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Cotton wicks from ₹5.90 each · pre-tabbed, ready-made, by the metre and by the roll Packs of 10 to 1,000 Stocked in India · ships nationwide
CSI buying guides · Wicks
Cotton is the default wick for a reason. Here is which cotton form to buy, what braiding actually does to the flame, and where cotton is the wrong answer.
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"Quality wick, works very well"
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Eco Candle Wicks
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"Quality of the wick is good for jar candles, team can work on the pricing and delivery timelines."
Monika DeepVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
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"Good quality .... if possible delivery date would be try little bit quick please"
Subhankar RoyVerified buyer · Sep 2024
Eco Candle Wicks
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"This bamboo wick holder doesn't exert any pressure on the wicks… and it is a very useful product 👌🏻👌🏻.."
Lalitha JaganAug 2024
Bamboo Wick Holder
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"This needle is very helpful as it doesn't damage the mould and there is no leakage of wax while pouring.. I would definitely recommend this .."
LJAug 2024
Premium Candle Wicking Needle
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Candle Buying Guides · Cotton Wicks
Cotton is the default wick because a braided cotton wick curls as it burns and trims itself. This page covers the six cotton forms CSI stocks, what each is for, how the braid actually works, and the two situations where you should buy something else.
₹5.90
per pre-tabbed Eco Candle Wick, Thin (C1), at every pack size from 10 to 1,000 · CSI live pricing, September 2026 · the linked product page is always authoritative
Quick answers — read this first
Which cotton wick should I start with? Eco Candle Wicks in Thin (C1) at ₹59 for 10 and Thick (C2) at ₹188.80 for 20. Buy both, burn-test both in your actual jar, then commit to a pack size.Why braided and not just a twisted string? A braided cotton wick is built asymmetrically so the burning tip curls sideways out of the flame's cool core into the hot, oxygen-rich edge, where the carbon on the tip is consumed instead of accumulating. That is self-trimming, and it is why braided cotton mushrooms and soots less.
What size for my jar? Use the diameter bands further down as a starting point only, then burn-test. There is no wick chart that survives a change of wax, fragrance load or colourant — the full method is on the wick supplier and sizing page.
Is cotton always right? No. If you want an audible crackle and a visibly wide flame, buy wooden wicks instead. Cotton is the default, not the only answer.
The short answer
Start here: Eco Candle Wicks, pre-tabbed, Thin (C1) ₹5.90 a wick and Thick (C2) ₹9.44 a wick at every pack size. Smallest buy-in: ₹59 for 10 C1.
Other cotton forms: Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made at ₹12.00 each · Eco Braided Wicks 5 m ₹472 / 10 m ₹826 · Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch) 5 m ₹413 / 10 m ₹708 · Braided Wick Roll, 61 m with 100 tabs at ₹706.82.
The mechanism: braided cotton curls out of the flame as it burns, so the carbon on the tip oxidises away instead of building into a mushroom. Flat and cored constructions behave differently and need different handling.
In this guide
The braid is not decorative. Braided cotton is built so that one side of the bundle contracts faster than the other as it chars, which bends the burning tip sideways out of the flame's cool inner core and into the hot outer envelope where there is enough oxygen to oxidise the carbon. A tip held straight up sits in the coolest, most oxygen-starved part of the flame, so the carbon has nowhere to go but onto the tip. Everything makers call "mushrooming" follows from that one geometric difference.
The default buy
Eco Candle Wicks C1 & C2 · from ₹59
Production volume
61 m Braided Wick Roll + 100 tabs · ₹706.82
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Straight answer
Where do you buy cotton candle wicks in India, and which form do you actually need?
Buy them from the CSI Candle Wicks collection, and pick the form by how you work, not by price per wick. Pre-tabbed Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 — are the default for container candles because the tab is already crimped on and centred. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made at ₹12.00 each are the cut-and-finished alternative. Eco Braided Wicks and Eco Candle Wicks Loose come by the metre for pillars, tapers and non-standard heights. The 61 m Braided Wick Roll with 100 tabs at ₹706.82 is the production buy — ₹11.59 a metre, cut to your own length. Braided cotton is the default construction because it self-trims. Size it against your jar diameter as a starting point, then burn-test, because the same wick behaves differently in soy and in paraffin. If you want crackle, buy wooden instead. Pack-level pricing across the whole range is in the wholesale wick matrix.
One line: buy braided cotton because it curls out of the flame and trims itself; buy it pre-tabbed for jars, by the metre for pillars, and by the 61 m roll once you are pouring in volume.
The cheapest useful test you can run this week: 10 Thin (C1) at ₹59 and 20 Thick (C2) at ₹188.80, burnt side by side in the jar you actually sell. That is ₹247.80 to stop guessing.
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The cotton forms CSI stocks, and what each one is for
Cotton wicks are not one product sold in different quantities. They are four different working formats, and buying the wrong format costs you labour every single pour.
The Candle Wicks collection holds seven products. Six of them are cotton. The decision you are making is not really "which wick" — it is how much finishing work you want to buy and how much you want to do at the bench. A pre-tabbed wick arrives cut to length with a metal sustainer tab already crimped on. A ready-made wick arrives cut and finished. A metre length arrives as continuous braid that you cut, tab and prime yourself. A roll arrives as 61 metres of the same thing with a hundred tabs in the box.
Per wick, the pre-tabbed option is the cheapest thing on this page and the roll is the cheapest per metre. Those two facts do not contradict each other, because a metre of wick makes several wicks and a tabbed wick makes exactly one. Work out your own per-candle number before you decide; the full pack-by-pack comparison across every wick CSI sells, cotton and wooden, is set out in the wholesale wick price matrix, and that page is the right place to do the arithmetic rather than this one.
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Pre-tabbed · container candles
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2)
The default. Tab already crimped, so the wick goes straight onto a wick sticker and into the jar with no preparation. Two thicknesses, and the entire point of buying both is that you cannot know which one your jar wants until you have burnt both in it. Pricing is flat per wick across every pack size, which is unusual and useful: there is no penalty for buying 10 to test before you commit to 1,000. C1 is ₹5.90 a wick from the 10-pack to the 1,000-pack; C2 is ₹9.44 a wick from the 20-pack up.
| Pack | Thin (C1) | Thick (C2) | Per wick |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 wicks | ₹59.00 | Out of stock | ₹5.90 / — |
| 20 wicks | ₹118.00 | ₹188.80 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
| 50 wicks | ₹295.00 | ₹472.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
| 100 wicks | ₹590.00 | ₹944.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
| 500 wicks | ₹2,950.00 | ₹4,720.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
| 1,000 wicks | ₹5,900.00 | ₹9,440.00 | ₹5.90 / ₹9.44 |
₹59 is the smallest sensible first order on this page Buy Eco Candle Wicks
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Ready-made · cut and finished
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
Braided cotton supplied cut and finished rather than by the metre. ₹12.00 a wick at every pack size from 10 to 1,000, so again no price advantage in over-ordering early. Use these where you want a braided cotton wick of a set length without cutting a roll down, and where the tabbing step fits your process rather than being forced by it. If you are pouring into glass jars at speed, the pre-tabbed Eco wicks above will usually be the faster line; if you are working across several vessel heights, a fixed ready-made wick is easier to keep organised than a roll.
| Pack | Price | Per wick |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | ₹120.00 | ₹12.00 |
| 50 | ₹600.00 | ₹12.00 |
| 100 | ₹1,200.00 | ₹12.00 |
| 500 | ₹6,000.00 | ₹12.00 |
| 1,000 | ₹12,000.00 | ₹12.00 |
Flat ₹12.00 per wick, 10 to 1,000 Buy Cotton Braided Wicks
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By the metre · pillars and tapers
Eco Braided Wicks (5 m and 10 m) and Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch)
Continuous braid on a length, for candles that are not a standard jar. Pillars, tapers, moulded and designer shapes all need a wick cut to the height of the mould plus a working margin, and buying that as a fixed pre-tabbed length is wasteful. Eco Braided Wicks run ₹472.00 for 5 m and ₹826.00 for 10 m — the 10 m is ₹82.60 a metre against ₹94.40, so the only saving is at the longer length. Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch diameter) is the heavier loose braid CSI lists at a 2 inch diameter, priced ₹413.00 for 5 m and ₹708.00 for 10 m, which is ₹70.80 a metre at 10 m. Pair either with a Premium Candle Wicking Needle at ₹472.00 to thread a mould without damaging it.
| Product | 5 m | 10 m | Best per metre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Braided Wicks | ₹472.00 | ₹826.00 | ₹82.60 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch) | ₹413.00 | ₹708.00 | ₹70.80 |
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Production volume · cut your own
Braided Wick Roll with 100 Wick Tabs (61 m)
Sixty-one metres of braided cotton with a hundred sustainer tabs in the same box, at ₹706.82. That is ₹11.59 a metre — against ₹70.80 a metre for the cheapest loose length, which is the single largest price step anywhere in the cotton range. The catch is labour: you cut, tab and centre every wick yourself, and if your cut length drifts your burn results drift with it. Buy this when your process is settled and your volume justifies the bench time, not before. A Wick Setting Tool at ₹399.00 and wick stickers at ₹100.00 for 40 turn it into a repeatable line rather than a fiddle.
| Item | Price | Per metre |
|---|---|---|
| 61 m roll + 100 tabs | ₹706.82 | ₹11.59 |
The volume buy — ₹11.59/m with tabs included Buy the 61 m roll
Do not buy the 1,000-pack yet. Because Eco Candle Wicks are priced flat per wick at every pack size, there is no discount waiting for you at 1,000 — you get exactly ₹5.90 a wick whether you buy ten or a thousand. The only thing a 1,000-pack buys you is fewer reorders. So test first, settle your jar and your wax, and then scale. The same is true of Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made at a flat ₹12.00. The one place volume genuinely changes your unit economics is the 61 m roll, and that only helps once you are confident enough in your cut length to commit.
Braided, flat and cored — what the construction actually does
A candle wick is not a fuse. It does not burn along its length; it works as a capillary, drawing molten wax up through the fibre bundle to the flame, where the wax vaporises and burns. The wick is a pump, and the flame is the engine that drives it. Everything about wick construction is an attempt to control two things at once: how much wax the bundle can carry per second, and what happens to the exposed tip once the wax around it has gone.
That second problem is the one braiding solves. Cotton that is simply spun or twisted into a cord burns with its tip pointing straight up, and the top of a candle flame's inner cone is the coolest and most oxygen-starved region of the entire flame. Carbon released as the wax pyrolyses has nowhere to be burnt off there. It deposits on the tip, and because carbon does not wick wax, the deposit grows into the hard black bulb that makers call a mushroom. Once that bulb is heavy enough it destabilises the flame, throws off soot flakes, and eventually drops into the melt pool.
A braided wick is built so that the plaited strands are not symmetrical in tension. As the tip chars, the strands contract at different rates, and the bundle bends to one side. That bend carries the burning tip out of the inner cone and into the outer envelope of the flame, which is both hotter and in contact with room air. There, the accumulated carbon oxidises away. The tip is continuously consumed rather than continuously built up. This is self-trimming, and it is the entire reason braided cotton became the default wick in candle making — not tradition, not cost, but a geometric trick that keeps the tip in the part of the flame that can clean it.
Construction · what changes at the flame
Three ways to build a cotton wick, and what each one does to your candle
| Construction | How it behaves | Where it suits | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braided | Plaited strands contract unevenly as they char, so the tip curls sideways out of the flame core and the carbon burns off | The default for container candles, soy and paraffin alike. All of the CSI cotton range is braided or supplied as braid | Still needs trimming to 5 mm. Self-trimming reduces mushrooming; it does not abolish it, especially at high fragrance loads |
| Flat / plaited ribbon | A flatter bundle with a broad wicking face; curls, but with a wider and less predictable bend than a round braid | Traditionally taper and pillar work, where the wick sits in free air and the bend has room | In a narrow jar the curl can reach the glass. In a wide pool it can pull the flame off centre |
| Cored | A stiffening core holds the wick upright, so the tip does not curl out of the flame core | Vessels where a wick must stand up in a deep or very fluid pool without slumping | No self-trim. Carbon accumulates on a tip held in the coolest part of the flame, so mushrooming and soot are the normal failure mode and manual trimming is not optional |
Two practical consequences follow. First, if your candle mushrooms badly on a braided cotton wick, the braid is not failing — something is overloading it. The usual culprits are an oversized wick, a heavy fragrance load, or dye and additives that raise the amount of non-combustible material being drawn up the fibre. Second, the self-trimming behaviour is a reduction, not an exemption. It is why a braided cotton candle can be left burning for three hours without going black, and it is not why you can skip trimming between burns. Those are different claims and only the first one is true.
The CSI principle
The braid does not make the wick burn cleaner. It moves the burning tip to the part of the flame where carbon cannot survive.
Every clean-burn claim you will read about cotton wicks reduces to that one mechanism. Understand it and the failure table further down stops being a list of symptoms and becomes a diagnosis you can run at the bench.
What "Eco" on a cotton wick does and does not promise
Three of the cotton products on this page carry "Eco" in the product name: Eco Candle Wicks, Eco Braided Wicks and Eco Candle Wicks Loose. It is worth being precise about what that word is doing, because a lot of candle marketing in India is not.
Stated plainly
"Eco" here is a product line name as CSI lists it. It is not a certification mark, and this page is not presenting it as one. We are not going to tell you it has been independently tested to a named standard, because publishing a claim like that without the paperwork in front of you is exactly how a supplier loses your trust. If your buyer, your marketplace listing or your export customer needs documentation on wick composition, ask us directly on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 and we will tell you what documentation exists for that specific batch rather than what would be convenient to say on a blog post.What you can rely on from this page is narrower and more useful: the form, the price, the pack sizes and the stock position, all pulled from live CSI listings in September 2026, with the product page as the authority if anything has moved since. Everything else — composition claims, test certificates, compliance letters — belongs in a conversation where we can give you a specific answer, not a paragraph. The same discipline applies to verifying wax quality before you buy, which is the sister problem on the raw material side.
A supplier who will not tell you what they cannot verify is more useful than one who tells you everything you want to hear.
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Sizing cotton by jar diameter — and why your wax changes the answer
Here is the part most wick pages get wrong. They print a diameter chart and stop. A chart is a starting point for a first burn test and nothing more, because the wick is not being sized against the jar — it is being sized against the whole system: the jar, the wax, the fragrance load, the dye, and the ambient temperature of the room you pour in. Change any one of those and the correct wick can change with it.
Starting points only · burn-test before you commit
Where to begin with CSI cotton, by internal jar diameter
| Internal diameter | Start with | Then check |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 55 mm (votives, mini jars, tins) | Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | Whether the pool reaches the glass in 2–3 hours without the flame growing tall and restless |
| 55–75 mm (the common container size) | C1 and Thick (C2) side by side, one jar each | Which one reaches the wall first with no soot line on the glass. This band is genuinely a toss-up and testing both is the point |
| 75–90 mm | Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) | Whether a single C2 leaves a wax ledge at the wall. If it does, move to two wicks rather than a bigger one |
| Above 90 mm | Two wicks, spaced roughly half the radius from the centre | Two C1 before two C2 — double-wicking adds heat faster than most makers expect |
| Pillars, tapers, moulds | Eco Braided Wicks or Eco Candle Wicks Loose, cut to mould height plus a margin | That the flame does not undercut the shell before the body has burnt down evenly |
Treat every row above as hypothesis one. The actual method — how many jars to burn, how long, what to record, and how to read the result — is set out step by step on the wick supplier and sizing page, and there is a diameter-by-diameter breakdown in the complete guide by diameter. Do not run both this table and that method from memory; write the results down.
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Cotton in soy behaves one waySoy melts and pools at a lower temperature than paraffin and the molten wax is more viscous. That means the capillary has to work harder to deliver the same mass of fuel, and it means the pool spreads outward more slowly. A cotton wick that is correct in soy is therefore often a size larger than instinct suggests. Start with Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260 per 500 g or Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 per 500 g and hold the wax constant while you test the wick.
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Cotton in paraffin behaves another wayFully Refined Paraffin Wax Pellets at ₹354 per kg and Semi Refined Paraffin Wax at ₹220 per kg run a hotter, thinner pool. The same wick draws more fuel per second, the flame runs larger, and a wick that was correct in soy can now soot, mushroom and overheat the glass. The wick did not change. The fuel did.
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Re-test whenever the recipe movesNew wax, new jar, a fragrance load raised from 8% to 10%, a switch from undyed to a deep colour, or a move from liquid dye to a heavier pigment — every one of those is a reason to burn three jars again. It is three hours of your time and roughly ₹18 of wick to avoid shipping a product that mushrooms in a customer's living room.
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Hold the rest of the bench constant while you do itSame jar, same wax lot, same load, same room, same day. Use a Wick Centering Device at ₹118 for 5 or a Bamboo Wick Holder at ₹118 for a set of 5 so the wick is in the same place in every test jar. An off-centre wick produces an off-centre pool and an unreadable test.
Five cotton wick failures and what each one is telling you
Every complaint a customer sends you about a candle's burn maps back to one of five behaviours. Learn to read them and you can diagnose from a photograph.
Mushrooming — a black carbon bulb on the tip. The wick is delivering more fuel than the flame can completely burn. Most often the wick is oversized for the vessel; next most often the fragrance load is high, or a heavy dye load is adding material that does not combust cleanly. Fix in that order: drop from C2 to C1 before you touch the fragrance, because wick size is the cheaper variable to change. A little mushrooming on a braided wick is normal and burns off; a bulb that rebuilds within twenty minutes of trimming is not.
Sooting — black marks on the glass, flakes in the air. Almost always the same root cause as mushrooming, seen a stage later: an oversized wick, or a correctly sized wick disturbed by a draught that makes the flame flicker and burn incompletely. Before you change wick size, move the test candle away from the fan, the window and the doorway and burn it again. If the soot goes, you had an environment problem, not a wick problem.
Drowning — the flame shrinks and dies in its own melt pool. The wick is undersized, or it was trimmed too short, or the pool is too deep for the wick to stay clear of. It can also be a fragrance-load symptom: excess oil that has not bound into the wax sits in the pool and is drawn up in place of fuel, and a wick that is pumping oil rather than wax cannot sustain a flame. Go up a size, and check your load against what your wax states it can hold.
Tunnelling — a narrow shaft of burnt wax with a ledge left at the glass. The wick is undersized for the diameter, so the pool never reaches the wall. Sometimes it is a first-burn discipline problem instead — the very first burn should run until the pool reaches the glass, because wax remembers, and a candle that tunnels on burn one will keep tunnelling. If the wick is right and the customer is stopping early, that is a care sticker problem, not a wick problem.
Flickering and a dancing flame. A draught nine times out of ten. The tenth is a wick sitting in a pool contaminated with unbound fragrance oil or moisture, or a wick that has been knocked off centre so one side of the braid is drawing unevenly. Rule out the room first; it costs nothing.
Trim to 5 mm before every burn — and print it
Five millimetres is the working length: long enough to sustain a stable flame, short enough that the flame stays small, the pool stays controlled and there is less exposed fibre to carbonise. A wick left at 15 mm burns with an oversized flame, sooty, and it will mushroom whatever the construction. The commercial point is not the physics, it is the complaint rate. A Candle Care Stickers Roll costs ₹413.00 for 500 one-inch stickers — ₹0.83 a candle — and a sticker that says "trim the wick to 5 mm before every burn, burn 2–3 hours at a time, keep away from draughts" converts a large share of would-be complaints into a customer following instructions. Pair it with a wick trimmer at ₹177.00 in your own kit so your burn tests start from the same 5 mm every time.
When cotton is the wrong buy — and we would rather you knew. Two cases. First, if the crackle is the product: some buyers are paying for the sound and the wide, visible flame of a wooden wick, and no cotton wick will deliver that at any price. Performance Wooden Wicks run ₹590.00 for 10, ₹2,360.00 for 50 (₹47.20 each) and ₹4,130.00 for 100 (₹41.30 each) — seven times the price of a C1 cotton wick, and worth it when the crackle is what the customer is buying. The full case is in buying wooden candle wicks in India. Second, if you are buying the wrong cotton size to avoid a second test: a C2 that mushrooms costs you refunds, and a C1 that tunnels costs you the same. The extra ₹188.80 to have both on the bench is not the expensive part of this decision.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On a page like this the commercially convenient move would be to send everyone to the 1,000-wick pack. We have told you the opposite, because Eco Candle Wicks are priced flat per wick at every pack size and there is genuinely nothing to gain from a large first order. A maker who buys 1,000 of the wrong wick does not come back.
Every price on this page is taken from live CSI stock on 10 September 2026 and links to its product page, where current pricing, specification and availability always take precedence. Where a variant is out of stock on that date — the Thick (C2) 10-wick pack — it is marked as such rather than presented as buyable. The jar-diameter bands are starting points for burn testing, not specifications.
We have deliberately not made composition or certification claims about the "Eco" wick line on this page. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, or documentation questions on a specific batch, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 and you will get a specific answer.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest cotton candle wick in India at CSI?
Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 per wick, and unusually that price is the same at every pack size — ₹59.00 for 10, ₹590.00 for 100 and ₹5,900.00 for 1,000. By the metre, the cheapest cotton is the 61 m Braided Wick Roll with 100 tabs at ₹706.82, which works out to ₹11.59 a metre, but you supply the labour to cut, tab and centre each wick.
Why do braided cotton wicks curl when they burn?
Because the plaited strands do not char at the same rate, so the bundle contracts unevenly and the tip bends to one side. That bend carries the burning tip out of the flame's cool, oxygen-poor inner cone and into the hot outer envelope, where the carbon on the tip is oxidised away instead of accumulating. The result is a tip that continuously consumes itself — self-trimming — which is why braided cotton mushrooms and soots less than a construction that holds the tip upright. It reduces mushrooming; it does not remove the need to trim to 5 mm between burns.
Which cotton wick size do I need for a 70 mm jar?
A 70 mm jar sits in the 55–75 mm band, which is the genuine toss-up. Start by burning Thin (C1) and Thick (C2) side by side in identical jars with your actual wax and fragrance load, and keep the one that reaches the glass in two to three hours with no soot line and no persistent mushroom. That test costs about ₹15 of wick. The full method is on the wick sizing page and by diameter in the complete guide by diameter.
Does the same cotton wick work in soy and paraffin?
Usually not at the same size. Soy pools cooler and more viscously, so the wick has to work harder to deliver fuel and the pool opens more slowly. Paraffin pools hotter and thinner, so the same wick draws more fuel per second and runs a larger flame — which can tip a wick that was perfect in soy into sooting and mushrooming. Re-test whenever the wax changes, and also when the fragrance load, the dye or the jar changes.
Why does my candle mushroom even though I bought braided cotton wicks?
Self-trimming reduces carbon build-up; it does not make a wick immune to being overloaded. A persistent mushroom on braided cotton points to an oversized wick first, a high fragrance load second, and a heavy dye or additive load third. Change one variable at a time and start with wick size, because it is the cheapest to change — dropping from C2 at ₹9.44 to C1 at ₹5.90 costs you nothing and tells you the answer in one burn.
Should I buy pre-tabbed wicks or a wick roll?
Pre-tabbed while you are still testing and while your volume is modest, because the tab is the fiddly part and Eco Candle Wicks cost the same per wick at 10 as at 1,000. Move to the 61 m roll at ₹706.82 once your cut length is settled, because ₹11.59 a metre is a genuine step change — and budget the bench time, a Wick Setting Tool at ₹399.00 and wick stickers at ₹100.00 for 40 alongside it.
Cotton wicks, in stock, shipping across India
Buy ten, burn three, then buy a thousand. In that order.
Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10 in Thin (C1) and Thick (C2), Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made at a flat ₹12.00 each, Eco Braided Wicks from ₹472 for 5 m, Eco Candle Wicks Loose from ₹413 for 5 m, and the 61 m Braided Wick Roll with 100 tabs at ₹706.82. GST invoicing on every order; bulk pricing and documentation questions on WhatsApp.
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Continue the read
- Candle wick supplier in India — the full sizing and burn-test method
- Buy wooden candle wicks in India — when the crackle is the product
- Wholesale candle wicks in India — the full price matrix
- Best wick for candle making — complete guide by diameter
- The complete candle making raw material list
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the construction mechanism, the diameter bands and the failure diagnosis apply to any supplier's cotton wicks.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and the wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" is shown only for Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy and Sneha Tamang, the three that Judge.me recorded as verified; Ashwini, Lalitha Jagan and LJ are published reviews that Judge.me did not record as verified and are not badged.
Figures verified 10 September 2026 (CSI live pricing): Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) ₹59.00/10, ₹118.00/20, ₹295.00/50, ₹590.00/100, ₹2,950.00/500, ₹5,900.00/1,000, all ₹5.90 per wick; Thick (C2) ₹188.80/20, ₹472.00/50, ₹944.00/100, ₹4,720.00/500, ₹9,440.00/1,000, all ₹9.44 per wick, with the C2 10-wick pack out of stock on the pull date. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120.00/10, ₹600.00/50, ₹1,200.00/100, ₹6,000.00/500, ₹12,000.00/1,000, all ₹12.00 per wick. Eco Braided Wicks ₹472.00 per 5 m (₹94.40/m) and ₹826.00 per 10 m (₹82.60/m). Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch diameter) ₹413.00 per 5 m (₹82.60/m) and ₹708.00 per 10 m (₹70.80/m). Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs, 61 m, ₹706.82 (₹11.59/m). Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) ₹590.00/10, ₹2,360.00/50 (₹47.20 each), ₹4,130.00/100 (₹41.30 each). Wick Centering Device ₹118.00 per 5; Bamboo Wick Holder ₹118.00 per set of 5; Wick Setting Tool ₹399.00; Premium Candle Wicking Needle ₹472.00; Candle Wick Stickers ₹100.00 per sheet of 40; Candle Wick Cutter / Trimmer ₹177.00; Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413.00 per 500 one-inch stickers (₹0.83 each). Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260.00/500 g; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299.00/500 g; Fully Refined Paraffin Wax Pellets ₹354.00/kg; Semi Refined Paraffin Wax ₹220.00/kg. The Candle Wicks collection holds 7 products. "Eco" is a CSI product line name, not a certification; no certification, test result or compliance claim is made on this page. Jar-diameter bands are starting points for burn testing, not specifications. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.