My Candle Has Wet Spots Immediately After Cooling — Does That Suggest Something Different From Wet Spots That Appear Several Days Later?

My Candle Has Wet Spots Immediately After Cooling — Does That Suggest Something Different From Wet Spots That Appear Several Days Later?

My Candle Has Wet Spots Immediately After Cooling — Does That Suggest Something Different From Wet Spots That Appear Several Days Later?

 

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My Candle Has Wet Spots Immediately After Cooling — Does That Suggest Something Different From Wet Spots That Appear Several Days Later?

Yes, and the difference is the single most useful thing you own. A gap already visible before the jar reaches room temperature indicts the pour and the cooling. A gap that was not there on day one and is there on day five indicts what happened to the candle afterwards.
24 hours
the line that splits the two diagnoses — six timed photographs at 30 minutes, 2 hours, 24 hours, day 3, day 7 and day 14 separate them, and a 12-jar votive batch to run it costs ₹1,208.12, or ₹100.68 a jar · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Immediate or delayed — does it matter? Enormously. It is the cheapest piece of diagnostic information available and most makers throw it away by looking at the batch once, a week later. Both patterns are air gaps; they were created at different moments by different things.

What does an immediate gap point at? Release during solidification — pour temperature, the temperature of the glass, how fast the jar lost heat, what it was standing on, whether a draught crossed it. All of it happened in the first hours and all of it is testable for nothing.

What does a day-five gap point at? Wax that keeps responding to temperature after it has set, plus everything that has happened to the jar since: ambient swings, a move to a store room, stacking, being carried. The suspects live in the storage column, not the pour column.

Can it be both? Yes, and that is exactly why you photograph. One jar can show a small early gap that grows, and a second gap that appears later somewhere else. Without timed photographs from a fixed position you will merge the two and chase the wrong fix.
The short answer
Timestamp the symptom, not just the symptom: "air gap, lower third, present at 2 h" and "air gap, upper half, absent at 24 h, present at day 5" are two different findings that lead to two different experiments. One description without a time is almost useless.
Six photographs, one camera mark: 30 minutes, 2 hours, 24 hours, day 3, day 7, day 14 — same spot, same light, same distance, lids off for the shot and on afterwards. The schedule is yours to adjust; what cannot change is that the positions and the light stay identical.
Small jars shift the clock: a 70 g votive reaches room temperature far sooner than a 500 g apothecary jar, so "immediately" means something different in each. Run the timeline in the vessel you actually sell, and note the jar mass in the log.
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In this guide
Which suspects are still live at each checkpoint — and where your gap first appeared 30 minutes POUR + GLASS TEMP still setting — a gap here is a contact failure, not contraction 2 hours + COOLING RATE & POSITION draught, cold surface, outer jars 24 hours + BULK CONTRACTION COMPLETE-ISH last chance to top up Day 3 POUR SUSPECTS CLOSED · STORAGE OPEN Day 7 AMBIENT SWINGS · STACKING · HANDLING Day 14 · cure done WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY DISPATCH
Reading left to right, the window of possible causes narrows at the front and widens at the back. A gap recorded at 30 minutes cannot have been caused by anything that happened on day four, which is the whole value of an early photograph. A gap first recorded at day seven cannot have been caused by your pour temperature, which is the whole value of a late one. The checkpoint times are this guide's suggestion, not a standard — set your own and keep them identical between batches.
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Straight answer
Do wet spots that appear immediately mean something different from wet spots that show up several days later?
Yes. Both are the same physical thing — an air gap where wax has contracted off the glass, dry to the touch, holding no liquid and reflecting light differently from the wax around it. But a gap you can already see while the jar is warm was created during solidification, which puts the pour and the cooling in the frame: the temperature of the wax leaving your jug, the temperature of the glass it met, how fast that jar lost heat, what surface it stood on, whether air moved across the bench. A gap that genuinely was not visible at 24 hours and is unmistakable on day five was created after the candle had set, which puts those suspects out of reach and brings in everything that has happened since — the temperature of the room it was kept in, a move to a store, stacking, being carried, a lid on or off. You cannot reason your way to which one you have. You photograph. Six shots from one taped camera mark in one light at 30 minutes, 2 hours, 24 hours, day 3, day 7 and day 14, lids off for the shot, and the gap's birthday is on record. A 12-jar batch of 70 g votives in CSI 464 at 8% — 772.8 g of wax, 67.2 g of oil, twelve jars and twelve wicks — costs ₹1,208.12, or ₹100.68 a jar, and every one is sellable if it passes. One caution before you start: jar mass moves the clock. A 70 g votive is at room temperature long before a 500 g apothecary jar, so run the timeline in the vessel you actually sell and write the fill weight in the log.
One line: an immediate gap is a pour-and-cooling finding, a day-five gap is a contraction-and-storage finding, and six timed photographs from one camera mark are the only way to tell which you own.
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Why the clock splits the diagnosis

A gap has a birthday. Nobody ever writes it down, and it is the only piece of evidence that cannot be recovered later.

Think about what the wax is doing in the first hour. It arrives liquid and in complete contact with the glass, because liquids do that. Then it begins to solidify, and as it solidifies it occupies slightly less space than it did. That shrinkage has to come from somewhere: it can come from the top surface dropping, from a cavity opening around the wick, or from the wax letting go of the wall. Which of those happens depends on where the wax is still soft and where it has already set. The glass is pulling heat out at the contact face, so the wall-side wax sets first, while the bulk behind it is still shrinking. That is the mechanism by which the pour and the cooling can produce a gap before the candle is cold.

Now think about day five. The candle is solid and at room temperature. Nothing in your process is still acting on it. But soy is not inert: it is a solid that keeps responding to the temperature around it, and a candle on a shelf in an Indian workshop experiences a daily cycle — hotter by mid-afternoon, cooler overnight, hotter again. A gap that opens in that period was opened by that cycle acting on a candle that was already made. Your pour temperature is not a suspect any more; where the candle has been living is. That is a completely different investigation with a completely different fix list, and it is covered in depth in the sibling post on a candle that looks perfect for a week and then develops patches.

Two things this guide will not do. It will not give you a contraction rate, a shrinkage percentage, a coefficient or a temperature at which a gap forms — none of those figures is published anywhere in CSI's data and inventing them would make this page worse, not better. And it will not tell you that soy "finishes contracting" at a particular hour. What it will tell you is the practical consequence: the early photographs close doors, the late photographs open different ones, and the only way to use that is to take both. The plain-English background on the symptom itself is in why does my candle have wet spots, and the two-days-later case is the subject of the two-days-later post.

The mistake: the single inspection at day seven. Almost every workshop does this. Jars are poured, pushed to the back of the bench, lidded, and looked at properly a week later when they are being labelled. At that point a gap present at 30 minutes and a gap born on day six look identical, so the maker picks a cause by instinct — usually pour temperature, because that is the advice they have read most often — and spends three batches testing the wrong column. The fix: the 30-minute and 24-hour photographs cost about two minutes of work in total and they are the only ones that can never be taken retrospectively. Take them on every batch, not just test batches, and keep them in a folder named by batch number.

The six checkpoints and what each one rules out

Each checkpoint has a job. Taken together they turn "my candles get wet spots" into a sentence with a time in it, which is the first sentence anybody can actually act on. The times below are a sensible default for a jar of 70 g to 200 g; adjust them for a heavier vessel and then never change them again.

The checkpoint schedule · times are this guide's suggestion, not a standard
What to look for at each shot, what it opens, what it closes
Checkpoint What you are looking for A gap first seen here means What it rules out Can you still act?
30 minutes Any dark edge forming low on the wall; the top still soft Contact failed almost immediately — glass temperature, pour temperature, a cold surface under the jar Everything that happens after today Yes — a warm top-up or a heat gun pass is still possible
2 hours Growth of anything seen at 30 minutes; new marks; the top beginning to set Release during the main cooling period — rate, draught, spacing, position in the batch Pre-pour jar preparation as the sole cause Yes, with care
24 hours The jar at room temperature; the full wall; the top finish Late-stage contraction while the candle finished setting Nothing yet — this is the baseline everything later is measured against Last realistic chance
Day 3 Change against the 24-hour photograph, nothing else Post-set movement — the room, the shelf, a move, being stacked Pour temperature, glass temperature, cooling rate No — record and investigate storage
Day 7 Change against day 3; whether a gap is spreading or stable Ambient cycling over several days The whole pour column No
Day 14 The candle as a customer will receive it; cure complete What you will actually be judged on — No — this is your dispatch standard
The 24-hour photograph is your baseline, so take it properly
Everything after day one is a comparison, and a comparison is only as good as the thing it is compared to. Lids off, taped camera mark, same light, same distance, same face of the jar, and all twelve jars in the frame plus one close-up of each. If you take one shot on this schedule and skip the rest, take this one. It is also the natural place to record the room temperature, because that number becomes the reference for every later swing. Cure guidance from the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page — a minimum of 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, before burn testing — is why day 14 is the last checkpoint rather than day 7. More on cure: why your candle needs a 14-day cure.

Immediate against delayed: the differential

This is a differential, not a verdict — every row is a candidate and a test, and "could" is the right register throughout. Find your timing in the left column, then run only the test in that row. The honest reason this works is that most of these tests are free: they are the same wax, the same oil and the same jars you were pouring anyway, arranged so that one thing differs.

Timing → candidate → the test that separates it
Two columns of suspects, and how to tell which column you are in
When the gap first appeared Candidates Test Cost
Visible at 30 minutes, jar still warm Glass much cooler than the wax; pour at the cool end of the window; the jar standing on stone or metal Six jars on a wooden board against six on the bare bench, one pot, one temperature ₹0
Appeared between 30 minutes and 2 hours Cooling rate and position — draught from a fan or AC, outer jars in a tight block, uneven spacing Six jars spaced 10 cm apart against six touching, same shelf, same hour ₹0
Appeared between 2 and 24 hours Late-stage contraction; pour temperature; load A pour-temperature ladder inside the stated window, six jars per rung ₹0
Absent at 24 hours, present at day 3 Post-set response to the room; the candle moved or stacked Six jars held on one shelf undisturbed against six moved daily; record the room temperature twice a day ₹0
Absent at day 3, present at day 7 or later Several days of ambient cycling; storage position; transit A hold-and-move log with photographs at fixed points, labelled as your own protocol ₹0
Different gaps at different times in the same jar More than one cause, which is common and not a failure of diagnosis Separate the batches. Fix the earliest-appearing cause first, then re-run the timeline ₹0, two extra batches

Notice there is no "change the wax" row. That is deliberate. A wax change is the most expensive move in this whole cluster and it is the last one you should reach for — a candidate kilo plus a control kilo, jars, oil, two wick sizes, a 14-day cure and a fresh burn test before you believe anything, and then a 10 kg commitment that resets every temperature in your SOP. The cost-ordered argument is laid out in the sibling post on whether to change pour temperature before changing wax. None of the six rows above costs anything, because in each one the candles are sellable either way.

The mistake: calling a gap "new" when it only became visible. Gaps grow and they also become more legible as the wax around them finishes setting and loses translucency. A mark too faint to see at 2 hours can be obvious at 24 hours without anything new having happened — so "it appeared overnight" is sometimes "it was there and I could not see it yet". The fix: this is precisely what fixed photographs solve. Looking back at a 30-minute photograph on a screen, at the same magnification, with the contrast untouched, you can usually find the faint beginning of a mark you swore was not there. Never adjust brightness or contrast on inspection photographs, and never crop them differently.

Running the timeline batch

Twelve jars, one melt, one temperature, one wick, six photographs. You are not testing a variable here — you are establishing when your problem happens, which is the step everybody skips. Once you know the window, you pick the right test from the differential above and run that.

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Build the photo station before you melt anythingTape a cross on the bench for the jars and a second mark on the floor for your feet or a tripod. Choose one light source and switch everything else off. Put a plain card behind the jars. Write the batch number on a slip of paper that appears in every frame. Two minutes of setup now is what makes six photographs comparable instead of six pictures.
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Prepare twelve jars identically and number them 1–12One carton, cleaned the same way, handled by the base, wicks set with wick stickers and centred the same way. Number the bases. Nothing in this batch is allowed to differ — a timeline batch with a hidden variable in it tells you nothing about timing.
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One melt, one recorded pour temperatureTwelve 70 g votives at 8% need 772.8 g of wax and 67.2 g of oil. On CSI 464 the page states a pour temperature of 80–90°C — note that the same page states 80–90°C as its melting point too, so quote it as the page's figure and log what your thermometer actually read in the jug. Stir fragrance in thoroughly; the Eco Soy CSI 400 page's two full minutes is a good habit on any soy.
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Shoot at 30 minutes and 2 hours — set an alarmThese are the two photographs you will never get a second chance at, and they are the two everybody forgets. Set phone alarms before you pour. Lids off, shoot the group and then each jar, lids back on. Write the room temperature on the slip of paper each time.
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Shoot at 24 hours, day 3, day 7 and day 14 — and leave the jars alone in betweenSame shelf, same spacing, undisturbed. Do not rotate them, do not move them into better light to look at them, do not carry them to show someone. Every handling is an uncontrolled event in a batch whose whole purpose is to date an event.
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Date the gap, then pick one testLay the six photographs of a single jar side by side and write the first frame in which each mark is visible. Do it for all twelve. If most gaps are born before 24 hours, your work is in the pour-and-cooling column. If most are born after, it is in the storage column. If the twelve disagree with each other, your process has a variance problem and that is the thing to fix before testing anything else. Then — and only then — run one test from the differential.
Keep jar one, jar six and jar twelve forever
Three jars from every timeline batch, labelled with the batch number and the pour temperature, lidded, on a shelf out of sunlight. In six months they are the only way to answer "is this new wax lot behaving differently?" — because they are physical evidence from a dated batch with a known recipe. A shelf of reference jars is the cheapest quality system a candle workshop can own and it gets more valuable every month you keep it going.

The wax, the jar and the instrument

Three products, picked for the job of dating a gap rather than for fixing one. A wax whose page publishes a pour temperature so your log has a reference, the cheapest clear vessel in the range to run twelve of, and the one instrument without which every number in your batch card is a guess.

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Container wax · a published pour temperature to log against
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form)
Flake-form container wax at ₹507.40 a kilo, stated for single-pour container candles with a fragrance load of up to 10%. Its page publishes a pour temperature of 80–90°C — and also gives 80–90°C as the melting point, which is unusual for a soy and worth attributing to the page rather than treating as a measurement of your own. For a timeline batch that explicit band is exactly what you want: you are logging against a published number instead of against a habit. The page also claims a "Smooth, opaque finish with excellent glass adhesion" and "Low frosting, minimal blooming"; read those as qualitative descriptions, because no measurement, scale or test method is published behind them. Flakes weigh out easily in the small quantities a twelve-jar batch needs. One CSI customer, Thenirvaofficial, calls it "one of the best wax for container Candles".
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1 kg ₹507.40 ₹507.40 ≈15
5 kg ₹2,537 ₹507.40 ≈77
10 kg ₹5,074 ₹507.40 ≈155
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Test vessel · twelve jars for ₹382.32
Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram
The cheapest clear glass in the range to run a twelve-jar timeline in, at ₹31.86 a jar. Its page states a capacity of approximately 70 g wax fill and gives no dimensions, so measure one if you intend to quote a graded wall area. Two honest cautions. First, the product page's spec lines carry copy from another jar — they mention "purple matte" and "Matte white" finishes — so trust the title and the capacity and verify the finish on arrival. Second, and more important for this post: a 70 g jar reaches room temperature much sooner than a 200 g or 500 g jar, which compresses the early part of your timeline. Use votives to learn the method cheaply, then repeat the timeline in the vessel you actually sell before you draw conclusions about it.
Size Price Per piece
Pack of 5 ₹159.30 ₹31.86
Pack of 10 ₹318.60 ₹31.86
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The instrument · one listed price, one variant
Pen Thermometer For Candle Making
Everything above depends on one number being true: the temperature of the wax as it left the jug. A thermometer sitting in the middle of a melt reads the bulk, and wax decanted, carried and poured down a cool wall can be meaningfully cooler by the time it arrives. If your experiment is three degrees wide, that difference is the experiment. The discipline is simple and it is the same every time: decant, read the jug, pour, record — in that order, with no conversation in the middle. At ₹354 it is a single listed item with no pack ladder, which makes it the least complicated purchase on this page and the one that changes your logs the most. One CSI customer of the electric melters, Sonal Sahani, makes the related point about control: "I do not have to worry about temperatures at all, since the temperature knob does everything for me."
Size Price Per piece
Default Title ₹354 —
₹354 once — then every number in your batch card means something Buy Pen Thermometer
Priced above: CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 · Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram pack of 5 ₹159.30, pack of 10 ₹318.60 (₹31.86 each) · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · Lavender Fragrance Oil 100 gm ₹540 (₹5.40 / g) · Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹59 / 10 (₹5.90 each) · Candle Wick Stickers 40 per sheet ₹100. The twelve-jar timeline batch: 772.8 g wax at ₹0.5074/g = ₹392.12, 67.2 g oil at ₹5.40/g = ₹362.88, twelve jars ₹382.32, twelve C1 wicks ₹70.80 — ₹1,208.12, or ₹100.68 a jar, every one of them sellable.
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The batch card that makes it repeatable

A timeline is worthless if you cannot reconstruct the batch that produced it. One card per batch, filled in as you go, is enough — and it is the difference between a workshop that learns and a workshop that keeps rediscovering the same problem every monsoon.

The fields, in the order you will fill them: batch number and date · wax, pack size and the bag or lot marking · oil and grams · load percentage · melt temperature · fragrance-add temperature · stir time · jug temperature at pour, per jar · jar handle, pack and carton · how the glass was prepared · glass temperature state (room, warmed, how) · wick code · what the jars stood on · spacing · room temperature at pour · then one row per checkpoint: time, room temperature, wall observation, top observation, frame in which each mark first appeared. Finish with the verdict: window = pour-and-cooling or window = post-set, and the one test you will run next.

Two notes on using it honestly. Record the reading, not the target — a card full of "85°C" on every line is a card nobody actually read a thermometer for, and it will mislead you in three months. And date the gap from the photographs with the labels covered, ideally read by someone who did not pour the batch. If you know jar nine was the one that stood on the metal shelf, you will find a gap on jar nine. The companion method for recording wax-to-wax comparisons is in the sibling post on what to record when comparing glass adhesion across waxes.

The CSI principle
A symptom without a timestamp is a rumour. The photograph you take at thirty minutes is the only evidence you can never collect later.
Pour temperature, glass temperature and cooling rate can only have caused a gap that existed on day one. The room, the shelf and the stack can only have caused one that did not. Two minutes with a phone at the start of a batch decides which half of the fix list you are allowed to spend money on.
Every maker can describe the gap. Almost none can tell you what time it was born — and that is the one fact that would have told them where to look.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials; we do not make or sell finished candles. The whole method on this page is designed to stop you buying anything. A phone, an alarm and a taped cross on the bench will tell you which half of the fix list applies, and in most workshops the answer turns out to be free. We would rather sell you a ₹354 thermometer that makes your logs true than 10 kg of a wax that was never the problem.

Every price, pack and specification here is from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which is always authoritative. Temperatures, loads and cure times are quoted only where a page states them — CSI 464's pour temperature of 80–90°C, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks' cure of a minimum 48 hours ideally one to two weeks, Eco Soy CSI 400's two-minute stir — and where a page states nothing we say so. No contraction rate, shrinkage percentage, coefficient, adhesion score or threshold temperature appears anywhere in CSI's published data, and none is asserted here. The six checkpoint times are this guide's suggestion for a 70–200 g jar, offered as a method you can run and record, not as an industry standard, and no accelerated-to-real-time conversion is implied by any of them.

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Frequently asked questions

Do wet spots that appear immediately have a different cause from wet spots that appear later?
Usually, yes. A gap visible while the jar is still warm was created during solidification, which points at pour temperature, glass temperature, cooling rate and position. A gap genuinely absent at 24 hours and present at day five was created after the candle set, which points at the room it was kept in, stacking, handling and transit. Both are dry air gaps; only the moment of creation differs, and six timed photographs are what establish it.
How long after pouring do wet spots usually appear in soy candles?
There is no published figure and we will not invent one — it varies with the wax, the jar, the fill weight and the room. What is reliable is the method: photograph at 30 minutes, 2 hours, 24 hours, day 3, day 7 and day 14 from a fixed camera mark, and date each mark to the first frame it appears in. Remember that a heavier jar cools more slowly, so the same wax in a 500 g vessel will not follow the same clock as a 70 g votive.
Can I fix a wet spot after the candle has cooled?
Not really, and that is why the early checkpoints matter. Within the first couple of hours a warm top-up or a pass with a Hot Air Gun at ₹531 can re-melt the surface and sometimes the upper wall region. Once the candle is at room temperature and set, remelting enough wax to close a gap low on the wall means effectively re-pouring the candle. Treat a cooled gap as data for the next batch, not as something to rescue.
Do wet spots that appear days later mean my wax is faulty?
Not on that evidence. Soy is a solid that keeps responding to the temperature around it, so a candle experiencing a daily warm-and-cool cycle on a shelf can develop a gap without anything being wrong with the material. Before you suspect a lot, compare six jars held undisturbed on one shelf against six moved daily, and record the room temperature twice a day. A wax change is the most expensive test in this cluster and it should be the last one you run.
What pour temperature does CSI state for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464?
The product page states a pour temperature of 80°C – 90°C and a melting point of 80°C – 90°C — the same band for both, which is unusually high for a soy wax, so quote it as the page's stated figure and log what your own thermometer reads in the jug. The page also states a fragrance load of up to 10% and describes the wax as ideal for single-pour container candles. For comparison, CSI 468 states 58–60°C and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 70–80°C.
How many jars do I need for a timeline batch?
Twelve is the practical minimum, because adhesion varies jar to jar within a single pour and you need enough jars to tell an outlier from a pattern. In 70 g votives at ₹31.86 each, in CSI 464 at 8%, that is 772.8 g of wax, 67.2 g of oil, twelve jars and twelve wicks — ₹1,208.12, about ₹100.68 a jar — and every candle is sellable if it passes. Repeat in your production vessel before drawing conclusions about it.
Date the gap before you spend a rupee
Twelve votives, one melt, six photographs. By day fourteen you will know which half of the fix list you are allowed to spend money on.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Products and prices reflect the CSI range; the checkpoint method, the differential and the batch card apply to any supplier's materials. The page treats gapped glass as a cosmetic appearance standard and makes no safety claim about any wax or jar.

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; two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.

Figures verified September 2026: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 — stated fragrance load up to 10%, melting point 80°C–90°C, pour temperature 80°C–90°C, "Ideal for single-pour container candles", "Smooth, opaque finish with excellent glass adhesion", "Low frosting, minimal blooming". Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 — stated pour temperature 58°C–60°C, melting point 50°C–53°C, load up to 13%. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — stated pour "70-80°C" in the method and 75–80°C in the details table, fragrance add 80–90°C, load 8–13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, cure minimum 48 hours ideally 1–2 weeks before burn testing. Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399 — fragrance added at 85°C within a stated 80–90°C band, stir gently for 2 minutes. Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram pack of 5 ₹159.30, pack of 10 ₹318.60 (₹31.86 each) — stated capacity approximately 70 g wax fill, no dimensions stated; the page's spec lines carry copy referring to "purple matte" and "Matte white" finishes. Pen Thermometer For Candle Making ₹354, single listed variant. Hot Air Gun ₹531. Lavender Fragrance Oil 50 gm ₹270, 100 gm ₹540 (₹5.40 per gram). Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹59 / 10 (₹5.90 each). Candle Wick Stickers 1 sheet of 40 ₹100. Assumptions labelled: fragrance load calculated as a share of the finished candle, so a 70 g votive at 8% is 64.4 g wax + 5.6 g oil (the CSI 464 page phrases load as a percentage of wax; both conventions exist and this page uses the finished-candle one). Twelve-jar timeline batch = 772.8 g wax + 67.2 g oil; 772.8 × ₹0.5074 = ₹392.12, 67.2 × ₹5.40 = ₹362.88, 12 × ₹31.86 = ₹382.32, 12 × ₹5.90 = ₹70.80, total ₹1,208.12 and ₹100.68 per jar. Wax per 70 g votive = ₹0.5074 × 64.4 = ₹32.68. The six checkpoint times (30 minutes, 2 hours, 24 hours, day 3, day 7, day 14) are this guide's suggested schedule for a 70–200 g jar and are the reader's to adjust; they are not a published or industry standard, and no conversion between accelerated and real-world time is offered. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
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