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CSI troubleshooting guides
The hole around the wick is not a wax fault. It is the last wax in the jar to freeze, and it freezes exactly there.
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Candle Troubleshooting Guides · Surface defects
Wax shrinks as it solidifies. The wax around the wick is the last in the jar to solidify, so that is where the shrinkage collects. This page explains the mechanism, separates the cooling dimple from the post-burn well, and gives you the relief-hole and second-pour routine that removes it.
80–90°C
the stated melt-and-pour band on CSI 464 and Eco Soy CSI 400 · a relief hole plus a top-up pour costs about ₹5 of wax against ₹99.73 to re-pour the candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why is there a hole around my candle wick? Because wax contracts as it changes from liquid to solid, and the wax touching the wick is the last part of the jar to make that change. The glass pulls heat out sideways and the wick and its metal tab pull heat out vertically, so the surface skins over first and the still-liquid core drains downward into the gap it leaves behind.
Is it a fault in the wax? Almost never. It is a cooling-technique problem — pour temperature, cooling speed and whether you did a relief hole and a second pour. The same wax poured differently will not do it.
How do I fix a candle that already has one? Reheat the surface with a hot air gun at ₹531, or pour a thin top-up of the same wax at the stated temperature. Both work; the top-up is more reliable on a deep hole.
A hole opened up during burning, not cooling. Different problem. If the pool stays narrow and a well drops around the flame, that is a wicking issue — see the melt pool and tunnelling guides, not this one.
The short answer
The cause: contraction on solidification, concentrated at the wick because the wick and its tab conduct heat and the centre is furthest from the cold glass. The centre stays liquid longest, then shrinks with nowhere to draw wax from.
The prevention: pour inside the stated 80–90°C band, warm the vessel, cool slowly and evenly, poke a relief hole while the centre is soft, and reserve about 10% of your wax for a second pour.
The distinction that matters: a shallow dimple on cooling is normal and fixable. A deep well that opens after the first burn is a hidden void or an over-wicked candle, and it is fixed at the wick, not at the pour.
Heat leaves the jar through the glass on all sides and up the wick and its metal tab in the middle. Both routes cool the wax nearest to them first, which leaves a column of liquid wax in the centre, hemmed in by an already-solid shell. When that column finally freezes it loses volume, and because the shell will not move, the volume comes out of the top surface — around the wick.
Why does a hole form around the candle wick specifically?
Because wax occupies less space as a solid than as a liquid, and the wax at the wick is the last wax in the jar to solidify. Heat leaves a container candle by two routes: sideways through the glass, and vertically along the wick and its metal tab, which conduct heat far better than wax does. Everything close to those routes chills first. The wax at the centre of the jar is furthest from the glass, so it stays liquid longest — and while it is still liquid, the surface above it has already skinned over and the shell around it has already set rigid. When that trapped column finally freezes it contracts by a few percent, cannot pull wax in from the sides, and so pulls it down from the only place still available: the surface, right beside the wick. That is your hole. It is a cooling-technique problem, not a materials problem. The fix is a relief hole and a second pour, and the prevention is pour temperature and cooling speed. A hole that appears after the first burn is a different fault entirely — see the post-burn well.
One line: the wick is where the last liquid wax in the jar sits, and the last liquid wax is the wax that shrinks with nowhere left to draw from.
Nearly every case on this page is a temperature you did not measure. A Pen Thermometer at ₹354 is the cheapest tool that removes the guesswork, and it pays for itself after four candles you would otherwise have stripped and re-poured.
Every wax shrinks when it sets. The only question is where the shrinkage is allowed to collect — and the answer is always the last place to freeze.
Start with the physical fact underneath all of this. Molten wax is a disordered liquid; solid wax is a packed crystal, and packing is denser than disorder, so the same mass takes up less volume once it has crystallised. Soy sits at the higher end of that range, which is why soy container candles are far more prone to this than paraffin. That lost volume is not a leak and not evaporation. It is geometry.
Now think about how a filled jar cools. Not as one lump at one rate, but from every cold surface inward, and three surfaces matter: the glass wall, the glass base and the wick assembly up the middle. Glass conducts heat away far faster than wax conducts it through itself, so a shell of solid wax forms against wall and base within minutes. That shell is structural: once set it will not move, flow, or be pulled inward by anything happening in the middle.
The wick is the part most makers never account for. A cotton or eco wick is not a passive string in wax — it is a braided structure with a metal tab crimped to the bottom of it, and metal is an excellent conductor. That tab sits on the base in contact with the glass and draws heat down and out; the braid above it draws heat up and releases it to the air. The wick is a chimney and a heat sink running through the exact middle of your candle, and the wax touching it cools faster than the wax a centimetre away.
The two effects fight, and the loser is the ring of wax around the wick. The glass cools the outer wax; the wick cools the wax touching it. What is left between the two is a doughnut-shaped column, a few millimetres out from the wick and well inside the shell, that is furthest from any cold surface and stays liquid longest. Meanwhile the top has skinned over and looks finished. When that hidden column finally crystallises and loses its few percent of volume, it cannot draw wax sideways from a solid shell or up through a skin. It drains from the thinnest part of the skin — the part against the warm wick — and you have a crater with the wick at its centre.
This is why the hole sits around the wick rather than in it: the wick is a solid object with wax adhering to it, and the collapse happens in the ring surrounding it. Cut a cratered candle open and you find a cavity wider below than at the surface, sometimes a third of the way down the jar. What you saw from the top was the opening of a much larger void.
A quick test that proves the mechanism
Pour two identical jars from the same pitcher. Stand one on cold stone or steel, the other on a folded towel in a loosely covered box. After twelve hours the cold-surface jar has a deeper, wider crater; the insulated one a shallow dimple or none. Same wax, same wick, same pour temperature — the only variable was how fast heat could leave.
Two different holes, and only one of them is about cooling
Before you change anything, work out which of these you have. Makers routinely apply the cooling fix to the burning problem, spend a fortnight on pour temperature, and never touch what is actually wrong. The two look similar and have almost nothing in common.
Diagnosis · which hole is on your bench
The cooling dimple against the post-burn well
The cooling dimple
The post-burn well
When it appears
1–12 hours after pouring, before the candle is ever lit
After the first burn, or after the second — never before
What it looks like
Shallow saucer or narrow crater at the wick, surface otherwise level
Deep, steep-sided well around the flame; outer wax untouched
Depth
1–5 mm; a bad one opens into a void a third of the way down
10 mm and deeper, worsening with each burn
What the melt pool does
Not applicable — never lit
Stays narrow, never reaches the glass
Root cause
Contraction, concentrated at the last wax to freeze
A hidden void from the pour, or a wick melting down faster than outward
Where the fix lives
Pour temperature, cooling rate, relief hole, second pour
A wick test round: three jars, three sizes, roughly ₹18 of wicks plus the wax
Priced above:Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg (₹0.5074 per gram) · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each · a three-wick comparison uses three wicks, so ₹17.70–₹28.32 depending on the sizes you test.
If both are happening, fix cooling first: an unfilled void from the pour is one of the two things that produces a post-burn well, and only once candles come out of cooling solid all the way through can you honestly blame the wick. Sinkholes as a general category, including those away from the wick, are covered in the sinkhole guide, and if you are trying to work out whether what you are looking at is a sinkhole at all rather than frosting, wet spots or a crack, start with the defect comparison.
The five causes, ranked by how often they are the answer
Ranked by frequency in the messages CSI receives, not by severity. Costs are CSI live pricing, September 2026. Note what is not on the list: the wax.
Cause ranking · container candles, wick-centred holes
What is actually producing the crater, and what each fix costs
#
Cause
How to confirm it
Fix
Cost
1
Poured too hot
You poured off the melter unchecked, or above the stated 80–90°C band
Measure every pour. Hotter wax has further to contract, so the void is bigger
Pen thermometer ₹354, once
2
Cooled too fast or unevenly
Jars on a cold worktop, near a window, under a fan or in air-conditioning
Warm the vessel, stand jars on a towel, cover loosely, no draughts, no moving
₹0
3
No relief hole
Surface skinned hard within the hour and you left it alone
Poke beside the wick while the centre is soft, before the top-up pour
₹0, or a wicking needle at ₹472 if you want the right tool
4
No second pour
You filled to final level in one go and kept no wax back
Reserve about 10% and top up once the first pour is set and relieved
≈₹5.07 of wax per 200 g candle
5
Wick tab conducting heat
Hole tight to the wick, deeper than wide, repeating in every jar
Cannot be removed. Slow the whole cooling so the tab's head start matters less
₹0
Take them in order, because they compound. A candle poured at 95°C onto cold marble with no relief hole and no reserved wax produces a spectacular crater, and fixing one of the four will convince you the fix does not work. Sequence: pour temperature into the band, slow the cooling, relief hole, second pour.
Cause five is the one you cannot fix, and you should stop trying. The metal tab under your wick is a conductor sitting on the coldest surface in the jar, and nothing in any catalogue changes that — a wick has to be anchored and the anchor has to be metal. What you can change is the gradient. Cool the jar slowly and the tab's head start is a small fraction of total cooling time, so the void it seeds stays shallow enough for a relief hole and top-up to close it. Cool it in twenty minutes and that head start is a large fraction of the total, and you get a deep, narrow void following the wick down.
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Half the makers who have heard of relief holes do them at the wrong time, and a relief hole at the wrong time achieves nothing at all.
A relief hole is a deliberate puncture through the set surface of a cooling candle, made so the top-up pour afterwards can reach the void instead of sitting on a lid of solid wax above it. It is not optional on deep jars. Done at the right moment it turns an invisible internal cavity into an open channel you can fill.
1
Find the cooling window — this is the whole techniqueThe window opens when the surface has skinned firmly enough to hold its shape and closes when the centre goes solid. Press gently 10 mm out from the wick with a clean fingertip or a bamboo stirring stick. Dents without flowing: you are in the window. Liquid rises: too early. Will not dent: too late, and a hole now only cracks the surface. On a 200 g soy container candle at Indian room temperature that is usually 30 to 90 minutes after the pour, but it moves with jar size, room temperature and wax — test, do not watch the clock.
2
Make the hole beside the wick, not through itTwo or three punctures spaced evenly around the wick, 5–10 mm out, work better than one. Keep the wick untouched — a skewer pushed down the wick channel drags debris into the braid and can pull the tab off the base. A Premium Candle Wicking Needle at ₹472 is the right tool: thin, rigid, long enough to reach the base of a deep jar. Go in vertically; an angled hole closes over as the wax settles.
3
Go deep — two-thirds of the wax depth, minimumThis is where most people undercook it. A 5 mm poke relieves nothing, because the void is not at the surface — it is a column running down the middle of the candle. Push to about two-thirds of the total wax depth, and on a repeat-offender jar, to within roughly 10 mm of the base. If the needle comes out wet, good: that is the wax that was about to shrink. Withdraw slowly and straight so the channel stays open.
4
Top up through the channel you just madeReheat your reserved wax to the same 80–90°C band and pour a thin second layer, aiming the stream at the relief holes so it runs down into the cavity rather than skimming the top. Fill to final level in one movement. If the level drops as the cavity fills, add more. Then leave it alone — a second pour that is nudged or fanned develops its own dimple.
5
If you missed the window entirely, use heat insteadOn a candle already fully set with a visible crater, a Hot Air Gun at ₹531 remelts the top few millimetres and lets the surface level itself. Keep it moving, keep it low, stop the moment the surface goes glossy — overheating scorches fragrance and can crack glass. This fixes cosmetics only: on a large cavity you get a smooth lid over an empty space, which is one of the two things that produces a well on the first burn.
Reserve the wax before you pour, not after
Weigh the full batch, pour about 90% and keep 10% back on low heat. Deciding on a second pour after the pitcher is empty means remelting fresh wax at a different temperature with a different fragrance history, and the join will show. A candle making weighing scale at ₹354 makes the 90/10 split repeatable, and a Mini Electric Wax Melter at ₹2,360 holds the reserve steady for the hour it has to sit there.
The post-burn well, and what it is telling you
Now the other hole. This one is not on your bench — it is in a customer's living room, or on the third burn of a test jar. The surface was flat when the candle left you. After two or three hours of burning there is a well around the wick, sometimes deep enough to drown the flame in its own wax, while a ring of unmelted wax sits untouched against the glass.
This is not contraction; that finished days ago. You are watching a melt pool going down instead of out, and only two things cause it.
Post-burn well · the two root causes
Read the pool, not the hole
What you see
What it means
What to change
Opens fast on the very first burn, then the candle behaves normally
A hidden void: the flame melted through the thin lid over a cavity you never filled
Nothing to do with the wick. Go back to the relief hole and second pour
Deepens every burn, pool never reaches the glass, wax ring left behind
The candle is under-wicked for the jar diameter — classic tunnelling
The diagnostic costs nothing: light the candle and time how long the pool takes to reach the glass. A well dropping while the pool stays narrow means the wick is wrong for the jar, and no pour-temperature adjustment will help. A pool that reaches the wall in two to three hours, with the well appearing on burn one only, means you had a void. Eco Candle Wicks ship in Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each so you can run both against the same jar; sizing by jar diameter is in the wick guide. Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹590 for 10 need their own test round; do not carry a cotton size across.
The CSI principle
A hole that appears while the candle is cooling is a pouring problem. A hole that appears while the candle is burning is a wicking problem. They are never the same problem.
The single most expensive mistake in this cluster is spending three weeks refining pour temperature to fix a well that opens on burn two. Diagnose by timing, not by looking.
Prevention, and what it actually costs
Five steps, in order. Only one costs money. Together they take a batch that reliably craters and make it come out flat, without changing your wax, your fragrance or your jars.
1
Pour inside the stated band and never above itEco Soy CSI 400 specifies fragrance addition at 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring, and Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 states melt and pour in the same 80–90°C band. Work to the figure on the wax you bought; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 publish their own specifications. Why the band matters is arithmetic: hotter wax has a longer journey down to solidification, and every degree of it is volume given back as shrinkage. Pouring at 95°C because the melter happened to be there is the most common cause on this page.
2
Warm the vessel before it meets the waxA room-temperature jar in an air-conditioned workshop is a heat sink; the wax touching it shells over in seconds. Warm jars to about hand-hot before pouring — a low oven, a warm tray, or a brief pass with the Hot Air Gun at ₹531. It also cuts wet spots, which are the same contraction pulling wax off the glass. CSI glass jars start at ₹70.80 each in a pack of 5 for the matte range.
3
Cool slowly and evenly, and do not touch themStand filled jars on a folded towel, a board or cardboard — never bare stone, steel or tile. Leave 50 mm between them, keep them out of draughts and direct air-conditioning, and cover the tray loosely to hold a pocket of warm air. Then leave them twelve hours untouched: shifting a jar during the plastic stage of setting shears the crystal structure and produces the very crater you are avoiding.
4
Relieve at the windowTwo or three punctures 5–10 mm out from the wick, down to two-thirds of the wax depth, made when the surface dents without flowing — full method above. Far easier with the wick held: a Bamboo Wick Holder at ₹118 for a set of 5 (₹23.60 each), a Steel Wick Holder at ₹250 for 5 (₹50 each), or a Wick Centering Device at ₹118 for a pack of 5 (₹23.60 each).
5
Second pour, from wax you reservedHold back about 10% of the batch, bring it back into the 80–90°C band and pour it into the relief channels to final level. On a 200 g candle a 10 g top-up of CSI 464 at ₹0.5074 per gram is ₹5.07 — the whole cost of the fix. Pour from a Steel Pouring Pitcher (600 ml, ₹708) or a Candle Wax Pouring Jug at ₹531, with a spout narrow enough to aim; a splashing top-up leaves a visible tide line.
The cost case · one 200 g soy container candle
Getting it right against putting it right
Route
What you spend
Amount
Relief hole and second pour
10 g of reserved CSI 464 at ₹0.5074/g. No new jar, wick or cure time
₹5.07
Heat-gun the surface flat
30 seconds. Cosmetic only — leaves any deep void in place
₹0
Strip and re-pour the candle
180 g CSI 464 (₹91.33) + Eco Wick C1 (₹5.90) + wick sticker (₹2.50), plus fragrance, labour and a second cure
₹99.73 in materials
Re-pour and lose the jar
The above plus a replacement White Matte Glass Jar at ₹354 for a pack of 5
₹170.53
Measure the pour instead
Pen Thermometer, bought once, used on every batch you ever pour
Read the bottom row against the third. The thermometer costs ₹354; a stripped, re-poured candle costs ₹99.73 in materials before fragrance or labour. The thermometer has paid for itself by the fourth candle it saves, and six times over on a 200-unit festive run that has to re-pour 10% of its jars.
Against our own interest: do not buy a different wax over this. CSI sells fifteen waxes and it would suit us well if you answered a cratered batch by ordering a 5 kg bag of something else. Do not. A hole around the wick is a cooling-technique fault in almost every case, and a maker who switches from Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg to a ₹920/kg coconut blend without changing the pour gets the same crater at more than twice the wax cost. If you have measured the pour, slowed the cooling, relieved and topped up and craters persist across three controlled batches, it is fair to question the material — the checks are in how to verify wax quality before you buy. Until then, the wax is not the variable.
The wax did not fail. It shrank, exactly as much as it always shrinks, in the one place you did not give it anywhere else to go.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
One commercial note, because this is a business page. A cratered candle is rarely unsellable — thirty seconds with a heat gun flattens most — but it is unsellable at your price if the crater reopens in the box, and it reopens whenever the void underneath was never filled. The candles that come back as complaints are the ones that looked fine on despatch. The real cost of skipping the second pour is not ₹5.07 of wax; it is the replacement, the courier both ways and the customer who does not reorder.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient answer to "there is a hole around my wick" would be to sell you a different wax, and there are fifteen in the Candle Wax collection to choose from. We are telling you the opposite: in almost every case this is a pour-temperature and cooling problem that costs ₹5.07 of reserved wax to solve, and a maker who fixes it properly keeps buying the wax they already had.
Every price, pack size and specification quoted here is taken from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. The 80–90°C figure is the band stated for Eco Soy CSI 400 fragrance addition and for CSI 464 melt and pour; it is a wax formulation specification, not a regulatory limit, and it is not interchangeable between waxes. Published fragrance ceilings are stated per wax on the product pages — up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464.
For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation, or help matching a wick to a specific jar diameter before you commit to a production run, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there a hole around my candle wick?
Wax contracts as it solidifies, and the wax around the wick is the last wax in the jar to solidify. Heat escapes sideways through the glass and vertically through the wick and its metal tab, so the outer shell and the surface skin set first. The still-liquid column trapped in the middle then shrinks, cannot draw wax from a solid shell, and pulls it down from the softest part of the surface — the ring around the wick. It is contraction, not a wax defect.
Does a hole around the wick mean my wax is bad?
Almost never. It is a cooling-technique problem in the overwhelming majority of cases: poured too hot, cooled too fast, no relief hole, no second pour. The same batch of wax poured inside the stated 80–90°C band onto warmed jars and cooled slowly on a towel will come out flat. Change the pour before you change the material, and only question the wax if craters persist across three controlled batches.
When exactly should I make the relief hole?
When the surface dents under gentle pressure but no liquid wax rises through the dent — usually 30 to 90 minutes after pouring a 200 g soy container candle at Indian room temperature, though it varies with jar size and room conditions. Too early and the hole closes itself; too late and you crack a set surface for nothing. Test by pressing about 10 mm out from the wick rather than watching the clock.
How deep should the relief hole go?
Down to about two-thirds of the wax depth, and on a jar that craters every time, to within roughly 10 mm of the base. The void is a column, not a surface dimple, so a shallow poke relieves nothing. Make two or three holes 5–10 mm out from the wick, keep them vertical, avoid the wick itself, and withdraw the needle slowly so the channel stays open for the top-up pour.
Can I just use a heat gun instead of a second pour?
For a shallow dimple, yes — a Hot Air Gun at ₹531 remelts the top few millimetres and lets the surface level itself. For a deep crater it is a cosmetic patch: you get a smooth lid over an unfilled cavity, and that cavity is one of the two things that produces a well on the first burn. Relieve and top up on anything deeper than a couple of millimetres.
A hole opened around the wick after the first burn. Is that the same thing?
No. Contraction is finished long before the candle is lit. A well that opens during burning is either a hidden void from the pour, which shows up once and then stops, or a wicking fault, which gets worse with every burn. Time the melt pool: if it reaches the glass in two to three hours you had a void; if it stays narrow while the well deepens, the wick is wrong for the jar. See the melt pool guide and the tunnelling guide.
Fix the pour, not the shopping list
₹354 of thermometer and ₹5.07 of reserved wax closes this problem permanently.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260/500 g, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299/500 g, Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10, Pen Thermometer ₹354 and wick holders from ₹118. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the contraction mechanism, the relief-hole method and the cooling-versus-burning diagnostic apply to any supplier's wax.
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. They are general reviews of the products named — Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464, Eco Soy CSI 400, the Premium Candle Wicking Needle, the Bamboo Wick Holder and Soy Pillar Wax — and not reviews of the technique described here. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; a "Verified buyer" badge appears only where Judge.me recorded the reviewer as a verified buyer. Two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and are otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing): Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / kg, ₹2,537 / 5 kg, ₹5,074 / 10 kg (₹0.5074 per gram) · Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 / kg · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299 / 500 g · Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹325 / 500 g · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 per 10 (₹5.90 each) and Thick (C2) ₹188.80 per 20 (₹9.44 each) · Performance Wooden Wicks ₹590 per 10 · Premium Candle Wicking Needle ₹472 · Bamboo Wick Holder ₹118 per set of 5 (₹23.60 each) · Steel Wick Holder ₹250 per 5 (₹50 each) · Wick Centering Device ₹118 per pack of 5 (₹23.60 each) · Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each) · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 · Hot Air Gun ₹531 · Steel Pouring Pitcher 600 ml ₹708 · Candle Wax Pouring Jug ₹531 · Mini Electric Wax Melter 1 L ₹2,360 · White Matte Glass Jar ₹354 per pack of 5 (₹70.80 each). Derived figures: a 10 g top-up pour of CSI 464 = ₹5.07; a re-poured 200 g candle at a 10% fragrance load = 180 g wax (₹91.33) + one Eco Wick C1 (₹5.90) + one wick sticker (₹2.50) = ₹99.73 in materials, excluding fragrance and labour, rising to ₹170.53 if the jar is scrapped; ₹354 ÷ ₹99.73 = the thermometer pays for itself on the fourth rescued candle. Specifications: Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies fragrance addition at 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring; CSI 464 states melt and pour at 80–90°C. Published fragrance ceilings are wax-manufacturer formulation limits, not regulatory limits: up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464. Relief-hole timing of 30–90 minutes and depths of two-thirds of the wax column reflect standard practice for 200 g soy container candles and vary with jar size, wax and room temperature. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
