My Candle Flame Is Tiny and Wax Consumption Is Extremely Slow — Should I Test a Larger Wick?
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Probably — but not first. Log grams per session before you buy anything, because a falling session rate points at a suppressed wick, and a bigger wick papers over the real cause. Six things make a flame small, and only one of them is wick size.
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wax consumed in the first four-hour session — falling to 4 g by session five. A rate that drops session to session is the diagnosis; a steady low rate is a different problem · one maker's own log
Quick answers — read this first
Is a tiny flame always an undersized wick? No. Six things suppress a flame: trim length, session length, a wick drowning in its own pool, fragrance composition, dye loading and the wax or wick lot itself. A bigger wick hides all of them, which is why it is the last move, not the first.What should I measure? Grams per session, weighed cold on the same scale, plus pool radius at the end of each session. In the log below the candle lost 9 g, then 8, 7, 5 and 4 g across five four-hour sessions. A falling rate is the signal.
Is "extremely slow" good news for burn time? It looks like it and it is not. At 1.65 g per hour that candle projects to about 64 hours — while stranding 44 g of a 150 g fill, which is ₹29.46 of wax and fragrance per jar at listed prices. The hours are borrowed from wax the customer cannot reach.
What does "a larger wick" mean here? One step, then a change of kind. CSI lists two Eco cotton sizes — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2) — so above C2 there is no bigger cotton wick: you move to cotton braided, wooden, or two wicks. All of it burn-tested.
The short answer
Read the trend, not the number: a steady low rate suggests the wick is simply small for the diameter; a rate that falls each session suggests the wick is being progressively suppressed or drowned, and a bigger wick may fix the symptom while leaving the cause in place.
Pour an elimination jar first: same wax, same jar, same wick, same fill, no fragrance and no dye. One ₹59.85 jar of wax answers whether your oil or your colour is the suppressor — and it costs less than a wooden wick.
Escalate in the smallest steps the range allows: C1 to C2 is the only cotton rung. After that it is count or type, and each one is a formulation change needing a full-life retest and a safety check.
In this guide
Bar length is grams lost in one four-hour session, weighed cold. The upper candle's rate falls as the shaft deepens; the lower one settles and holds. Both are one maker's own readings — substitute yours.
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Straight answer
My flame is tiny and the wax is barely going down — should I test a larger wick?
Yes, eventually — but spend one jar and five evenings first, because the cheapest wrong answer here is a bigger wick that masks a suppressor you have not found. Start with grams per session. In the log below, a 150 g candle in a 33 mm-radius jar on Eco C1 lost 9 g, 8 g, 7 g, 5 g and 4 g across five four-hour sessions — an average of 1.65 g per hour and, more importantly, a rate falling by more than half while the pool stalled at a 21 mm radius. That shape says the wick is being progressively starved or drowned, not merely small. The candidate C2 jar settled at 19, 21, 22 g — about 5.2 g per hour, 3.15 times the rate — and its pool reached the glass by session three. Before buying anything, pour one elimination jar: the same Eco Soy CSI 400, the same jar, the same wick, the same fill, with no fragrance and no dye. That is ₹59.85 of wax, and it separates "my wick is small" from "my oil or my colour is loading the wick". If the plain jar burns normally, the wick is not your problem. If it burns just as feebly, escalate — and remember the range gives you one cotton rung (C1 to C2) and then a change of kind: cotton braided at ₹12, wooden from ₹41.30, or two wicks.
One line: log grams per session, read the trend before the number, eliminate oil and dye with one plain jar, then escalate in the smallest step the range allows.
The whole diagnosis costs less than one wooden wick pack: Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg for the elimination jar, a ₹177 wick trimmer so trim length stops being a variable, and ₹354 for a scale that reads grams.
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The session log, and what the trend says
One number tells you how slow the candle is. Five numbers tell you why.
Average burn rate is useful for costing and useless for diagnosis, because it hides exactly the information you need. Two candles can both average 1.65 g per hour: one by burning steadily at 1.65 every session, the other by starting at 2.25 and collapsing to 1.0. Those are different faults with different fixes, and only a per-session log distinguishes them.
Five four-hour sessions · 150 g fill · 33 mm internal radius
Grams per session, pool radius and what each row is telling you
| Session | Grams lost | Rate | Pool radius | Pool area share | Wall | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 g | 2.25 g/h | 17 mm | 27% | 16 mm | Small first pool is normal in soy; do not judge yet |
| 2 | 8 g | 2.0 g/h | 20 mm | 37% | 13 mm | Pool widening, rate already slipping |
| 3 | 7 g | 1.75 g/h | 21 mm | 41% | 12 mm | Pool has nearly stalled — the wall is now structural |
| 4 | 5 g | 1.25 g/h | 21 mm | 41% | 12 mm | Rate falling with no widening: the wick is being suppressed |
| 5 | 4 g | 1.0 g/h | 20 mm | 37% | 13 mm | Pool shrinking. Heading for a drowned or self-extinguishing wick |
| Total | 33 g | 1.65 g/h | The average conceals every one of the five rows |
Worked out above: rate = grams lost ÷ 4 hours. Pool area share = (pool radius ÷ 33)². Wall = 33 mm internal radius − pool radius. Totals: 33 g over 20 hours = 1.65 g/h. Candidate jar on Eco C2: 19, 21, 22, 21, 21 g = 104 g over 20 hours = 5.2 g/h, pool radius 24, 30, 33, 33, 33 mm. Every figure is one maker's own weighing and measuring — no CSI page publishes a burn rate for any wax, wick or jar.
Two shapes, two meanings. A flat low rate with a pool that stabilised short of the glass is the classic undersized-wick-for-that-diameter picture: the wick is doing its best, consistently, and its best is not enough to cross the jar. A declining rate is different. Something is getting worse as the burn goes on — the pool is deepening and drowning a weak wick, carbon is building on the tip, the wick is being loaded by what is dissolved in the wax, or the flame has dropped below the rim into still air. The fix for the first shape is more wick. The fix for the second might be the trimmer, the oil, the dye or the jar.
Weigh cold, trim consistently, and write both down
Two disciplines make a session log trustworthy. Weigh the whole candle, jar included, cold — before lighting and after the wax has set hard — so you are never weighing liquid or a half-set surface. And trim to the same length before every single session with a ₹177 trimmer rather than pinching off whatever looks long, because trim length is one of the six suppressors below and an inconsistent trim will fake a falling rate all by itself.The 64-hour trap
Here is why "extremely slow" is dangerous rather than flattering. Project that log forward. If the candle eventually strands 44 g of its 150 g fill — the sort of residue a 12 mm permanent wall produces — it will have consumed 106 g, and at its average 1.65 g per hour that is roughly 64 hours on the stopwatch.
The slow candle against its candidate · 150 g fill
What the stopwatch says, and what the scale says
| Measurement | Tiny flame · Eco C1 | Candidate · Eco C2 | Which one a customer feels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average burn rate | 1.65 g/h, falling | 5.2 g/h, steady | Neither — but it drives everything below |
| Residue projected and weighed | 44 g | 9 g | Yes — the jar they have to clean out |
| Usable wax | 106 g of 150 g | 141 g of 150 g | Yes — it is what they paid for |
| Hours to flame-out | ≈64 | ≈27 | Only if the hours are usable ones |
| Pool reaching the glass | Never — stalled at 41% of the surface | By session three | Yes — throw and appearance both |
| Stranded wax and fragrance | ₹29.46 | ₹6.03 | Indirectly — it is margin and goodwill |
Worked out above: usable wax = 150 g − residue; hours = usable wax ÷ average rate (106 ÷ 1.65 = 64.2; 141 ÷ 5.2 = 27.1). Stranded value = (residue × 0.92 × ₹0.399, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg) + (residue × 0.08 × ₹3.78, Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil at ₹1,890 / 500 gm): 44 g → 40.48 g wax ₹16.15 + 3.52 g oil ₹13.31 = ₹29.46; 9 g → 8.28 g wax ₹3.30 + 0.72 g oil ₹2.72 = ₹6.03. A 150 g candle at 8% is 138 g wax (₹55.06) and 12 g oil (₹45.36).
Sixty-four hours would look superb on a label. It would also be a 106 g candle sold as a 150 g candle, with a pool that never covered more than two fifths of the surface and a flame that was shrinking by the end. The number is real; what it measures is a failure. Hours to flame-out rewards every form of weakness in a wick, which is precisely why it should never be the figure you optimise.
The mistake: buying the biggest wick in the range because the flame looks small. It usually works, which is the problem — a large wick can overwhelm a suppressor and give you a full pool while the suppressor is still there, waiting to reappear the moment your fragrance supplier, your dye dose or your wax lot changes. You will then have a candle that is over-wicked for its real conditions, and over-wicking is a safety question rather than a performance one. Find the cause, then take the smallest step that fixes it. Related reading: candle flame too high: how to fix.
Six things that shrink a flame that are not wick size
Work down this list before you order wicks. Five of the six cost nothing to check, and each one is a single-variable test. The rule throughout: change one thing, re-burn, re-weigh.
The suppressor checklist
What to change, what it costs, and how you know
| # | Suppressor | How it shows in the log | The test | Cost of the test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trim length — too short and the flame cannot establish; too long and it carbons and then chokes | Rate jumps around between sessions with no pattern | Fix the trim with a trimmer and repeat three sessions | ₹177 once |
| 2 | Session length — a pool that never gets time to establish rebuilds a wall every time | Pool radius resets downward each session | Burn two full four-hour sessions back to back and re-measure | Nothing |
| 3 | A drowning wick — molten wax deeper than a weak wick can lift | Rate falls while pool depth grows; flame sits low | Note pool depth as well as radius; a deep pool over a feeble flame is the signature | Nothing |
| 4 | Fragrance composition — oils differ, and composition can affect how a wick performs | One SKU behaves, another does not, on the same wick and jar | The elimination jar below, then a paired test of the two oils | ₹59.85 of wax |
| 5 | Dye loading — heavy colour can load a wick | The undyed version of the same recipe burns differently | Pour one jar with no dye, everything else identical | Nothing extra |
| 6 | Wax or wick lot, and wick position — off-centre, leaning, or a tab sitting proud | A recipe that used to work has changed with no recipe change | Re-pour from a different bag or wick pack; check centring at the pour | Nothing — or one bag |
Numbers 4 and 5 need care in how they are described, so here it is precisely. Fragrance and dye can change how a wick performs. We are not going to tell you by how much, or which oils or colours do it. No CSI fragrance or dye page publishes a dose, a burn effect or a consumption figure, and a ranking we invented would be a liability in your specification rather than a help. What is defensible is the mechanism and the method: heavy loading of anything dissolved or suspended in the wax gives the wick more to carry, and the only way to know what your oil does in your wax is a paired candle with one variable changed. CSI buyer Ashwini notes of the liquid dyes that colour depends "upon the amount of dye you add" — which is exactly the variable to pin down and record.
Don't diagnose the oil and the dye at the same time. If you pull both out at once and the flame recovers, you have learned that one of two things was the problem — and you will spend another fortnight finding out which. Pour three jars: no oil and no dye, oil but no dye, and your full recipe. Three jars, one melt, one answer. A wicking needle at ₹472 or a bamboo wick holder at ₹118 for five keeps the wick centred so that position does not become a seventh variable. The controlled-comparison method is set out in how to compare two fragrance oils using a controlled burn test.
The elimination jar
This is the single highest-value test on the page and it costs one jar of plain wax. The logic is simple: if the wick burns normally with nothing dissolved in the wax, the wick is adequate for that jar and the suppressor is in your recipe. If it burns just as feebly with nothing in the wax at all, the wick genuinely is too small for the diameter and escalation is justified.
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Pour three jars from one melt, in the jar you actually sellJar A: wax only, no fragrance, no dye. Jar B: wax plus your fragrance at your usual load, no dye. Jar C: your full production recipe. Same wax bag, same fill weight on the ₹354 scale, same jar from the same pack, same wick from the same pack, same centring.
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Follow the wax page's stated temperatures and record what you actually didEco Soy CSI 400 states adding fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stirring gently for two minutes before pouring directly, and its page states a melt point of 100°F (37.8°C). Jar A has nothing to add, so bring it to the same temperature and hold it the same length of time anyway — the thermal history should match. Log the thermometer readings, not the targets.
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Cure all three together and burn them on the same scheduleLids on, dark, room temperature, 14 to 21 days is standard practice for soy containers. Then four-hour sessions, trimmed identically, same room, lids off, no competing scent, weighed cold between sessions. Three parallel logs, five sessions each.
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Compare the three session-one rates, then the three trendsIf A is healthy and B and C are feeble, your fragrance is the suppressor. If A and B are healthy and only C is feeble, your dye dose is. If all three are feeble, the wick is under-powered for the diameter and the escalation ladder below is the right next step. If A is feeble but B and C are fine, something is wrong with your method rather than your materials — start again.
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Act on exactly one findingA fragrance suppressor is not fixed by a different wick alone — it is fixed by wicking that SKU deliberately, which means a per-fragrance wick decision rather than one wick for the whole collection. A dye suppressor is fixed by reducing the dose and re-testing the colour. Only a three-way feeble result licenses a straight wick change.
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Write the result into the recipe card, not just the notebook"Eco C1, 150 g, 6.6 cm internal, Roasted Coffee at 8%, no dye, trim 5 mm, four-hour sessions, session-one rate 2.25 g/h." That line is what lets you detect a change next year when a supplier, a lot or a load moves — see how to choose the right wick for your candle.
What to buy for the escalation
If the elimination jar sends you up the ladder, these are the three lines worth ordering: a cheap wax for the plain jar, and the two candidates that exist above Eco C2 — because above C2 the range changes kind rather than size.
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The elimination jar · lowest price per kilo
Eco Soy CSI 400
The cheapest kilo in the CSI range at ₹399, which is the right economics for a jar you are pouring specifically to throw away. Its page is unusually explicit about method — add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C), stir gently for two minutes, pour directly, with a stated melt point of 100°F (37.8°C) — and it recommends Eco Wicks, which keeps your control jar inside the supplier's own pairing. It states no maximum fragrance load, so hold your usual load and do not push it during a diagnosis. A 150 g jar of plain wax is ₹59.85. CSI buyer Arminder Kaur: "Good quality wax."
| Size | Price | Per kg | 150g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹399 | ₹399 | ≈7 |
| 5 kg | ₹1,996 | ₹399.20 | ≈36 |
₹59.85 for a 150 g plain elimination jar · ₹55.06 of wax in a scented 150 g candle Buy Eco Soy CSI 400
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Above C2 · a change of kind
Performance Wooden Wicks | Imported (Pack of 10)
A genuinely different wick, not a bigger cotton one, which matters when you have run out of cotton rungs. Its page states that one pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs and gives no diameter guidance at all, so it enters your bracket as a candidate to be measured rather than a size to be specified. Two practical notes: it is an imported item, and it is one of the few CSI wick listings whose per-piece price steps down with volume — ₹59 at ten, ₹47.20 at fifty, ₹41.30 at a hundred. Wooden wicks also behave differently on trim length than cotton, so re-establish your trim before you compare logs. Background: best performance wooden wicks for candle making in India.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹590 | ₹59 |
| Pack of 50 (Save 25%) | ₹2,360 | ₹47.20 |
| Pack of 100 (Save 30%) | ₹4,130 | ₹41.30 |
₹59 each at ten, falling to ₹41.30 at a hundred · the only CSI wick with a stepped per-piece price Buy Performance Wooden Wicks
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Above C2 · for wider jars
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
The other candidate above C2, and the only CSI wick besides the loose Eco roll whose page gives a numeric size target: it is "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm", with a stated wick height of 10.16 cm. Read that honestly — if your jar is 6.6 cm internal, this wick is built for something wider than you are pouring, so it belongs in the bracket as a deliberate over-reach you expect to reject rather than as the obvious answer. Where it earns its place is a wide-jar product, and it is flat at ₹12 a piece from ten right through to a thousand, so bracketing it costs the same per wick as production. The page states no pack quantity, so check what arrives.
| 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 |
₹12 per wick at every listed pack to 1,000 · page targets jars exceeding 8 cm Buy Cotton Braided Wicks
Once a candidate passes, the ladder prices cleanly: Eco wicks flat to 1,000 pieces, Cotton Braided flat at ₹12 to 1,000, Performance Wooden stepping to ₹41.30 at a hundred, and Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399/kg with 5 kg the largest listed pack. For recurring volumes above the listed packs, bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS or IFRA documentation are handled on WhatsApp.
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What "a larger wick" means in this range
It is worth being blunt about the shape of the range, because wick advice written for ranges with twenty graded sizes does not transfer. CSI lists six wick products. One of them has two sizes. That is the whole ladder.
The escalation ladder, in order of wick power you can buy
Each step, what it costs per candle, and what it obliges you to retest
| Step | What it is | Cost per candle | What must be retested |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where you are | Eco C1 single · no diameter stated | ₹5.90 | — |
| Step 1 · the only cotton rung | Eco C2 single · no diameter stated | ₹9.44 | Full-life burn, residue, throw, flame and jar temperature |
| Step 2a · count | Two Eco C1 | ₹11.80 | All of the above, plus centring and pool interaction between the two flames |
| Step 2b · kind | Cotton braided single · page targets jars over 8 cm | ₹12 | All of the above, plus trim behaviour |
| Step 2c · kind | Performance Wooden single · no diameter stated | ₹41.30–₹59 | All of the above, plus a new trim standard |
| Step 3 · count and kind | Two Eco C2, or two wooden | ₹18.88 / ₹82.60–₹118 | Everything, and a hard look at whether the jar is simply too wide for one flame |
| Cut to length | Eco Candle Wicks Loose ("2 inch diameters") · Eco Braided Wicks | ₹413–₹826 per roll | Your own cut height becomes a variable — fix it and record it |
Note what is not on that ladder: a graded series of cotton diameters. The Eco Candle Wicks page states no diameter for either size — C1 and C2 appear only as the Shopify variant names Thin and Thick — and the only two listings with numeric size language are the loose Eco roll ("designed specifically for 2 inch diameters") and Cotton Braided ("exceeding 8 cm"). So "test a larger wick" is a short list, and each entry on it is a different kind of change rather than a notch on a dial.
The CSI principle
A small flame is a question, not a fault. Answer it with a plain jar before you answer it with a bigger wick.
One jar of unscented, undyed wax costs less than a pack of wooden wicks and rules out two of the six suppressors in a single burn. Escalation that follows an elimination is engineering; escalation that precedes it is shopping.
Where to stop, and why safety ends the argument
There is a ceiling on this ladder and it is not a performance ceiling. A wick can be too large before the flame looks alarming. The warning signs are specific and you should write them into your acceptance sheet rather than trusting your impression on the night.
The stopping conditions
Any one of these ends the escalation, whatever the hours and whatever the wall
| Observation | What it means | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Soot marking the glass | Incomplete combustion; the wick is delivering more fuel than the flame can burn cleanly | Step back down. Do not ship this candidate |
| Heavy mushrooming on the wick tip | Same cause; it also makes trim length unstable session to session | Step back down, or re-check the load and dye first |
| Flame that will not settle in still air | Too much wick for the pool it has created | Step back down |
| Jar too hot to hold comfortably after a session | A hazard in a customer's home, regardless of hours | Reject the candidate outright |
| Pool noticeably deeper than it was shallow-and-wide | More molten fuel standing over the wick; raises consumption and risk together | Prefer a candidate that widens rather than deepens |
And then stop at the smallest candidate that clears your wall and passes every line of that table. Not the one with the biggest pool, not the one with the best throw, and certainly not the one with the longest hours. If no candidate in the range passes both tests in your jar, the honest conclusion is that the jar diameter is wrong for the wicks you can buy — and changing the vessel is a cheaper, safer fix than forcing a flame to cross a distance it should not have to. The mushrooming and sizing interaction is covered in why is my candle wick mushrooming.
Weigh five sessions before you buy one wick. The trend costs nothing and the wrong wick costs a batch.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The page you would expect from a supplier is "your flame is small, buy the bigger wick". We have written the opposite: spend ₹59.85 on a jar of plain wax and five evenings before you order anything, because half of the tiny-flame cases we are asked about are a trim, a session length or a dye dose, and selling you a wooden wick to cover one of those just moves the fault.
Every price, pack and stated specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which is always authoritative. Wick size is quoted only where a page states it — the loose Eco roll's "2 inch diameters" and Cotton Braided's "exceeding 8 cm" with a 10.16 cm height. The C1/C2 page states no diameter and we do not invent one. No CSI fragrance or dye page states a dose, a burn effect or a consumption figure, and we publish none; the suppressor section gives you the mechanism and the paired test instead of a ranking. All grams, rates, pool radii, residues and hours in the worked logs are a maker's own measurements shown to demonstrate the arithmetic.
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Frequently asked questions
Why is my candle flame so small?
Six causes, in the order worth checking: trim length, session length, a wick drowning in too deep a pool, fragrance composition, dye loading, and the wax or wick lot plus wick centring. Only after those have been eliminated is wick size the answer. The quickest discriminator is a plain jar — same wax, jar, wick and fill with no fragrance and no dye. If it burns normally, the wick is adequate and the suppressor is in your recipe.
Should I weigh my candle after every burn session?
Yes, and weigh it cold with the jar on, before lighting and after the wax has set hard. One line per session: cold weight, grams lost, pool radius, flame notes, trim length. The reason is that the average rate hides the trend, and the trend is the diagnosis — 9, 8, 7, 5, 4 g across five sessions averages 1.65 g per hour and means something entirely different from five steady sessions at 1.65.
Can fragrance oil make my candle burn more slowly?
Fragrance composition can affect how a wick performs — that is the honest, general statement, and it is as far as anyone should go without your own data. No CSI fragrance page publishes a burn effect, a consumption figure or a percentage, and we will not invent one. The test is a paired candle: identical wax, jar, wick, load, fill and cure, one oil changed. If two of your SKUs behave differently on the same wick, they may need different wick decisions rather than one wick for the collection.
Can too much dye clog a wick?
Heavy colour loading can affect wick performance, and the controlled way to find out is to pour the same recipe without dye and compare the session logs. No CSI dye page states a dose, so there is no published figure to work from — what you have is your own dosing record. One CSI buyer notes of the liquid dyes that the shade depends on "the amount of dye you add", which is precisely the number to write down. Brown Candle Dye Liquid is listed at ₹236 for 15 ml, ₹590 for 50 ml and ₹1,062 for 100 ml.
Which wick is bigger than Eco C2?
None, in cotton — C2 (Thick) is the top of the Eco cotton range at ₹9.44 each, and the page states no diameter for it. Above it you change count or kind: two C1 at ₹11.80 a candle, two C2 at ₹18.88, Cotton Braided at ₹12 (its page targets jars "exceeding 8 cm"), or Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹59 falling to ₹41.30. Each is a formulation change and needs a full-life burn test and a safety check, not an assumption.
My slow candle lasts ages — isn't that a selling point?
Not when it is bought with unreachable wax. The worked example projects to about 64 hours while stranding 44 g of a 150 g fill — it is a 106 g candle sold as a 150 g one, with a pool that never covered more than 41% of the surface. That is ₹29.46 of wax and fragrance per jar the customer cannot use, against ₹6.03 for the candidate that reached the glass. Hours to flame-out rewards weakness in a wick, so never optimise it directly.
Diagnose before you escalate
Five session weighings and one plain jar will tell you whether you need a bigger wick — or a different oil, dye dose or trim.
Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399/kg (5 kg ₹1,996, the largest listed pack) · Eco Candle Wicks C1 ₹5.90 and C2 ₹9.44 each, flat to 1,000 pieces · Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹12 each at every pack · Performance Wooden Wicks ₹59 falling to ₹41.30 · Candle Wick Cutter ₹177 · Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 · Premium Candle Wicking Needle ₹472 · Bamboo Wick Holder ₹118 for five. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation on WhatsApp.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the session log, the suppressor checklist, the elimination jar and the stopping conditions apply to any supplier's materials.Customer reviews: The five 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; wording is unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 / 1 kg, ₹1,996 / 5 kg (₹399.20/kg — 5 kg is the largest listed pack); page states "add your fragrance or essential oils at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes, and pour directly", a fragrance add temperature of 80 to 90 degrees, a melt point of 100°F (37.8°C), recommends Eco Wicks, and states no maximum fragrance load. Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59/10, ₹118/20, ₹295/50, ₹590/100, ₹2,950/500, ₹5,900/1,000 — ₹5.90 each at every pack; Thick (C2) ₹188.80/20, ₹472/50, ₹944/100, ₹4,720/500, ₹9,440/1,000 — ₹9.44 each, 10-pack currently sold out; the page states no wick diameter for either size. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120/10, ₹600/50, ₹1,200/100, ₹6,000/500, ₹12,000/1,000 — ₹12 each at every pack; page states "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm", a wick height of 10.16 cm, and no pack quantity. Performance Wooden Wicks (imported) ₹590/10, ₹2,360/50, ₹4,130/100 — ₹59, ₹47.20, ₹41.30 each; page states one pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs and gives no diameter. Eco Candle Wicks Loose ₹413 / 5 m, ₹708 / 10 m; page states "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters". Eco Braided Wicks ₹472 / 5 m, ₹826 / 10 m; no numeric diameter stated. Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹93.22, 50 gm ₹230, 100 gm ₹390, 500 gm ₹1,890 (₹3.78/g), 1 kg ₹3,738. Brown Candle Dye Liquid ₹236 / 15 ml, ₹590 / 50 ml, ₹1,062 / 100 ml — no CSI dye page states a dose. Candle Wick Cutter / Candle Wick Trimmer ₹177; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Premium Candle Wicking Needle ₹472; Bamboo Wick Holder ₹118 for a set of 5. Assumptions stated: fragrance load is a share of the finished candle, so a 150 g candle at 8% is 138 g wax + 12 g oil; the plain elimination jar is 150 g of wax with no oil and no dye; internal radius is the measured inside of the jar at the wax line (33 mm in the worked example), not a stated outer diameter; pool area share = (pool radius ÷ internal radius)²; residue is assumed to carry the candle's own 92/8 wax-to-oil split; sessions are four hours; cure of 14 to 21 days for soy containers is standard practice; allow 3–5% wax loss for spills and top-ups as a planning allowance. All grams per session, burn rates, pool radii, residues and projected hours on this page are a maker's own measurements used to demonstrate the arithmetic — no CSI wax, wick, dye, fragrance or jar page publishes a burn time, a burn rate, hours per gram, a dye dose or a consumption effect, and none is estimated here. Stated loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.