My Candle Loses a Large Amount of Wax During Every Four-Hour Burn — How Do I Determine Whether the Wick Is Oversized?
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Candle Business Guides · Burn Sessions
"A large amount" cannot be diagnosed, so the first job is to turn it into grams. One weighed four-hour session gives you a figure; three give you a figure with a spread around it. Then — and only then — the oversized-wick question becomes a short checklist in which the scale is the last instrument you consult, not the first.
41.7 g
mean wax lost per four-hour session across three weighed evenings (44 g, 42 g, 39 g) — the reader's own measurement · that is 10.42 g/h and under five evenings from a 200 g jar · trimmer from ₹177, CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
How do I turn "a large amount" into a number? Weigh the whole candle, jar included, before lighting and again once it has set hard. The difference is grams per session, and it is the most useful unit you have, because a session is what your customer actually does with the candle. Three evenings measuring 44 g, 42 g and 39 g give a mean of 41.7 g per four-hour session, which is 10.42 g per hour.What does that cost the candle? At 41.7 g an evening, a 200 g fill is gone in 4.8 sessions — the fifth evening ends early. At 32 g an evening it would give 6.25 sessions. That difference of about ten grams a night is the whole of your problem, expressed in the only unit the customer notices.
Does a high figure prove the wick is oversized? No. Rate alone never proves it. An oversized wick is diagnosed on an evidence ladder: safety signs first (flame height, jar temperature, soot on the glass), then melt-pool geometry, then the measured rate, then the residue left at the end. A candle can burn fast for reasons that have nothing to do with wick size — and a wick can be too large before the flame looks wrong.
What settles it? A paired pour. Identical wax, oil, load, jar and fill; the only difference is the wick. Weigh both across three sessions each. If the candidate wick drops the session loss and keeps a clean full pool, you have your answer in grams rather than in opinions.
The short answer
Measure the session, not the candle: a four-hour evening is the natural unit of customer use. Grams per session converts straight to grams per hour by dividing by four, and straight to "evenings per candle" by dividing into the fill.
Safety is checked before rate, and it overrules rate: a flame that grows through the session, a jar too hot to hold, soot inside the glass or a pool deep enough to slosh means the candle is over-powered for its vessel. That candle does not ship at any burn time.
The spread matters as much as the mean: three sessions at 44 g, 42 g and 39 g vary by 5 g, about 12% of the mean. A single session tells you nothing about whether that variation is the candle or the evening.
In this guide
Every bar is the reader's own weighed figure for a 200 g fill. The point of plotting it this way is that "sessions" is what a customer experiences: they do not notice 10.42 grams an hour, they notice that the candle died on the fifth evening instead of the seventh. Nights four and five are projected from the measured mean, not weighed.
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Straight answer
My candle loses a lot of wax every four-hour burn. How do I find out whether the wick is oversized?
Weigh it, then work down a ladder in which the scale comes fourth. Start by converting the complaint into grams: whole candle on a ₹354 scale before lighting, again once it is cold, three evenings running, wick trimmed to the same length each time with a ₹177 cutter. Three sessions of 44 g, 42 g and 39 g average 41.7 g per session, which is 10.42 g/h and means a 200 g fill lasts 4.8 evenings. That is now a fact rather than an impression. But it is not yet a diagnosis, because a high rate has several possible authors. So check, in this order: safety signs — does the flame grow through the session, is the jar uncomfortable to hold, is there soot inside the glass; pool geometry — how quickly the pool reaches the glass and how deep it gets; the measured rate and its spread; and the residue at the end of life. Only a pattern across those four points at the wick. If safety signs are present, the question stops being commercial: the candle is over-powered for the vessel and does not ship, whatever the hours look like. If they are absent and the rate is simply high, the resolution is a paired pour — identical wax, oil, load, jar and fill, one variable changed, both weighed across three sessions each.
One line: weigh three evenings to get grams per session, check safety and pool before you check the scale, and settle the wick question with a paired pour rather than an argument.
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Why the session is the right unit
Nobody burns a candle for twenty-two hours. They burn it for four, eleven times — or in your case, not quite five.
Total burn time is a wholesaler's unit. It is useful for comparing formulations on paper and almost useless for understanding a complaint, because no customer has ever experienced a candle as a continuous block of hours. They experience it as evenings. The candle came out on Friday, it came out again on Saturday, and by the following weekend it was a jar with a stub in it. When a customer says a candle "did not last", they are counting occasions.
That makes grams per session the most commercially legible figure in this whole subject, and it is also the easiest one to measure, because the session is the natural boundary between two weighings. You already stop the candle at the end of the evening. Weighing it before you light it and after it has set hard adds about two minutes to a night you were going to have anyway, and it converts straight into every other unit you might want:
Grams per hour is session loss ÷ session hours — 41.7 ÷ 4 = 10.42 g/h. Sessions per candle is fill ÷ session loss — 200 ÷ 41.7 = 4.8. Total hours is sessions × session hours — 4.8 × 4 = 19.2 hours. All three come from one subtraction, and the session version is the one you can put in front of a customer without translation.
Keep the session length honest
A "four-hour burn" that actually ran three hours and twenty minutes is a 200-minute session, and treating it as 240 minutes understates your rate by 17%. Write the clock times down, not the intention. If your evenings vary in length — and real ones do — record the minutes for each and divide by the real figure. The session unit only works if the denominator is true.The session ledger
Here is the translation table between the three units, built on a 200 g fill and a four-hour evening. Find your own measured session loss in the first column and read across. The last column is the sentence a customer would recognise, which is why it is worth having in front of you before you decide the wick is the problem.
Session loss → rate → evenings · 200 g fill, 4-hour sessions
What each ten grams an evening is worth in sessions the customer counts
| Grams lost per 4-hour session | Grams per hour | Sessions from a 200 g fill | Total hours | What the customer would say |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 g | 5.00 | 10.0 | 40.0 | "It lasted all month" — but check it opens a full pool |
| 24 g | 6.00 | 8.3 | 33.3 | Eight evenings and a little over |
| 28 g | 7.00 | 7.1 | 28.6 | Seven clean evenings |
| 32 g | 8.00 | 6.3 | 25.0 | Six evenings and a short seventh |
| 36 g | 9.00 | 5.6 | 22.2 | Five evenings and a half |
| 40 g | 10.00 | 5.0 | 20.0 | Exactly five evenings |
| 41.7 g | 10.42 | 4.8 | 19.2 | Your candle — it dies part-way through the fifth |
| 48 g | 12.00 | 4.2 | 16.7 | Four evenings — the complaint writes itself |
Worked out above: grams per hour = session loss ÷ 4. Sessions = 200 g ÷ session loss. Total hours = sessions × 4, which is the same as 200 ÷ rate. Your row: (44 + 42 + 39) ÷ 3 = 41.67 g per session; 41.67 ÷ 4 = 10.42 g/h; 200 ÷ 41.67 = 4.80 sessions; 4.80 × 4 = 19.2 hours. Every figure in this table is arithmetic performed on the reader's own weighings. No CSI wax, wick or container page publishes a burn rate or an hours figure, and none is implied for any CSI product here.
The gap worth noticing is between your row and the 32 g row: about ten grams an evening is the difference between five sessions and six and a bit. That is the size of the prize, and it is also the size of the change you would have to produce. It is a 23% reduction in consumption, which is not a nudge. Knowing that before you start spending on wick trials is the point of building the ledger first.
The three-session audit
One session is an anecdote. Three sessions, run to a fixed protocol, give you a mean and a spread — and the spread is what tells you whether you are looking at a candle problem or an evening problem. Run this on the candle you already have before you pour anything new.
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Fix the protocol in writing before session oneDecide and record: the session length in minutes, the trim length, the room, whether doors and windows are shut, whether any fan or air-conditioner runs. These are the conditions your three numbers will share. If you change one of them halfway through, the audit is over and you start again — this is the single most common reason a session log cannot be read back.
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Weigh cold, trim, light, note the clockWhole candle on the scale, lid off, to the gram. Trim with the ₹177 Candle Wick Cutter — the Candle Wick Trimmer page states the standard practice of trimming before every burn, and a rate test is exactly where it matters. Light it and write the time. Resist the urge to tidy the wick mid-session; you are measuring a customer's evening, not a laboratory ideal.
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Observe four things at the half-hour, the second hour and the endFlame height relative to where it started. Whether the pool has reached the glass, and roughly how deep it is against the inside wall. Whether the glass is clouding or marking anywhere above the pool. Whether the jar is comfortable to hold with bare hands. Write a one-line note at each of the three checkpoints. These observations, not the scale, are what will actually answer the wick question.
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Extinguish, note the clock, let it set hard, weigh againWeigh cold — a molten pool is mobile, wets the rim and reads inconsistently, and a hot jar on a light scale pan gives you a number you cannot use. Subtract. That is your session loss in grams. Divide by the real session hours for grams per hour. Enter both in the ledger alongside the three checkpoint notes.
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Repeat on two more evenings and compute the spreadWith 44 g, 42 g and 39 g the mean is 41.7 g and the spread is 5 g, about 12% of the mean. A tight cluster like that means the candle is behaving consistently and the figure is real. A spread of a third or more usually means something in the protocol was not held — a window open on one night, a longer session, an untrimmed wick — and the cure is to run three more rather than to average harder.
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Finish the candle and weigh what is leftKeep going to the point where you would stop selling it, then weigh the jar with the residue in it. Residue subtracted from fill is usable wax, and usable wax ÷ rate is the only honest burn-time figure. A heavy session loss and a thick residue is a different fault from a heavy session loss with the jar nearly clean, and the two point in opposite directions on wick size.
The mistake: auditing a candle that is not yet the product. If the candle in front of you was poured last week, you are measuring a candle mid-cure, and the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page is explicit about this — cure for a minimum of 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, before performing burn tests. Audit a cured candle from a batch you would actually ship, and audit it in the jar you ship, at the fill you ship. A rate measured on a test pour in a different vessel is a number about a candle that does not exist. For the cure side of this, see how cure time changes different fragrance families.
The oversized-wick evidence ladder
Now the actual question. "Oversized" is not a reading on a scale; it is a judgement that the wick is delivering more fuel than the vessel and the formulation can handle well. The evidence for it arrives in a specific order, and the order matters because the top two rungs can end the matter before the rate is even relevant.
Rung by rung · what each observation does and does not prove
The order to work in, and where the decision gets made
| Rung | What you look at | Reading that points at an oversized wick | What it decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Safety | Flame height through the session; jar temperature by hand; soot on the inside of the glass | A flame that keeps growing, a jar you cannot hold comfortably, any soot marking above the pool | Stop. The candle does not ship. This is a hazard, not a burn-time trade-off, and no number of hours offsets it |
| 2 · Pool geometry | Time to reach the glass; pool depth against the inside wall at the end of the session | A full pool very early in the first session and a pool deep enough to look like liquid in a bowl | Strong supporting evidence. A deeper pool holds more molten fuel, and more molten fuel feeds the flame |
| 3 · Measured rate | Grams per session and the spread across three sessions | A consistently high figure with a tight spread — a real rate, not a noisy one | Confirms the size of the effect, and tells you how much reduction you would need |
| 4 · Residue | Wax left in the jar at end of life | Very little left — the candle is clearing the glass easily and still running out fast | Separates over-wicking from the opposite fault. A thick residue with a fast burn points elsewhere |
| 5 · Paired pour | The same candle with one variable changed | A lower session loss on the candidate wick, with the pool still reaching the glass | The only rung that proves it. Everything above is evidence; this is the test |
A wick can be too large before the flame looks alarming. This is the part makers get wrong most often, because the mental model is "too big wick equals huge scary flame". Often it is not. The flame can look entirely normal while the jar runs hotter than it should, the glass picks up a faint film, the pool gets deeper every session and the candle quietly consumes itself at 10 g an hour. Use the glass and the jar temperature as instruments rather than waiting for something dramatic. And note the matching trap at the other end: chasing a complete edge-to-edge melt pool on the very first burn is one of the most reliable ways to end up over-wicked, because the first burn is the one with the least heat history in the vessel. Wrong wick size is killing your hot throw covers the other direction of the same mistake.
When heavy loss is not the wick
Four things other than wick size routinely produce a heavy session loss, and all four are cheaper to rule out than a wick trial. Work through them before the paired pour, because if one of them is the author you will otherwise change the wick, see an improvement, and have learned the wrong lesson.
Four alternative authors of a heavy session
What to vary, what it costs, and what a positive result looks like
| Alternative cause | Why it shows up as grams per session | How to rule it out | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air movement | A flame being pushed sideways is a larger flame drawing more fuel, and it also drags heat across the pool | Repeat one session with the room shut, fan and air-conditioner off, door closed | Nothing |
| Session length creep | A long session heats the glass and deepens the pool as it runs, so the later hours burn differently from the early ones | Run one four-hour session against four one-hour sessions on the same candle | Nothing but time |
| An untrimmed wick | The wick grows across the session, the flame grows with it, and consumption rises inside a single evening | Trim to a fixed length before each session and log the length | ₹177 |
| Jar and fill geometry | Pool width, glass thickness and how far the flame sits below the rim all change the heat returned to the pool | Pour the identical formulation into a second jar shape and weigh both | The jars and one pour |
| Fragrance load and dye | Both sit in the fuel path and can change how a wick performs; direction and size are specific to your formulation | Pour one candle with no oil and no dye, everything else identical, and compare sessions | One pour |
Notice that the last two rows are formulation changes and belong in the same testing round as a wick change — which is the argument for designing one properly rather than running four separate half-tests. If you are going to pour a bracket, pour it wide enough to answer more than one question, and keep the ₹354 pen thermometer on the bench so the add and pour temperatures are part of the record too.
The paired pour that settles it
The test is deliberately unglamorous: two candles that differ in exactly one respect, cured together, burned to the same protocol, weighed on the same scale. The cards below are the parts a paired pour is built from. The honest constraint on the wick side is worth stating plainly: CSI's cotton workhorse lists two sizes, C1 and C2, and its page states no diameter at all — those labels appear only as Shopify variant names. So "one size down" may not be a step that exists in the range, and the real comparison is across type and count.
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The protocol tool · buy this before any wick
Candle Wick Cutter | Candle Wick Trimmer
A rate audit lives or dies on whether every session starts from the same wick length, and a pair of scissors does not give you a repeatable cut inside a jar. This cutter is listed at ₹177 with a stated total size of 10.5 cm, a 3 cm blade and a 2 cm width — so it reaches into a narrow jar without dragging the trimmings through the pool. There is a larger version at ₹295 with an 11 cm total size and a 5.5 cm blade for wider vessels, and a ₹588.82 trimmer whose page states the practice this whole method depends on: trim before every burn.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Default Title | ₹177 | — |
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The one variable you are changing
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Two listed sizes, Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each, and the per-piece price does not move at all between the 10-pack and the 1,000-pack — so a paired pour costs the same per wick as a production run. The page states that these wicks pair with soy, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes; it states no diameter and no consumption figure, which is why you are weighing rather than looking up. If the heavy session is running on C2, your candidate is C1 in the identical jar. Three jars on each side, cured together, is six wicks: ₹17.70 of C1 and ₹28.32 of C2.
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Hold the wax constant · a published ceiling
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) for Container Candles
A paired pour is only readable if everything except the wick is identical, and flakes are easy to weigh accurately in the small batches a six-jar test needs. The page states a fragrance load of up to 10% and gives melt and pour both as 80–90°C, which is the number to attribute to the page and to log on the day. At ₹507.40 a kilo that is ₹93.36 of wax in a 200 g candle at an 8% load, so six test jars use 1,104 g of wax — buy the 5 kg pack only if you expect to iterate. One CSI customer, Jaya Sawlani, writes that the "Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed".
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|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260 | ₹520 | ≈2 |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹507.40 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537 | ₹507.40 | ≈27 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074 | ₹507.40 | ≈54 |
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One jar shape across the whole pair
White Matte Glass Jar (6 colours in the family)
Six identical vessels at ₹70.80 each in a pack of 5 or 10, with the page stating a fill weight of 200 ml and dimensions of 8 cm height by 7 cm width. Two things to be careful about. The capacity is stated in millilitres, not grams — so weigh one filled jar and use that figure rather than assuming 200 ml means 200 g. And the 7 cm is the outside width; measure the inside diameter of your own jar, because that is what sets the pool width. The same family is listed in black matte, black glossy, black frosted, clear frosted, brown, green, orange, maroon and frosted blue at the same price, so a pair can run in two colours without changing the vessel.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 5 | ₹354 | ₹70.80 |
| Pack of 10 | ₹708 | ₹70.80 |
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Priced above: Candle Wick Cutter ₹177 (10.5 cm total, 3 cm blade, 2 cm width) and ₹295 (11 cm total, 5.5 cm blade, 2 cm width); Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10 to ₹5,900 / 1,000, flat at ₹5.90 each, Thick (C2) ₹188.80 / 20 to ₹9,440 / 1,000, flat at ₹9.44 each, the ₹94.40 10-pack of C2 currently sold out; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / 1 kg, ₹2,537 / 5 kg, ₹5,074 / 10 kg, so 184 g = ₹93.36; White Matte Glass Jar ₹354 / 5 and ₹708 / 10, so ₹70.80 each; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Pen Thermometer ₹354; British Rose Fragrance Oil ₹342.20 / 100 g, so 16 g = ₹54.75. CSI live pricing, September 2026.
The CSI principle
Weigh the evening. Then look at the glass before you look at the number.
Grams per session turns a complaint into data, which is why it comes first. But the data cannot tell you whether a wick is oversized — only whether consumption is high. The jar temperature, the soot line and the depth of the pool are what make that call, and if any of them reads wrong, the burn time stops being the subject entirely.
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What an evening of burn costs you in materials
There is a commercial reading of the session ledger that is worth doing once, because it reframes the decision. Build the 200 g candle on CSI 464 at an 8% load in a White Matte Glass Jar on a C1 wick: 184 g of wax at ₹93.36, 16 g of British Rose at ₹54.75 using the 100 g price of ₹342.20, ₹70.80 for the jar and ₹5.90 for the wick — ₹224.81 of materials. Now divide by sessions rather than hours.
Material cost per evening · 200 g candle, ₹224.81 of materials
What each session costs you to supply, at three measured session losses
| Session loss | Sessions per candle | Material cost per session | Material cost per hour | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41.7 g — your measurement | 4.8 | ₹46.84 | ₹11.71 | The candle you are selling today |
| 36 g | 5.6 | ₹40.14 | ₹10.04 | A 14% cut in consumption |
| 32 g | 6.3 | ₹35.97 | ₹8.99 | A 23% cut — the ledger's target row |
The materials cost the same whichever row you are in, so every gram you stop burning unnecessarily is pure delivered value to the customer at no extra cost to you. Going from 41.7 g to 32 g an evening adds about one and a half extra evenings to the same ₹224.81 of materials. That is the real prize, and it is why this question deserves a proper test rather than a guess — but it is also why the safety rungs come first. There is no version of this arithmetic in which a hotter jar is worth an extra evening.
The customer is not counting your hours. They are counting the evenings they got — and that is a subtraction you can do on a kitchen scale.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. So there is no figure anywhere on this page telling you how many grams per session any CSI wick "should" give. A session loss belongs to a whole candle — your wax, your oil, your load, your jar, your fill, your room — and no supplier can publish one on your behalf. We would sell more wicks by naming a replacement size. We are telling you to weigh three evenings and look at the glass first, because the maker who diagnoses correctly only buys the wick once.
Every price, pack size and specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Stated specifications are quoted only where the page publishes them: CSI 464 states a load of up to 10% and gives melt and pour as 80–90°C; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state a cure of a minimum of 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, before burn testing; the White Matte Glass Jar page states a fill weight of 200 ml and dimensions of 8 cm by 7 cm; the wick cutter pages state their own blade dimensions. Where a page states nothing — and the C1/C2 Eco Candle Wicks page states no diameter — we say so. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits.
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Frequently asked questions
How much wax should a candle lose in a four-hour burn?
There is no published figure to quote, and no CSI wax, wick or container page states one — session loss depends on your jar diameter, fill depth, wax, oil, load and wick together. What you can do is measure it and then read it in context: weigh the candle cold before and after, divide the loss by the real session hours, and divide the loss into your fill to get evenings per candle. A loss of 41.7 g an evening from a 200 g fill is 4.8 evenings; 32 g would be 6.3.
How do I know if my candle wick is too big?
Work a ladder, not a single test. Safety signs first: a flame that grows through the session, a jar too hot to hold comfortably, or any soot marking the glass above the pool. Then pool geometry: a full pool very early and a pool deep enough to look like liquid in a bowl. Then the measured rate across three sessions. Then the residue at end of life. Only a paired pour proves it. If the safety signs are present the question is settled differently — that candle does not ship.
Can a wick be oversized even if the flame looks normal?
Yes, and this is the most common blind spot. The flame can look entirely ordinary while the jar runs hotter than it should, a faint film appears on the glass, the pool deepens session by session and consumption stays high. Use the jar temperature and the inside of the glass as your instruments rather than waiting for a dramatic flame. The related trap is chasing a complete edge-to-edge pool on the very first burn, which is how a lot of candles end up over-wicked in the first place.
Should I weigh my candle before and after every burn?
During a diagnosis, yes — three sessions minimum, because one session is an anecdote and you need the spread as well as the mean. Weigh the whole candle with the jar, always cold, always with the wick trimmed to the same length. Once you have a stable figure you do not need to weigh every evening forever; you re-measure when something changes — a new wax lot, a new oil, a new jar, a different fill. A ₹354 scale is the whole equipment list.
Does trimming the wick actually change how much wax burns?
Trimming controls flame size, and flame size is what consumes wax, so an untrimmed wick can push consumption up inside a single session as it grows. That is why a rate test is unreadable without a fixed trim length. The Candle Wick Trimmer page states the standard practice of trimming before every burn. How much difference it makes in your candle is something only your own paired sessions can tell you — no honest number exists for it in general.
Is it cheaper to fix the wick or just pour a bigger candle?
Pouring more wax buys hours without improving anything: at 41.7 g a session you would need roughly 42 g more wax for each extra evening, and the customer gets the same burn in a heavier jar. Fixing the rate is the better trade because the materials cost the same either way — the ₹224.81 in the worked example above delivers 4.8 evenings at your current rate and 6.3 at 32 g a session. But never buy an evening with a hotter jar; a hazard is not a trade-off.
Three evenings, one scale, one answer
Turn "a large amount" into grams per session — then check the glass before you blame the wick.
Candle Wick Cutter ₹177 (or ₹295 for wider jars), Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82, Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354, Pen Thermometer ₹354, Eco Candle Wicks C1 ₹59 for 10 at ₹5.90 each and C2 ₹188.80 for 20 at ₹9.44 each, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹507.40/kg stated up to 10%, White Matte Glass Jars ₹354 for 5 at ₹70.80 each. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the session arithmetic, the evidence ladder, the three-session audit and the paired-pour design 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: Every burn figure here derives from the reader's own three weighed sessions — 44 g, 42 g and 39 g lost in four-hour burns from a 200 g fill — and the arithmetic performed on them: mean (44 + 42 + 39) ÷ 3 = 41.67 g per session; 41.67 ÷ 4 = 10.42 g/h; 200 ÷ 41.67 = 4.80 sessions; 4.80 × 4 = 19.2 hours; spread 44 − 39 = 5 g, which is 12.0% of the mean; the 23% figure is (41.67 − 32) ÷ 41.67. Nights four and five in the diagram are projected from the measured mean, not weighed. No CSI wax, wick, container or accessory page publishes a burn time, a burn rate, a grams-per-session figure or an hours-per-gram figure, and none is stated, estimated or implied here for any CSI product or combination. Prices: Candle Wick Cutter ₹177 and ₹295; Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Pen Thermometer ₹354; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10, ₹118 / 20, ₹295 / 50, ₹590 / 100, ₹2,950 / 500, ₹5,900 / 1,000 (₹5.90 each throughout), Thick (C2) ₹188.80 / 20, ₹472 / 50, ₹944 / 100, ₹4,720 / 500, ₹9,440 / 1,000 (₹9.44 each throughout, the ₹94.40 10-pack currently sold out); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / 1 kg, ₹2,537 / 5 kg, ₹5,074 / 10 kg; White Matte Glass Jar ₹354 / 5, ₹708 / 10; British Rose Fragrance Oil ₹94.40 / 15 g, ₹212.40 / 50 g, ₹342.20 / 100 g, ₹1,593 / 500 g, ₹3,068 / 1 kg. Candle maths assumes a 200 g finished candle at an 8% fragrance load = 184 g wax + 16 g oil, so CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg × 0.184 kg = ₹93.36 and British Rose at ₹3.422/g × 16 g = ₹54.75; with ₹70.80 for the jar and ₹5.90 for the wick the material total is ₹224.81, giving ₹224.81 ÷ 4.80 = ₹46.84 per session, ÷ 5.56 = ₹40.14 and ÷ 6.25 = ₹35.97. Stated specifications as published: CSI 464 up to 10% load, melt and pour both given as 80–90°C; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks cure minimum 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks, before burn testing; White Matte Glass Jar fill weight of 200 ml, height 8 cm, width 7 cm — a millilitre capacity, not a gram capacity; Candle Wick Cutter 10.5 cm total, 3 cm blade, 2 cm width, and the larger version 11 cm total, 5.5 cm blade, 2 cm width; Eco Candle Wicks C1/C2 state no diameter. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.