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A wet spot contains no water. It is a pocket of air, and the reason it looks damp is optics, not moisture.
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Candle Troubleshooting · Container Finish
No. There is no water in a wet spot. It is a thin layer of air between the wax and the glass, and it looks damp because that air changes how light comes back off the jar. Here is the optics, four tests you can run at your own bench today, and the list of things humidity genuinely does ruin in an Indian monsoon.
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of water in a wet spot · what you are looking at is air · the customer-facing explanation prints onto candle care stickers at ₹413 per 500 (₹0.83 each) · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Are candle wet spots moisture? No. A wet spot is a pocket of air — usually a few microns to a fraction of a millimetre thick — where the wax has contracted away from the inside of the glass. Scrape the wax out and it is bone dry.
Then why does it look wet? Because a sheen change is how your eye detects wetness. Air between glass and wax reflects far more light back at you than wax touching glass does, so that patch has a different shine from the wax around it. Your brain reads "different shine on one part of a surface" as "damp".
Why do I get more of them in the monsoon? Because the monsoon is a temperature-swing season, not because the air is wet. Cool nights, warm afternoons and cool floors cycle the jar; wax and glass expand at very different rates; contact breaks. Humidity is a passenger, not the driver.
What does humidity actually spoil? Wicks, open fragrance bottles, packaging and labels, and stored wax bags. All four are real, all four cost money, and none of them is a wet spot. That section is below.
The short answer
No — it is air, not water: the wax shrinks as it crystallises and lifts off the glass in patches. What sits in the gap is air. See why wax pulls away from the glass for the full mechanism.
It looks damp because of reflection: glass against wax is a small optical step; glass against air is a large one. The gap bounces more light back, the patch has a different sheen, and sheen contrast is the signal the eye uses to judge wetness.
Prove it in one afternoon: scrape the wax and touch it (dry), warm the jar and watch the patch move (water would not), and pour one warmed jar against one cold jar in the same room on the same day (fewer spots in the warmed one, identical humidity).
Both halves show the same wax and the same glass. The only difference on the right is a layer of air a fraction of a millimetre thick. Glass and soy wax bend light by similar amounts, so light crosses that boundary with barely a reflection. Glass and air do not, so the gap sends a far larger share of the light straight back at the viewer. The patch is not wetter than the wax around it — it is shinier, and a change in shine is precisely the cue your eye uses to detect damp.
No. There is no water in a wet spot. It is a gap filled with air, sitting between the wax and the inside wall of the glass, and it forms because soy wax contracts as it crystallises and lifts away from the glass in patches — the mechanism is set out in full in why candle wax pulls away from the glass. It looks damp for one reason: light. Where wax touches glass, the two materials bend light by roughly similar amounts, so almost nothing reflects and you see straight into the wax. Where air intrudes, light meets a glass-to-air boundary and then an air-to-wax boundary, and each of those throws a much larger share of the light back at you. The result is a patch with a different sheen from the wax around it — and sheen contrast is exactly how human vision decides that something is wet. Pavement, paper, plaster, a candle jar: same signal, same conclusion, wrong in this one case. Scrape the wax out and the face is dry. It affects nothing — not scent, not burn, not the life of the candle.
One line: a wet spot is air, not water — it looks damp because a thin air layer reflects more light than wax in contact with glass does, and your eye reads the sheen change as moisture.
The cheapest fix on this page is not a product — it is a sentence. Candle Care Stickers Roll at ₹413 per 500 (₹0.83 each) in 1 inch, or ₹699 per 1,000 (₹0.70 each) in 1.5 inch. One printed line about air pockets stops the refund message before it is sent.
Nothing in the jar changed. The way light leaves the jar changed, and that is all it takes.
Start with what is physically there. A container candle is hot wax poured into cold glass. As it cools it crystallises, and crystallising wax takes up less room than liquid wax. Somewhere between the pour and the following morning it can no longer hold contact across the whole wall, and it lets go in patches. What moves into the space it vacates is the only thing available: air — not water, not condensation — in a layer usually thinner than a human hair.
Now the optics, in plain terms. Every time light crosses from one material into another, part carries on and part bounces back, and how much bounces back depends on how differently the two materials bend light. Glass and solid soy wax are not very different, so light passes between them with only a token reflection — which is why a well-adhered candle looks like one solid object rather than a wax cylinder inside a glass tube. Air is a long way from both. Introduce a layer of it and you have replaced one gentle boundary with two sharp ones: glass to air, then air to wax. Each throws back several times more light than the single glass-to-wax boundary did.
The bit that trips everyone up: it is a sheen difference, not a colour difference. The wax behind the gap is the same shade as the wax either side of it; what differs is how much light comes straight back off that region. On clear glass the patch reads as a greyish, slightly mirror-like mark; on a matte or coloured jar, as a tonal change sitting just under the surface. Both are people naming a reflection they have no word for — so they reach for the one everyday thing that changes a surface's shine without changing its colour, which is water. The shape seals it: gaps open unevenly and taper at the edges, so the mark has a bright core and a feathered edge, exactly like a spreading drop. The ranked list of what puts the air there is here.
A quick reality check on volume
Take a 200g candle in a 70 mm jar: roughly 130 cm² of glass in contact with wax. If a quarter of that wall has lifted at an average gap of 0.1 mm, the whole void is about 0.33 cm³ — a third of a millilitre. Were that water in a sealed jar you would see a meniscus, see it pool at the bottom under gravity, and see it move when you tilt the jar. You see none of those things.
Why the myth will not die
Three things keep it alive: the name, the appearance, and one very persuasive coincidence in the Indian calendar.
First, the name. "Wet spot" describes what the defect looks like, and it became the industry term before anyone attached an explanation to it. Once a fault is named after an appearance, the name quietly does the explaining — nobody asks what causes a wet spot, they ask where the water is getting in. Had it been called a contraction gap, this page would not need to exist.
Second, the appearance. Human vision spots wetness almost entirely from sheen, so a sheen anomaly on an even surface produces an immediate, pre-verbal reading of "damp". You are not talking yourself into it — you are seeing what your visual system is built to see, and here the inference is wrong.
Third, and this is the one that convinces experienced makers: the monsoon. Ask a container candle maker in Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata or Guwahati when they see the most wet spots and they will say June to September. That observation is correct. The conclusion drawn from it — that humidity is getting into the wax — is not.
The monsoon coincidence, unpicked
What actually changes in an Indian studio between April and July
What changes
Humidity?
Effect on wax-to-glass contact
Day-to-night temperature swings widen
No — temperature
Direct. Wax and glass expand at very different rates; every cycle works the bond loose.
Floors and external walls run cold and stay cold
No — temperature
Direct. A jar cooling from one side sets unevenly and pulls away on the cold face first.
Fans and coolers run constantly
No — airflow
Direct. Faster, less even cooling means more contraction stress while the wax is still setting.
Ambient temperature at pour drops on rainy days
No — temperature
Direct. Cold glass is the most reliable way to produce wet spots on purpose.
Relative humidity climbs past 80%
Yes
None on the gap. Solid wax is hydrophobic and the jar is sealed by its own wax column.
Wicks, labels, cartons and open wax bags sit in damp air for weeks
Yes
None on the gap — but four real problems of their own. Covered below.
Those six rows change together, every year, in the same months. Only one of them is humidity, and it is the only one with no route to the glass wall — the factor easiest to name riding along with four that are doing the work. The test that separates them is a temperature test, not a humidity test, and it is in the next section.
The CSI principle
If a fault gets worse in the monsoon, ask whether it is the water in the air or the swing in the thermometer. In candle making it is almost always the thermometer.
Wet spots, cracked tops and uneven set are temperature problems. Sputtering wicks, lifting labels and soft cartons are humidity problems. Fixing one will not fix the other, and buying equipment for the wrong one is how a small studio wastes money it does not have.
Prove it to yourself — three tests at your own bench
You should not take this on trust from a supplier. Each test uses a candle you have already made and equipment you already own, and together they answer the question: is there water in there, and does humidity control whether the spot appears? Run them on a jar you were not planning to sell.
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The touch test — is the wax wet?Take a finished jar with a clear wet spot. Chill it for 20 to 30 minutes so the wax column contracts and releases, then ease the whole plug out and look at the face that was against the glass. It is slightly glossier at the patch, because that part met air rather than glass. Now touch it: it is dry. Press a plain white tissue against it for five seconds — no darkening, no transfer, no ring. The inside of the glass is dry too. A third of a millilitre of water sitting there for a week would tell you instantly.
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The temperature test — does the patch move?Photograph a spotted jar against a plain background. Warm the outside of the glass gently and evenly — a hot air gun at ₹531 held 30 cm away and kept moving, or an hour in a warm room. The patches shrink, change shape, close or migrate. Cool the jar overnight and photograph again: they return, often somewhere else. Water sealed in a jar does not redistribute around the wall in four minutes and reappear elsewhere by morning. An air gap does, because the wax expands into it and then contracts away again.
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The warmed-jar control — hold humidity constant, change temperatureThis is the test that settles it. Pour two jars side by side: same wax, same batch, same fragrance, same pour temperature, same room, same hour. Warm one to roughly 40–50°C first — an oven on its lowest setting, a bowl of hot water, or the hot air gun played around the inside — and pour the other straight off the shelf. Cool both in the same place, undisturbed, and count the patches at 24 hours and at 7 days. The warmed jar has fewer, and usually smaller. Both breathed identical air at identical humidity, so humidity cannot be the variable — it was not a variable.
One variable at a time, and write it down
The temptation is to warm the jars, slow the cooling, raise the pour temperature and change wax in the same week, then not know which did it. Change one thing, pour at least three jars, and record the wax, pour temperature, ambient temperature, jar and the patch count at 24 hours and 7 days. A fourth variation worth running: leave one jar on bare tile in front of a fan and stand another on a wooden board inside a closed carton — the insulated one comes out with markedly less separation. A weighing scale at ₹354 and a pen thermometer at ₹354 are the whole equipment list.
What humidity does affect in candle making
Humidity is innocent of wet spots and guilty of four other things, all of which cost real money in an Indian monsoon.
Damp air is a genuine operational problem between June and September, and makers who dismiss it because wet spots turned out to be optical go on to lose stock a different way. These four are the real humidity failures. None produces a wet spot. All are cheap to prevent.
1. Wicks absorb moisture if they are stored badly. Cotton is hygroscopic and takes up water until it reaches equilibrium with the room. A wick that sat in a slit-open bag through a coastal August is slow to light, sputters on the first burn, wanders in flame height while the moisture cooks off, and occasionally drowns before it establishes a pool. Makers blame the wax or the load; it is the wick.
Fix: reseal the bag, clip it, keep it in a lidded box with any silica sachet it came with, off the floor and away from outside walls. If a batch feels damp, spread the wicks on a tray in a warm dry room for a day. Then buy the pack size you will use this season — an argument against our own catalogue.
Why bulk-buying wicks in June is a bad idea
Eco Candle Wicks · the per-wick price does not fall with volume
Pack
Thin (C1)
₹ per wick
Thick (C2)
₹ per wick
10 wicks
₹59.00
₹5.90
₹94.40
₹9.44
100 wicks
₹590.00
₹5.90
₹944.00
₹9.44
500 wicks
₹2,950.00
₹5.90
₹4,720.00
₹9.44
1,000 wicks
₹5,900.00
₹5.90
₹9,440.00
₹9.44
Read the per-wick columns. Eco Candle Wicks cost ₹5.90 per wick in Thin (C1) and ₹9.44 in Thick (C2) at every pack size, from ten to a thousand. There is no bulk discount to chase, and the Thick (C2) 10-wick pack is out of stock on the September 2026 pull. So if you pour 60 candles a month, do not buy the 1,000-wick pack in June: you save nothing, you tie up ₹5,900, and you hand a monsoon's worth of damp air a supply of wicks you have not used. Buy 100 at a time — we would rather sell the same thousand across a year than have you blame the wax. Sizing is a separate exercise: the guide by jar diameter is here.
2. Fragrance oil bottles left open. An open bottle on a humid bench takes up atmospheric water and oxygen while losing its most volatile molecules to the room. Over a few weeks you get a flattened top note, sometimes cloudiness, and in citrus or aldehydic oils a stale character no cure time recovers. This is the failure reported as "the oil was weaker than last time" when nothing changed but the storage.
Fix: the cap goes back on between pours, not at the end of the session. Decant a working quantity so the main stock is opened rarely, and store it dark, cool and upright. Size purchases to about six months of use: the fragrance oils collection carries 92 oils in 15g, 50g, 100g, 500g and 1kg, so you can prove a scent at 100g first. Citrus Lemon is ₹300 for 100g against ₹2,832 for 1kg — buying the kilo of a scent you have not sold is how oil goes stale in a cupboard.
3. Packaging and labels. This is where monsoon humidity does the most financial damage and where makers prepare least. Cartons lose stiffness and bow, kraft boxes soften at the corners, printed sleeves cockle, and self-adhesive labels lift within days of being applied to a cold jar in a damp room — the glass is below dew point and a film of condensation sits between label and glass. A candle perfect in every other respect comes back because the label is peeling.
Fix: store flat and sealed in closed polythene inside the carton, off the floor. Never label a jar straight out of a cold store — bring it to room temperature and wipe the glass dry first, and label on the day you dispatch rather than the day you pour. The packaging materials collection runs to 10 products; buy what a month needs.
4. Stored wax bags. Soy flakes and chunks in a bag that has been opened and folded over pick up moisture and airborne odour alike — a studio that smells of fragrance oil transfers that to unwrapped wax. Wet wax announces itself in the melter: it spits and pops, it can throw up pin-holes and a blotchy surface as it sets, and it makes pour temperature harder to hold.
Fix: a bag clip is not a seal. Fold, tape, and put the bag in a lidded bin at least 100 mm off the floor, away from external walls. If you buy in 10 kg — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 per 10 kg, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹5,074 per 10 kg — decant into 1 kg working portions so the bulk bag is opened four times, not forty. How to verify wax quality before you buy covers what good wax looks like in the first place.
Notice what is not on that list. Not one of the four produces a gap between wax and glass. Damp wicks affect the burn, oxidised oil the scent, soft cartons the presentation, wet wax the surface. The jar wall is untouched: once the candle has set, the only thing that can change wax-to-glass contact is the wax moving — which it does for one reason, temperature.
Pouring through a monsoon and into Diwali on 8 November 2026? Wax, wicks and jars are worth ordering as a scheduled block rather than in a panic, and storage advice for your own studio costs nothing. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS or IFRA documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.
Adhesion fails when the wax contracts faster or further than the bond can take, and every genuine cause is a version of that. Cold glass at the moment of pouring is the biggest single factor: the wax against the wall sets instantly and then keeps shrinking. Fast or uneven cooling — a fan, a draught, a stone floor — does the same more slowly. Pour temperature too low gives the wax no time to wet the glass; too high and it shrinks further on the way down. Temperature cycling after the pour, the monsoon effect, breaks bonds that had already formed. And the wax itself matters: natural soy contracts more and bonds less predictably than paraffin, and formulations differ — Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 flakes at ₹260 per 500g are the single-pour container wax in the range, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 at ₹325 per 500g the softer premium tier, and Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399 per kg the simplest one-pour option. The ranked list with a fix for each is in what causes wet spots in candle jars; the mechanism of the bond letting go is in why candle wax pulls away from the glass. This page repeats neither.
Wet spots belong to a family. They sit alongside frosting and the white patches that appear on soy candles: all three are cosmetic consequences of natural soy crystallising the way it does, and all three read as faults to customers who have only ever bought paraffin from a shop. Treat them as one communication problem, not three manufacturing problems. Surface finish is the fourth member of the set — how to get smooth tops on soy candles.
Monsoon storage, the customer script, and what not to buy
Two lists and one paragraph you can copy. Total spend: eighty-three paise a candle, and even that is optional.
Storage first. None of it is about wet spots — it is about the four humidity failures above — but a studio organised this way also runs at a steadier temperature, which is the thing that does reduce wet spots.
Monsoon storage · a candle studio in India, June to September
Five rules, in order of how much they save you
Rule
What it protects
Why
Everything in a sealed bag or lidded bin — wax, wicks, labels, packaging
Wicks, wax, labels, cartons
A folded-over bag is not a seal. Fold, tape, and put it inside something with a lid.
Off the floor by at least 100 mm — pallet, plank on bricks, or the second shelf up
Wax bags, cartons, finished stock
Floors are the coldest surface in the room and the first to run with condensation. Stone and tile are worst.
Away from external walls — leave 50–75 mm of air behind any rack
Finished candles, packaging
An outside wall is cold, damp and swings hardest between day and night.
Cartons closed, part-used ones included, and finished candles boxed with lids on
Finished stock, labels
A closed carton is a small, temperature-stable environment. It buffers the swings that break adhesion.
Decant bulk into working portions — 1 kg from the 10 kg bag, 100 wicks from the 1,000
Wax, wicks
Opening the bulk bag four times instead of forty is the cheapest humidity control there is.
Now the customer side, which matters more than any of it. A wet spot is not a manufacturing failure — it is a message you have not sent yet. Customers who have only bought mass-market paraffin reach the same conclusion you first did: water has got into my candle. Answer it before they ask.
The mark you can see between the wax and the glass is a small pocket of air, not moisture. Natural soy wax shrinks slightly as it sets and lifts away from the glass in places. It does not affect the scent, the burn or the life of your candle, and it often disappears once the candle has been lit.
— the paragraph for your product page, and the first line of any reply to a customer who asks
The care-card line, and what it costs
Cut it to one sentence for the card in the box: "Small clear patches between the wax and the glass are pockets of air, not moisture — normal in natural soy, and they do not affect the burn." That prints onto the Candle Care Stickers Roll at ₹413 for 500 in the 1 inch size — ₹0.83 a candle — or ₹699 for 1,000 in the 1.5 inch size, which is ₹0.70 each. One refund or one replacement shipment costs more than the whole roll.
There is a design decision available too, and it is not a fix. Wet spots are a visibility problem as much as a physical one: a gap in an opaque jar is invisible, and the same gap in clear glass is the first thing anyone notices. White Matte Glass Jars at ₹354 per pack of 5 — ₹70.80 each — hide it completely, and the containers collection runs to 80 products, most of them opaque or frosted. The Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid 150g at ₹944 per 10 — ₹94.40 each — shows everything, which is why it looks good full of amber wax and why it will show you every patch. Choose the jar for the product, not to hide a cosmetic effect, then write the sentence.
Argued against our own interest: do not buy anything for this. You do not need a dehumidifier for your studio, you do not need an anti-humidity additive, and you do not need a drying agent for your wax. No additive in the CSI catalogue is sold as a wet-spot cure — Vybar at ₹156 per 50g is a candle additive, not a moisture treatment, and buying it hoping to close an air gap is money spent on the wrong mechanism. Wet spots respond to temperature, and the two interventions that work are free: warm the jar before you pour, and let the candle cool slowly and undisturbed at a stable room temperature. The only tool worth owning is a hot air gun at ₹531, which warms jars and re-levels tops — and even that is optional, since an oven on its lowest setting does the same job. If pour temperature drifts between jars because you are melting real volume, a Mini Electric Wax Melter at ₹2,360 holds it steady, but buy that for consistency, not for wet spots.
A wet spot costs nothing in materials and everything in confidence — yours, when you bin a saleable jar, and your customer's, when they see something they cannot explain. Neither is a chemistry problem. Warm your jars, slow your cooling, box your stock, print the sentence. If you are still building the process, the complete raw material list covers what belongs on the bench and how to price candles in India in 2026 covers what a discarded jar really costs.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On a page like this one the commercially convenient position would be that wet spots are a moisture problem with a product-shaped solution — a dehumidifier, an additive, a special wax. We are telling you the opposite: buy nothing, warm your jars, and print a sentence on a care card. The four humidity failures further up are the ones worth spending on, and even there the advice is to buy smaller and more often.
Every price and pack size quoted here is taken from live CSI stock on 10 September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing, specification and availability always take precedence. The optical explanation is standard physics — reflection at a boundary rises with the difference between the two materials, and glass against air is a far larger difference than glass against solid wax. The monsoon argument is a claim about confounded variables, and the warmed-jar control in the tests section is the experiment that tests it. Run it yourself before you accept it.
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Frequently asked questions
Are candle wet spots actually water or moisture?
No. A wet spot is a thin pocket of air between the wax and the inside of the glass, formed where the wax contracted away from the wall as it set. There is no water in it. It looks damp because air reflects far more light at the glass boundary than wax in contact with glass does, so the patch has a different sheen from the wax around it — and sheen contrast is how the human eye judges wetness. Tip the wax out and touch the face behind the patch: it is dry, and a tissue pressed to it picks up nothing.
Do wet spots affect the scent, the burn or the life of the candle?
No. They are purely cosmetic. The wax composition, the fragrance load, the wick and the burn behaviour are all unchanged — the only thing that has happened is that a small area of wax is no longer touching the glass. The candle burns for the same length of time and throws the same scent. It is in the same category as frosting and white patches on soy: a characteristic of natural soy wax, not a defect. Sell the candle and explain it.
Why do I get so many more wet spots during the monsoon?
Because the monsoon changes four things that matter and one that does not. Day-to-night temperature swings widen, floors and outside walls run cold, fans run constantly, and ambient temperature at the pour drops on rainy days — all four attack the bond between wax and glass. Relative humidity also rises, and it is the one variable with no route to the wall of a sealed, set candle. The correlation with the rains is real; the causal link to humidity is not.
Will a dehumidifier in my studio stop wet spots?
No, and we would rather you did not buy one for this reason. The test that shows why costs nothing: pour two identical jars in the same room on the same day, warming one before you fill it. Both jars experience exactly the same humidity, and the warmed jar comes out with fewer spots. If humidity were the cause, that difference could not exist. Spend the money on stable storage and a way of warming jars instead.
Can a wet spot disappear on its own?
Frequently, yes — which is itself evidence that it is not water. Warm the jar and the wax expands into the gap, so the patch shrinks, moves or closes. Cool it again and patches reappear, often in different places. Most usefully, the first burn closes many of them, because the melt pool re-wets the glass at the top of the jar and re-adheres as it sets. Tell customers this; it converts a complaint into a piece of interesting information about how natural wax behaves.
Does the choice of jar make wet spots better or worse?
It changes how visible they are, not how often they happen. Opaque and matte jars such as White Matte Glass Jars at ₹70.80 each in a pack of 5 hide a gap entirely; clear glass shows every one. That is a presentation decision, not a fix, and the CSI containers collection carries 80 products across both. What genuinely reduces the gap in any jar is warming the glass before you pour and letting the candle cool slowly, undisturbed, at a stable temperature.
Air, not water
Stop treating a lighting effect as a manufacturing fault.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260/500g, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299/500g, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325/500g, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg, 80 containers in the jars collection and Candle Care Stickers at ₹413 per 500. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the optical explanation, the bench tests and the storage rules apply to any supplier's materials. The ranked causes of wet spots and the adhesion mechanism itself are covered on separate pages and are deliberately not repeated here.
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, and all six are recorded by Judge.me as verified buyers. They are general reviews of CSI wax, jars and fragrance oils — none of them refers to wet spots, and none should be read as a comment on this topic. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and is otherwise unedited. Judge.me does not store buyer locations, so no city is shown.
Figures verified from CSI live pricing, September 2026 (pull date 10 September 2026): Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 flakes ₹260 / 500g and ₹5,074 / 10kg · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299 / 500g and ₹5,999 / 10kg · Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹325 / 500g · Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 / 1kg · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10, ₹295 / 50, ₹590 / 100, ₹2,950 / 500 and ₹5,900 / 1,000, all at ₹5.90 per wick, and Thick (C2) ₹94.40 / 10, ₹188.80 / 20, ₹472 / 50, ₹944 / 100, ₹4,720 / 500 and ₹9,440 / 1,000, all at ₹9.44 per wick, with the Thick (C2) 10-wick pack out of stock on the pull date · Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413 per 500 in 1 inch (₹0.83 each) and ₹699 per 1,000 in 1.5 inch (₹0.70 each) · White Matte Glass Jar ₹354 per pack of 5 (₹70.80 each) · Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid 150g ₹944 per pack of 10 (₹94.40 each) · Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil ₹300 / 100g and ₹2,832 / 1kg · Hot Air Gun ₹531 · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 · Mini Electric Wax Melter (1 litre) ₹2,360 · Vybar Additive ₹156 / 50g · Containers For Candle Making collection 80 products · Fragrance Oils collection 92 products · Packaging Materials collection 10 products. The 0.33 cm³ air-gap figure is an illustrative calculation for a 200g candle in a 70 mm jar assuming a quarter of a 130 cm² wall lifted at an average 0.1 mm — it is arithmetic, not a measurement. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
