My Wick Sample Works Perfectly — Should I Request the Same Specification When Moving to a 5,000-Piece Wholesale Wick Order?

Your order, made precise

The worked example, labelled: your candle is a 200 g single-wick soy candle at 8% (16 g of oil and 184 g of wax) in your own jar. The wick that passed six full-life replicates is Eco C2, bought as a 10-pack some weeks ago. You now want 5,000 wicks: a year's production, or 2,500 double-wick candles (2,500). The candles passed because of that sample; the question is how to make sure 5,000 wicks behave like it.

This post owns the order: what to write, what to ask, and the checks either side of paying. How to compare a delivered lot against your sample, with limits and a side-by-side burn, is 6994. The master formula that tells purchasing which wick to reorder is 6996; how much to order at a time is 6999.

What CSI states, what you measure, what you ask

Read the last column as the specification. It's short, deliberately: length, tab, appearance, attachment and lot are the things you can check on a pack with a ruler, a phone camera and ten minutes. You don't need a lab to write a useful wick specification; you need a record of the wick that passed and the discipline to compare against it.

Argued against our own interest: we'd like to hand you a data sheet with a tolerance on every dimension. We don't have one to publish, and we won't invent one. That's why your retained sample matters more than our page: it is the only physical record of the wick your candles were approved on. The general case, comparing two suppliers' wicks properly, is what to record beyond melt-pool diameter; why two wicks with the same length and apparent thickness can still burn differently is the same length and thickness, but different burn.

Why "the same wick" can arrive different: causes, ranked

Ranked by how often, in our judgement, each one turns an approved sample into a different production wick. Some are on the buyer's side, some on the material's; signs are common observations, not CSI data.

Causes 1, 2 and 4 are entirely on the buyer's side, and they're the commonest. C1 and C2 sit on one listing, one click apart: a specification that says "Eco wicks, 5,000" is an invitation to the wrong one. Cause 3 is the one a specification can't remove, only detect, which is why the retained sample and the arrival check exist. Cause 6 is the one people forget: if the oil lot changed in the same week as the wicks, a difference in the candle tells you nothing about the wick.

Writing the order, line by line

Two notes on the order itself. Pack size: because C2 is ₹9.44 a wick at every pack, ten 500-packs (₹47,200.00) cost exactly the same as five 1,000-packs; smaller sealed packs are easier to keep clean and to quarantine one at a time, so choose them if you prefer. One order or several: one order gives the best chance of fewer lots (we can't promise one); several orders keep cash free. That trade-off, with safety stock, is 6998; the counting is 6999.

Two checks: before you order and before it ships

Both checks compare against the same thing: the spare wicks left in your approved sample pack, sealed, labelled and never used in production. A C2 10-pack that wicked six replicates leaves four: enough to measure, and enough for one 3 + 3 burn. If you've already used the whole sample, the second-pack check below becomes your reference, but only after you've compared it against your approval candles' records.

The CSI wick buy list for 5,000

CSI's sized, tabbed wicks are three rungs, C1 → C2 → Cotton Braided, plus one wooden width. There's no sized, tabbed wick between the rungs, and no published dimension for C1 or C2. If you approved a wick from another supplier and want "the same" from us, that isn't a reorder: it's a new wick, and it needs its own replicates. Ask us on WhatsApp what we stock, and we'll say plainly what we don't.

Argued against our own interest: nothing in this table rewards a bigger order. C1, C2 and Cotton Braided cost the same per wick whether you buy 10 or 5,000, so 5,000 at once only makes sense if you'll use them before your next reorder and you value fewer lots. And if your approved wick is C2, the C1 version would save ₹17,700.00 on 5,000, but only a full replicate test could tell you whether C1 works in your jar; the saving is never the reason. Wooden is the one tabbed wick that's cheaper in bulk (₹59.00 in 10s, ₹41.30 in 100s), and we list no pack larger than 100.

What to buy, and what to skip

Four items, chosen on page statements, price and stock on 7 October 2026. CSI publishes no burn data or dimensions for its Eco wicks, so nothing here is ranked on performance, and each card says when not to buy.

Skip for now: a cheaper or "equivalent" wick at order time; the braided roll as a stand-in for a tabbed wick; any change of oil, jar or load in the same month as the new lot; and the full 5,000 before the second-pack check, if your approved sample is long gone.

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