Candle Wicks Wholesale Price in India

Every listed wick price at every pack size

Most price lists are organised by product. For a wholesale comparison it is more useful to organise by pack size, because that is how an order is actually placed — "I need 100", "I need 500" — and it shows immediately whether a bigger pack is doing anything to the price. Each cell gives the listed pack price and, beneath it, the price per wick. A dash means that pack is not listed for that wick.

Read down any of the first three columns and the per-wick figure never moves. Read across any row and the gaps are fixed ratios: C2 costs exactly 60% more than C1 (₹9.44 against ₹5.90), Cotton Braided costs a little over twice C1, and a wooden wick in its cheapest pack costs exactly seven times a C1. Those ratios hold whether you are buying for a weekend market or a 1,000-candle festive run, so the relative cost of each wick choice is the same at every scale.

Flat or stepped: what CSI's wick prices actually do

There are two kinds of wholesale price structure in the wick range, and each asks for a different buying habit.

Flat pricing — Eco C1, Eco C2, Cotton Braided. The listed price for 1,000 wicks is 1,000 times the price of one. There is no listed reward for buying ahead and no listed penalty for buying small. That makes the right order the one that matches consumption: the wicks for the next batch plus a sensible spare stock. Buying 1,000 C2 wicks when you use 100 a month puts ₹8,496 more on the shelf than a 100-pack would (₹9,440 against ₹944) for no listed saving at all. The only arguments for the big pack are fewer orders to place and fewer chances to run out mid-season — real benefits, but operational ones.

Stepped pricing — Performance Wooden Wicks. Here volume does change the price, and the step is large. The variant names on the product page read "Pack of 50 (Save 25%)" and "Pack of 100 (Save 30%)". Checking those against the 10-pack price is worth doing before you plan around them:

The 100-pack's "Save 30%" matches the arithmetic exactly. The 50-pack works out at 20% below five 10-packs, so plan on the rupee figures rather than the label; the product page is authoritative if anything has changed. Two practical consequences follow. First, above 70 wooden wicks the 100-pack is never the dearer buy: 70 wicks as a 50-pack plus two 10-packs cost ₹3,540, but 80 wicks as a 50-pack plus three 10-packs cost ₹4,130 — the price of the 100-pack, which gives you 20 more. Second, because 100 is the largest listed pack, the price per wooden wick bottoms out at ₹41.30 on listed prices — anything above 100 is multiples of that pack, or a WhatsApp quote. The wooden range, holders and test protocol are covered in the wooden candle wick wholesale guide.

What a wick costs inside a finished candle

To see what the wick price means, put it inside three real candle formats built from CSI materials. Each uses Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 per 10 kg and Lavender Fragrance Oil at ₹5,221 per kg, poured at an 8% fragrance load (so a 150 g candle is 138 g of wax and 12 g of oil), in a CSI vessel whose page states its fill. One wick per candle is assumed, and every wick is costed in every candle to show the arithmetic — not as a pairing recommendation. Stated sizing still applies (Cotton Braided is for candles over 8 cm), and wide vessels may need more than one wick, which your test burn will tell you.

Three readings matter for pricing. In a standard jar candle, a cotton or paper wick is small change: the whole spread from C1 to Cotton Braided is ₹6.10 on a ₹240 cost base. In a small votive the wick share more than doubles, because everything else is small — so the C1-versus-C2 choice is worth more thought on votives than on 500 g jars. And a wooden wick is a pricing decision, not a supply decision: at ₹41.30 it is 14.7% of a 150 g candle's materials and almost 30% of a votive's, so it belongs on candles whose retail price carries the look and the crackle it sells. The cotton-versus-wood trade-off for new makers is laid out in cotton wick vs wooden wick.

When the dearer wick is the cheaper choice

Because wick prices are small inside a candle, the question to ask is not "which wick is cheapest?" but "how many rejects does the cheaper wick have to avoid to be worth it?" The arithmetic is simple and it changes buying decisions quickly.

The same rule works in reverse for premium wicks. Moving from C2 to a wooden wick in the 100-pack adds ₹31.86 per candle. That is not recovered by fewer rejects; it has to be recovered at the till. If a wooden-wick candle in your range sells for at least ₹31.86 more than the same candle with a cotton wick — and your customers are paying for the look and sound the page describes — the wick earns its place. If not, it is a margin leak dressed as an upgrade. For turning material cost into a retail price, see how to price candles in India.

The full cost of fixing a wick: stickers, holders and tools

A wick in a bag is not yet a wick in a candle. Ready-cut wicks need fixing to the base of the vessel and holding upright while the wax sets. The first of those is a consumable that belongs in your per-candle cost; the second is equipment you buy once and reuse. Separating the two keeps your cost sheet honest.

Fixing adds ₹2.50 to every wick, which lifts the share of a 150 g candle's materials to 3.4% for C1 and 4.7% for C2. Holders are a different kind of number. The Steel Wick Holder page describes a reusable stainless-steel bar with a three-hole layout for single, double or triple wicks, fitting jars up to 9 cm wide; one holder serves one jar per pour, again and again. As illustrative arithmetic only, a ₹50 holder used for 100 pours works out at ₹0.50 a candle — which is why holders belong in your equipment budget, sized to how many jars you pour at once, not to how many candles you sell.

Three wick price lines, card by card

The wholesale price of a wick is set by its product line. These three cards cover all four ready-to-use wicks, with every listed pack, the per-wick price and the number of single-wick candles each pack covers.

Whichever line you buy, run the same six checks before placing a wick order or accepting a quote. They take five minutes with a calculator and they stop most wick overspends before they happen.

Wholesale quotes above the listed packs

"Wholesale price" often means a number that isn't on the website. At CSI the position is straightforward: the listed per-wick prices are what anyone can buy at today, in any quantity the listed packs can make up, and larger or recurring orders are quoted directly on WhatsApp. This guide will not tell you what a quote will be, because it depends on the wick, the quantity, how regularly you order and where it ships. What it can tell you is how to make a quote request quick to answer and easy to compare.

When the quote arrives, divide it back to price per wick including shipping and put it next to the listed figure. If you are comparing suppliers, compare like with like — the same wick construction, the same pack format, the same invoice terms — and burn-test a sample from any new source before switching production. A cheaper wick that behaves differently in your jar resets every recipe you have already proven. For the wider sourcing picture, see the best place to source candle making supplies for a business.

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