Why Every New Wax × Wick × Fragrance Combination Needs Burn Testing
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A wax, a wick and a fragrance are not three ingredients. They are one system with three inputs — and a system has to be tested as a whole, every time one input moves.
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Candle Business Guides · Flash Point, Safety & Testing
Because a candle is a system, not a recipe. The wax sets the pool temperature, the wick sets the pool area, the fragrance changes what the wick is drawing up — and changing any one of the three changes the other two's behaviour. This guide gives you the arithmetic of how many combinations you actually own, a standard test protocol, and the record sheet that makes a test worth running.
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distinct candles hiding behind a modest shelf of 3 waxes, 3 wick sizes and 6 fragrances — 108 if you sell two jar diameters. A tested recipe is one of those; the rest are assumptions · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why can't I reuse a recipe that already works? Because the three inputs interact. The wax decides how hot and how fluid the melt pool runs, the wick decides how wide it opens, and the fragrance is 8–13% of the fuel the wick is actually drawing. Swap any one and the pool you validated is not the pool you now have.How many tests do I really need? Fewer than 54 if you test in the right order. Freeze the wax and the vessel, find the wick first, then run the scents against that wick: 14 test jars covers a three-wax, three-wick, six-scent shelf across two diameters. That programme costs about ₹3,480.70 against a 500-candle run worth ₹1,22,861.
What is a pass? A cured candle that opens a full melt pool to the glass in about two to three hours, with no soot, no mushrooming, a pool depth that stays sensible, and a throw you would pay for — repeated over three burn sessions, in the vessel you actually sell.
When do I judge it? Not at 48 hours. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states a cure of minimum 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks; 14–21 days is standard practice for soy containers. A verdict on day 2 is a verdict about a different candle.
The short answer
One variable per test, three jars per variable: three jars because one jar is an anecdote — a badly seated wick or a draughty shelf will fake a result you then build a business on.
Test in the production vessel: pool area is set by diameter. A 6 cm jar gives about 28.3 cm² of releasing surface and a 7 cm jar about 38.5 cm² — 36% more. A wick proven in one is unproven in the other.
Write it down while it is burning: time to full pool, pool depth, soot, mushrooming, throw at one metre and three metres. Memory rounds everything towards the answer you wanted.
In this guide
Three waxes, three wick sizes and six fragrances is not twelve decisions. It is 54 different candles, because every input multiplies every other one. Add a second jar diameter and it is 108. The useful response is not to test all of them — it is to fix the axes you are not investigating, which is what the last section of this guide costs out at 14 jars.
The wax axis · stated 8–13%
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The wick axis · two sizes
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Straight answer
Why does every new wax × wick × fragrance combination need its own burn test?
Because the three do not act independently. The wax determines how hot the melt pool runs and how fluid it is — CSI 468 states a melt of 50–53°C and a pour of 58–60°C, while CSI 464's page states melt and pour at 80–90°C. The wick determines how wide that pool opens, and pool area is release area: about 28.3 cm² in a 6 cm jar against 38.5 cm² in a 7 cm one. The fragrance is 8–13% of the liquid the wick is drawing up, and oils differ in volatility, viscosity and vanillin content — Jasmine states "Vanillin content 0%", Vanilla Bean states "Vanillin Content: 2.5%". Change one and the equilibrium you validated is gone: a wick that opened a full pool in 2 hours 40 minutes may now tunnel, or soot, or mushroom. A shelf of 3 waxes, 3 wick sizes and 6 scents is 54 distinct candles, 108 across two diameters — and a recipe is only proven for the exact combination you burned. The discipline is cheap. A nine-jar test in the vessel you sell costs about ₹2,224.69; the 500-candle run it protects is ₹1,22,861. Pour three jars per variable, cure 14 days, burn three sessions, write everything down.
One line: one variable per test, three jars per variable, fourteen days of cure, three burn sessions, everything written down — and the vessel must be the one you actually sell.
A test bench is cheap. Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10, Cotton Braided Wicks ₹120 for 10, and a Pen Thermometer at ₹354 — one-time purchases that make every later test comparable.
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How many candles you actually own
Makers count their scents. Customers buy combinations. The two numbers are nowhere near each other.
Ask a small brand how many products it has and you will hear "six scents". Ask how many distinct candles it is putting into the world and the honest answer is the product of every input that affects the burn. Four inputs matter: the wax, the wick (type and size count separately), the fragrance, and the vessel diameter. Load is a fifth, but for most makers it is fixed per wax, so treat it as part of the wax axis until you deliberately change it.
The formula is unglamorous and worth writing on the wall: combinations = waxes × wick options × fragrances × vessel diameters. Nothing adds. Everything multiplies. That is why a brand that feels small on paper can be running dozens of untested candles, and why the honest number is usually a shock the first time someone works it out.
The multiplication · what a shelf really contains
How the count grows, and how many jars a full factorial test would need
| Your shelf | Distinct candles | Jars for a full test at 3 per combination | Where a maker usually is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 wax · 1 wick · 1 scent · 1 jar | 1 | 3 | The first proven recipe. Guard it |
| 1 wax · 2 wick sizes · 1 scent · 1 jar | 2 | 6 | You are choosing a wick. This is the correct first test |
| 1 wax · 3 wicks · 6 scents · 1 jar | 18 | 54 | A launch range on one wax and one vessel |
| 3 waxes · 3 wicks · 6 scents · 1 jar | 54 | 162 | An ordinary small brand a year in |
| 3 waxes · 3 wicks · 6 scents · 2 jars | 108 | 324 | The same brand after it adds a votive size |
| 4 waxes · 4 wicks · 8 scents · 3 jars | 384 | 1,152 | A range that has grown faster than its records |
Nobody sane runs 324 test jars. The point of the table is not to make you test everything — it is to stop you believing that a recipe validated on one combination transfers to the others for free. It does not, and the next section is about exactly why not.
The mistake: treating the wick as a constant. The wick is the part makers most often carry unchanged across the whole range, because it is the cheapest component and it "worked". But the wick is the component sized to the other two: it has to carry a specific wax at a specific viscosity with a specific percentage of oil in it. Eco Candle Wicks come in Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each, and the product page states no diameter guidance at all — the C1/C2 sizes exist only as variant names. That is not a gap you can fill by reading; it is a gap you fill with three jars and a clock.
What changes when each input moves
This is the mechanical heart of the subject. For each input, here is what physically changes, what tends to fail when the change goes untested, and the specific observation that catches it. Read the row for whatever you are about to change; if you are about to change two rows at once, read the fail-fix underneath first.
One axis at a time · mechanism, failure mode, detection
Eight things that move, and what each one does to a burning candle
| Change this | What physically changes | What tends to fail | The observation that catches it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wax | Melt point, pool temperature, viscosity, crystal structure, adhesion to glass, stated oil ceiling and stated pour band | Wet spots, frosting, tunnelling, a pool that never reaches the wall, weak hot throw | Three jars, same wick, same oil, same jar; time to full pool at day 14 |
| Wick size | Pool diameter and therefore releasing area; burn rate; flame height; pool depth | Too small: tunnelling and a cold, quiet candle. Too large: soot, mushrooming, an overheated vessel, wax consumed too fast | Time to a full pool over three sessions; pool depth; soot on the glass; the wick tip after burn three |
| Wick type (cotton, eco, wooden) | Capillary feed rate, flame shape and stability, how the wick behaves as the pool deepens | Drowning in a fluid pool, self-extinguishing, uneven consumption | Relight behaviour at the start of session two and three, not session one |
| Fragrance | Composition and volatility of 8–13% of the fuel; viscosity of the melt; vanillin content; how much of the scent sits in heavy base notes | Weak hot throw at an identical load, wick drowning, browning in white wax, a pool that behaves differently | A two-oil swap test against your existing recipe as the control |
| Load % | The share of the melt that is oil rather than wax — 16 g against 26 g in a 200 g candle | Above the wax's solubility limit: separation, sweating, a wick starved of wax | Three loads side by side; surface at day 14; wick behaviour in session two |
| Vessel diameter | Pool area: 22.1 cm² at 5.3 cm, 28.3 cm² at 6 cm, 38.5 cm² at 7 cm, 44.2 cm² at 7.5 cm, 78.5 cm² at 10 cm | The previous wick is now wrong in both directions depending which way you moved | Re-wick from scratch at each diameter. This is not a tweak |
| Vessel material and wall | Heat retention and how quickly the outer edge of the pool gives up heat — glass, ceramic and tin all differ | Glass running hot, a ceramic jar holding heat and widening the pool, a tin cooling fast at the rim | Touch the vessel at 60 minutes and again at burn end; record both |
| Season and workshop temperature | Cooling rate after the pour, surface finish, how the cured wax behaves at 34°C on a shelf | Wet spots and sinkholes in winter, sweating and soft tops in an Indian summer | Re-run your best-seller once in peak summer and once in winter and log the ambient temperature |
The mistake: changing two things and keeping the result. You move from CSI 464 to Chunks and go up a wick size in the same batch. The candle is better. You have learned nothing you can repeat, because you cannot tell which change did it — or whether one change improved the candle and the other quietly made it worse. One variable per batch, a control jar from the previous recipe alongside it, and the result written down before you form an opinion. Three controlled tests over six weeks teach you more than thirty uncontrolled pours, and they cost less wax.
Always pour a control
Every test batch should include one jar made to your existing, proven recipe, poured on the same day from the same wax and cured in the same box. It costs one jar. It tells you whether a disappointing result is the new variable or the week — a cold workshop, a humid weekend, a wick seated badly, a thermometer drifting. Without a control, every test is measured against a memory of a candle you poured two months ago, and memories flatter.The standard burn test
This is a protocol, not a result: it describes what to do and what to record, and every number it produces will be yours, not ours. Run it the same way every time and your records become comparable across months, which is the whole point.
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Write the question down before you melt anything. One sentence: "does Eco C1 open a full pool in the 150 g Golden Lid jar with Chunks at 8% Lavender?" If your sentence contains the word "and" twice, you have two tests. Freeze everything else in writing: wax, pack, oil, size, load in grams, add temperature, pour temperature, vessel.
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Weigh, don't estimate; pour three jars plus a control. At 8% of the finished candle a 150 g candle is 138 g of wax and 12 g of oil. Add fragrance in the band the wax page states — 80–90°C for Chunks, 85°C with a two-minute stir for Eco Soy CSI 400 — and pour in the stated pour band. Log the actual temperatures you achieved, not the ones you intended.
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Label and cure for 14 days. Lids on, in a closed carton, at room temperature, out of sunlight. Write the pour date and the earliest burn date on the base of each jar. The Chunks page states a cure of minimum 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; several fragrance pages state 48–72 hours for soy. For a commercial verdict, 14 days is the number to standardise on, and 21 for woody, gourmand and oriental directions.
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Burn in three sessions of up to four hours, trimming between. Session one establishes the first pool; session two tells you whether the wick is sustainable as the pool deepens; session three catches mushrooming and carbon build-up. Trim the wick to about 5 mm before each session. Burn on a level, draught-free surface, away from a fan or an open window, and never leave a test candle unattended — a test is an hour you are present for, not an experiment you walk away from.
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Measure while it burns. Time to a full melt pool at the glass; pool depth at the two-hour mark; flame height and stability; soot on the inside of the jar; wick tip condition at the end; how hot the outside of the vessel feels at 60 minutes. Then throw: stand at one metre and at three metres, 45–60 minutes in, and score each out of five. Do the cold-throw score first, lid off, before you light anything.
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Decide, record, and change one thing. Pass, fail, or pass-with-a-note — then write the single change you will make next. A fail is not a wasted jar; it is a row on a sheet that stops you making the same candle twice. File the sheet with the fragrance's product-page print-out and its documentation, and the scent now has a complete file.
The mistake: judging on day two because you are impatient. A soy candle burned 48 hours after pouring tells you two things honestly — whether the wick lights and whether the surface is sound. It tells you almost nothing about throw, because the wax structure is still settling and the fragrance is still distributing through it. Makers who judge at 48 hours reject good oils and raise loads they did not need to raise, which costs money twice: once in wasted oil, once in a scent dropped from the range for no reason. If you must burn something early, burn it and then burn a sibling jar at day 14, and compare your own two notes.
The record sheet
A test without a record is a pleasant evening with a candle. Below is the sheet — seventeen fields, one side of A4, the same every time. Copy it into a notebook or a spreadsheet; the format matters far less than filling it in while the candle is in front of you. The example column is a worked entry so the shape is obvious, and every figure in it is a real CSI stated figure or a real listed price.
Burn-test record sheet · one row per field, one sheet per test jar
Seventeen fields, why each one is there, and a worked example entry
| # | Field | Why it is on the sheet | Example entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Test ID | So a jar on a shelf can be traced to a sheet six months later | BT-2609-A1 |
| 2 | Date poured | Starts the cure clock; also dates the batch of every material | 14 September 2026 |
| 3 | The one question | Forces a single variable | Does Eco C1 open a full pool in the 7 cm jar? |
| 4 | Wax and pack size | The first axis. Pack size matters because it dates the material | Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, 10 kg (₹5,999) |
| 5 | Fragrance and size | The third axis, plus the bottle you will have to match next time | Lavender Fragrance Oil, 1 kg (₹5,221) |
| 6 | Load: percentage AND grams | Grams are reproducible; percentages get mis-read | 8% of candle = 138 g wax + 12 g oil |
| 7 | Basis of the percentage | Two conventions exist in this trade and they differ by about a point | Share of finished candle (not of wax weight) |
| 8 | Wick type and size | The second axis | Eco Candle Wicks, Thin (C1), ₹5.90 each |
| 9 | Vessel and stated diameter | Pool area is set here, and it is the figure most often missing | Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid, 7 cm outer rim, 150 g fill |
| 10 | Add temperature and stir time | Incorporation quality; also the figure the wax page states | 85°C, stirred 2 minutes |
| 11 | Pour temperature | Surface finish and glass adhesion | 75°C (page states 70–80°C) |
| 12 | Workshop temperature and season | Explains wet spots, sinkholes and summer softness | 31°C, monsoon, humid |
| 13 | Cure: start, end, days | Makes verdicts comparable across months | 14 Sep to 28 Sep, 14 days |
| 14 | Cold throw, lid off, before lighting | The shelf test your customer performs in a shop | 4 / 5 |
| 15 | Per session: time to full pool, pool depth, flame, soot, wick tip | The actual data. Three rows, one per session | S1 2 h 40 min to glass, 8 mm, no soot, slight curl |
| 16 | Hot throw at 1 m and 3 m, 45–60 min in | The commercial question, asked at two distances | 4 / 5 at 1 m, 3 / 5 at 3 m |
| 17 | Verdict and the one change | Turns an evening into a decision | PASS. Next: same jar, Thick C2, to compare pool time |
The CSI principle
A recipe is not a list of ingredients. It is a list of ingredients plus the sheet that proves they work together in one specific jar. Sell the second thing and you own a product; sell the first and you own a hope.
This is also why the vessel belongs on the recipe card. Two candles with identical wax, wick, oil and load but different diameters are two different products, and only one of them has been tested.
What one untested combination costs
The argument for testing is not caution. It is a ratio, and the ratio is about fifty to one.
Price a real production run and the case makes itself. Take 500 candles of 150 g at an 8% load — 138 g of wax and 12 g of oil each — in a vessel whose page states both its fill capacity and its diameter, with an in-stock wick. Every figure below is a listed pack price, so this is what the materials actually cost, not a per-gram abstraction.
500 × 150 g candles at 8% · listed packs only · CSI live pricing, September 2026
What a single untested combination is standing on
| Material | Quantity needed | Listed packs used | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | 69 kg (500 × 138 g) | 6 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg + 4 × 1 kg | ₹41,385 |
| Lavender Fragrance Oil | 6 kg (500 × 12 g) | 6 × 1 kg at ₹5,221 | ₹31,326 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | 500 wicks | 1 × 500-wick pack | ₹2,950 |
| Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid | 500 jars | 25 × pack of 20 at ₹1,888 | ₹47,200 |
| Total materials | 500 candles | — | ₹1,22,861 (₹245.72 each) |
| The nine-jar test that precedes it | 9 jars, same vessel | Wax, oil, 5 × C1, 4 × C2, 9 jars | ₹2,224.69 — 1.81% of the run |
Worked out above: 500 × 138 g = 69,000 g of wax; listed packs 6 × ₹5,999 + ₹2,995 + 4 × ₹599 = ₹41,385. 500 × 12 g = 6,000 g of oil = 6 × 1 kg Lavender at ₹5,221 = ₹31,326. Wicks: the Eco C1 500-wick variant is listed at ₹2,950 (₹5.90 each). Jars: the Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid page lists packs of 10 (₹944) and 20 (₹1,888), so 500 jars is 25 packs of 20 = ₹47,200 (₹94.40 each). Total ₹1,22,861 ÷ 500 = ₹245.72 per candle. Nine-jar test: 9 × 138 g = 1,242 g of wax at the 1 kg rate ₹0.599/g = ₹743.96; 9 × 12 g = 108 g of oil at ₹5.221/g = ₹563.87; 9 jars at ₹94.40 = ₹849.60; 5 Thin C1 at ₹5.90 = ₹29.50 and 4 Thick C2 at ₹9.44 = ₹37.76. Total ₹2,224.69, which is 1.81% of ₹1,22,861 — the run is 55 times the test.
Now the failure modes, priced. If the wick is one size too small, the candles tunnel: the customer burns perhaps 60% of a candle they paid full price for, you take the complaints, and the ₹47,200 of glass is the part you cannot recover. If the wick is one size too large, you get soot on the inside of the jar and a candle that consumes itself fast — the same glass, the same fragrance cost, a shorter burn and a worse review. If the oil browns a white wax you did not test it in, the fault is cosmetic, total and visible in every photograph. None of those outcomes is exotic. Each is the ordinary consequence of assuming a combination rather than burning it, and each costs multiples of ₹2,224.69.
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Collapsing 54 tests into 14
Here is the practical resolution of the combinatorics problem. You do not test every combination; you test each axis once, in an order that lets each answer carry forward. Four rounds, fourteen jars, one shelf fully characterised.
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Round one — find the wick. 3 jars. Freeze one wax, one vessel and one middling scent. Burn three wick candidates side by side: Eco C1, Eco C2 and Cotton Braided. Keep the one that reaches the glass in about two to three hours with no soot. Everything after this uses that wick.
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Round two — run the scents against the winning wick. 6 jars. One jar per fragrance, same wax, same vessel, same load. You are now testing only the fragrance axis, and any candle that misbehaves is telling you something about that oil rather than about your process. Watch for the two oil-specific failures: a drowning wick and a colour change in the wax by day 14.
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Round three — check the other waxes on your best-selling scent only. 2 jars. Not all six scents in all three waxes. One jar of your strongest seller in each alternative wax tells you whether that wax needs a different wick at all. If it does, you have bought a real finding for two jars; if it does not, you have retired an axis.
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Round four — re-wick at the second diameter. 3 jars. A new vessel size is a new wick problem, because pool area scales with the square of the radius: 28.3 cm² at 6 cm against 78.5 cm² at 10 cm. Repeat round one in the new jar. Three jars, and the second size is characterised.
Three plus six plus two plus three is fourteen jars. At 150 g each in the production vessel that programme costs ₹3,480.70 — 1,932 g of wax (₹1,157.27 at the 1 kg rate), 168 g of oil (₹877.13), fourteen jars (₹1,321.60) and a mixed handful of wicks (₹124.70), or about ₹248.62 per test jar. Against a single ₹1,22,861 production run that is 2.83%, and it characterises a shelf that contains 108 theoretical combinations. This is the best-value spend in a candle business, and it is not close.
You are not testing a candle. You are buying the right to stop guessing about fifty of them.
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The three axes, priced
A test programme needs one of each axis and a vessel with published dimensions. These are the three products the arithmetic above is built on, with every listed size and what each one costs inside a 150 g candle at 8%.
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The wax axis · the widest stated load band
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks for Jar / Container Candles
The best wax to run a test programme on, because its page publishes the numbers a test needs: a stated fragrance load of 8–13% with 10% recommended, fragrance added at 80–90°C, a pour at 70–80°C, and a cure of minimum 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks. Starting a test from published figures rather than from guesses means a failure tells you something about your variable instead of about your process. The listed price per kilo is flat from 1 kg to 10 kg, so testing on the same wax you will scale costs nothing extra per candle.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 150g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹299 | ₹598 | ≈3 |
| 1 kg | ₹599 | ₹599 | ≈7 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,995 | ₹599 | ≈36 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,999 | ₹599.90 | ≈72 |
₹82.66 of wax per 150 g candle at 1 kg pricing Buy Luxury Soy Chunks
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The wick axis · two sizes, flat per-piece pricing
Eco Candle Wicks | Eco Wicks for Candle Making
Two stated sizes — Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each — at the same per-piece price in every pack from 10 to 1,000, which means a wick test costs the same per jar as production does. The page states these wicks "pair perfectly with soy wax, beeswax, and other eco-friendly waxes" and gives no diameter guidance: C1 and C2 exist only as variant names. Treat that honestly. It is not a defect in the listing so much as a statement about wicks in general — the right size is a property of your wax, your oil, your load and your jar together, and three jars settle it faster than any chart. The Thick (C2) 10-wick pack is currently sold out; the 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 packs are listed.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks | ₹59 | ₹5.90 |
| Thick (C2) / 10 Wicks (sold out) | ₹94.40 | ₹9.44 |
| Thin (C1) / 20 Wicks | ₹118 | ₹5.90 |
| Thick (C2) / 20 Wicks | ₹188.80 | ₹9.44 |
| Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks | ₹295 | ₹5.90 |
| Thick (C2) / 50 Wicks | ₹472 | ₹9.44 |
| Thin (C1) / 100 Wicks | ₹590 | ₹5.90 |
| Thick (C2) / 100 Wicks | ₹944 | ₹9.44 |
| Thin (C1) / 500 Wicks | ₹2,950 | ₹5.90 |
| Thick (C2) / 500 Wicks | ₹4,720 | ₹9.44 |
| Thin (C1) / 1000 Wicks | ₹5,900 | ₹5.90 |
| Thick (C2) / 1000 Wicks | ₹9,440 | ₹9.44 |
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The third wick candidate · stated for wide jars
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
The useful third candidate in round one, and the only CSI wick whose page states a diameter at all: "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm", with "Height of the wick is 10.16 cm." At ₹12 each flat across packs of 10 to 1,000, it is the one to reach for when you move from a 7 cm jar to a 10 cm one and the pool area more than doubles, from 38.5 cm² to 78.5 cm². Note what the page does not claim: it is a ready-made braided wick, not a pre-tabbed assembly, so plan your wick stickers or tabs accordingly.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹120 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 50 | ₹600 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 100 | ₹1,200 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 500 | ₹6,000 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 1000 | ₹12,000 | ₹12 |
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Priced above: wax in a 150 g candle at 8% = 138 g × ₹0.599/g (1 kg price ₹599) = ₹82.66; at the 10 kg rate of ₹0.5999/g it is ₹82.79, so the pack size barely moves the per-candle figure. Vessel: Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid at ₹94.40 each in packs of 10 or 20, page-stated 150 g fill, 8 cm height, 7 cm outer diameter, 6.5 cm base, safe for hot pour to 85°C. Pool areas quoted throughout are πr² from page-stated diameters: 5.3 cm → 22.1 cm², 6 cm → 28.3 cm², 7 cm → 38.5 cm², 7.5 cm → 44.2 cm², 10 cm → 78.5 cm². Also on the bench: Pen Thermometer ₹354 and Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 — ₹708 once, which is ₹1.42 spread across a 500-candle run.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, and a guide that tells you to pour fourteen test jars instead of five hundred production candles is not the commercially convenient thing to write. We write it because the failure mode we see most often is not a bad material — it is a good material used in an untested combination, and a maker who loses ₹47,200 of glass to a tunnelling wick usually stops ordering anything at all.
Every price, pack size and specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which is always authoritative on current pricing. Stated loads, temperatures and cure windows are quoted only where a product page states them, and where a page states nothing — the Eco Candle Wicks page gives no diameter guidance, and several waxes state no maximum load — we say so rather than filling the gap. No burn-test result on this page is a CSI result. Everything described here is a protocol for producing your own numbers; the times, pool depths and scores in the example record sheet are illustrative entries showing the shape of a filled-in sheet, not measurements we are publishing.
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Frequently asked questions
Do I really need to re-test when I only change the fragrance?
Yes, because the fragrance is part of the fuel. At an 8% load, 12 g of a 150 g candle is oil, and oils differ in volatility, viscosity and vanillin content — so the liquid your wick is drawing is not the same liquid. The usual symptoms of a skipped re-test are a wick that drowns in a more fluid pool, a candle that throws less at an identical load, and a white wax that tones cream by day 14. One jar plus a control from the old recipe is enough to see all three.
How many test candles do I need per variable?
Three, plus a control. Three because one jar cannot distinguish a genuine result from a badly seated wick, a draught or an unusually cold week; three consistent results are a finding. The control is a jar made to your existing proven recipe and cured alongside, so you are comparing two candles rather than a candle and a memory. In the 150 g Golden Lid jar a three-jar test costs about ₹736.84 with Eco C1 wicks.
What counts as passing a burn test?
A cured candle that reaches a full melt pool at the glass in about two to three hours, holds a stable flame with no soot on the jar and no significant mushrooming at the wick tip, does not make the vessel uncomfortably hot to hold, and delivers a throw you would pay for at one metre and detectably at three. It must do all of that across three burn sessions, not just the first — most wick failures appear in session two or three as the pool deepens.
Can I test in a small jar and sell in a big one?
No, and this is the single most common shortcut. Pool area grows with the square of the radius: 28.3 cm² at 6 cm, 38.5 cm² at 7 cm, 78.5 cm² at 10 cm. A wick that opens a 6 cm jar beautifully will very likely tunnel in a 10 cm one, and the reverse over-wicks and soots. Vessel material matters too — glass, ceramic and tin give up heat at different rates. Test in the vessel you sell, and treat each diameter as its own product with its own sheet.
How long should the cure be before I judge a test?
Standardise on 14 days for soy containers and 21 for woody, gourmand and oriental directions, so that your sheets are comparable to each other. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states minimum 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; several fragrance pages state 48–72 hours for soy. Those are the shortest windows in which a candle is sound, not the window in which it is at its best — and a commercial verdict should be taken at its best.
What does a full test programme cost before a production run?
For a shelf of three waxes, three wick sizes, six scents and two jar sizes: 14 test jars, about ₹3,480.70 at 150 g each in the production vessel — wax ₹1,157.27, oil ₹877.13, jars ₹1,321.60, wicks ₹124.70. The 500-candle run it protects costs ₹1,22,861 in listed packs, so the programme is 2.83% of one run. Add a Pen Thermometer and a scale at ₹354 each, once.
Fourteen jars, one characterised shelf
One variable per test. Three jars per variable. Fourteen days. Everything written down.
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500 g to ₹5,999 / 10 kg (₹82.66 of wax per 150 g candle), Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10 (₹5.90 each Thin, ₹9.44 Thick), Cotton Braided Wicks ₹120 for 10 (₹12 each), Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid ₹94.40 each. Bulk pricing and GST invoicing on WhatsApp once your test passes.
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Continue the read
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- Why is my candle tunnelling? Diagnosis and fixes
- Why is my candle wick mushrooming?
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. No burn-test result on this page is a CSI measurement. The protocol and record sheet describe how to produce your own figures; the entries in the example column of the record sheet are illustrative, showing the shape of a completed sheet. The combinatorics, the test order and the pool-area arithmetic apply to any supplier's materials.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Prices — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299, 1 kg ₹599, 5 kg ₹2,995, 10 kg ₹5,999; Lavender Fragrance Oil 15 g ₹105.02, 50 g ₹270, 100 g ₹540, 500 g ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10, ₹118 / 20, ₹295 / 50, ₹590 / 100, ₹2,950 / 500, ₹5,900 / 1,000 (₹5.90 each), Thick (C2) ₹188.80 / 20 to ₹9,440 / 1,000 (₹9.44 each; the 10-wick Thick pack is sold out); Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120 / 10 to ₹12,000 / 1,000 (₹12 each); Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid pack of 10 ₹944 and pack of 20 ₹1,888 (₹94.40 each); Pen Thermometer ₹354; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Stated specifications as published: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 8–13% fragrance load with 10% recommended, add at 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, cure minimum 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 up to 10%, page states melt and pour 80–90°C; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 up to 13%, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir 2 minutes; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid 150 g fill capacity, height 8 cm, outer diameter 7 cm, base diameter approximately 6.5 cm, safe for hot pour up to 85°C; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm", "Height of the wick is 10.16 cm."; Eco Candle Wicks page states no wick diameter or jar-diameter guidance. Fragrance page quotes: Jasmine Fragrance Oil "Vanillin content 0%"; Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil "Vanillin Content: 2.5%". Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Maths assumptions: fragrance load stated as a share of the finished candle, so a 150 g candle at 8% = 138 g wax + 12 g oil and a 200 g candle at 8% = 184 g wax + 16 g oil; 500-candle run = 69 kg wax (6 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg + 4 × 1 kg = ₹41,385) + 6 kg oil (6 × 1 kg = ₹31,326) + 500 wicks (₹2,950) + 500 jars (25 × ₹1,888 = ₹47,200) = ₹1,22,861, or ₹245.72 per candle; nine-jar test = 1,242 g wax at ₹0.599/g (₹743.96) + 108 g oil at ₹5.221/g (₹563.87) + 9 jars (₹849.60) + 5 × C1 (₹29.50) + 4 × C2 (₹37.76) = ₹2,224.69 = 1.81% of the run; fourteen-jar programme = 1,932 g wax (₹1,157.27) + 168 g oil (₹877.13) + 14 jars (₹1,321.60) + wicks (₹124.70) = ₹3,480.70 = 2.83% of the run, ₹248.62 per jar; three-jar test with Eco C1 = ₹736.84. Pool areas are πr² from page-stated diameters. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.