Is My Candle Tunnelling Because the Wick Is Too Small?
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Candle Troubleshooting · Tunnelling
Usually yes. But "usually" is not a diagnosis, and buying a bigger wick before you have measured anything is how a maker ends up with two wrong wick sizes instead of one. Here is how to tell in three hours, and what the proof costs.
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Quick answers — read this first
Is the wick the reason my candle is tunnelling? Probably — an undersized wick is the most common single cause. But prove it before you buy anything, because three other causes produce an identical-looking tunnel and none of them is fixed by a bigger wick.
What are the three signs it really is the wick? The pool stalls well short of the wall after three hours and then stops growing; the flame is small, short and steady; the wick drowns, leans into the wax or self-extinguishes.
What are the three signs it is not? The first burn was cut short before the pool reached the wall; the wax is the wrong grade for the vessel; there is a draught, a fan or an air conditioner pulling heat sideways off the flame.
What does the test cost? Three jars, same wax, same load, wick sizes stepped up. ₹867.18 of consumed materials — ₹1,692.20 if you have to buy every pack from scratch. Cheaper than a 500-unit run made with the wrong wick.
The short answer
Check the burn history first, because it is free. If the candle's first burn was blown out before the pool reached the glass, the tunnel is memory, not wick size. No purchase fixes that.
Then read the three wick signs: a pool that stalls short of the wall by hour three, a small flame, and a wick that drowns or goes out. All three together is a wick problem. One on its own is not.
Then run the three-jar test: same wax, same load, same jar, one wick size up. Full cure. Measure pool diameter at one, two and three hours and write it down.
Target a full pool in 2–3 hours with a clean flame — not the biggest wick that reaches the wall. Oversizing swaps tunnelling for soot, mushrooming and burnt-off top notes.
The third bar is the point most makers miss. Going past the correct size does not buy you a wider pool — the pool cannot get wider than the jar. It only buys you a faster route to the wall and a hotter jar once you are there, which is soot, mushrooming and top notes burnt off. Bar lengths are illustrative of the pattern; run the test in your own jar with your own wax to get your own numbers.
Is my candle tunnelling because the wick is too small?
Probably — but prove it before you buy anything. An undersized wick is the single most common cause of tunnelling, and it is the one most makers land on correctly. It is also the one that costs money to act on, which is exactly why it should be the conclusion of a test rather than the opening guess. Three findings together point at the wick: the melt pool stalls well short of the glass after three hours and stops growing; the flame is small and short rather than tall and lively; and the wick drowns, leans or self-extinguishes in its own pool. Three other findings point somewhere else entirely: a first burn that was cut short before the pool reached the wall, a wax grade wrong for the vessel, and a draught from a fan, a window or an air conditioner. Check the burn history first because it is free and it is very often the answer. If the signs still point at the wick, run the confirming test below — three jars, same wax, same load, same jar, one size up — and read the pool diameter at one, two and three hours. If the bigger wick reaches the wall and burns clean, the wick was the cause. The wider cause list is in why is my candle tunnelling; the repair for candles already tunnelled is in how to fix candle tunnelling.
One line: the wick is the most likely cause and the most expensive one to guess at — so read the burn history, read the three signs, then spend ₹867.18 proving it rather than ₹1,770 acting on a hunch across 500 candles.
The whole confirming test needs three wicks, three jars and 600 g of wax. Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹59 for 10, Thick (C2) at ₹188.80 for 20, and Cotton Braided Wicks at ₹120 for 10 cover the three steps on the ladder.
Every tunnel looks the same from the top. What separates the causes is not the hole in the wax — it is the flame, the clock and the history of the burn.
A tunnel burns straight down a narrow core and leaves a wall of unburnt wax on the glass. By the time you are looking at it the evidence of the cause is gone, so the diagnosis has to come from three other places: the flame, the pool measured against the clock, and the history of the first burn. Start with the case for the wick — and note that the three findings below have to appear together. Any one alone has other explanations, and acting on one alone is how makers buy the wrong wick twice.
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The pool stalls well short of the wall after three hoursThe primary sign, and the only one that is a measurement rather than an impression. Light the candle, leave it alone, and lay a ruler across the jar at one, two and three hours. An undersized wick opens the pool quickly in the first hour, slowly in the second, then stops — the diameter at three hours matches the diameter at two. That plateau is the signature. A pool still creeping outward at hour three is slow, not stalled, and slow is usually wax grade or room temperature.
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The flame is small, short and unnaturally steadyAn undersized wick cannot draw enough fuel for a full flame, so it settles into a low, almost motionless teardrop. It looks tidy, and makers often record it as a "clean burn" — which is why this failure survives so long in a range. Set it beside a candle you know is correctly wicked and the difference is obvious. If the flame is tall, mobile and throwing a tip of smoke, the wick is not too small; you have the opposite problem.
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The wick drowns, leans into the wax or puts itself outThe end state is that the small pool the wick managed to make floods it. The flame sinks below the wax level, the wick leans towards the wall it never reached, and it goes out on its own. A customer reporting "it keeps going out" and one reporting "it burns down the middle" are usually reporting the same fault. A load pushed past the wax's stated ceiling makes it worse, because the wick is then drawing oil as well as wax — up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464, both wax-manufacturer formulation limits rather than regulatory ones.
Now the case against. Each of the three below produces a tunnel that is indistinguishable by eye, and a bigger wick fixes none of them. Rule all three out before you spend anything.
Fail: the first burn was cut short. Container wax has a memory. Whatever diameter the pool reaches on the first burn is the diameter it returns to afterwards, because the standing wall is now a cold ring the flame must melt from scratch each time. A customer who lights a new candle for forty minutes and blows it out has set the tunnel permanently. Fix: a label, not a purchase. One line on a candle care sticker at ₹413 per 500 (₹0.83 each) removes more tunnelling complaints than any wick change. Before re-wicking a range, check whether the reports come from customers or from your own bench — if only from customers, this is your cause.
Fail: the wax grade is wrong for the vessel. A wax built for pillars holds its shape and releases from a form, which is the opposite of what a container needs; in a jar it resists melting outward and tunnels behind even a generous wick. Soy Pillar Wax at ₹600 per kg is excellent in a mould and wrong in a 70 mm jar. Fix: move to a container grade — CSI 464 flakes at ₹507.40 per kg, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599 per kg or Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399 per kg — then re-test the wick, because a different wax is a different pool. The wax, wick, jar or formula matrix is here.
Fail: there is a draught. A flame beside an open window, under a fan or in an air-conditioning stream leans, and a leaning flame pushes heat sideways instead of down into the wax. Fix: free. Repeat the burn in a closed room with no draught; if the pool reaches the wall this time, print it on the care card rather than change the wick. The lopsided pool is diagnostic on its own — genuine undersizing tunnels concentrically, not off to one side.
The free check, done first
Did this candle's first burn go all the way to the wall? If you cannot answer that for a returned jar you cannot diagnose it — only a fresh candle from the same batch, burned properly on your own bench. Diagnose the batch, not the jar that came back.
The confirming test: three jars, one size up
The method is deliberately narrow: same wax, same fragrance load, same jar, same cure, same room — only the wick changes. Vary two things and you get a result you cannot repeat. One variable, three jars, one evening.
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Pour three identical jars from one meltSame jar product, internal diameter measured across the mouth and written down in millimetres. Same wax from the same bag, weighed on a scale at ₹354. Same oil at the same load, added at the same temperature off a pen thermometer at ₹354. One melt, three jars, so the batch cannot differ.
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Wick them A, B, C — current, one up, two upA takes the wick you use now: your control. B takes one size up, C the next step after that. Centre each with a wick centering device at ₹118 for 5 and fix it with a wick sticker at ₹2.50 — off-centre invalidates the test, because it reaches one wall long before the other. Mark the bases before you pour.
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Cure fully before you light anythingA candle burned two days after pouring is not the candle you sell: the wax structure is still settling, the pool behaves differently, and an early test can send you up a size you do not need. Cure with lids on, out of sunlight, and burn at the age your production candles reach the customer.
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Burn all three side by side and measure at 1, 2 and 3 hoursSame room, same table, no fan, door closed, nothing else burning. Lay a ruler across each jar at each checkpoint and read the widest part of the liquid pool. Record flame height, soot on the glass and whether a mushroom has formed. Three hours is the cut-off: a candle that has not reached the wall by then will not.
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Read the result against one ruleIf B reaches the wall inside two to three hours with a clean flame and A does not, the wick was the cause and B is your size. If B reaches the wall but soots, mushrooms or heats the glass, B is too big and the answer sits between A and B — usually a different wick family. If neither B nor C reaches the wall, the wick was never the problem; look at the wax, the jar or the load.
The record sheet · print one per test
Fill it in at the bench, at the checkpoint, not from memory afterwards
Jar
Wick
Pool at 1 h
Pool at 2 h
Pool at 3 h
Flame & residue
Verdict
A — control
Current size
__ mm
__ mm
__ mm
Height __ mm · soot Y/N · mushroom Y/N
Reached wall? Y/N
B — one up
Next size
__ mm
__ mm
__ mm
Height __ mm · soot Y/N · mushroom Y/N
Reached wall? Y/N
C — two up
Next family
__ mm
__ mm
__ mm
Height __ mm · soot Y/N · mushroom Y/N
Reached wall? Y/N
Constant
Jar internal diameter __ mm · wax and pack __ · fill weight __ g · fragrance and load __ % · add temperature __ °C · pour date __ · burn date __ · room temperature __ °C
The bottom row is the one makers skip and the one that makes the sheet worth keeping: a pool diameter with no jar diameter beside it compares to nothing, and a burn date with no pour date hides the cure. File the sheets by jar size and after three or four you stop testing wicks for new scents at all, because you already know what a 70 mm jar in your wax needs.
What the test costs · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Three 200 g candles at an 8% load, priced two ways
Two notes. The Thick (C2) 10-wick pack was out of stock on the September 2026 pull, so the smallest buyable C2 quantity is the 20-pack at ₹188.80; the per-wick price is ₹9.44 either way. And if you already run candles you hold most of this, so the genuinely new spend is three wicks and three stickers, ₹34.84. Re-wicking a 500-unit run on a guess and getting it wrong costs you the run.
What "too small" actually means
"Too small" is not a description of the wick. It is a description of a heat balance that does not close, and the wick is only one term in it. Understanding the balance is what lets you predict which changes will help.
A candle flame is a heater of roughly fixed output. The wick draws liquid wax up by capillary action, the flame vaporises and burns it, and the heat produced per minute is set by how much wax the wick can deliver per minute — which is set by its thickness and construction. A thicker wick is a bigger fuel pipe, and therefore a bigger heater. That is the whole of what wick size does.
That heat then has to travel outward to melt the next ring of wax. Wax is a poor conductor, so it moves slowly and mostly through the liquid pool. Meanwhile heat leaks away in two directions the whole time: into the glass, which touches the wax and is itself losing heat to the air, and into the room, off the pool surface and the outside of the jar.
The mechanism, in one balance
The pool grows until the heat arriving at the melt front equals the heat lost to the glass and the room. Wherever that happens is where the pool stops.
If the flame's output is high enough that equilibrium falls outside the jar, so the pool reaches the wall before it can stall. If the output is too low it falls inside the jar and the pool stops short of the glass however long you leave it. That stalled radius is the tunnel — not a slow full melt but a stable state, and time does not fix it.
Three consequences follow, and each explains a piece of tunnelling behaviour that otherwise looks random. First, a wider jar needs a disproportionately bigger wick, because the heat must reach further outward while the losses grow with the surface area of the glass — 55 mm to 70 mm is not a 27% harder problem. Second, cold rooms tunnel more. A candle that melts fully in a Chennai living room in May can stall in a Shimla one in January, because the loss term is larger and no wick change was involved. Third, the tunnel deepens itself. Once a wall of solid wax stands above the flame, the flame sits lower, radiates less heat sideways and loses more of it up the chimney the wall has created, so the equilibrium radius shrinks with every burn. That is why a mild tunnel becomes a severe one over four or five lights.
It is also why "leave it burning longer" is never the answer. Once the pool has stalled the balance has closed, and hour six looks like hour three with more wax gone down the middle.
The commercial cost is easy to state. A 200 g candle in a 70 mm jar has a full melt pool of about 38.5 cm². A tunnel stalled at 38 mm across is about 11.3 cm², roughly 29% of the available surface — so around 70% of the wax never burns. On a 184 g wax fill at ₹599 per kg plus 16 g of Sandalwood at ₹5.03 per gram at 1 kg pricing, that is roughly ₹133 of wax and fragrance per candle that the customer pays for and never smells. It is also a candle the customer will not reorder.
Sizing a wick for an unusual jar, or moving a whole range up a step before a festive run? Send us the internal diameter in millimetres, the wax and the fill weight and we will tell you where to start testing. Bulk pricing and GST invoicing on the same thread.
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Read this before you convert a size from anywhere else
CSI publishes relative sizing, not an absolute standard. "Thin (C1)" and "Thick (C2)" tell you which of the two Eco wicks is larger. They are not calibrated against ECO-2, CD-8, LX-16 or any other series, so a chart written for another brand will not transfer — and neither will a CSI size taken the other way. The only reliable conversion is a burn test in your own jar, wax and fill weight.
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The default ladder · two steps
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2)
Where most container makers start, and where the "one size up" move usually happens: C1 to C2 is the single step available inside this product. Pre-tabbed, and the cheapest per piece in the catalogue at ₹5.90 for C1 at every pack size. If C2 also stalls, the honest read is that you have run out of ladder here and need a different family, not another rung.
A different construction rather than another rung, which is what you want when C2 has not closed the gap. Flat braided cotton curls as it burns, trimming its own tip and holding the flame steadier. Test it as the third jar rather than assuming it sits neatly above C2 — construction and thickness are separate variables.
A wooden wick is not "a bigger cotton wick". It burns as a line rather than a point, giving a wide, shallow, fast-opening pool and the crackle customers pay for — useful in wide jars, and easy to over-wick with, because the pool opens fast and then keeps heating the glass. It is also the most expensive wick in the catalogue at ₹41.30 to ₹59.00 each. Do not reach for it as a tunnelling fix; reach for it when you want a wooden-wick product and will re-test the jar, wax and load around it.
The maker who fixes tunnelling by fitting the biggest wick that reaches the wall has not fixed the candle. They have traded one complaint for four.
The temptation is to keep climbing, because the failure you are escaping is visible and the one you are walking into takes a few burns to appear. Name the four: customers report them in words that do not obviously connect back to a wick change.
Over-wicking · the four failures and how they reach you
What the customer says, and what is actually happening
Failure
What the customer reports
Mechanism
Soot
"It's leaving black marks on the glass and on my wall"
More fuel is drawn than the flame can burn completely, so unburnt carbon leaves as smoke and deposits on the jar and the ceiling above it
Mushrooming
"There's a black ball on the end of the wick and it keeps popping"
Carbon builds on the wick tip because it is fed faster than it burns; the ball glows, spits and sheds debris into the pool
A hot jar
"I can't pick it up" — or, worse, a cracked vessel
The pool is deeper and hotter than the glass was designed for. A safety issue, not a cosmetic one, and it ends product runs
Burnt-off top notes
"It smelled lovely at first and now it just smells hot"
An over-hot pool drives volatile top notes off far too quickly, so the fragrance flattens inside the first hour and the rest of the burn smells of base notes and warm wax
The last is the cruellest, because it arrives disguised as a fragrance problem: the maker buys a stronger oil when the oil was never at fault and the pool is simply cooking it. Never make a wick change and a fragrance judgement in the same batch — choosing the oil is a separate decision from sizing the wick.
The target, stated exactly
A full melt pool in two to three hours with a clean, steady flame. Not the biggest wick that reaches the wall.
Two hours is fast enough that a normal evening burn completes the pool. Three hours is slow enough that the glass never gets dangerous and the top notes survive. Anything under about ninety minutes should make you suspicious even if burn one looks perfect.
There is also a pool-depth effect that only shows up later. A slightly over-sized wick that behaves on burn one behaves worse on burn five, because the wax level has dropped, the flame sits down inside the jar and the glass retains far more heat. Judging a wick on burn one is the second commonest testing mistake after judging it before the cure. If a candle passes the three-hour test, burn one test jar all the way down before committing to production — another evening, no money.
The right wick is the smallest one that reaches the wall in time. Everything above it is heat you are paying for and the customer is complaining about.
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One last argument against our own interest. Check the burn history before you buy a single wick. We sell wicks, and we would rather sell you the right one once than the wrong one twice. In a meaningful share of the tunnelling cases that reach us on WhatsApp the candle was correctly wicked and the first burn was simply cut short — by the maker during a rushed test, or by the customer on a weeknight. That costs ₹0 to diagnose and ₹0.83 a sticker to prevent. If the wick really is the cause, the test above says so in three hours and you can spend with confidence. Still narrowing it down? Work through the wax, wick, jar or formula matrix first, then use the wick guide by jar diameter to pick a starting point.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On a page about wick sizing that is worth saying plainly, because the commercially convenient advice would be "buy the bigger wick". We have instead put a free diagnostic ahead of the purchase, priced the test at ₹867.18 in consumed materials, and told you that wooden wicks — our most expensive wick at ₹41.30 to ₹59.00 each — are the wrong tool for a tunnelling problem.
Every price on this page is taken from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. Stock changes: the Eco Thick (C2) 10-wick pack was out of stock on the pull date and is flagged as such above. The fragrance ceilings quoted — 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.
CSI wick sizing is relative, not absolute: Thin (C1) and Thick (C2) describe how the two Eco wicks compare with each other, and do not map onto any other manufacturer's numbering. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation, or help choosing a starting wick for a specific jar diameter, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Is a small wick always the reason a candle tunnels?
No, but it is the most common single reason. Three findings together make the case: the pool stalls well short of the wall by hour three, the flame is small and short, and the wick drowns or self-extinguishes. Three others point elsewhere: a first burn cut short before the pool reached the glass, a wax grade meant for pillars rather than containers, and a draught. Check the burn history first — it costs nothing and it is often the answer.
How do I test whether the wick is too small?
Pour three identical jars from one melt — same wax, same fill weight, same fragrance load, same jar. Wick jar A with your current size, B one size up, C one further up. Cure them fully, then burn all three side by side in a still, closed room and measure the pool diameter at one, two and three hours. If B reaches the wall inside two to three hours with a clean flame and A does not, the wick was the cause. Record every reading at the bench, not from memory.
What does that test cost at CSI pricing?
₹867.18 of consumed materials for three 200 g candles at an 8% load: ₹212.40 of White Matte Glass Jars at ₹70.80 each, ₹359.40 of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599 per kg, ₹260.54 of Sandalwood, ₹27.34 of wicks and ₹7.50 of stickers. Buying every pack from scratch is ₹1,692.20. If you already hold stock, the new spend is about ₹34.84.
Which CSI wick is one size up from Eco Thin (C1)?
Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2), at ₹9.44 per wick against ₹5.90 — a difference of ₹3.54 per candle. That is the only step available inside the Eco product. If C2 still stalls, change family rather than climb further: Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made at ₹12.00 each are the next thing to test. CSI sizing is relative, so C1 and C2 do not correspond to any other brand's size codes.
Can a wick be too big, and what happens if it is?
Yes, and the failures are worse than tunnelling. An over-sized wick soots the glass and the wall above it, mushrooms a carbon ball onto the wick tip, heats the jar to the point of discomfort or cracking, and drives the top notes off within the first hour so the candle smells flat for the rest of its life. The correct target is a full pool in two to three hours with a clean flame — not the biggest wick that reaches the wall.
Will burning the candle for longer fix a tunnel?
No. Once the pool has stalled, the heat arriving at the melt front equals the heat lost to the glass and the room, and that is a stable state — hour six looks like hour three with more wax gone down the middle. Only more heat at the flame or less loss at the edges moves it. For candles that have already tunnelled, the recovery methods are in how to fix candle tunnelling.
Prove it, then buy it
Three jars. One variable. Three hours. Then you know.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the three-sign diagnostic, the three-jar test protocol, the record sheet and the heat-balance explanation apply to any supplier's materials.
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 the wording is unedited. They are general reviews of CSI wicks and wick tools, not accounts of fixing a tunnelling candle — no reviewer on this page is describing a wick-size change. Monika Deep (4★, Eco Candle Wicks), Subhankar Roy (4★, Eco Candle Wicks) and Sneha Tamang (5★, Premium Candle Wicking Needle) are recorded by Judge.me as verified buyers; Ashwini (5★, Eco Candle Wicks), LJ (5★, Premium Candle Wicking Needle) and Lalitha Jagan (5★, Bamboo Wick Holder) are published reviews that Judge.me does not record as verified, and are not badged as such.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing): Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59.00/10, ₹118.00/20, ₹295.00/50, ₹590.00/100, ₹2,950.00/500, ₹5,900.00/1000 — ₹5.90 per wick at every pack size; Thick (C2) ₹188.80/20, ₹472.00/50, ₹944.00/100, ₹4,720.00/500, ₹9,440.00/1000 — ₹9.44 per wick, with the 10-wick C2 pack out of stock on the pull date. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120.00/10 to ₹12,000.00/1000, ₹12.00 per wick throughout. Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) ₹590.00/10 (₹59.00 each), ₹2,360.00/50 (₹47.20), ₹4,130.00/100 (₹41.30). Eco Braided Wicks 5 m ₹472.00, 10 m ₹826.00. Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch diameter) 5 m ₹413.00, 10 m ₹708.00. Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs, 61 m, ₹706.82 (₹11.59/m). Wick Centering Device ₹118.00 per 5 (₹23.60 each). Candle Wick Stickers ₹100.00 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each). Wick Setting Tool ₹399.00. Wick Inserter, Steel Straw ₹59.00. Bamboo Wick Holder ₹118.00 per 5. Steel Wick Holder ₹250.00 per 5. Candle Wick Cutter / Trimmer ₹177.00. Pen Thermometer ₹354.00. Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00. Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413.00 per 500 (₹0.83 each). White Matte Glass Jar ₹354.00 per pack of 5 (₹70.80 each). Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599.00/kg; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 flakes ₹507.40/kg and ₹260.00/500 g; Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399.00/kg; Soy Pillar Wax ₹600.00/kg. Sandalwood Fragrance Oil ₹271.40/50 g and ₹5,026.80/1 kg (₹5.03/g). The Candle Wicks collection holds 7 products and Candle Accessories 65. Test costing: three 200 g candles at an 8% fragrance load = 552 g wax and 48 g oil; wax is costed at 600 g to allow for pitcher losses. Consumed value ₹867.18, full pack outlay ₹1,692.20. Melt-pool arithmetic: a 70 mm internal diameter gives about 38.5 cm² of full pool and a 38 mm stalled pool about 11.3 cm², so roughly 70% of the fill is stranded — about ₹133 of wax and fragrance per candle at the prices above. Diagram bar lengths illustrate the pattern; they are not measurements from a specific batch. Fragrance ceilings: up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 are wax-manufacturer formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Wick sizing: CSI publishes relative sizing (Thin/Thick, C1/C2) rather than an absolute cross-brand standard, so sizes do not transfer between manufacturers. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
