My Candle Has Perfect Glass Adhesion on One Side but Large Wet Spots on the Other — What Could Cause Uneven Wax Contraction?
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A one-sided gap is the most informative version of this defect, because it rules out everything that would have affected the whole jar equally. The wax, the oil, the load and the pour temperature were the same all the way round. What was not the same was how fast each face of that jar lost heat — and the way to find out is to stop treating the jar as one object and start scoring it as four.
4 faces
mark N, E, S and W on the base of every jar and a one-sided gap becomes a repeatable measurement instead of bad luck · 8-jar orientation test from ₹2,255 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why can one side pull away and not the other? Because contraction follows cooling, and cooling is rarely even. A face next to a fan, an open window, a cold stone surface or the outer edge of a crowded tray loses heat faster than the face beside it, and the wax behind it stiffens sooner and under more stress.Is the wax at fault? Unlikely, and a one-sided pattern is the evidence. One pot of wax poured into one jar cannot be good on the east face and bad on the west. Asymmetry points at conditions, not at raw material.
How do I prove it? Mark four faces on the base of every jar, record which faces gap, then pour a second batch with half the jars rotated 180°. If the gaps follow the room, you have a draught or a surface problem. If they follow the mark on the jar, you have a jar or a handling problem.
And remember what the patch is. It is not wet. It is an air gap where the wax has contracted off the glass, and it looks dark because light reflects at two surfaces there instead of one.
The short answer
Asymmetry is a gift: a defect that affects one face only has already eliminated the wax, the oil, the load and the pour temperature as sole causes, because those were identical across the whole jar.
Score four faces, not one jar: N, E, S and W on the base with a marker, and a column per face in your log. Twelve jars suddenly give you forty-eight observations instead of twelve.
The rotation test is the one that settles it: same pot, same minute, half the jars turned 180°. Gaps that stay with the room mean conditions; gaps that travel with the jar mean the jar or your hands.
In this guide
The jar map and the tray map are the same idea at two scales. An outer jar has an exposed face; an inner jar does not. Record both — the face letter and the tray position — for every candle in a test batch, and one-sided gapping stops being mysterious within one afternoon.
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Straight answer
What could make wax contract away from one side of a jar and not the other?
Uneven cooling, in almost every case — and the asymmetry itself is your proof. Soy contracts as it solidifies, and where a face of the glass is colder, the wax behind it stiffens earlier and under more stress than the wax a few centimetres away. The likely candidates are all conditions, not materials: a fan or air-conditioning draught striking one side; the jar sitting at the outer edge of a crowded tray with one face exposed and the others shielded by neighbours; a cold stone, steel or tile surface in contact with part of the base; a window, a doorway or a cold external wall; direct sun warming one side while the other sits in shade; or, less often, a fingerprint or residue on a particular stretch of inner wall where the wax never bonded at all. What you can rule out straight away is the wax, the fragrance oil, the load and the pour temperature as sole causes, because all four were identical around the full circumference of that jar. That matters commercially, because the wax is the expensive change. The way to separate the remaining candidates is cheap and takes one afternoon: mark four faces on each jar base, log which faces gap across a batch, then repeat with half the jars rotated 180° — same pot, same minute. If the gaps stay in the same part of the room, the room is doing it. If they travel with the mark, the jar or your handling is. Pour the comparison in clear glass such as the 200ml Salsa Glass Jar at ₹40.12 in fives, because you cannot score a face you cannot see.
One line: one-sided gapping is a cooling map, not a wax fault — mark four faces, log them, then rotate half the batch and see whether the pattern follows the room or the jar.
The orientation test needs cheap clear glass and a thermometer you can point at a surface and at the air. 200ml Salsa Glass Jars at ₹40.12 each in fives and a Pen Thermometer at ₹354 cover both.
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Why a jar cools unevenly in the first place
A cooling candle is a small heat problem sitting in a large room, and rooms are not symmetrical.
Think about where the heat in a freshly poured jar actually goes. Some leaves upward from the open top surface. Some leaves downward through the base into whatever the jar is standing on. The rest leaves sideways through the glass into the air around it — and that sideways path is the one that differs from face to face. Air moving past a surface carries heat away far more effectively than still air does, which is why a draught on one side is such an efficient way to produce a one-sided defect.
Now add the things that sit next to a jar in a real workshop. A neighbouring jar, itself full of hot wax, is a warm object: a face pointing at it stays warmer for longer. A jar at the edge of a tray has one or two faces pointing at open air instead. A granite counter or a steel table takes heat out of the base quickly and unevenly if the jar is not sitting flat. An open window in October in Delhi, a pedestal fan in Chennai, a split-AC unit blowing across a shelf in Bengaluru — each of them is a direction, and the wax records it.
Here is the part worth internalising: soy keeps contracting after it looks set, so the face that cooled fastest is often not where the gap appears first — it is where the wax has had the least chance to settle against the glass before it hardened. That is ordinary material behaviour and it is as far as anybody can honestly take it, because no rate, coefficient or threshold temperature for this is published anywhere in CSI's range and this guide will not invent one. What you can do is treat the pattern as data and the room as the variable.
The mistake: concluding "uneven wax" and ordering a different bag. It is the single most expensive misreading of this symptom. One pot of melted wax poured into one jar is chemically identical on every face — it cannot be defective on the west side. If the next batch, poured from a new bag, happens to look better, you will have paid ₹5,074 for 10 kg of CSI 464 or ₹6,370 for 10 kg of CSI 468 to move your pouring day to a different weather pattern, and you will then have to re-test the wick and the load on the new wax as well. Score the faces first. The wax change is the last move on the list, not the first.
The four-face map and the score sheet
This is the whole method, and it costs a marker pen. Before you pour, write N on the base of each jar and then E, S and W clockwise from it. Keep every N pointing the same way on the tray — towards the window, the vent, the door, whatever your suspected source is. Then score each face separately after cooling. One jar becomes four observations, and a batch of twelve becomes forty-eight.
Face score sheet · one row per jar, one column per face
A worked example from an eight-jar batch with all N faces pointing at a wall-mounted fan
| Jar | Tray position | N (facing the fan) | E | S | W | Face score 0–3 each |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outer, corner | Large patch | Faint edge | Clean | Faint edge | 3 · 1 · 0 · 1 |
| 2 | Outer, corner | Large patch | Clean | Clean | Faint edge | 3 · 0 · 0 · 1 |
| 3 | Outer, edge | Two patches | Clean | Clean | Clean | 2 · 0 · 0 · 0 |
| 4 | Outer, edge | One patch | Faint edge | Clean | Clean | 2 · 1 · 0 · 0 |
| 5 | Inner, shielded | Faint edge | Clean | Clean | Clean | 1 · 0 · 0 · 0 |
| 6 | Inner, shielded | Clean | Clean | Clean | Clean | 0 · 0 · 0 · 0 |
| 7 | Outer, edge | One patch | Clean | Clean | Faint edge | 2 · 0 · 0 · 1 |
| 8 | Outer, corner | Large patch | Faint edge | Clean | Clean | 3 · 1 · 0 · 0 |
| Face totals | 16 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Scale: 0 clean · 1 faint edge · 2 one patch · 3 large or multiple |
Read the bottom row. A total of 16 on N against 3, 0 and 3 elsewhere is not a wax result — it is a direction. And notice the two inner jars: shielded on every side by their neighbours, they scored 1 and 0. That is the same information arriving by a second route. This example is a worked illustration of how to fill the sheet, not a published result: your own totals are the only ones that mean anything, because they describe your room.
Score the face, not the candle
A single "good or bad" verdict per candle throws away three quarters of what you observed and makes every batch look like luck. Use a 0–3 scale per face — 0 clean, 1 a faint edge, 2 one defined patch, 3 large or multiple patches — and total the columns, not the rows. The column totals tell you about the room; the row totals tell you about the jar's position. You want both, and you only get both if you write four numbers per candle.Seven asymmetries, and the observation that separates them
Once you have a face map, you have a direction. The next question is what in that direction is responsible. Everything below is a candidate with a check, not a verdict — "could" and "check" are the only honest register for a defect with no published thresholds.
Differential for one-sided gapping · per face of the jar
Seven candidate causes, what each would look like, and the paired test that separates it
| Candidate | Expected face pattern | Other tell-tale signs | The check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fan or AC draught | One face heavily loaded; the same face on most jars in the batch | Outer jars far worse than inner; worse on days the unit runs | Pour one batch with the unit off and one with it on, same pot, same day |
| Tray edge versus tray centre | Outer ring gapped, inner jars clean, regardless of which face | Corner jars worst because two faces are exposed | Log tray position for every jar; pour a batch with all jars spaced apart |
| Cold base surface | Patches concentrated low on one or two faces | Granite, steel or tile under the jars; a jar not sitting flat | Half the batch on the bare counter, half on a wooden board or folded cloth |
| Cold wall, window or doorway | One face, consistent across many batches, independent of the tray | Seasonal — appears in winter, fades in April | Move the cooling tray to the middle of the room and repeat the identical pour |
| Direct sun on one side | One face warmer, often less gapped, with the shaded face worse | Follows the time of day you pour | Pour the same batch in the morning and in the late afternoon |
| Handling while filling | Patches where a hand grips, repeating at the same height | Often small and sharply outlined rather than broad | Fill half the batch holding jars with a cloth or not at all, and clean the inner wall first |
| An off-centre wick | Gap biased to the side the wick leans away from | Also an uneven melt pool when burned, which is a safety matter | Measure wick position in the cooled candle; recentre and repeat |
A note on the jar itself. It is entirely possible for one vessel to differ from another in wall thickness, base flatness or shape, and for that to show up as a consistent one-face pattern — but nothing in CSI's container range publishes a glass thickness or an empty-jar weight, and only 18 of the 78 listed containers state a numeric diameter at all. The clear 200ml Salsa Glass Jar, for instance, states its 200 ml capacity and nothing about its dimensions. So you cannot argue from a published thermal property, because there is none. You can weigh ten empty jars yourself and see how much they vary, and you can rotate them — which is exactly what the next section does.
Don't score a batch that was cooled in two places. The commonest way makers ruin this test is by running out of room: eight jars on the counter and four on the window ledge because the tray was full. The four on the ledge are now a different experiment, and when they look different you will reach the wrong conclusion about the wax. If you cannot cool the whole batch in one place, under one set of conditions, pour fewer jars. Six well-logged jars beat twelve badly logged ones every time.
The 8-jar orientation test
This is the paired test that separates the room from the jar, and it is the only one that does. Everything is held constant — one pot of wax, one oil, one load, one wick size, one minute of pouring, one cooling location — and the single variable is which way each jar is facing. Four jars keep their N towards your suspected source. Four are turned so that N points directly away from it.
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Pick the suspect direction and write it downStand where the cooling tray lives and work out what is sending or taking heat: the AC vent, a pedestal fan, a window, an exterior wall, a doorway, a fridge exhaust. Name one. If you cannot name one, use the nearest wall. Note the air temperature at the tray and at the suspect source with a pen thermometer — two numbers, written down.
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Mark eight jars N–E–S–W and number them 1 to 8Use eight 200ml Salsa Glass Jars — clear, straight-walled and the cheapest clear glass CSI lists at ₹40.12 each in fives. Two five-packs give you eight jars and two spares for ₹401.20. Wipe and dry the inner wall of all eight identically so cleanliness is not a hidden variable, and fit each with a wick and a wick sticker while the glass is dry.
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Weigh one filled jar before you plan the batchThe page states 200 ml, which is a volume, not a weight — so fill one jar with water or with melted wax to your intended level and weigh it. The example below uses a measured fill of 170 g, which is an illustration of the arithmetic and not a published figure. At an 8% load that is 156.4 g of wax and 13.6 g of oil per jar: 1,251.2 g and 108.8 g for eight.
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Melt one pot, add fragrance, and pour all eight within a few minutesOn Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 the page states a melting point of 50–53°C and a pour temperature of 58–60°C — the lowest stated window in CSI's range, which makes it easy to hit repeatably. Record the thermometer reading at the first jar and at the last. If those two readings differ by much, pour fewer jars per pot next time.
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Set jars 1–4 with N towards the source and jars 5–8 with N awaySpace them identically — same gaps, same rows, no jar touching another, nobody at the tray edge who was not planned to be there. Then do not touch, move or breathe on them for 48 hours. Moving a jar halfway through is the one thing that invalidates the whole afternoon.
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Score all 32 faces at 48 hours and read the two totalsPhotograph each jar face under one fixed lamp against a printed grid, then fill the sheet. If the heavy faces all point the same way in the room regardless of their letter, the room did it — go to cooling position, draught control and base surface. If the heavy faces are the N faces on both halves, the jar or your handling did it — go to jar cleanliness and to weighing empty jars. A split result means both are contributing, which is common and still useful.
What the 8-jar orientation test costs · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Materials consumed at a measured 170 g fill and 8% load, and the cart that covers it
| Line | Packs bought | Pack price | Used in the test | Cost of what is used |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | 1 kg + 500 g | ₹650 + ₹325 | 1,251.2 g | ₹813.28 |
| Cinnamon Vanilla Fragrance Oil | 100 gm + 15 gm | ₹483.80 + ₹106.20 | 108.8 g | ₹526.37 |
| 200ml Salsa Glass Jar | 2 × 5 Pcs | ₹401.20 | 8 jars | ₹320.96 |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2) | 20 wicks | ₹188.80 | 8 wicks | ₹75.52 |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 1 sheet · 40 | ₹100 | 8 stickers | ₹20 |
| Materials consumed | 8 candles | ₹1,756.13 | ||
| Cart total | ₹2,255 | leftovers reusable | ₹219.52 per test candle |
Worked out above: wax 8 × 156.4 g = 1,251.2 g at ₹0.65/g = ₹813.28 · oil 8 × 13.6 g = 108.8 g at the 100 gm rate of ₹4.838/g = ₹526.37 · jars 8 × ₹40.12 = ₹320.96 · wicks 8 × ₹9.44 = ₹75.52 · stickers 8 × ₹2.50 = ₹20. The 170 g fill is a measurement you take, not a published spec — the jar page states 200 ml only. CSI live pricing, September 2026.
The CSI principle
A symmetrical cause cannot produce an asymmetrical defect. So stop looking at the pot and start looking at the room.
The wax in a single pour is identical on all four faces. Anything that is different on one face — air movement, a neighbour, a cold surface, a hand — is a better suspect than the bag you bought, and all of those are free to change.
What to buy for the orientation test
Three lines matter: the cheapest clear jar you can pour in volume, a wax with a tight stated pour window so your temperature is not a hidden variable, and a wax that states nothing at all for comparison. Each card shows every listed pack and the per-unit maths.
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Cheapest clear glass for repeat testing
200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap
The test jar to standardise on, because an adhesion programme means pouring candles you will not sell. Clear, straight-walled, stated as "The 200ml capacity provides ample space for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" — and genuinely cheaper in volume, which almost no CSI container is: ₹40.12 each in fives against ₹29.50 each at fifty and a hundred. A hundred jars bought as five-packs costs ₹4,012; the hundred-pack costs ₹2,950, a difference of ₹1,062. The page states no dimensions, so measure the mouth and the wall yourself before you size a wick. Its coloured siblings' pages state "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks"; this one does not, so treat C2 as a starting point to test, not a specification.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Pcs | ₹200.60 | ₹40.12 |
| 50 Pcs | ₹1,475 | ₹29.50 |
| 100 Pcs | ₹2,950 | ₹29.50 |
₹29.50 per jar at 50 and 100 · ₹40.12 at 5 Buy the clear Salsa jar
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Tightest stated pour window in the range
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes)
For a test whose only variable is supposed to be jar orientation, you want a wax whose pour temperature you can hit the same way twice. CSI 468's page states a pour temperature of 58–60°C — a two-degree window and the lowest published on any CSI wax — with a stated melting point of 50–53°C and a fragrance load of up to 13%. It also states "excellent glass adhesion" and a "rich, opaque appearance with minimal frosting", which in this context is a claim for your test to examine rather than a result you can rely on: no figure, no method and no threshold sits behind it. The price steps down from ₹650 to ₹637 per kilo at 5 kg and 10 kg.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 170g measured-fill jars @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹325 | ₹650 | ≈3 |
| 1 kg | ₹650 | ₹650 | ≈6 |
| 5 kg | ₹3,185 | ₹637 | ≈31 |
| 10 kg | ₹6,370 | ₹637 | ≈63 |
₹101.66 of wax per 170 g measured-fill jar at 1 kg pricing Buy CSI 468
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The silent page · the honest control
Natural Soy Pearl Wax
Worth one kilo in a testing programme precisely because its page states so little. No fragrance load, no melt point, no add temperature, no pour temperature, nothing about appearance and nothing about adhesion — only that it is "Suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs". That makes it the clearest demonstration of why your own jar test is the authority: with a silent page you have no numbers to follow and no claims to lean on, so the only evidence is the batch in front of you. It is also one of the few CSI waxes whose listed price genuinely steps down, from ₹450 per kilo at 1 kg to ₹424.80 at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg. Hold it at 8% until a cured jar has been burned.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 170g measured-fill jars @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹450 | ₹450 | ≈6 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,124 | ₹424.80 | ≈31 |
| 10 kg | ₹4,248 | ₹424.80 | ≈63 |
| 50 kg | ₹21,240 | ₹424.80 | ≈319 |
₹70.38 of wax per 170 g measured-fill jar at 1 kg pricing Buy Natural Soy Pearl Wax
Running the orientation test as a standing monthly check? 200ml Salsa Glass Jars at ₹2,950 per 100 and CSI 468 at ₹3,185 for 5 kg (₹637/kg) keep the per-jar cost down. Above the listed packs, bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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Does any of this survive at 500 jars a day?
Every elegant cooling protocol dies the first time somebody has to pour a wedding order on a deadline.
The honest answer is: some of it does, and the parts that do are the free ones. Marking four faces on 500 jars is not going to happen. Spacing jars so none sits in a draught, and not cooling half a batch on a window ledge because the bench was full, absolutely will. Here is the realistic version, ordered by what it costs you in minutes rather than rupees.
Face-level control at three production scales
What is worth doing at 10, 100 and 500 jars a day — and what to drop
| Control | 10 jars a day | 100 jars a day | 500 jars a day | Cost in labour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark four faces and score each one | Yes, every batch | On a sample of 8–12 jars per batch | Once a month as an audit, not per batch | Seconds per jar; the scoring is the slow part |
| Cool the whole batch in one place | Yes | Yes | Yes — this is the non-negotiable one | None, once the space is planned |
| Keep the tray out of any air stream | Yes | Yes | Yes — switch the unit off during cooling if you can | None |
| Space jars so no jar touches another | Trivial | Needs more bench or more trays | Becomes a floor-space decision | Space, not time |
| Insulate the base from stone or steel | A wooden board | Boards or trays per batch | Dedicated racking | Low once bought |
| Log tray position for every jar | Yes | Outer ring versus inner, not exact position | Outer ring only, as a sampled count | Moderate; simplify ruthlessly |
| Rotate half the batch 180° | Diagnostic only | Diagnostic only | Diagnostic only — never a production step | It is a test, not a process |
At the top of that table is the only rule that matters at volume: one batch, one cooling environment. Mixed cooling locations are the reason large runs look inconsistent, and they are also the reason a maker at scale cannot tell whether a new wax helped. Everything else on the list is a refinement you add when the first rule is already reliable. For the economics of what a cosmetic reject actually costs you per candle, that is the commercial end of this series; for the sequencing of every lever in cost order, start with the two-day timeline post.
The jar has four faces and your workshop has four walls. One of them is doing this, and it is almost never the wax.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. A one-sided defect is the easiest symptom in this whole subject to sell a new wax against, and we are telling you that a one-sided defect is the strongest possible evidence that your wax is not the problem. A marker pen and a rearranged bench cost nothing. We would rather you kept pouring than replaced a 10 kg bag to fix a draught.
Every price and pack size on this page comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Specifications are quoted only where the page states them: CSI 468's 50–53°C melting point, 58–60°C pour temperature and up to 13% load, and the fact that its page and CSI 464's are the only two in the wax range that mention glass adhesion at all — as wording, with no figure, method or threshold behind it. Natural Soy Pearl Wax states none of those things and we say so. On containers, only 18 of CSI's 78 listed vessels publish a numeric diameter, none publishes a glass thickness or an empty-jar weight, and the clear 200ml Salsa jar states no dimensions — so every argument here rests on what the pages say plus measurements you take yourself. No contraction rate, coefficient, adhesion score or threshold temperature is published by CSI and none is invented here.
For help matching a wick to a jar you have measured, bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documentation, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my candle have a wet spot on one side only?
Because one face of that jar lost heat differently from the others, and soy contracts as it solidifies — so the wax behind the faster-cooling face had less chance to settle against the glass. Remember what the patch is: an air gap, not moisture, looking dark because light reflects at two surfaces instead of one. The likely causes are all directional: a fan or AC draught, the outer edge of a crowded tray, a cold stone or steel surface under part of the base, a cold wall or window, or a hand gripping the same spot on every jar.
Does uneven adhesion mean the wax batch was bad?
A one-sided pattern is strong evidence that it was not. One pot of melted wax poured into one jar is identical on all four faces — it cannot be defective on the west side and sound on the east. Asymmetry points at conditions. Batch-to-batch variation in a raw material is a real thing worth monitoring, but it would show up as a whole batch behaving differently, not as a single face. Score four faces before you spend ₹5,074 on 10 kg of a replacement wax.
How do I test whether my air conditioner is causing wet spots?
Pour one batch with the unit running and one with it off — same wax batch, same oil, same load, same pour temperature, same day, same bench — and score four marked faces on every jar. Then compare column totals, not candles. If the face pointing at the vent carries most of the score with the unit on and the totals even out with it off, you have your answer. Air movement is the most efficient way to cool one side of a jar faster than the others, so it is a reasonable first suspect in any air-conditioned room.
Why are the jars at the edge of my tray worse than the ones in the middle?
Because a jar in the middle of a packed tray is surrounded by other jars full of hot wax, which keeps its sides warmer for longer, while an outer jar has one exposed face and a corner jar has two. It is the same mechanism as the one-face effect, one scale up. Log outer versus inner for every jar in a test batch — it is the cheapest observation in this whole subject — and if the pattern is clear, give the jars more space or more trays before you change any material.
Should I rotate jars while they cool?
No — rotating a cooling jar is a diagnostic trick, never a production step, and moving jars mid-cool invalidates the batch you were trying to read. Use rotation the proper way: pour eight jars from one pot, set four with the marked face towards your suspected source and four with it away, then leave all eight untouched for 48 hours. If heavy faces follow the room the room did it; if they follow the mark on the jar, the jar or your handling did.
How much does the eight-jar orientation test cost?
About ₹1,756.13 of materials, or ₹219.52 per test candle, at a measured 170 g fill and an 8% load: 1,251.2 g of CSI 468 at ₹813.28, 108.8 g of Cinnamon Vanilla at ₹526.37, eight 200ml Salsa jars at ₹320.96, eight Thick (C2) wicks at ₹75.52 and eight stickers at ₹20. The cart comes to ₹2,255 with usable leftovers. The 170 g figure is a weight you measure — the jar page states 200 ml, which is a volume.
Score four faces before you change a kilo
Eight jars, two orientations, one pot — and a one-sided defect turns into a direction you can fix for free.
200ml Salsa clear jars at ₹40.12 in fives and ₹29.50 at fifty, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 at ₹650/kg with a stated 58–60°C pour, Natural Soy Pearl Wax from ₹450/kg stepping down to ₹424.80, Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each, and a Pen Thermometer at ₹354. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the four-face map, the score sheet and the orientation test apply to any supplier's wax and any clear vessel. The eight-jar score sheet in this guide is a worked example of how to fill the sheet, not a published measurement.Customer reviews: The five 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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 — 500 g ₹325, 1 kg ₹650, 5 kg ₹3,185 (₹637/kg), 10 kg ₹6,370 (₹637/kg); stated "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C", "Formulated for excellent glass adhesion and a one-pour finish", "Rich, opaque appearance with minimal frosting", "Suitable for single-pour container applications". Natural Soy Pearl Wax — 1 kg ₹450, 5 kg ₹2,124 (₹424.80/kg), 10 kg ₹4,248, 50 kg ₹21,240; the page states only "Suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs" — no load, melt point, add or pour temperature, appearance or adhesion. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — 1 kg ₹507.40, 10 kg ₹5,074; the only other CSI wax page that mentions glass adhesion. 200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap — 5 Pcs ₹200.60 (₹40.12 each), 50 Pcs ₹1,475 and 100 Pcs ₹2,950 (₹29.50 each); the page states "The 200ml capacity provides ample space for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" and no dimensions; 100 jars as five-packs ₹4,012 against ₹2,950 for the 100-pack, a difference of ₹1,062. Coloured Salsa jars' pages state "Pairs well with C2 Eco Wicks"; the clear jar's page does not. Cinnamon Vanilla — 15 gm ₹106.20, 50 gm ₹271.40, 100 gm ₹483.80 (₹4.838/g), 500 gm ₹2,301, 1 kg ₹4,554.80. Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) — 20 wicks ₹188.80 (₹9.44 each); the Thick (C2) 10-wick variant is currently sold out. Candle Wick Stickers 1 sheet of 40 ₹100 (₹2.50 each). Pen Thermometer ₹354. Planning assumptions, labelled: the 170 g fill used throughout is a weight the maker measures, not a published figure — the jar page states 200 ml, a volume, and this guide does not convert millilitres to grams. Fragrance load is calculated as a share of the finished candle, so a 170 g candle at 8% is 156.4 g of wax and 13.6 g of oil (CSI's wax pages that state a load phrase it as a percentage of total wax weight; both conventions exist and this page states which it uses). Wax cost per jar = 1 kg price ÷ 1,000 × 156.4 g: CSI 468 ₹0.65/g × 156.4 = ₹101.66; Natural Soy Pearl ₹0.45/g × 156.4 = ₹70.38. Test consumption: 1,251.2 g wax at ₹813.28, 108.8 g oil at ₹526.37, 8 jars at ₹320.96, 8 wicks at ₹75.52, 8 stickers at ₹20, total ₹1,756.13, or ₹219.52 per test candle; cart ₹2,255. One wick per single-wick candle. No contraction rate, coefficient, adhesion score or threshold temperature is published by CSI and none is stated here. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.