What Should I Record When Comparing the Glass Adhesion of Different Candle Waxes?
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Candle Business Guides · Glass Adhesion × Record Keeping
Twenty-two fields per jar, three of them re-entered at each of four fixed checkpoints, and four photographs taken the same way every time. Adhesion has no published scale anywhere in the CSI range, so a photograph at a fixed checkpoint is the only score you are entitled to — and the other nineteen fields exist so you can explain it.
22 fields
per jar — 19 recorded once, 3 re-entered at each of 4 checkpoints, so 31 entries and 4 photographs per jar. Instruments: a ₹354 pen thermometer and a ₹354 scale · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What is the single most important thing to record? A photograph at a fixed checkpoint, taken at the same distance, in the same light, against the same background, with the jar in the same orientation. Everything else explains the photographs; the photographs are the result.What do I record besides the wax? The nine things that are not the wax and could have caused what you see: jar preparation, how the glass was handled, the glass temperature at the pour, the wax temperature at the pour, the stir time, where in the batch the jar stood, what surface it cooled on, the room temperature, and any draught.
Can I score adhesion out of ten? Only against your own photographed reference pair — one jar you would ship and one you would not. No CSI wax page publishes an adhesion score, a contraction figure or a test method, so a number borrowed from nowhere will outlive your memory of inventing it. A count of discrete gaps and their height band is honest; an area percentage estimated by eye is not.
What does the sheet cost? Nothing. The instruments cost ₹708 — a Pen Thermometer at ₹354 and a Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354, which is exactly what a pack of ten 200 ml jars costs.
The short answer
Record the conditions, photograph the result: nineteen one-time fields describe the jar, the recipe, the thermal history and the room; three repeated fields describe what the wall looks like at each checkpoint. The first set explains the second.
Four checkpoints, fixed in advance: within an hour of pouring, at 24 hours, at 7 days, and after one temperature cycle you choose and describe exactly. Deciding the checkpoints after you see the jars is how a comparison becomes an opinion.
Never record a number you cannot defend: no contraction percentage, no adhesion rating from a scale nobody published, no area estimated by eye. A gap count, a height band, a clock position and a photograph are all defensible.
In this guide
The left block is written once, while the wax is still liquid and the facts are still available. The four checkpoints are fixed before you pour, not chosen afterwards — a checkpoint picked once you have seen the jars is not a measurement, it is a preference.
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I am about to compare two or three waxes for glass adhesion. What exactly should I write down?
Record 22 fields per jar, in six blocks. Nineteen are written once, at the pour, while the facts still exist: the identity of the jar, wax, oil, load and wick (4 fields); the jar preparation — cleaned with what, dried how long, handled with gloves or bare hands, and the glass temperature at the moment of pouring (4); the thermal history — wax temperature when fragrance went in, stir time, actual pour reading, single pour or topped up (4); the cooling conditions — surface, position and spacing in the batch, room temperature at pour and at two hours, draught, lid on or off and whether the jar was moved (5); and batch identity — which pot and which position in the pouring order (2). The last three fields are re-entered at each of four checkpoints: a photograph reference, a gap map (clock position plus height band) and what changed since last time. That is 31 entries and four photographs per jar. The instruments are a Pen Thermometer at ₹354 and a Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354, plus Candle Wick Stickers at ₹100 for 40 so the wick's position is not an uncontrolled variable, and enough of your actual clear shipping jar at ₹94.40 each. What you must not record is an adhesion score from a scale nobody published — no CSI wax page states one — or a contraction percentage. Photographs, counts and height bands only.
One line: nineteen fields at the pour explain what you did, three fields at four fixed checkpoints record what happened, and four photographs per jar are the only ranking anyone is entitled to.
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Why a sheet beats a good memory
In three weeks you will remember which jar looked better. You will not remember what the room was doing at the time.
A wax comparison is unusual among candle tests because its result arrives late and in instalments. A burn test resolves in three hours: you light the candle, you watch, you write down the pool time. An adhesion comparison resolves over a week or more, in a workshop where a dozen other things happen, and the thing you are judging is a visual impression rather than a reading. That combination is exactly the one human memory handles worst.
Worse, the question you will actually need to answer is not "which looked better" but "why". Suppose wax A's jars look cleaner than wax B's. Before you spend ₹5,074 on ten kilos of wax A you need to rule out the possibility that A's jars happened to be poured first from a hotter pot, or stood in the middle of the rack where they cooled more slowly, or were the five jars you wiped out because they looked dusty. Each of those is a real explanation and each is invisible a week later unless it was written down at the time. The nineteen one-time fields exist for precisely this: they are not bureaucracy, they are the alternative explanations, recorded in advance so you can eliminate them.
And there is a third reason, which is commercial. A comparison you can show somebody — twelve jars, four photographs each, with the conditions beside them — is the difference between "I think this wax is better" and a decision a stockist, a partner or your future self can audit. It is also what lets you detect a drift later: when a new lot of wax or jars behaves differently, you have a documented normal to compare it against instead of a feeling that things used to be fine.
The mistake: deciding the checkpoints after you have seen the jars. It happens innocently. You pour, you glance at them next morning, nothing much is visible, so you look again "in a few days" — and the few days becomes whenever you remember, which is usually the morning one jar looks bad. Now your comparison has different checkpoints for different jars and the data is unusable. Write the four checkpoint dates and times on the sheet before you melt anything, and keep them even when nothing seems to be happening: a jar that is unchanged at 24 hours and still unchanged at 7 days is one of the most useful entries on the sheet. The behaviour of gaps that appear late is covered in why wax can pull away after the candle has set.
The 22 fields, block by block
Here is the whole sheet. For each field: what to write, why it is on the list, and what goes wrong if you leave it off. One row per field, one sheet per jar — and yes, that means twelve sheets for a two-wax comparison at six jars each. Print them.
The record sheet · 22 fields in six blocks
Nineteen written once at the pour, three re-entered at each checkpoint
| # | Field | What to write | Why it earns a row | If you skip it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block A · Identity (4 fields, once) | ||||
| 1 | Jar | Product name, finish, pack size, date it arrived | A new jar is a new qualification even at the same stated diameter | You cannot tell a wax result from a jar-lot result |
| 2 | Wax | Name, pack size, date the pack was opened | The variable under test; the pack and date identify the lot | A future lot difference becomes undetectable |
| 3 | Fragrance oil and load | Name, pack size, load % and which convention you used | Load is a candidate cause at the wall as well as a driver of throw | Two sheets using different load conventions are not comparable |
| 4 | Wick and sticker | Wick code and size; sticker used or not | A drifting wick touches the wall and changes what you are looking at | A leaning wick gets misread as an adhesion fault |
| Block B · Jar preparation (4 fields, once) | ||||
| 5 | Cleaned | Yes or no, and with exactly what | Residue on glass is one of the cheapest candidate causes to rule out | Half your comparison may be measuring your cleaning cloth |
| 6 | Dried | How, and how many minutes before the pour | A jar that went in damp is not the same jar as one that went in dry | An unexplained outlier with no way back to the cause |
| 7 | Handling | Gloves, bare hands or tongs — and who | Where a jar was gripped is often where a pattern appears | You lose the single most testable local explanation |
| 8 | Glass temperature at pour | °C on the inner wall, and how you measured it | Cold glass changes how the wax sets against it | Winter and summer batches become uncomparable |
| Block C · Thermal (4 fields, once) | ||||
| 9 | Fragrance-add temperature | °C when the oil went in | Three CSI waxes publish an add temperature; yours should match a stated figure or a recorded choice | Throw differences get blamed on the wax |
| 10 | Stir time and stirrer | Seconds, and what you stirred with | Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies two minutes; consistency matters more than the number | Uneven oil distribution looks like a wax property |
| 11 | Pour temperature | The actual thermometer reading, not the target | The strongest process lever on the wall; windows differ by 20°C between waxes | The whole comparison becomes uninterpretable |
| 12 | Single pour or topped up | And the top-up temperature if there was one | A second pour creates its own boundary at the wall | A top-up line gets counted as a gap |
| Block D · Cooling and environment (5 fields, once) | ||||
| 13 | Cooling surface | Wood, stone, metal, rack, trivet | What the base loses heat into changes the cooling sequence | Base-area patterns have no explanation |
| 14 | Position and spacing | Outer or centre of the batch; gap between jars in cm | Outer jars in a batch cool differently from centre jars | You compare a position effect and call it a wax effect |
| 15 | Room temperature | °C at the pour and at +2 hours | Ambient sets the cooling rate, which is the thing you are really varying | Monsoon batches and December batches merge into noise |
| 16 | Draught | Source, distance in cm, on or off | An air-conditioning draught is a one-sided cooling event | One-sided patterns look mysterious |
| 17 | Lid and movement | Lid on or off; moved or not moved in the first 4 hours | Moving a setting jar is a mechanical event at the wall | You will quietly disturb some jars and not others |
| Block E · Batch identity (2 fields, once) | ||||
| 18 | Pot number | Which melt this jar came from | Two pots are two slightly different wax histories | A pot effect is indistinguishable from a wax effect |
| 19 | Pour order | First jar, third jar, last jar | The last jar out of a pot is the coolest; that is a real gradient | You compare the start of one pot with the end of another |
| Block F · Observation (3 fields, re-entered at each of 4 checkpoints) | ||||
| 20 | Photograph reference | File name plus the checkpoint label | The photograph is the result; the reference is how you find it again | You end up with 48 images and no idea which is which |
| 21 | Gap map | Clock position (e.g. 2 o'clock from the mark) plus height band: base, lower third, middle, upper third, rim | Position is diagnostic — a band around the middle means something different from one side only | You lose the pattern, which is the most informative part |
| 22 | Change since last checkpoint | New, grown, unchanged or closed | Static gaps and growing gaps are different problems with different answers | You cannot tell a normal result from a drift |
Counted above: 4 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 2 = 19 fields written once, plus 3 fields entered at each of 4 checkpoints = 12 more entries, so 22 distinct fields and 31 entries per jar. A two-wax comparison at six jars each is 12 jars, 372 entries and 48 photographs. That sounds heavy until you price the alternative: a wrong 10 kg decision is ₹5,074 for CSI 464 or ₹6,370 for CSI 468, plus the wick round it forces and the batches you cannot sell while you work it out.
Put the mark on before you put the wick in
Field 21 only works if the jar has a fixed orientation, so draw a small mark on the base or the underside of the rim with a permanent marker before anything else happens. Every photograph is then taken with the mark facing you, and "2 o'clock from the mark" means the same place in every image and on every sheet. Without it, a gap map is a description of where you happened to be standing. This is the cheapest field on the list and the one that makes four of the others usable.The photograph protocol
Because adhesion has no published scale, the photographs are not illustration — they are the measurement. That means they have to be repeatable, and a phone camera is perfectly adequate as long as five things are held still. Fix them once, write them at the top of the sheet, and never change them mid-comparison.
Five things to fix, and how
What makes two photographs comparable
| Fix | How to fix it cheaply | What goes wrong if you don't |
|---|---|---|
| Distance | A strip of tape on the bench where the jar stands and another where you hold the phone | A gap looks larger in a closer photo; you rank by how near you stood |
| Light | One lamp, same position, room lights off; never window light, which changes hourly | Afternoon jars beat morning jars regardless of the wax |
| Background | One sheet of plain white and one of plain black card, both shots every time | A gap can vanish against the wrong background — and so can a real difference |
| Orientation | The marker dot from the tip above, always facing the camera | Field 21 becomes meaningless and you photograph different sides of the jar |
| Camera settings | No flash, no filters, no portrait mode, no cropping afterwards | Processing softens exactly the contrast you are trying to read |
Two shots per checkpoint — white background and black background — because a gap is a contrast phenomenon and the two cards show you different things. On white, the dark region of a gap is obvious. On black, you see the edge of the gap and the subtler whitening of frosting separately, which is how you avoid recording frosting as adhesion. Twelve jars at two shots across four checkpoints is 96 images, which is nothing on a phone and everything to a decision.
Don't crop, zoom or "enhance" a comparison photograph. The temptation is strong at checkpoint three, when you are trying to see whether something grew. Cropping breaks the fixed distance, which is the whole basis of comparability; brightening breaks the fixed light. If you need a closer look, take a second, extra photograph labelled as a detail shot and keep the standard one untouched. The same discipline applies to the jar: never wipe or polish the outside of the glass between checkpoints without writing it down, because a smeared jar and a gapped jar look alike in a photograph and only one of them is a wax property.
Four checkpoints, fixed in advance
Why these four, and why "after your own cycle" rather than a number of days. Each checkpoint answers a different question, and the fourth is deliberately yours to define because no CSI page publishes an ageing protocol and nothing here will invent one.
What each checkpoint is for
The question each one answers, and what a result at that point means
| Checkpoint | When | The question it answers | What a gap here suggests |
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Within 60 minutes of pouring, while the surface is still setting | Did the wax ever key to the glass at all? | Something at the interface at the moment of contact — glass temperature, residue, handling. Pour and glass temperature are the first things to vary |
| C2 | 24 hours | What did contraction do as the jar came to room temperature? | The ordinary case. This is the checkpoint most makers mean when they say "my candles have wet spots" |
| C3 | 7 days | Is it stable, or still moving? | Unchanged from C2 is a good, normal result. Grown since C2 means the candle is still settling and a verdict at 24 hours would have been wrong |
| C4 | After one temperature cycle you choose and describe exactly | What will a courier and a customer's shelf do to it? | A gap that only appears after a cycle is the one your workshop never sees and your customer always does |
On C4, be precise and be modest. Write down exactly what you did — for example, "eight hours in a closed room reaching 36°C, then back to a 26°C bench overnight, measured with the pen thermometer" — and treat it as a repeatable thing you did, not as an industry standard. There is no published conversion from a cycle like that to months on a shelf, and anyone who offers you one is guessing. Its value is purely comparative: all twelve jars went through the same cycle, so differences between them mean something even though the absolute result means nothing.
The CSI principle
You may only score what you photographed, and you may only explain it with what you wrote down at the pour.
Everything else is reconstruction. Nineteen fields and four photographs per jar feel like overkill on the morning you pour and like the cheapest thing you ever did on the morning you have to defend a ten-kilo purchase — or explain to a stockist why one batch looks different from the last.
The three things worth buying
The sheet is free. Three purchases turn it from a list of impressions into a set of readings, and all three outlive the comparison — every batch you pour afterwards is recordable. Each card shows every listed pack.
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Fields 3 and 9 to 11 · the arithmetic of the sheet
Candle Making Weighing Scale
Fragrance load is a weight percentage, so field 3 is either a weighed number or a guess — and a guessed load is the fastest way to a comparison that measures your pouring hand instead of your wax. The page describes a digital scale with a large LCD showing grams or ounces and one-button operation, for weighing wax, dye and fragrance oils. Weigh per jar rather than per batch when the jars are the unit of analysis: 12 sheets, 12 weighed loads, no drift down the row. At ₹354 it is the cheapest field on the sheet that cannot be faked.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Default Title | ₹354 | — |
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Fields 20 to 22 · the only jar that shows you the wall
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
An adhesion comparison needs clear glass, and it needs to be the jar you intend to ship — but if you ship an opaque or frosted range and still want to monitor your process, this is a sensible clear instrument jar to keep in rotation. Its page states a 150 g fill capacity, height 8 cm and outer diameter 7 cm with a base diameter of approximately 6.5 cm, "thick-walled clear glass", and "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C" — note that ceiling against your wax's published pour window and work to the lower of the two. One CSI buyer, Soumili Gope, says "The jars were of good quality". Listed in packs of 10 and 20 only.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
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| Pack of 20 | ₹1,888 | ₹94.40 |
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Field 4 · removing the wick from the variables
Candle Wick Stickers
Field 4 exists because a wick that drifts and leans against the wall produces a local mark that looks exactly like an adhesion fault and is nothing of the kind — and worse, a wick resting on glass is a safety matter, not a cosmetic one. The page describes 10 mm round stickers sized "for most candle wicks", with adhesive that "keeps your wick firmly in place, even through hot wax pours", and states they are heat resistant. One per jar means twelve stickers for a two-wax round and the variable is closed. The 40-sticker sheet is ₹100, which is ₹2.50 a jar; the 100-sticker sheet is listed but currently sold out.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 1 sheet - 40 stickers | ₹100 | ₹2.50 |
| 1 sheet - 100 stickers (sold out) | ₹236 | ₹2.36 |
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Filling the sheet for one jar
Here is the sheet in use, in the order the fields actually get filled, so nothing has to be reconstructed. The whole sequence adds perhaps four minutes per jar at the pour and ninety seconds per checkpoint.
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Before you switch anything on: fields 1 to 4 and 18 to 19Jar, wax, oil and load, wick. Pot number and pour position, written as an intention — jar 3 of 6 from pot A — and then honoured. Mark the base of the jar. Write the four checkpoint dates and times at the top of the sheet now, while there is no result to tempt you into moving them.
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While the jars are being prepared: fields 5 to 7Cleaned with what, dried how and for how long, handled with gloves or bare hands. Be specific about the cleaning agent — "the blue spray" is not a record, and a changed cleaning product is one of the most common unexplained causes of a sudden change in appearance. Stick the wick with a wick sticker while the glass is clean, dry and cool.
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As the wax melts: fields 9, 10 and 15The temperature the oil went in at, the stir time and what you stirred with, and the room temperature right now. If your wax page states an add temperature, match it and note that you did: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 80–90°C, and Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies 85°C with a two-minute stir. If it states nothing, write down your own choice — that choice is now part of the recipe.
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At the moment of pouring: fields 8, 11 and 12Glass temperature on the inner wall, wax temperature in the pot, and whether this is a single pour. Record the reading you saw, not the window you were aiming for — "76°C" is data, "70–80°C" is a plan. These three fields are the heart of the sheet and the reason a ₹354 thermometer is not optional.
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As the jars go to cool: fields 13, 14, 16, 17 and the second half of 15Surface, position and spacing, draught and its distance, lid on or off, moved or not. Then come back in two hours and write the second room temperature. Resist tidying the bench — moving a setting jar is itself an entry, and an untidy bench with an accurate sheet beats a neat one with a guess.
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At each of the four checkpoints: fields 20, 21 and 22Two photographs — white card and black card — at the fixed distance and light, mark facing the camera. Then the gap map in clock positions and height bands, then one word for what changed. Ninety seconds. At the end you rank waxes by laying the C3 and C4 photographs side by side, never by remembering, and you explain the ranking out of blocks A to E.
What not to record
A record sheet can also do harm, by giving a made-up number the authority of a measurement. These are the entries to keep off it, and what to write instead.
Five entries to refuse
The tempting number, why it is not one, and the honest substitute
| Do not record | Why it is not a measurement | Record instead |
|---|---|---|
| "Adhesion: 7/10" | There is no published adhesion scale in the CSI range or anywhere on these product pages, so the 7 means whatever you felt that morning | A rank against your own two photographed reference jars — one you would ship, one you would not |
| "About 15% of the surface affected" | Area through curved glass cannot be estimated by eye, and the figure will drift between checkpoints as your eye adapts | A count of discrete gaps plus their height bands. Counts are countable |
| "Wax contracted 2%" | No CSI wax page publishes a contraction rate or coefficient, and you have not measured one | "Gap present at 2 o'clock, middle band, unchanged since C2" |
| "Equivalent to 3 months on a shelf" | There is no published conversion from any temperature cycle to real time, and inventing one is the easiest way to mislead yourself | The cycle you actually ran, written out: hours, temperatures, how measured |
| "Better than last batch" | Not unless last batch was photographed the same way — and "better" is not a field, it is a conclusion | The photograph, plus the conditions. Let the comparison happen when you lay two images together |
The deeper point is that the honest answer to "how much adhesion variation is acceptable" is a number your brand chooses, not a figure the industry publishes. The sheet's job is to make that choice reviewable: photograph a jar you are happy to ship and a jar you are not, keep both images at the front of the file as your reference pair, and rank everything against them. Then the threshold is written down, visible to whoever packs the boxes, and changeable on purpose rather than by mood. Setting it is covered in how much variation is normal before it is a commercial problem.
Nobody publishes an adhesion number, so the only honest score is a photograph taken the same way twice.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, and does not manufacture wax. The commercially convenient thing for a wax seller to do here would be to hand you a scoring scale with our waxes near the top of it. We have done the opposite: this page tells you that no scale exists on any of our product pages, that you should refuse to write one down, and that the only defensible record is your own photograph of your own jar.
Every price and specification comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Equipment descriptions are the product pages' own wording. Stated wax temperatures are quoted only where a page gives them — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks' 80–90°C add and 70–80°C pour, Eco Soy CSI 400's 85°C add and two-minute stir — and they are formulation guidance, not regulatory limits. No CSI page publishes an adhesion score, a contraction rate, an acceptable-defect percentage or an accelerated-ageing conversion, and every temperature and duration in the fourth checkpoint is explicitly the reader's own choice.
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Frequently asked questions
How many jars per wax do I need for the sheet to be worth it?
Six is the usual minimum, because fewer than that cannot separate a wax property from an accident of position in the batch — and the sheet's fields 14, 18 and 19 exist precisely to catch those accidents. Six jars per wax across two candidates is 12 sheets, 372 entries and 48 photographs. If you can only manage three jars per wax, run the comparison anyway but treat the result as a shortlist rather than a decision, and say so on the sheet.
Can I just use my phone for the photographs?
Yes. A phone is entirely adequate as long as five things never change: distance, light, background, jar orientation and camera settings. Tape the bench where the jar stands and where you hold the phone, use one lamp with the room lights off, shoot every jar against both white and black card, keep the marker dot facing you, and turn off flash, filters and portrait mode. Never crop or brighten a comparison shot — take an extra detail photograph instead and label it as one.
Why record the room temperature if I am testing the wax?
Because ambient temperature sets the cooling rate, and cooling rate is one of the strongest influences on what the wall looks like. Two waxes poured a fortnight apart in an Indian workshop can be separated by several degrees of room temperature, which is a real difference your sheet would otherwise attribute to the wax. Field 15 asks for it at the pour and at two hours, with a ₹354 pen thermometer, and it is the field that makes January and July batches comparable.
Should I record the pour temperature I aimed for or the one I got?
The one you got, every time. "70–80°C" is a plan; "76°C" is data. This matters more than makers expect because the published windows differ so widely — CSI 468 states 58–60°C and CSI 464 states 80–90°C — so a few degrees of drift inside a narrow window is a large fraction of it. Record the reading, and if you drifted outside the stated window, write that down too. An honest outlier is useful; a tidy fiction is not.
What is the fourth checkpoint for, and how long should the cycle be?
It is there because a candle that leaves a workshop perfect and arrives patchy has been through a temperature cycle, and only a cycle will reveal that. The length and temperatures are your choice — hold, move, hold, photograph — and the only rule is that you write down exactly what you did and apply it identically to every jar. There is no published conversion from any cycle to months on a shelf, so never record one. The result is comparative between your jars, nothing more.
Do I need the sheet if I only pour one wax?
A shorter version, yes — and it pays for itself differently. With one wax the sheet is not a comparison tool but a baseline: two or three clear jars per batch, photographed at C2 and C3 with fields 8, 11, 13, 14 and 15 filled in, and you have a documented normal. The day a new lot of wax or a new lot of jars behaves differently, you will see it in weeks rather than in a customer email, and you will have the conditions on hand to explain it.
22 fields, 4 photographs, ₹708 of instruments
Print twelve sheets, fix the four checkpoints, and let the photographs do the ranking.
Pen Thermometer ₹354 for fields 8, 11 and 15. Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 for field 3. Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 for 40 — ₹2.50 a jar — for field 4. Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid ₹944 per 10, stating a 150 g fill, 8 cm height, 7 cm outer diameter and a hot-pour ceiling of 85°C. Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118 for 5 so field 10 names the same stirrer twice. Message us for bulk pricing on jars and equipment, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. The equipment and prices are CSI's; the 22-field sheet, the photograph protocol and the four checkpoints apply to any supplier's wax.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; three longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Pen Thermometer For Candle Making ₹354. Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 — page states a "large, easy-to-read LCD display" showing "measurements in grams or ounces" and "simple one-button operation". Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 for 1 sheet of 40 stickers = ₹2.50 each; the 100-sticker sheet (₹236) is listed but currently sold out; page states a 10 mm diameter, adhesive that "keeps your wick firmly in place, even through hot wax pours", and heat resistance. Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) ₹944 per 10 and ₹1,888 per 20 = ₹94.40 each; page states "150g fill capacity", "Height 8cm, outer diameter 7cm", base diameter approximately 6.5 cm, "thick-walled clear glass" and "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C"; 12 jars = ₹1,132.80. Bamboo Stirring Sticks for Mixing Wax ₹118 per 5 = ₹23.60 each (₹1,062 per 50, ₹1,888 per 100). Mini Electric Wax Melter ₹2,360 — page states 1 litre capacity and dual 300 W and 600 W power modes. Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram ₹159.30 per 5 = ₹31.86 each. 200 ml jar family ₹708 per 10 = ₹70.80 each. Wax reference figures: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 10 kg ₹5,074 and Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 10 kg ₹6,370; CSI 464 states "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C" and CSI 468 "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C"; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state "Recommended fragrance add temp 80-90°C" and a pour of 70–80°C (75–80°C in the same page's details table); Eco Soy CSI 400 states fragrance added "at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes, and pour directly" and a "Fragrance Add Temperature 80 to 90 degrees". Fragrance loads and temperatures are wax formulation guidance, not regulatory limits. Sheet arithmetic: 4 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 2 = 19 one-time fields; 3 observation fields × 4 checkpoints = 12 further entries; 19 + 12 = 31 entries and 22 distinct fields per jar. Two waxes × 6 jars = 12 jars → 12 × 31 = 372 entries, 12 × 4 = 48 photographs, or 96 images at two backgrounds per checkpoint. Instrument set ₹354 + ₹354 = ₹708, the same as a pack of ten 200 ml jars. Not published anywhere in the CSI range, and therefore never recorded as a number here: any adhesion score or scale, any wax contraction rate or percentage, any acceptable-defect percentage, any threshold temperature at which a gap forms, and any conversion from a temperature cycle to real shelf time. The fourth checkpoint's temperatures and durations are the reader's own choice and must be written down as such. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.