My Candle Reaches a Full Melt Pool Extremely Quickly and Then Consumes Wax Rapidly — Should I Test a Smaller Wick?
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A fast full pool is not proof of a good wick. It is a measurement waiting for a denominator — and the denominator is the width of your jar.
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Probably, but not before you give the measurement a denominator. A rate of grams per hour means nothing until you divide it by the area of pool the flame is maintaining, because the same wick in a 6 cm jar and a 9 cm jar is doing two completely different jobs. And there is a constraint nobody mentions: in this range, "one size smaller" may not be a step that exists.
0.28 g/h/cm²
9.6 g per hour maintaining a 34.21 cm² pool in a jar measured at 6.6 cm inside — the reader's own figures · full pool reached in 42 minutes · wicks from ₹5.90 each, CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What does "extremely quickly" actually mean? Put a clock on it. Light a cured candle, note the minute the pool first touches the glass all the way round, and that is your time to full pool — in this example 42 minutes on the first burn. On its own it is still not diagnostic, because a narrow jar reaches full pool sooner than a wide one with the same wick, which is the whole point of the next answer.What is the right unit here? Grams per hour per square centimetre of pool. Measure the inside diameter of your jar, compute the pool area as π × (diameter ÷ 2)², and divide your measured rate by it. A 6.6 cm inside diameter gives 34.21 cm², so 9.6 g/h ÷ 34.21 = 0.28 g/h per cm². Now the figure is comparable between jar sizes.
Is a smaller wick available to test? This is the honest part. CSI's cotton workhorse lists two sizes only, C1 and C2, and its page states no diameter at all. Only two wick pages publish any diameter guidance — Eco Candle Wicks Loose, "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters", and Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made, "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm". There is no graded ladder in between, so the real move is a bracket across type and count, not a step down a size chart.
What do I test first? The free variables: a shorter first burn, a fixed trim, a shut room. Then a paired pour across the bracket in identical jars, measuring minutes to full pool, pool depth, grams per hour and grams per hour per cm² for each candidate.
The short answer
Normalise by pool area or you will mis-read your own wick: at a fixed 9.6 g/h, a 6 cm jar is working at 0.34 g/h/cm² and a 9 cm jar at 0.15. Same rate, same wax, less than half the intensity per unit of pool.
A fast full pool is a symptom, not a target: it is a sign the flame is delivering a lot of heat early, and a deeper pool holds more molten fuel for the wick to draw on. That is the mechanism behind the rapid consumption that follows.
"Smaller" may not exist — bracket instead: across the published range the available moves are a different wick type, a different count, or a different jar diameter. All three change the per-cm² figure, and all three have to be burn-tested.
In this guide
The rate on every bar is identical — one measured 9.6 g/h. Only the jar changes. A wick producing this rate in a 5 cm jar is working more than three times as hard per cm² of pool as the same rate in a 9 cm jar, which is why grams per hour on its own cannot tell you whether a wick is over-powered. The dashed line is the reader's own jar.
The only near-range published diameter
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A full pool in 42 minutes and then rapid consumption — should I test a smaller wick?
Test a bracket, and measure it per square centimetre of pool rather than in grams per hour. Here is why the denominator matters. Your jar measures 6.6 cm inside, so the pool the flame maintains is π × 3.3² = 34.21 cm². Your measured rate of 9.6 g/h is therefore 0.28 g per hour per cm². Put the identical wick in a 9 cm jar and the same rate would be 0.151 g/h/cm²; in a 5.08 cm jar it would be 0.474. Nothing about the wick changed in any of those three cases — only the area it is heating — which is exactly why "is this wick too big?" cannot be answered from a rate alone. Then the constraint. The Eco Candle Wicks page lists two sizes, C1 and C2, and states no diameter; the only wick pages that publish diameter guidance at all are Eco Candle Wicks Loose ("designed specifically for 2 inch diameters") and Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ("exceeding 8 cm", wick height 10.16 cm). So if you are already on C1 there is no thinner Eco size to drop to, and the available moves are a different type, a different count, or a different jar diameter. Pour them side by side in identical vessels on a cured batch, and record four numbers for each: minutes to full pool, pool depth at the end of the session, grams per hour, and grams per hour per cm².
One line: divide your rate by your pool area before you judge your wick, then bracket across type and count — because the size ladder you are looking for is not published.
To bracket properly you need identical vessels and a measurement: 200ml Salsa Glass Jars at ₹29.50 each in 50s, Eco Candle Wicks C1 ₹59 for 10, and a Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354. A ruler does the pool area for free.
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The missing denominator
Grams per hour tells you how fast. Grams per hour per square centimetre tells you how hard.
A melt pool is a surface, and the flame has to keep that whole surface molten. That is the job. A wick capable of holding 20 cm² of soy liquid is not the same wick as one holding 50 cm², and the difference between those two jobs is not a small adjustment — it is a factor of two and a half. Yet the figure almost everyone reaches for is total grams per hour, which silently assumes every jar is the same width.
Dividing by pool area fixes that, and the arithmetic is trivial. Measure the inside diameter of your jar at the level where the wax sits — not the lid, not the outer rim, not the stated width on the product page, which is usually the outside. Halve it for the radius. Square it. Multiply by π. That is your pool area in square centimetres. Divide your measured grams per hour by it and you have a figure that is finally comparable between a votive and a three-wick bowl.
Two warnings about the measurement itself. First, most CSI jar pages state capacity in millilitres rather than grams and many state no dimensions at all — the 200ml Salsa Glass Jar page, for instance, describes a 200 ml capacity "for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" and gives no dimensions in the body at all; the 63 mm figure appears only in the title and refers to the lug cap, not the inside of the glass. So measure your own jar rather than inferring it. Second, the pool is not a perfect cylinder — it has a meniscus at the glass and it deepens as it runs — so treat the area figure as a consistent basis for comparison, not as a physical constant.
Record the diameter next to every rate, forever
From now on, no burn figure goes into your log without the inside diameter beside it. It takes two seconds with a ruler and it is the difference between a log you can compare across your whole range and a pile of numbers that only apply to one jar. When you later introduce a new vessel, the per-cm² column is what tells you whether your existing wick is even in the right territory before you pour fifty of them.Pool area by jar diameter
Here is the conversion done for the diameters that cover almost every container candle, with two columns that work in opposite directions: what your own 9.6 g/h would represent in each jar, and what rate each jar would need to sit at your measured 0.28 g/h/cm². The second column is the useful one when you are choosing a vessel rather than a wick.
Pool area and intensity · π × (diameter ÷ 2)²
The same rate across six jar widths, and the rate each width needs to match your intensity
| Inside diameter | Pool area | Your 9.6 g/h expressed per cm² | Rate needed to sit at 0.28 g/h/cm² | Published CSI diameter guidance at this width |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.08 cm (2 inches) | 20.27 cm² | 0.474 | 5.68 g/h | Eco Candle Wicks Loose: "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters" |
| 6.0 cm | 28.27 cm² | 0.340 | 7.92 g/h | None stated on any wick page |
| 6.6 cm — your jar | 34.21 cm² | 0.281 | 9.58 g/h | None stated on any wick page |
| 7.0 cm | 38.48 cm² | 0.250 | 10.78 g/h | None stated on any wick page |
| 8.0 cm | 50.27 cm² | 0.191 | 14.07 g/h | Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made: "exceeding 8 cm" |
| 9.0 cm | 63.62 cm² | 0.151 | 17.81 g/h | Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made: "exceeding 8 cm" |
Worked out above: area = π × (d ÷ 2)². 5.08 cm → 20.27 cm² · 6.0 → 28.27 · 6.6 → 34.21 · 7.0 → 38.48 · 8.0 → 50.27 · 9.0 → 63.62. Intensity = 9.6 ÷ area. Required rate = 0.28 × area. The 9.6 g/h and the 6.6 cm inside diameter are the reader's own measurements; everything else is arithmetic on them. The last column quotes only what CSI wick pages publish — two statements in total across the whole range, and nothing at all between 5.08 cm and 8 cm. No CSI page publishes a burn rate, a grams-per-hour figure or a target intensity, and none is implied here.
Read the last column again, because it is the most useful piece of honesty on this page. Across the entire CSI wick range there are exactly two published diameter statements, and your 6.6 cm jar falls in the gap between them. That is not a gap in CSI's documentation so much as a reflection of reality: wick performance in a given jar depends on the wax, the oil, the load, the dye and the fill as well as the width, which is why a responsible supplier publishes what it knows and leaves the rest to your burn test. Anyone handing you a confident diameter-to-wick-size chart for your exact formulation is guessing on your behalf.
Timing the pool properly
"Extremely quickly" needs to become a number, and the number has to come from a candle that is actually your product: cured, in the jar you ship, at the fill you ship. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states a cure of a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing, and a pool timed on a two-day-old candle is a different measurement from one timed at two weeks.
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Measure the jar before you light itInside diameter with a ruler across the mouth at wax level, to the nearest millimetre. Compute the area: π × (d ÷ 2)². For 6.6 cm that is 34.21 cm². Write it at the top of the log sheet, because every figure below will be divided by it. Also record the fill weight and the depth of wax from the surface to the bottom of the jar — pool depth later only means something relative to that.
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Weigh cold, trim to a fixed length, light, start the clockWhole candle on the ₹354 scale, jar included. Trim with a ₹177 cutter to a length you record and never vary. Note the exact minute you light it. Shut the room: no fan, no air-conditioner, no open window, because a draught changes both the pool timing and the rate.
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Note the minute the pool first touches glass all the way roundNot the minute it looks nearly there. The pool is full when molten wax meets the glass around the entire circumference. In this example that was 42 minutes. Record it. If it never reaches the glass in a four-hour session you have the opposite problem and belong in the under-wicked diagnosis instead — start with the tunnelling guide.
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At the end of the session, measure pool depth against the glassA wooden skewer or a bamboo stirring stick dipped straight down at the glass wall, withdrawn and read against a ruler, gives you a workable depth figure. There is no published threshold for what is too deep — and nobody can honestly give you one — so what you are building is your own reference: this jar, this wax, this wick, this depth. The comparison in the bracket is what makes it meaningful.
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Extinguish, note the clock, weigh cold, divide twiceGrams lost ÷ hours = grams per hour. Grams per hour ÷ pool area = grams per hour per cm². Two divisions, four numbers in the log: minutes to pool, pool depth, rate, intensity. For this candle: 42 minutes, your measured depth, 9.6 g/h and 0.28 g/h/cm².
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Repeat on sessions two and three and watch whether the pool time fallsThis is the step most people skip and it carries the most information. If session two reaches full pool faster than session one, the vessel is retaining heat between burns and the candle will accelerate as it goes down the jar. If pool time holds steady, your 42 minutes is a property of the formulation rather than of a cold start.
Do not time the first burn and then "fix" the wick to make it faster. The first burn is the coldest burn the candle will ever have — cold glass, cold wax, no heat history in the vessel — so it is structurally the slowest to open a pool. Makers who insist on edge-to-edge melting within the first hour of the first session routinely size up, get exactly what they asked for, and then discover the candle consumes itself. Chasing a complete first-burn pool is one of the most reliable routes to over-wicking there is. Judge the pool across three sessions, not one.
Why a fast pool leads to a fast burn
The link between the two halves of your observation is physical and it is worth understanding, because it tells you which levers exist. Three general statements can be made honestly; what cannot be published is a number attached to any of them for a specific product.
A larger flame delivers more heat. That heat radiates down into the wax and sideways into the glass, and the glass returns it to the pool. So a wick that opens a pool quickly is also a wick that is loading the vessel with heat early in the session.
A deeper pool holds more molten fuel. The wick draws from liquid wax, not solid, so the volume of liquid available to it is part of what sets consumption. A pool that is both full and deep is a larger reservoir than a pool that is merely full.
Heat accumulates down the jar. As the wax level drops, the flame sits deeper inside a vessel whose walls are already warm, and the proportion of radiated heat that stays in the candle rather than escaping rises. This is why the rate often is not constant from top to bottom, and why a single-session measurement can mislead in either direction.
What each observation adds to the diagnosis
The four readings from your pool log, and what each one is evidence for
| Reading | Your figure | What a high value suggests | What it cannot tell you on its own |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minutes to full pool, session 1 | 42 minutes | A lot of heat delivered early relative to the pool width | Nothing, without the diameter — a narrow jar fills fast at any wick size |
| Pool depth at session end | Your own measurement | A larger reservoir of molten fuel for the wick to draw on | Whether it is "too deep" — no published threshold exists, so build your own reference |
| Grams per hour | 9.6 g/h | High consumption, and the size of the commercial effect | Whether the wick is over-powered, because it ignores the jar |
| Grams per hour per cm² | 0.28 | Intensity — how hard the wick is working for the area it holds | Whether it is safe. Safety is read off the flame, the glass and the jar temperature |
| Change in pool time across sessions | Compare 1, 2 and 3 | Heat retention building in the vessel; the rate will likely rise down the jar | Which component caused it — that needs the paired pour |
Safety is not one of the trade-offs on this page. Everything above is about hours and value. None of it applies if the candle shows a hazard: a flame that keeps growing through the session, a jar too hot to hold comfortably with bare hands, soot marking the inside of the glass above the pool, or a pool so deep it behaves like liquid in a bowl when the jar is moved. Those are not fast-burn symptoms to be optimised — they mean the candle is over-powered for its vessel and it does not ship, whatever its hours or its throw. Note too that a wick can be too large well before the flame looks alarming, so read the glass and the jar, not your nerve.
Why "one size smaller" may not exist
Most wick advice assumes a numbered series you can step down through. That assumption does not hold here, and pretending otherwise would waste your money. This is the complete picture of what the CSI range publishes about wick dimensions:
Every CSI wick line and what its page actually states
Published dimensions, pack ladder and per-piece price — the whole range
| Wick line | What the page states about size | Listed packs | Price per piece or metre | Role in a bracket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Candle Wicks (C1, C2) | No diameter stated. C1/C2 appear only as Shopify variant names. Page says they pair with soy, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes | 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1,000 in each size | C1 ₹5.90 · C2 ₹9.44, flat at every pack | The two-point core of any bracket |
| Eco Candle Wicks Loose | "Designed specifically for 2 inch diameters" — 5.08 cm | 5 m, 10 m | ₹82.60 / m at 5 m · ₹70.80 / m at 10 m | The narrow-jar reference point; you cut your own lengths |
| Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made | "Engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm"; wick height 10.16 cm | 10, 50, 100, 500, 1,000 | ₹12 each, flat at every pack | The wide-jar reference point — above your 6.6 cm |
| Eco Braided Wicks | "The perfect solution for large diameter container jars" — no numeric diameter | 5 m, 10 m | ₹94.40 / m at 5 m · ₹82.60 / m at 10 m | A second wide-jar type, cut to length |
| Performance Wooden Wicks | No diameter stated. Page states one pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs. Imported line | 10, 50, 100 | ₹59 → ₹47.20 → ₹41.30 each | A different mechanism entirely — a genuine second data point |
| Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs | No diameter stated. Page states 61 metres and 100 wick tabs | One listing | ₹706.82 for the roll | Cut-to-length bulk for repeat testing |
So for a 6.6 cm jar the honest position is: there is no published size step between C1 and C2, and nothing published at all between 5.08 cm and 8 cm. If your fast-burning candle is on C2, C1 is a real step and it is the obvious first candidate. If it is already on C1, there is no thinner Eco size — the moves available are a different type (wooden, braided, loose cut to your own length), a different count, or a narrower jar so the same wick holds less area. All three are formulation changes, all three need a cured burn test, and none of them can be predicted from a chart.
Cut-to-length is the closest thing to a ladder you have
Loose and braided wicks sold by the metre let you vary the length you set above the tab, which changes how much wick is available to the flame at the start of a session. That is not the same as changing the wick's thickness, and it does not substitute for it — but it does give you a continuous variable to bracket with rather than two fixed points. Decide the cut length, write it in the log, and keep it identical across every candle in a comparison. At 5 m for ₹413 a metre is ₹82.60, so ten-centimetre cuts work out at ₹8.26 a wick on a planning basis you set yourself.The bracket, priced
A readable bracket is three candles per candidate, cured together, identical in everything but the one variable. Four cards below give you the two reference points the range actually publishes, a wax with a full set of stated numbers to hold constant, and an identical vessel to pour them all into.
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The narrow-jar reference · published 5.08 cm
Eco Candle Wicks Loose (2 inch diameter)
The only product in the range whose page states a numeric diameter near a single-wick container jar: "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters", which is 5.08 cm and a pool area of 20.27 cm². It is sold by the metre — ₹413 for 5 m and ₹708 for 10 m, so ₹82.60 and ₹70.80 per metre — which means you cut your own lengths and the cost per wick is whatever your cut length makes it. For a bracket this is an advantage: you fix one cut length, log it, and use it unchanged across every jar in the comparison. In a 6.6 cm jar this line sits below the stated diameter, which is precisely why it belongs on the slow side of your bracket.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 5 meters | ₹413 | — |
| 10 meters | ₹708 | — |
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The wide-jar reference · published above 8 cm
Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made
The other end of the published range, and the only other wick page with numbers on it: "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" with a stated wick height of 10.16 cm. At 8 cm the pool area is 50.27 cm², which is 47% more area than your 6.6 cm jar — so in your vessel this line is the fast end of the bracket, not the slow one, and its value to you is as a boundary marker. At ₹12 each, flat from 10 to 1,000 pieces, it is the cheapest ready-made wick in the range per piece. Note what the page does not say: it is not described as pre-tabbed, and no diameter chart accompanies the "exceeding 8 cm" statement.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹120 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 50 | ₹600 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 100 | ₹1,200 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 500 | ₹6,000 | ₹12 |
| Pack of 1000 | ₹12,000 | ₹12 |
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Hold the wax constant · a lower pour window
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes Form)
If you are going to pour a bracket, pour it on a wax whose page gives you numbers to hold fixed. This one states a fragrance load of up to 13%, a melting point of 50–53°C and a pour temperature of 58–60°C — markedly lower than the soy waxes, so your thermometer work changes with it, and that is exactly the kind of variable a bracket must not let drift. It also states "excellent glass adhesion" qualitatively, with no measurement attached. At ₹650 a kilo that is ₹119.60 of wax in a 200 g candle at an 8% load, stepping down to ₹637 a kilo at 5 kg and 10 kg. One CSI customer, Arminder Kaur, writes that "all the materials are high quality".
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|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹325 | ₹650 | ≈2 |
| 1 kg | ₹650 | ₹650 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹3,185 | ₹637 | ≈27 |
| 10 kg | ₹6,370 | ₹637 | ≈54 |
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One vessel across the whole bracket
200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap
A bracket needs several identical jars and this is the cheapest way in the range to get them: ₹40.12 each in a pack of 5, falling to ₹29.50 each at 50 and 100 — one of the few CSI vessels whose per-piece price genuinely steps down with quantity. The page states a 200 ml capacity described as suited to "votive or single-wick candles" and gives no dimensions in the body; the 63 mm in the title refers to the lug cap. So do what this whole page argues for: measure the inside diameter yourself, weigh one filled jar to convert the millilitre capacity into the grams you will actually pour, and write both at the top of the log. The same jar is listed in amber, green, red, purple and light pink at ₹62 each.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Pcs | ₹200.60 | ₹40.12 |
| 50 Pcs | ₹1,475 | ₹29.50 |
| 100 Pcs | ₹2,950 | ₹29.50 |
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Priced above: Eco Candle Wicks Loose ₹413 / 5 m (₹82.60 per m) and ₹708 / 10 m (₹70.80 per m); Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120 / 10, ₹600 / 50, ₹1,200 / 100, ₹6,000 / 500, ₹12,000 / 1,000, flat at ₹12 each; Eco Braided Wicks ₹472 / 5 m (₹94.40 per m) and ₹826 / 10 m (₹82.60 per m); Performance Wooden Wicks ₹590 / 10, ₹2,360 / 50, ₹4,130 / 100; Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs ₹706.82; Eco Candle Wicks C1 ₹5.90 and C2 ₹9.44 each at every pack; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹325 / 500 g, ₹650 / 1 kg, ₹3,185 / 5 kg, ₹6,370 / 10 kg, so 184 g = ₹119.60 at 1 kg pricing and ₹117.21 at ₹637/kg; 200ml Salsa Glass Jar ₹200.60 / 5, ₹1,475 / 50, ₹2,950 / 100; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Candle Wick Cutter ₹177; Bamboo Stirring Sticks for Mixing Wax. CSI live pricing, September 2026.
A twelve-jar bracket — four candidates, three jars each — costs ₹354 for 12 Salsa jars at the 50-pack price, about 2.4 kg of CSI 468 from the ₹3,185 5 kg pack, and the wicks. For recurring volumes, bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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Reading the bracket and deciding
When the twelve candles have cured and been burned to the same protocol, you will have four numbers per candidate. Resist the urge to rank them on hours. Rank them on the combination below, in this order, because the first row can disqualify a candidate that wins on every other measure.
Decision order across the bracket
What each candidate has to clear, and in what sequence
| Order | Criterion | Pass condition | If it fails |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Safety | Stable flame through the session, jar comfortable to hold, no soot on the glass, no bowl-like pool | Eliminated. No hours figure and no throw rescues it |
| 2 | Pool completeness by session three | Pool reaches the glass all the way round within a realistic session | Eliminated — you have traded a fast burn for a tunnelling candle |
| 3 | Residue at end of life | Residue you have decided is acceptable, measured in grams on your own scale | Reconsider — usable wax, not fill, is what the customer buys |
| 4 | Grams per hour per cm² | The lowest intensity among the candidates that cleared rows 1–3 | Keep it in the bracket for the next round rather than discarding it |
| 5 | Usable hours | Usable wax ÷ measured rate — the figure you would be willing to publish | This is the output, not the test. It is read last for a reason |
Done in that order, the decision usually makes itself, and the answer to the original question emerges as a by-product: yes, test something slower — but "slower" in this range means a different type, a different count or a narrower jar, not a step down a published size chart that does not exist. The wick guide by diameter and how to choose the right wick cover the selection logic; this page is about the measurement that proves which choice worked.
The CSI principle
A rate without a diameter beside it is half a measurement.
Grams per hour describes the flame. Square centimetres describe the job it has been given. Divide one by the other and you can finally compare a votive with a bowl, your own candle with your own candle from last year, and a fast full pool with the price you paid for it in wax.
An edge-to-edge pool in the first hour is not an achievement. It is a bill the customer pays in the last week.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient thing would be to publish a wick-size-to-jar-diameter chart and sell you the row it points at. We have not, because the range does not support one: across every wick line there are exactly two published diameter statements — 5.08 cm on Eco Candle Wicks Loose and "exceeding 8 cm" on Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made — and nothing between them. Saying so costs us sales and saves you a pour.
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 468 states up to 13% load, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C and "excellent glass adhesion" with no measurement; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state a cure of a minimum of 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks, before burn testing; the 200ml Salsa Glass Jar page states a 200 ml capacity and gives no body dimensions, with the 63 mm referring to the lug cap in the title. Where a page states nothing — and the C1/C2 Eco Candle Wicks, Performance Wooden Wicks and Braided Wick Roll pages state no diameter — we say so. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits.
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Frequently asked questions
How fast should a candle reach a full melt pool?
There is no published figure, and no CSI page states one — it depends on the jar's inside diameter, the fill depth, the wax, the oil, the load and the wick together. What matters is that you time it consistently on a cured candle and read it alongside the diameter: a narrow jar reaches the glass sooner than a wide one at the same wick size. Record minutes to full pool, pool depth, grams per hour and grams per hour per cm² across three sessions, and judge the candle on the set rather than on the first number.
How do I calculate the melt pool area of my candle?
Measure the inside diameter of the jar at wax level with a ruler, halve it, square it and multiply by π. A 6.6 cm inside diameter gives π × 3.3² = 34.21 cm². Do not use the stated width on a product page, which is usually the outside of the glass, and do not use the lid or neck size. Then divide your measured grams per hour by the area: 9.6 ÷ 34.21 = 0.28 g/h per cm². That figure is comparable between jars of different widths, which plain grams per hour is not.
Should I test a smaller wick if my candle burns too fast?
Test a bracket, and check first whether a smaller size actually exists. The Eco Candle Wicks page lists two sizes, C1 and C2, and states no diameter; only two wick pages in the range publish any diameter guidance. So if you are on C2, C1 is a genuine step. If you are already on C1, the available moves are a different wick type, a different count, or a narrower jar. Pour three candles per candidate, cured together, identical in wax, oil, load, fill and vessel, and compare on safety first.
Does a deeper melt pool make a candle burn faster?
A deeper pool holds more molten fuel, and the wick draws from liquid wax rather than solid — so a larger reservoir is part of what sustains a higher consumption rate. That statement is general and defensible. What cannot honestly be published is a depth threshold or a percentage by which a given depth raises consumption, because no such figure exists for your wax, oil, load and jar in combination. Build your own reference by measuring depth and rate together across a bracket, and compare candidates rather than chasing an absolute number.
Is a full melt pool on the first burn a good sign?
Not necessarily, and treating it as a target is a well-worn route to over-wicking. The first burn is the coldest burn the candle will ever have — cold glass, no heat history in the vessel — so it is structurally the slowest to open a pool. A wick sized to clear the glass within the first hour of session one will usually clear it faster still in sessions two and three, in a vessel that is now retaining heat, and the consumption rate rises with it. Judge pool performance across three sessions.
Which CSI wick is right for a 6.6 cm jar?
No page in the range states a figure for that width, and we will not invent one. 6.6 cm falls in the gap between the two published statements — Eco Candle Wicks Loose at "2 inch diameters" (5.08 cm) and Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made at "exceeding 8 cm". The honest method is a bracket: Eco C1 at ₹5.90 and C2 at ₹9.44, a loose wick cut to a fixed length, and a wooden wick at ₹59, three jars each, burn-tested after a full cure.
Measure the pool, then bracket the wick
Inside diameter, pool area, grams per hour, grams per hour per cm² — four numbers and the question answers itself.
Eco Candle Wicks Loose ₹413 for 5 m with a stated 2 inch diameter, Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹12 each flat to 1,000 and stated above 8 cm, Eco Candle Wicks C1 ₹5.90 and C2 ₹9.44 each, Performance Wooden Wicks ₹590 for 10 falling to ₹41.30 each at 100, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹650/kg stated up to 13% with a 58–60°C pour, 200ml Salsa Glass Jars ₹29.50 each at 50, Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. 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 pool-area arithmetic, the timing protocol, the bracket design and the decision order 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: The burn figures here are the reader's own measurements — a cured candle reaching a full melt pool at 42 minutes and losing wax at 9.6 g per hour in a jar measured at 6.6 cm inside diameter — plus the arithmetic performed on them. Pool area = π × (d ÷ 2)²: 5.08 cm → 20.27 cm², 6.0 → 28.27, 6.6 → 34.21, 7.0 → 38.48, 8.0 → 50.27, 9.0 → 63.62. Intensity = 9.6 ÷ area, giving 0.474, 0.340, 0.281, 0.250, 0.191 and 0.151 g/h/cm². Required rate = 0.28 × area, giving 5.68, 7.92, 9.58, 10.78, 14.07 and 17.81 g/h. 200 g ÷ 9.6 = 20.8 hours. The 47% figure is (50.27 − 34.21) ÷ 34.21. The ₹8.26 per wick figure assumes ten-centimetre cuts from a ₹82.60 metre — a planning assumption the reader sets, not a stated pack. No CSI wax, wick, container or accessory page publishes a burn time, a burn rate, a grams-per-hour figure, a target intensity or a melt-pool depth threshold, and none is stated, estimated or implied here for any CSI product or combination. Prices: Eco Candle Wicks Loose ₹413 / 5 m, ₹708 / 10 m; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹120 / 10, ₹600 / 50, ₹1,200 / 100, ₹6,000 / 500, ₹12,000 / 1,000; Eco Braided Wicks ₹472 / 5 m, ₹826 / 10 m; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10 to ₹5,900 / 1,000 at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) ₹188.80 / 20 to ₹9,440 / 1,000 at ₹9.44 each, the ₹94.40 10-pack currently sold out; Performance Wooden Wicks ₹590 / 10, ₹2,360 / 50, ₹4,130 / 100; Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs ₹706.82; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹325 / 500 g, ₹650 / 1 kg, ₹3,185 / 5 kg, ₹6,370 / 10 kg; 200ml Salsa Glass Jar ₹200.60 / 5, ₹1,475 / 50, ₹2,950 / 100, and the amber, green, red, purple and light pink versions ₹310 / 5; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Candle Wick Cutter ₹177. Candle maths assumes a 200 g finished candle at an 8% fragrance load = 184 g wax + 16 g oil, so CSI 468 at ₹650/kg × 0.184 kg = ₹119.60 and at ₹637/kg = ₹117.21. Stated specifications as published: Eco Candle Wicks Loose "designed specifically for 2 inch diameters"; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm" with a wick height of 10.16 cm; Eco Braided Wicks "the perfect solution for large diameter container jars" with no numeric diameter; Performance Wooden Wicks "One Pack contains 10 wicks and wick tabs" and an imported line; Braided Wick Roll 61 metres and 100 wick tabs; CSI 468 up to 13% load, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks cure minimum 48 hours ideally 1–2 weeks before burn testing; 200ml Salsa Glass Jar 200 ml capacity, no body dimensions, 63 mm lug cap in the title only. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.