Performance Wooden Wicks ₹590 / 10 · ₹4,130 / 100 (₹41.30 each)Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 / 10 (₹5.90 each)Stocked in India · ships nationwide · GST invoicing
CSI buying guides · Wicks
A wooden wick costs seven to ten times what a cotton wick costs. Here is the arithmetic, and the retail price at which it stops mattering.
★★★★☆
"Quality of the wick is good for jar candles, team can work on the pricing and delivery timelines."
Monika DeepVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Quality wick, works very well"
AshwiniSep 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★☆
"Good quality .... if possible delivery date would be try little bit quick please"
Subhankar RoyVerified buyer · Sep 2024
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Good one"
Sneha TamangVerified buyer · Apr 2025
Premium Candle Wicking Needle
★★★★★
"This needle is very helpful as it doesn't damage the mould and there is no leakage of wax while pouring.. I would definitely recommend this .."
LJAug 2024
Premium Candle Wicking Needle
★★★★★
"This bamboo wick holder doesn't exert any pressure on the wicks… and it is a very useful product 👌🏻👌🏻.."
Lalitha JaganAug 2024
Bamboo Wick Holder
★★★★☆
"Quality of the wick is good for jar candles, team can work on the pricing and delivery timelines."
Monika DeepVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Quality wick, works very well"
AshwiniSep 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★☆
"Good quality .... if possible delivery date would be try little bit quick please"
Subhankar RoyVerified buyer · Sep 2024
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"Good one"
Sneha TamangVerified buyer · Apr 2025
Premium Candle Wicking Needle
★★★★★
"This needle is very helpful as it doesn't damage the mould and there is no leakage of wax while pouring.. I would definitely recommend this .."
LJAug 2024
Premium Candle Wicking Needle
★★★★★
"This bamboo wick holder doesn't exert any pressure on the wicks… and it is a very useful product 👌🏻👌🏻.."
Lalitha JaganAug 2024
Bamboo Wick Holder
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. None of these six is a review of the Performance Wooden Wick — they are reviews of CSI cotton wicks and wicking tools, shown here because they are the wick-category reviews the store actually holds. Judge.me has no published wooden-wick review on the pull date, and we are not going to write one. Wording is unedited.
✓ 7 wick products in the Candle Wicks collection✓ Pack of 10, 50 and 100 on the wooden wick✓ GST invoicing · MSDS on request
Candle Buying Guides · Wicks
A premium product decision, not an upgrade you make by default. The real per-candle cost against cotton, the failure modes nobody mentions, and the retail price at which the extra rupees stop being an argument.
₹41.30–₹59.00
per Performance Wooden Wick depending on pack size · against ₹5.90 for an Eco C1 cotton wick · CSI live pricing, September 2026 · the linked product page is always authoritative
Quick answers — read this first
What do wooden candle wicks cost in India?Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) at CSI are ₹590 / 10 (₹59.00 each), ₹2,360 / 50 (₹47.20) and ₹4,130 / 100 (₹41.30).
How much more is that than cotton? An Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) is ₹5.90 at every pack size — so wooden is 7× at the 100 pack, 10× at the 10 pack: an extra ₹35.40 to ₹53.10 per candle.
Should I switch? For most makers, no. Stay on cotton. Wooden wicks earn their place on a candle retailing at roughly ₹899 and above, in a wide vessel, where the crackle and the flame are part of what the customer buys.
What goes wrong with them? They are harder to light, can drown and go out mid-burn, and are fussy about wax and fragrance load. Trim height matters more than with cotton, and you must test them in your exact recipe first.
The short answer
The price: ₹590 / 10, ₹2,360 / 50, ₹4,130 / 100 on Performance Wooden Wicks. The 100 pack saves ₹1,770 against ten 10-packs.
The comparison: ₹5.90 for Eco C1, ₹9.44 for Eco C2, ₹12.00 for Cotton Braided Wicks. The wooden wick is the most expensive decision in the category by a wide margin.
The threshold: on a 200 g soy candle the wick moves from 2.42% of materials cost to about 15%. Below roughly ₹899 retail that is hard to carry; above it, it disappears into the price.
Bars drawn to scale from CSI live pricing, September 2026. At its best pack price the wooden wick is 7× the cheapest cotton wick; at the 10-wick pack, exactly 10×. No other decision in this category has a spread near it, which is why it has to be made on commercial grounds.
Should you buy wooden candle wicks in India, and what do they cost?
CSI stocks Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) at ₹590 for 10, ₹2,360 for 50 and ₹4,130 for 100 — ₹59.00, ₹47.20 and ₹41.30 per wick. The cheapest cotton wick in the Candle Wicks collection, the Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1), is ₹5.90. You are choosing to add ₹35.40 to ₹53.10 to every candle you pour, taking the wick from about 2.4% of a 200 g candle's materials cost to roughly 15%. That is only sensible if the candle is priced to carry it. Most readers should stay on cotton: cheaper, far more forgiving, and nobody has ever returned a candle for not crackling. Wooden wicks earn their place on one product — a wide-mouthed vessel, a gift or luxury line, retailing at roughly ₹899 or more, where the flat flame and the sound are part of what the buyer pays for. Run the three-jar burn test in your own wax at your own load first.
One line: ₹41.30 to ₹59.00 against ₹5.90 — buy wooden wicks for a ₹899-plus candle in a wide jar, and stay on cotton for everything else.
Testing rather than committing? Buy the pack of 10 at ₹590 and pour three jars. Once the decision is made, the pack of 100 at ₹4,130 (₹41.30 each) saves ₹1,770 against ten small packs.
Most pages about wooden wicks describe the crackle for four hundred words, then mention the price once near the bottom in a sentence beginning "they are slightly more expensive". They are not slightly more expensive. They are seven to ten times more expensive.
The category at CSI, by the piece: Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44, both flat at every pack size; Cotton Braided Wicks at ₹12.00, flat; Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹59.00 / 10, ₹47.20 / 50, ₹41.30 / 100. Even at its cheapest the wooden wick is seven times the cheapest cotton one; at the small pack, exactly ten.
Now put that into a candle: 200 g of soy at an 8% load — 184 g wax, 16 g oil. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 per 10 kg gives ₹110.38 of wax, Sandalwood Fragrance Oil at ₹5,026.80 per kilogram gives ₹80.43 of oil, and an Amber Shiny Glass Jar at ₹236 per pack of 5 gives a ₹47.20 vessel. ₹238.01 before the wick.
Per-candle arithmetic · 200 g soy candle at 8% load
What the wick does to your materials cost
Wick used
Wick cost
Total materials
Wick as share
Eco C1 cotton
₹5.90
₹243.91
2.42%
Cotton braided
₹12.00
₹250.01
4.80%
Wooden, pack of 100
₹41.30
₹279.31
14.79%
Wooden, pack of 10
₹59.00
₹297.01
19.86%
That is the whole argument in one table. The swap adds ₹35.40 to a candle that cost ₹243.91 — a 14.5% rise in materials cost, or ₹53.10 and 21.8% at the small pack. Across 500 candles: ₹17,700, or ₹26,550, on wick alone.
The honest conclusion, and it costs us money to write it. If your candles retail below about ₹700, wooden wicks are usually the wrong purchase. You either absorb ₹35–₹53 out of a thin margin, or raise your price by ₹100–₹150 and find the customer who bought a ₹549 candle is not the one who buys a ₹699 one. CSI would rather sell you ₹4,130 of wooden wicks than ₹590 of cotton; buy the cotton anyway, and work through how to price candles in India in 2026 first.
What a wooden wick actually gives you
1
A wider melt pool from a flat burning edgeCotton burns from a point; wood burns along a flat edge, delivering heat across a line, which tends to open the pool wider and shallower for the same heat. That helps in a broad vessel, and the pool surface is the area fragrance evaporates from — mechanics in the wick guide by diameter. Note tends: geometry, not a guaranteed result in your wax.
2
The crackleThe sound is the actual selling point. Wood releases moisture and volatile compounds as it chars, giving an intermittent crackle at a low, fireplace register. It is quiet — not a bonfire, and a customer expecting one will be disappointed. It lets a candle occupy a room audibly, which is almost impossible to convey in a listing photograph.
3
A flame that photographs, and a jar that reads expensiveThe flat wick gives a broad, low flame rather than a teardrop — on camera, a band of light instead of a point. If you sell through Instagram that is a commercial property, and it means the range has to be reshot, lit. Unlit, the wick still reads as the expensive one on a shelf — a merchandising reason, which only pays back if the sticker price moves with it.
What we are not claiming
We are not claiming wooden wicks throw fragrance better than cotton, burn cleaner, burn longer, or are more natural. Those claims circulate widely and we hold no test data of our own. The burning edge is flat, the flame is broad, and the wick makes a sound. Everything past that is your own burn test talking.
Where wooden wicks go wrong
A cotton wick forgives a mediocre recipe. A wooden wick audits it.
This is the section most suppliers leave out, and it is why makers buy wooden wicks once, get three bad candles out of ten, and go back to cotton. None of it means the wick is defective — it means the wick is less tolerant than the one you are used to.
1 — It will not light, or will not stay lit. Wood does not draw molten fuel to a flame the way braided cotton does; a fresh wick needs longer flame contact, held for several seconds and tilted so it runs along the edge. Put this on the care card. A customer who cannot light your ₹1,200 candle will not conclude that they lit it wrong.
2 — It drowns and goes out mid-burn. Two causes that look identical from outside: the pool is too deep and floods the burning edge, or the wick is too short to hold a flame clear of it. A candle that burns well for forty minutes and then quietly goes out is almost always one of the two — the first a wick-size problem, the second a trimming problem.
3 — The fragrance load and the wax are fighting it. Oil is fuel, and a heavily loaded wax behaves differently in a wick that chars rather than draws. At the top of your wax's stated ceiling — up to 13% on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, up to 10% on CSI 464, both wax-manufacturer formulation limits rather than regulatory ones — a wooden wick is likelier to struggle than cotton, and softer waxes compound it by pooling faster and deeper. If it keeps drowning, test the load down early, and re-test the wick whenever you change wax.
Trim height matters more than it does with cotton
With cotton, an untrimmed wick gives soot and a mushroom head and most customers get away with it. With wood it is closer to a functional setting: too long and the flame is tall, smoky and burns down unevenly; too short and it drowns. Snap the charred edge off before every burn so each starts at a consistent height — a wick cutter at ₹295 does it cleanly. Then put the instruction on the label: Candle Care Stickers are ₹413 for 500, ₹0.83 a candle.
Which wax and which vessel suit them
Put a wooden wick in a narrow jar and you have paid a premium for a wick whose one advantage — spreading heat along a line instead of a point — has nowhere to spread. CSI does not publish internal diameters for every container, so rather than invent numbers, use the shape rule: the wider the mouth relative to the fill depth, the better the case for wood. In the Containers collection that means the broad, shallow formats — the Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 g) at ₹944 per 10, the Apothecary Jar with Dome Lid at ₹212.40, or the 600 g Borosilicate Jar at ₹200. Votives stay on cotton: a 70 g votive at ₹31.86 carrying a ₹41.30 wick costs more in wick than in jar.
The CSI principle
The wick is not a component you choose. It is one half of a pair, and the vessel is the other half.
Nobody can tell you which wick suits your candle without knowing the vessel and the wax. That is as true of cotton as of wood — it just costs seven times more to guess wrong here.
On wax, a slow, shallow pool is the friendlier partner. In the Candle Wax collection, CSI 464 at ₹260 per 500 g and Luxury Soy Chunks at ₹299 per 500 g are the two most makers test in, and their stated ceilings differ — 10% and 13% — which is itself a variable. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 at ₹325 per 500 g is the usual premium pairing: once a candle carries a ₹41.30 wick, the ₹325 wax is no longer the expensive part of the decision. Verify what arrives against how to verify wax quality.
The same three-jar burn test you should already run for cotton, with one difference: here you are not allowed to skip it. A cotton wick slightly wrong gives a slightly tunnelled candle. A wooden wick slightly wrong gives a candle that goes out.
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Pour three identical jars, same day, and cure them fullySame wax from the same bag, same oil at the same weighed percentage, same vessel, same pour temperature. The only variable is the wick. Then cure the full period, lids on, out of sunlight — a candle judged at 48 hours gets blamed on the wick.
2
Burn them side by side and write down what happensLight all three in the same closed room at once. Record time to establish, time to a pool that reaches the glass, pool depth at two hours, flame steadiness, any self-extinguishing, soot, and whether the crackle carried. Those are measurements. "It seemed fine" is not.
3
Burn them down, not just onceThe step almost everyone skips. The first burn of a full jar is the easy case. Burn in two-to-three-hour sessions, trimming the char before each, and watch the halfway point and the last quarter, where the pool is deepest relative to the wick left. Most drowning shows up there.
Test in your exact recipe, not in someone else's. A wooden wick that performs perfectly in CSI 464 at 8% in a wide 150 g jar tells you nothing reliable about the same wick in coconut soy at 10% in a 600 g borosilicate. Change the wax, the vessel, the oil or the load and the test is live again. Ten wicks at ₹590 buys three test jars; the ₹4,130 pack of 100 comes after a documented recipe has worked.
Buy ten wooden wicks and three jars before you buy a hundred wooden wicks and a marketing plan.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Pouring for Diwali on 8 November 2026? A wooden-wick range needs the burn test finished before the production run starts, not during it. Send us your jar and your wax and we will tell you what we would test.
The commercial case: when the wick cost stops mattering
The threshold · 200 g soy candle, wooden wick at pack-of-100 pricing
At what retail price does ₹35.40 of extra wick stop being an argument?
Retail
Materials with cotton
Materials with wooden
Wick premium as % of retail
₹499
₹243.91 — 48.9%
₹279.31 — 56.0%
7.09% — material
₹699
₹243.91 — 34.9%
₹279.31 — 40.0%
5.06% — still material
₹899
₹243.91 — 27.1%
₹279.31 — 31.1%
3.94% — the crossover
₹1,499
₹243.91 — 16.3%
₹279.31 — 18.6%
2.36% — noise
₹2,499
₹243.91 — 9.8%
₹279.31 — 11.2%
1.42% — irrelevant
Read down the last column. At ₹499 the premium eats 7.09% of retail and ₹35.40 out of a ₹255.09 gross margin — nearly 14% of gross profit, for a sound. At ₹899 it is 3.94%; at ₹1,499, 2.36%, inside the noise of one shipping-rate change. Our threshold is about ₹899. Below it, buy cotton and put the ₹35.40 into fragrance, jar or packaging — things a customer can evaluate before buying. Above it, the premium disappears into the price. At pack-of-10 pricing the premium is ₹53.10 and the line moves nearer ₹1,300: the ₹1,770 the 100 pack saves is what lets a ₹899 product work.
The specific product where wooden earns its place. A wide-mouthed 150 g or larger container candle in Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468, a fragrance that sells on warmth rather than freshness, a lid, ₹899 and above, sold as a gift, photographed lit. There the wick does four jobs at once — pool width, sound, flame shape, shelf signal — and ₹41.30 is 4.6% of retail. Everything narrower, cheaper or sold on scent alone stays on Eco Candle Wicks.
The volume argument cuts the opposite way from usual. At 1,000 orders a month, ₹35.40 a unit is ₹35,400 of monthly purchasing; at 30 candles a month it is ₹1,062. Small makers can afford to try this; large ones need to be certain. The margin arithmetic is in is candle making actually profitable in India in 2026.
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The premium decision
Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported)
The only wooden wick CSI stocks, in three pack sizes with a real unit-price break. Buy 10 to test, 100 once the recipe is locked. Specify it for wide vessels and candles at ₹899 and up; not for votives or anything retailing under ₹700.
Pack
Price
Per wick
vs buying 10-packs
10
₹590.00
₹59.00
—
50
₹2,360.00
₹47.20
Saves ₹590
100
₹4,130.00
₹41.30
Saves ₹1,770
₹41.30 per candle at the best pack price · 7× an Eco C1Buy wooden wicks
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The recommendation for most readers
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2)
Flat unit pricing at every pack size, two thicknesses, so a three-jar test needs one product. The wick most Indian candle businesses should be running. The 10-wick C2 pack is out of stock; the 20 pack at ₹188.80 is the smallest C2.
Pack
Thin (C1)
Thick (C2)
Per wick
10
₹59.00
Out of stock
₹5.90 / ₹9.44
50
₹295.00
₹472.00
₹5.90 / ₹9.44
100
₹590.00
₹944.00
₹5.90 / ₹9.44
1,000
₹5,900.00
₹9,440.00
₹5.90 / ₹9.44
₹5.90 per candle · 2.42% of a 200 g candle's materials costBuy Eco wicks
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient version of this page sells you the ₹4,130 pack. Instead it tells most readers to buy the ₹590 pack of cotton, because a maker who puts a ₹41.30 wick into a ₹499 product loses money and blames the wick.
Every price here is taken from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing takes precedence. The per-candle model is stated in full so you can substitute your own inputs: a 200 g candle at 8% load — 184 g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 / 10 kg, 16 g of Sandalwood at ₹5,026.80 / kg, in an Amber Shiny Glass Jar at ₹47.20. The 13% and 10% ceilings are wax-manufacturer formulation limits, not regulatory limits.
We make no claim about burn time, scent throw, soot or sustainability for wooden wicks against cotton, because we hold no test data of our own. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS documentation or wick-to-vessel help, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How much do wooden candle wicks cost in India?
At CSI, Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) are ₹590 / 10 (₹59.00 each), ₹2,360 / 50 (₹47.20) and ₹4,130 / 100 (₹41.30), CSI live pricing September 2026. The cheapest cotton wick, the Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1), is ₹5.90 flat at every pack size. The linked product pages are authoritative.
Are wooden wicks worth it for a small candle business?
Usually not, and we would rather say so. They add ₹35.40 to ₹53.10 per candle over an Eco C1 — 7.09% of a ₹499 retail price, 3.94% of a ₹899 one. Below about ₹700 that money does more in a better jar, a heavier fragrance load or proper packaging. At ₹899 and up in a wide vessel, the premium is small enough to be worth the flame shape and the crackle.
Why does my wooden wick keep going out?
Either the pool is too deep and flooding the burning edge, or the wick is trimmed too short to hold a flame clear of it. A third cause is a high fragrance load — oil is fuel, and a wax loaded near its stated ceiling behaves differently in a wick that chars. Check in that order: trim height first because it is free, then session length, then test the load down a point.
How do you trim a wooden wick?
Snap or cut the charred edge off before every burn, so each starts from a consistent height. Too long gives a tall, smoky flame; too short and it drowns. Cool char breaks away with fingers; a wick cutter at ₹295 is tidier. Print the instruction on the candle — Candle Care Stickers are ₹413 per 500.
What wax and jar should I use with a wooden wick?
It spreads heat along a flat edge rather than from a point, so it suits a wider, shallower vessel — a 150 g or larger wide-mouthed jar rather than a votive. On wax, a soy that opens its pool steadily rather than fast and deep is the easier partner: CSI 464, Luxury Soy Chunks, or Coconut Soy CSI 468 for a premium line. Wick, wax and vessel must be tested together.
Priced honestly, so you can decide
₹41.30 to ₹59.00 a wick. Buy it for the ₹899 candle. Stay on cotton for everything else.
Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) at ₹590 / 10, ₹2,360 / 50 and ₹4,130 / 100. Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 / 10 in Thin C1 and Thick C2. Cotton Braided Wicks from ₹120 / 10. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the cost arithmetic, failure modes, burn-test method and retail-price threshold apply to any supplier's wooden wick.
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 and wording is unedited. None of the six is a review of the Performance Wooden Wick — three are for Eco Candle Wicks, two for the Premium Candle Wicking Needle and one for the Bamboo Wick Holder. CSI holds no published wooden-wick review on the pull date, and we have not written one or presented a review of another product as though it were one. "Verified buyer" is shown only where Judge.me recorded the reviewer as verified: Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy and Sneha Tamang. Ashwini, LJ and Lalitha Jagan are published reviews that Judge.me did not mark verified, and they carry no badge. Judge.me does not store reviewer locations, so no city is shown for any review.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing): Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) ₹590 / 10 (₹59.00 each), ₹2,360 / 50 (₹47.20 each), ₹4,130 / 100 (₹41.30 each). Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10, ₹295 / 50, ₹590 / 100, ₹5,900 / 1,000 — ₹5.90 per wick at every pack; Thick (C2) ₹188.80 / 20, ₹472 / 50, ₹944 / 100, ₹9,440 / 1,000 — ₹9.44 per wick, with the 10-wick C2 pack out of stock on the pull date. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120 / 10 to ₹12,000 / 1,000 — ₹12.00 per wick. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299 / 500 g and ₹5,999 / 10 kg; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260 / 500 g; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹325 / 500 g. Sandalwood Fragrance Oil ₹5,026.80 / 1 kg. Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹236 per pack of 5 (₹47.20 each). Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid 150 g ₹944 per 10. Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid ₹212.40 (500 gm). Borosilicate Glass Jar 600 g with Golden Lid ₹200. Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 g ₹159.30 per 5 (₹31.86 each). Candle Wick Cutter / Trimmer ₹295. Wick Centering Device ₹118 per 5 (₹23.60 each). Large Candle Wick Stickers ₹249 per 40 (₹6.23 each). Pen Thermometer ₹354. Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413 per 500 at 1 inch (₹0.83 each). Per-candle model: a 200 g finished candle at an 8% fragrance load — 184 g wax, 16 g oil — giving ₹110.38 of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, ₹80.43 of Sandalwood, ₹47.20 of jar and ₹238.01 of materials before the wick; totals of ₹243.91 with an Eco C1, ₹250.01 with a cotton braided wick, ₹279.31 with a wooden wick at pack-of-100 pricing and ₹297.01 at pack-of-10 pricing. Fragrance load ceilings — up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — are the wax manufacturers' stated formulation limits, not regulatory limits. The Candle Wicks collection holds 7 products on the pull date. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. No claim is made on this page about burn duration, scent throw, soot or sustainability for wooden wicks relative to cotton. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.