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks | ₹59 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 20 Wicks | ₹118 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks | ₹295 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 100 Wicks | ₹590 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 500 Wicks | ₹2,950 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 1000 Wicks | ₹5,900 | ₹5.90 |
₹5.90 a piece — 3.1% of a ₹192.43 candle, 80% of the output Buy Eco Candle Wicks
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Specialty · also flat, so give it a floor
Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2)
The same flat shape at a higher rate: ₹9.44 a piece at 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 pieces, with the 10-piece pack currently sold out. At 40 a month the 100-pack is 2.5 months for ₹944, which is the right landing place — deep enough that you are never caught, shallow enough that you are not holding a year of a minority size. Several CSI jar listings name C2 as their pairing, including the 200 ml Salsa jars, which is useful if your larger vessels sit in that family. Note that stepping up from C1 to C2 adds ₹3.54 to the candle and takes the wick from 3.1% to 4.8% of material cost — a change worth re-costing if a size migration is on the cards.
| 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 |
₹944 holds 2.5 months of the 11.4% line Buy Thick (C2) wicks
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Specialty · the one ladder that actually steps
Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported)
The counter-example on this page. The rate falls from ₹59 a piece at 10 to ₹47.20 at 50 and ₹41.30 at 100 — the largest step-down on any wick line in the range, and worth ₹1,770 on a hundred wicks against ten 10-packs. At 30 a month the 100-pack is 3.3 months, so here depth and thrift point the same way for once. The page states that one pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs and the product is imported; no diameter is stated, so match it by burn test like the others. Remember this wick is 18.1% of the candle's material cost at its best rate, so this is the one wick line where holding stock really does lock up money.
| 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 |
₹41.30 a piece at 100 against ₹59 at 10 — a 30% step down Buy Wooden Wicks
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The wide-jar alternative · flat at ₹12
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
Worth knowing about if your 80% wick is a large-diameter one rather than a C1. The page states these are "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" with a wick height of 10.16 cm, and the ladder is flat at ₹12 a piece from 10 pieces to 1,000 — the same shape as the Eco lines, so the same reasoning applies: deep cover costs only cash and shelf. At a 280-a-month consumption this line's 1,000-pack would be ₹12,000 for 3.6 months. Note the page does not describe these as pre-tabbed, so plan your wick-fixing method separately; CSI lists wick stickers at ₹100 for a 40-sticker sheet.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹120 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 50 | ₹600 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 100 | ₹1,200 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 500 | ₹6,000 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 1000 | ₹12,000 | ₹12 |
₹12 a piece at every listed pack to 1,000 Buy Cotton Braided Wicks
The CSI principle
When a component gates most of your output and costs almost nothing, the only defensible stock level is "more than you will plausibly need".
Every other inventory decision in a candle business is a trade between risk and cash. On a flat-priced ₹5.90 wick in four out of five candles, there is no trade — there is only a cupboard that is either stocked or embarrassing.
The whole wick cupboard — 1,000 Thin (C1) at ₹5,900, 100 Thick (C2) at ₹944 and 100 Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹4,130 — is ₹10,974 and covers 3.6, 2.5 and 3.3 months. For recurring monthly wick volumes, bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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The wick cupboard, built once
Twenty minutes, and then roughly a quarter of a year without thinking about wicks. The only inputs are your SKU-to-wick map and your working days.
1
Map every SKU to the wick it has actually been burn-tested onNot the wick you think it uses — the one in the recipe sheet. Total the monthly units per wick size. Here that gives 280 C1, 40 C2 and 30 wooden out of 350, which is the 80 / 11.4 / 8.6 split everything else rests on.
2
Divide by working days and write down pieces a day14, 2 and 1.5 here over 20 working days. This is also the number that tells you how many candles stop per day per size, which is the figure to put in front of anyone arguing for a thinner cupboard.
3
Compute each reorder point from your own lead time and peak dayPieces a day × lead-time days, plus (peak pieces a day − average) × lead-time days. Here 126, 18 and 14 pieces. Expect these to look absurdly small — that is normal for wicks, and it is why the next step exists. The formula and its two halves are set out in lead-time consumption plus safety stock.
4
Read the per-piece rate at every listed pack and find the shapeFlat, or stepped? On Eco Candle Wicks both C1 and C2 are flat, so the only limit on depth is cash and space. On Performance Wooden Wicks the rate drops 30% by the 100-pack, so depth pays for itself. Write the shape next to the line; it is the thing you will forget by next quarter.
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Choose the pack that gives two to four months on the dominant line1,000 C1 pieces, ₹5,900, 3.6 months. Then give each specialty line the smallest pack that clears its trigger by a comfortable margin — 100 C2 at ₹944 for 2.5 months — unless its ladder rewards going further, as the wooden 100-pack does at ₹4,130 for 3.3 months. Total: ₹10,974 against a ₹3,268.60 monthly wick spend.
6
Store them so the cover is realWicks fail as inventory by getting mixed, crushed or damp, not by expiring. Keep each size in a separate labelled box with the recipe code it belongs to, keep the boxes dry and off the floor, and count them on the same day each month. A thousand wicks you cannot tell apart is not 3.6 months of cover; it is a sorting job waiting for your worst week.
What goes wrong with deep wick stock
Depth on the dominant wick is close to a free lunch, but it is not entirely free, and the three ways it sours are all avoidable.
Three failure modes for a deep wick cupboard
What it costs, how you would know, and what to do about it
| Failure | What it costs here | Early warning | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| You change jar or wax and the wick no longer suits | Up to ₹5,900 of C1 stock becomes the wrong size | A jar or wax change proposal with no burn test attached | Burn-test before the switch, and run the old recipe down to the trigger first |
| Sizes get mixed in one box | Sorting time, and wrong-wick candles that fail a burn test weeks later | Any box without a label and a recipe code | One size per labelled box; never decant |
| You buy the 500-piece specialty pack "while it's the same price" | ₹4,720 of C2 — 12.5 months of an 11.4% line | Months-of-cover above about four on a minority size | Let a flat ladder permit depth, not dictate it |
| Cover drifts as sales grow | A 1,000-piece pack that was 3.6 months becomes 2.5 at 400 candles a month | No one has recomputed pieces a day this quarter | Recompute the split and the trigger on a stated cadence |
The last row is the quiet one. Nothing about a cupboard of wicks tells you that your output has risen; the pack just runs out earlier than you remember. At 350 candles a month the 1,000-piece pack is 3.6 months; at 400 it is 3.1; at 500 it is 2.5. If you are growing, recompute pieces a day every month and let the cupboard look over-stocked — it is the cheapest over-stocking available to a candle business, and the alternative is losing ₹8,386 of output on a Tuesday for want of ₹5.90.
Four out of five of your candles depend on a component that costs less than six rupees. Buy the thousand.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials and does not sell finished candles. The honest shape of this page is that the biggest recommendation on it — a 1,000-piece wick pack — is a ₹5,900 order, while the page simultaneously argues against the ₹4,720 specialty pack that would have been easier to sell. A maker who never loses a pouring day to a ₹5.90 component keeps ordering wax, oil and jars; a maker with a year of the wrong wick on a shelf learns to distrust their own purchase sheet.
Every price, pack size and per-piece rate is live CSI stock in September 2026, taken from the linked product pages, where current pricing always takes precedence. Specifications appear only where a page states them: Eco Candle Wicks are described as pairing with soy wax, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes and state no diameter; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made state "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" and a wick height of 10.16 cm; Performance Wooden Wicks state that one pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs and are listed as imported; Eco Soy CSI 400 states a melt point of 100°F (37.8°C), fragrance added at 85°C with a two-minute stir, a fragrance add temperature of 80 to 90 degrees, and Eco Wicks as its recommended wick; the Clear Frosted Glass Jar states a fill weight of 200 ml and dimensions of 8 cm by 7 cm, which is a volume and not a weight. No listing in the CSI range is described as pre-tabbed, and this page does not call any of them so. The 350-candle volume, the 80 / 11.4 / 8.6 wick split, the ₹599 retail price, the 18-a-day C1 peak and the seven-day lead time are the reader's own figures; CSI publishes no delivery times, no minimum order quantity and no stock-availability promise.
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Frequently asked questions
How many wicks should I keep in stock if one size is used in most of my candles?
Set the trigger from the formula and the target from the pack ladder. At 280 pieces a month, a seven-day lead time and an 18-a-day peak, the reorder point is 126 pieces (₹743.40) — and because Thin (C1) is a flat ₹5.90 a piece from 10 to 1,000, the sensible target is the 1,000-piece pack at ₹5,900, which is 3.6 months. Two to four months of cover on the dominant size is a defensible range at this price; beyond that you are storing, not insuring.
Do Eco Candle Wicks get cheaper in larger packs?
No — and that is useful rather than disappointing. Thin (C1) is ₹5.90 a piece at 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000, and Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 at every listed pack (its 10-piece rung is currently sold out). So there is no volume reward to chase and no penalty for buying only what you need. Where you do see a real step is Performance Wooden Wicks: ₹59 a piece at 10, ₹47.20 at 50 and ₹41.30 at 100.
What does one day without my main wick actually cost?
Your daily output on that size, multiplied by your own selling price. Here 14 candles a day at ₹599 is ₹8,386, and the five working days inside a seven-day lead time come to ₹41,930 — more than seven times the cost of the 1,000-piece pack that would have prevented it. Run the same sum on your own numbers before deciding how deep to go; the ₹599 figure is the reader's, not a CSI recommendation.
Should specialty wick sizes get almost no stock then?
They get a floor, not a famine. Each specialty line still needs its reorder point covered — 18 pieces of C2 and 14 wooden wicks here — and then the cheapest pack that clears it comfortably. The nuance is that a stepped ladder can justify going deeper than the risk alone would: the wooden 100-pack is 3.3 months but saves ₹17.70 a piece against the 10-pack, which is ₹1,770 on a hundred. Flat ladders give no such reason, so 2.5 months of C2 at ₹944 is plenty.
Is it safe to standardise more of my range onto the dominant wick?
Only on burn-test evidence. The Eco Candle Wicks page states no diameter, so there is no published chart that says C1 suits a given jar — you have to pour, cure and burn. Standardising genuinely helps inventory: every SKU you move onto the dominant size raises its share of output and lowers the number of lines you have to track. But a candle wicked by convenience rather than by test will tunnel or soot, and that costs far more than a second wick size ever did.
How often should I recompute the wick split?
Whenever the range changes, and on a fixed cadence besides — monthly while growing, quarterly when flat. Two things move the answer: output, which rescales everything (a 1,000-piece pack is 3.6 months at 350 candles and 2.5 at 500), and the SKU-to-wick map, which changes every time you launch, retire or re-wick a product. Put the recount on the same day as your stock count and the numbers stay honest without extra effort.
Stock the wick like the output, not the invoice
₹5,900 buys 3.6 months of the component four fifths of your candles depend on.
Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wicks at ₹5.90 a piece from 10 to 1,000 (1,000 for ₹5,900), Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 a piece (100 for ₹944), Performance Wooden Wicks stepping from ₹59 to ₹41.30 a piece (100 for ₹4,130), and Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made flat at ₹12 a piece to 1,000. Message us for recurring monthly volumes, bulk pricing above the listed packs, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the production-day, reorder-point and months-of-cover arithmetic is standard inventory practice and applies to any supplier.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: Reader's stated inputs — 350 candles a month over 20 working days (17.5 a day), 185 g wax fill at 8% of total wax weight (14.8 g of oil, ≈7.4% of the finished 199.8 g), a wick split of 280 Thin (C1), 40 Thick (C2) and 30 Performance Wooden Wicks (80.0% / 11.4% / 8.6%), retail ₹599 giving ₹2,09,650 of monthly output value and ₹10,482.50 a working day, a peak of 18 C1 wicks a day against an average of 14, and a seven-calendar-day wick lead time covering five working days. CSI publishes no delivery times; these are the reader's own records. Prices used: Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 20 ₹118, 50 ₹295, 100 ₹590, 500 ₹2,950, 1,000 ₹5,900 — ₹5.90 a piece at every rung; Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40 (currently sold out), 20 ₹188.80, 50 ₹472, 100 ₹944, 500 ₹4,720, 1,000 ₹9,440 — ₹9.44 a piece at every rung; Performance Wooden Wicks Pack of 10 ₹590 (₹59 each), Pack of 50 ₹2,360 (₹47.20), Pack of 100 ₹4,130 (₹41.30); Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made Pack of 10 ₹120, 50 ₹600, 100 ₹1,200, 500 ₹6,000, 1,000 ₹12,000 — ₹12 a piece at every rung; Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399 and 5 kg ₹1,996 (₹399/kg and ₹399.20/kg); Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹81.42, 50 gm ₹170, 100 gm ₹300, 500 gm ₹1,420 (₹2.84/g), 1 kg ₹2,832 (₹2.832/g); Clear Frosted Glass Jar Pack of 5 ₹354 and Pack of 10 ₹708 (₹70.80 each); Candle Wick Stickers 1 sheet of 40 ₹100. Derived figures: candles a day per wick line 14, 2 and 1.5; output value a day ₹8,386, ₹1,198 and ₹898.50; five working days lost ₹41,930, ₹5,990 and ₹4,492.50 (₹52,412.50 in total); reorder points C1 98 + 28 = 126 pieces (₹743.40), C2 14 + 4 = 18, wooden 10.5 + 3.5 = 14; material cost per candle ₹192.43 on C1 (wax ₹73.82 + oil ₹41.91 + jar ₹70.80 + wick ₹5.90), ₹195.97 on C2 and ₹227.83 on wooden at its 100-pack rate, giving wick shares of 3.1%, 4.8% and 18.1%; monthly wick spend 280 × ₹5.90 + 40 × ₹9.44 + 30 × ₹41.30 = ₹1,652 + ₹377.60 + ₹1,239 = ₹3,268.60; recommended cupboard 1,000 C1 + 100 C2 + 100 wooden = ₹5,900 + ₹944 + ₹4,130 = ₹10,974, which is 5.2% of one month's output value and covers 3.57, 2.50 and 3.33 months; the wooden 100-pack saves ₹17.70 a piece against ten 10-packs, or ₹1,770 on a hundred. Stated specifications as published on the product pages: Eco Candle Wicks pair with soy wax, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes, with no diameter stated; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm", wick height 10.16 cm; Performance Wooden Wicks "One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs", listed as imported; Eco Soy CSI 400 melt point 100°F (37.8°C), fragrance added at 85°C with a two-minute stir, fragrance add temperature 80 to 90 degrees, recommended wick Eco Wicks; Clear Frosted Glass Jar fill weight of 200 ml, height 8 cm, width 7 cm. No CSI listing is described as pre-tabbed. Largest listed packs: 1,000 pieces on Eco Candle Wicks and Cotton Braided Wicks, 100 on Performance Wooden Wicks. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.