Why Isn't My Candle Creating a Full Melt Pool?

Why Isn't My Candle Creating a Full Melt Pool?

 

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A melt pool is a measurement, not an opinion. Here is the target, the five reasons a pool stalls short of it, and how to prove which one you have.
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Candle Troubleshooting · Melt Pool
A full melt pool has two numbers, not one: it reaches the vessel wall within two to three hours, and it sits roughly 6 to 10 mm deep. Miss either and you have a different fault. This page is about measuring the pool, not guessing at it.
2–3 hrs · 6–10 mm
the two dimensions that define a full pool · a complete C1/C2 test spread costs ₹247.80 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What is a full melt pool? Liquid wax touching the vessel wall all the way round, reached within two to three hours of lighting, at a depth of roughly 6 to 10 mm. Both numbers matter. Wide and shallow is one fault; narrow and deep is another.

Why is mine stalling? Five causes, all distinguishable by measurement: wick too small, burn time too short, wax grade too hard for the vessel, jar too wide for a single wick, or ambient temperature too low. Four of the five are free to fix.

How do I tell which? Measure the diameter at 60, 120 and 180 minutes and the depth at 180. A pool still growing at three hours is a different problem from one that stopped at ninety.

Is a bigger wick the answer? Often, but not automatically. An oversized wick soots, overheats the glass and shortens burn life.
The short answer
The target: wall contact in 2–3 hours at 6–10 mm depth — roughly one hour per 25 mm of internal diameter.
The five causes: wick too small · burn cut short · wax too hard for the vessel · jar too wide for one wick · room too cold or too draughty. Measure before changing anything; the fixes contradict each other.
Why it matters: release area is pool area. A pool 80% of the way across the jar uses only 64% of the available surface, because area goes as the square of the radius.
Melt pool diameter against burn time · three wick sizes · 70 mm internal diameter TARGET · 2–3 HRS VESSEL WALL — 70 mm 0 20 40 60 POOL DIAMETER (MM) 1 hr 2 hr 3 hr 4 hr BURN TIME Thick C2 — wall at 2 hr 24 min Thin C1 — stalls near 56 mm Undersized — stalls near 36 mm
Three wicks, three identical 70 mm jars, the same wax. Only the top curve is a working candle: it crosses the wall line inside the target band, then flattens because there is nowhere left to go. The other two flatten before the wall — and that flattening, not the diameter itself, is the diagnostic signal.
Straight answer
Why isn't my candle creating a full melt pool?
Because one of five things is wrong, and you cannot tell which without measuring. The target is liquid wax touching the wall within two to three hours, at 6 to 10 mm depth. The five causes: a wick too small for the diameter; a burn cut short before the pool opened; a wax grade too hard for a container; a jar too wide for any single wick; a room too cold or too draughty for the flame to hold its heat. Each leaves a different signature on the sheet. A pool still growing at three hours was cut short. One that stopped at ninety minutes and never moved has hit a wick or wax limit. One that reaches the wall at 3 mm deep is not the same fault as one 14 mm deep and 40 mm across. Measure at 60, 120 and 180 minutes, record the depth, and the answer falls out of the numbers. If a memory ring is already set, the tunnelling diagnosis and the tunnelling fix have their own pages. This one is about getting the pool right in the first place, and proving it with a ruler.
One line: a full melt pool is wall contact in two to three hours at 6–10 mm deep — measure the diameter at 60, 120 and 180 minutes and the cause of a stall identifies itself.
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What a full melt pool actually is

Most makers describe a melt pool. Very few measure one. The difference between a fixed candle and a lucky candle is a ruler and a clock.

A full melt pool is liquid wax touching the inside face of the vessel, right the way round, within two to three hours of lighting, at a depth of roughly 6 to 10 mm. Both numbers are load-bearing. As a working rule, allow one hour per 25 mm of internal diameter: a 50 mm jar at the wall by two hours, a 70 mm jar by two hours forty, a 40 mm votive nearer ninety minutes. Four hours is not acceptable — that is a candle most customers will never see open. And depth tells you what the flame is doing vertically while diameter tells you what it is doing horizontally, so one without the other is useless.

A wide, shallow pool is not a success. Wax at the wall at three hours but only 3 or 4 mm deep means the wick is not driving that result — heat conducted into the glass is re-radiating inward and melting a thin skin from the outside in. A 3 mm layer holds almost no molten wax, so the wick has no fuel reservoir and the flame turns unstable in the slightest draught.
A narrow, deep pool is the more dangerous fault. Forty millimetres across and 14 mm deep in a 70 mm jar means the flame is sinking a well instead of spreading. It becomes a shelf of solid wax around a crater; the wick drops below the shelf, loses its air supply, and the pool cannot recover however long you burn it. That is the entry point to tunnelling, which has its own diagnosis page and fix page.

Below 6 mm the reservoir is too small to feed the wick steadily, so flame height tracks the room. Above 10 mm you carry more liquid wax than the wick can use and burn life drops: a 70 mm pool 8 mm deep holds about 30.8 cm³ of wax, at 14 mm it holds 53.9 cm³ — 75% more molten wax for no extra scent surface, because fragrance leaves from the surface, and the surface is unchanged. So record both. "68 mm across, 7 mm deep, 2 h 50 m, 70 mm jar, closed room, 26°C" is comparable against next month's batch. "Full pool at 2 h 50 m" is not.

The five reasons a pool stalls

Ordered by how often they are the answer, not by cost. Four of the five are free. Mechanism, evidence and fix for each — the fixes contradict one another, and the wrong one makes the candle worse.

1
Wick too small for the diameterMechanism: radiated heat falls off sharply with distance, so every wick has a maximum radius it can hold molten; past it the wax loses heat faster than the flame delivers it. Evidence: clean burn, small steady flame, no soot, and a diameter that flattens well before the wall — usually between 60 and 120 minutes — then does not move. Fix: step up one size, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) to Thick (C2), and re-measure.
2
Burn time too shortMechanism: nothing is wrong — the pool grows outward over hours and was put out before it finished. Evidence: the diameter is still rising at every checkpoint: 42 mm at one hour, 54 mm at two, 63 mm at three. A rising curve is a healthy candle that was not given time. Fix: burn the full two to three hours before judging anything, and print the instruction on a care sticker at ₹413 per 500 (₹0.83 each). Check this before buying a single replacement wick.
3
Wax grade too hard for the vesselMechanism: pillar and designer waxes hold a shape without a container — a firmer structure needing more energy per square centimetre to liquefy. Evidence: a sharp vertical pool edge rather than a gentle slope, an unmelted rim that feels hard rather than waxy under a fingernail, and a wick step-up that helps far less than expected. Fix: a container grade — Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹260 / 500g, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399 / 1kg or Coconut Soy CSI 468 at ₹325 / 500g. Keep Soy Pillar Wax at ₹300 / 500g for moulds.
4
Jar too wide for a single wickMechanism: the same radius limit as cause one, but you have reached the largest wick that burns clean and the wall is still out of reach. Evidence: a repeatable ceiling — the pool stops at the same diameter whatever the burn length, and at the same diameter with the next size up, except that size now soots or throws a tall flickering flame. Fix: two wicks, sized down and placed properly (below), or a narrower vessel from the container range — often the cheaper answer.
5
Ambient temperature too low, or the air movingMechanism: the pool is a heat balance. Lower the room temperature or run a fan across the jar and the loss side rises while input stays fixed, so the equilibrium diameter shrinks. Evidence: the same candle, wick and wax reaches the wall in a closed room and stalls 10 to 15 mm short under a fan or an AC vent — the only cause here reversible within one burn. Fix: test in a closed room and say so on the care card (below).
Change one variable per test jar
Swap the wick, the wax and the room in one test and you have a better candle but no knowledge. Three jars, one variable each, on the same sheet on the same afternoon, teach you more than thirty uncontrolled pours.

How to actually measure a melt pool

Most makers have an impression formed while doing something else in the next room, and impressions do not compare between batches. Four readings, three hours, ninety seconds of attention. This is what separates a candle you fixed from a candle that happened to work.

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Record the jar, then mark the time it was litMeasure the internal diameter at the rim with a steel rule — not from a product listing, and not across the outside, where 3 mm of wall a side is 6 mm of error on the number every later calculation rests on. Note wick, wax and batch, fill weight and pour date, trim the wick to 5 mm with a wick trimmer at ₹295 so every jar starts identically, and write the clock time.
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Measure the diameter at 60, 120 and 180 minutesLay the rule flat across the rim and sight straight down. Read the widest liquid-to-solid boundary to the nearest millimetre, then a second axis at right angles to catch an off-centre pool. Measure to where solid wax begins, not to the meniscus climbing the glass. Three readings, not one: a single reading at three hours cannot tell a candle that was cut short from one that stalled.
3
Record depth at the 180-minute readingLower a bamboo stirring stick vertically about 10 mm out from the wick until it meets solid wax, lift it straight out and measure the wet line — not at the wick, where the pool is deepest and least representative. Then extinguish and photograph the cooled surface; the solidified ring records where the pool reached.
The melt pool record sheet
One row per test jar. Fill it in at the bench, not from memory
Field What to record Why it decides the diagnosis
Jar ID A / B / C, plus internal diameter in mm at the rim Sets the target area; every calculation depends on it
Wax and batch Product, pack size, invoice date Container vs pillar grade is cause three
Fill weight Grams in the jar Wax depth affects how fast heat conducts away downwards
Wick Eco C1, Eco C2, 2 × Eco C1 The variable under test. One change per jar
Cure age Days from pour to burn Stops you comparing a two-day candle with a twenty-day one
Room Temperature, and closed / fan / AC / window Cause five. Without it a draught looks like a small wick
Time lit Clock time; wick trimmed to 5 mm y/n Every later reading is an interval from this
Ø at 60 min mm, two axes Early growth rate
Ø at 120 min mm, two axes If equal to the 60-minute reading, it has already stalled
Ø at 180 min mm, two axes Still rising = burn time. Flat since 120 = wick, wax or vessel
Depth at 180 min mm, 10 mm out from the wick 6–10 mm target. Under 6 unstable, over 10 hot and wasteful
Flame Soot, mushrooming, height, glass warmth by hand Whether the wick that reached the wall is one you can ship
Verdict Pass / stalled at X mm / oversized The one line you will read again in three months
Tools above, CSI live pricing, September 2026: Wick Cutter / Trimmer ₹295 · Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118 per 5 · Weighing Scale ₹354 · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · Wick Centering Device ₹118 per 5. The steel rule we do not sell; use the one you have.

Pool area arithmetic — why "nearly there" isn't

Fragrance leaves a candle from the surface of the melt pool. That surface is the release area, and it is set by the pool, not by the oil in the wax — which is why a stalled pool reads as a weak candle even when the load is right. Pool area is πr², and the consequence people miss is that area rises as the square of the radius. A pool 80% of the way across uses 64% of the surface; at 70%, 49% — under half; at 60%, 36%. The fractions hold in every jar, because the squares cancel.

πr² at four internal diameters · areas in cm²
What a stalled pool is actually releasing from
Internal Ø Full pool Pool at 80% Ø Pool at 70% Ø Pool at 60% Ø
40 mm 12.6 cm² 8.0 cm² (32 mm) 6.2 cm² (28 mm) 4.5 cm² (24 mm)
50 mm 19.6 cm² 12.6 cm² (40 mm) 9.6 cm² (35 mm) 7.1 cm² (30 mm)
55 mm 23.8 cm² 15.2 cm² (44 mm) 11.6 cm² (38.5 mm) 8.6 cm² (33 mm)
70 mm 38.5 cm² 24.6 cm² (56 mm) 18.9 cm² (49 mm) 13.9 cm² (42 mm)
Share of full pool 100% 64% 49% 36%

Read the bottom row again. A customer looking into a 70 mm jar at a 56 mm pool sees a candle that is almost there and would never call it broken. It is releasing from 24.6 cm² instead of 38.5 cm² — 36% of the scent surface is not participating. Oil that is not in the pool is not in the air, so neither a stronger fragrance nor a higher load compensates.

The comparison that matters is a narrower jar, not more oil. A 70 mm jar stalling at 42 mm gives 13.9 cm² of release; a 50 mm jar reaching its wall gives 19.6 cm² — 41% more releasing surface from a smaller, cheaper container. Pricing across the matte glass jar family is uniform at ₹354 per pack of 5 (₹70.80 each), so switching size does not change your unit economics.
The CSI principle
Release area is pool area. A candle is only as strong as the surface it is evaporating from.
Load decides how much fragrance is in the wax. The pool decides how much of it reaches the room. A 13% load evaporating from 36% of the jar loses to an 8% load evaporating from all of it.

When a second wick is the answer — and why two wicks are not two candles

A second wick is right in exactly one situation: you have stepped the single wick up to the largest size that still burns clean, and the pool still stops short of the wall. If a single Thick C2 reaches the wall at two hours forty with no soot, adding a second wick makes the candle worse. Most double-wicked candles on the Indian market are double-wicked because it photographs well, not because the diameter required it.

What catches makers out is assuming a two-wick candle is two single-wick candles in one jar. Two flames in one wax body are thermally coupled — each heats wax the other has already warmed, so between them the input is more than additive, while the outer edge, the part you wanted to reach, is still served by one flame each. Fit two C2 wicks where slightly more than one C2 was needed and you get a hot central pool, glass you cannot comfortably hold, soot where the plumes meet, and a shorter burn life than the single-wick version.

1
Size down, do not size acrossIf a single C2 was your ceiling, two wicks means two Thin C1, not two C2. You are splitting the requirement across two sources, not doubling it.
2
Place them on the thirds, not the halvesSet each wick near the one-third and two-third points of the internal diameter — in a 70 mm jar, about 23 mm apart with 23 mm of wax outside each. Too close and the plumes merge into one oversized flame with a hot core; too near the glass and you scorch it. A wick centering device at ₹118 per pack of 5 holds the spacing while the wax sets; a wick sticker at ₹100 per sheet of 40 holds the base.
3
Re-measure, and tell the customer both wicks must be litA two-wick jar is a new candle, not a modified one: run the full 60 / 120 / 180 sheet again and add a hand check on the glass at two hours. If you cannot hold the jar comfortably, the wicks are too large or too close, whatever the diameter says. And a two-wick candle burned on one wick is a guaranteed tunnel — one line on the care sticker at ₹0.83 per unit prevents nearly all of it.
Against our own interest: a bigger wick is not automatically the answer, and neither is a second one. We sell wicks, and the convenient advice would be to send you up the range. An oversized wick does reach the wall — and it also soots, mushrooms, overheats the glass, burns off light top notes and cuts total burn hours, so the customer gets fewer evenings from the same jar. It reaches the wall by burning the candle faster, which is not the same as burning it correctly. The correct wick is the smallest one that reaches the wall inside the window and burns clean. Related: the wick guide by jar diameter.
Sizing wicks for an unusual vessel, or deciding whether a jar needs two? Send us the internal diameter, the wax and the fill weight and we will tell you where to start. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS documentation on the same thread.
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Ambient temperature, fans and the Indian room

This cause gets blamed last and should be checked first, because it is free, instant and reversible. The flame's output is fixed by the wick; everything on the loss side of the balance is set by the room — and the average Indian room has a ceiling fan in it. Moving air strips heat from the glass by forced convection far faster than still air, and deflects the flame so its output spreads over a wider, cooler area. A fan on low two metres above a jar costs you visible pool; an air conditioner is worse, because it lowers the air temperature and moves it; an open window in a north Indian December does both. The candle has not changed. The balance has.

The single-burn test that isolates it. Burn one jar for three hours under whatever conditions produced the complaint and measure. Then burn an identical jar for three hours in a closed room, fan off, no air conditioning, and measure again. If the closed-room pool reaches the wall and the fan-on pool stalls 10 to 15 mm short, you have your answer and have spent nothing. Do not order replacement wicks before running this.

Two rules follow. All melt pool testing happens in a closed room with still air, or results are not comparable between sessions — a wick that passed in June with the fan off and failed in August with the fan on has not changed. And your candle will be lit under a fan, because that is how people live here, so ship a wick with a small margin over the closed-room result. Sizing for a festive bulk run ahead of Diwali on 8 November 2026? Decide the wick before the large wax order, not after.

Nobody ever diagnosed a melt pool by looking at it. They diagnosed it with a ruler and a clock.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia

What the fix actually costs

Makers skip this test because they assume it is expensive. Here is the complete bill for a three-jar diagnostic that settles the wick question for one vessel permanently, at CSI live pricing, September 2026. Three configurations — A a single Thin C1, B a single Thick C2, C two Thin C1 — undersized, sized-up and doubled, which between them identify four of the five causes.

Three-jar melt pool test · complete bill
Cash outlay, and what the test actually consumes
Item Pack bought Price Used by the test
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) 10 wicks ₹59.00 (₹5.90 each) 3 wicks — ₹17.70. Seven left over
Eco Candle Wicks — Thick (C2) 20 wicks (smallest pack in stock) ₹188.80 (₹9.44 each) 1 wick — ₹9.44. Nineteen left over
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (flakes) 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹0.5074 per g) 600 g for three 200 g jars — ₹304.44
White Matte Glass Jar, if you need test vessels Pack of 5 ₹354.00 (₹70.80 each) 3 jars — they wash out and go again
Test spread only — the two wick packs — ₹247.80 The irreducible cost of answering the question
Wicks + wax, if you own the jars — ₹755.20 Consumed: ₹331.58. The rest is stock you keep
Everything, owning nothing — ₹1,109.20 Leaves 400 g wax, 7 C1, 19 C2 and 5 jars behind

The consumed figure is the honest one: ₹331.58 of wax and wick actually burned, everything else being stock that goes into production. Across a 500-unit festive run that is 0.66 rupees per candle to know your wick is right rather than hope it is — inside the rounding if you are pricing your candles properly.

Do not buy the bulk wick pack yet. Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) run to ₹4,720 for 500 and ₹9,440 for 1,000, and the per-wick price is ₹9.44 at every pack size — there is no volume discount to chase. Buy the 20-pack at ₹188.80, run the three jars, and order the 500-pack only once the sheet says C2 is the answer. If the answer turns out to be "burn it for the full three hours", you will have spent ₹188.80 instead of ₹4,720 and we will have sold you less. That is the correct outcome. Same for Performance Wooden Wicks at ₹590 per 10 — a real option for a wide vessel, but a decision that follows a measurement.

One last piece of arithmetic, for the business owner rather than the maker. A candle stalling at 70% of its jar diameter releases from 49% of its designed surface. The customer gets roughly half the scent performance the recipe was built for, calls the fragrance weak, and you buy a stronger oil at anywhere from ₹300 to ₹2,406 per 100 g. That is the expensive fix for a ₹331.58 problem. If the pool is right and the throw is still short, then it is a fragrance question — the oil quality comparison is the page to read next.

Why trust this guide

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On a page about stalled melt pools the convenient advice would be "buy a bigger wick", and we sell wicks in six pack sizes. We have told you instead to check burn time first and the room second, because both are free, and to buy the ₹188.80 pack rather than the ₹4,720 one until the sheet says otherwise.

Every price, pack size and product name here comes from live CSI stock on 10 September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing takes precedence. Where a pack is out of stock we say so — the Thick (C2) 10-wick pack is unavailable on the pull date, which is why the test spread uses the 20-wick pack. The pool areas are plain πr² arithmetic at stated internal diameters, not measurements of any product; measure your own vessel at the rim before using them.

For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation, or help matching a wick to a diameter, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 with the diameter in millimetres, the wax and the fill weight.

Frequently asked questions

How long should a candle take to reach a full melt pool?
Two to three hours for a container between 50 and 70 mm internal diameter. Allow roughly one hour per 25 mm of diameter — two hours for a 50 mm jar, two hours forty for a 70 mm one, ninety minutes for a 40 mm votive. Anything needing four hours or more should be re-wicked.
How deep should a melt pool be?
Roughly 6 to 10 mm, measured about 10 mm out from the wick at three hours. Under 6 mm the reservoir is too small to feed the wick steadily and the flame turns draught-sensitive. Over 10 mm the glass runs hot and burn life drops, with no extra scent surface to show for it — fragrance leaves from the surface, and the surface is unchanged.
Is a bigger wick always the answer to a stalled melt pool?
No — it is the answer to one of five causes. An oversized wick reaches the wall by burning the candle faster, and brings soot, mushrooming, hot glass and shorter burn life with it. First confirm the candle was burned the full two to three hours, and that the test was run in a closed room with no fan; both checks are free. If you do step up, go one size at a time, Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each to Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each. The correct wick is the smallest one that reaches the wall inside the window and burns clean.
Does a ceiling fan really stop a candle reaching a full melt pool?
Yes, and in India it is one of the most common causes. Moving air strips heat from the glass by forced convection and deflects the flame so its output spreads over a wider, cooler area — both push the equilibrium pool diameter down. Burn one jar under the fan and an identical jar in a closed still room, measure both at three hours, and the difference is your answer. The test costs nothing.
When should I use two wicks instead of one?
Only when a single wick at the largest size that burns cleanly still leaves the pool short of the wall. When you do go to two, size down rather than across — two Thin C1, not two Thick C2 — placed near the one-third and two-third points of the diameter, about 23 mm apart in a 70 mm jar. Two flames in one wax body are thermally coupled, so the centre gets more heat than two separate candles would give it while the outer edge does not.
My candle reaches the wall but the scent is still weak. What now?
Then the pool is not your problem — stop adjusting wicks. Confirm the depth is inside 6–10 mm and the candle has had a full cure, then treat it as a fragrance question: the premium versus cheap oil comparison and the 2026 oil guide are the pages to read. Load ceilings are set by the wax: up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — stated formulation limits, not regulatory ones.
Measure it, then fix it
Two to three hours to the wall, six to ten millimetres deep. Everything else is guesswork.
Eco Candle Wicks in Thin (C1) from ₹59 per 10 and Thick (C2) from ₹188.80 per 20 — a full test spread at ₹247.80. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260 / 500g, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399 / 1kg, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500g, and 80 containers to pick a narrower jar from. Send us your internal diameter and we will tell you where to start.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the melt pool specification, the five-cause diagnosis, the measurement method, the record sheet and the πr² arithmetic apply to any supplier's materials. Tunnelling diagnosis and the tunnelling repair procedure are covered on their own pages in this cluster and are deliberately not repeated here.

Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages — three on Eco Candle Wicks, two on Lavender Fragrance Oil and one on Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464. They are general reviews of those products and not statements about melt pool behaviour. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. Only reviews Judge.me recorded as verified purchases carry the "Verified buyer" badge: Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy, Priyanka Purohit, Akansha and Thenirvaofficial are recorded as verified; Ashwini is not, and is shown without the badge. No locations are attached because Judge.me does not store them.

Figures verified 10 September 2026 (CSI live pricing, September 2026): Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) ₹59.00 per 10, ₹590.00 per 100, all sizes ₹5.90 per wick; Thick (C2) ₹188.80 per 20, ₹4,720.00 per 500, ₹9,440.00 per 1,000, all sizes ₹9.44 per wick, with the 10-wick C2 pack out of stock on the pull date. Performance Wooden Wicks (Imported) ₹590.00 per 10 (₹59.00 each). Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (flakes) ₹260.00 / 500g and ₹507.40 / 1kg (₹0.5074 per g). Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399.00 / 1kg. Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 ₹325.00 / 500g. Soy Pillar Wax ₹300.00 / 500g. White Matte Glass Jar ₹354.00 per pack of 5 (₹70.80 each) and ₹708.00 per pack of 10 — uniform across the matte and frosted glass jar family. Candle Wick Cutter / Trimmer ₹295.00, with an alternative listing at ₹177.00. Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118.00 per pack of 5 (₹23.60 each). Wick Centering Device ₹118.00 per pack of 5 (₹23.60 each). Candle Wick Stickers ₹100.00 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each). Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413.00 per 500 (₹0.83 each). Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00. Pen Thermometer ₹354.00. Fragrance oils range from ₹300.00 to ₹2,406.00 per 100 g across 92 oils in the collection; the containers collection holds 80 products and the wick collection 7.

Calculations: Melt pool areas are πr² at stated internal diameters — 12.6 cm² at 40 mm, 19.6 cm² at 50 mm, 23.8 cm² at 55 mm and 38.5 cm² at 70 mm — and the 64% / 49% / 36% shares are the squares of 0.8, 0.7 and 0.6. Molten wax volumes of 30.8 cm³ and 53.9 cm³ are the 70 mm pool area multiplied by 8 mm and 14 mm of depth. The three-jar test bill assumes three 200 g fills (600 g of wax), three C1 wicks and one C2 wick: ₹247.80 for the wick spread, ₹755.20 for wicks plus a 1 kg wax pack, ₹1,109.20 including a pack of five jars, and ₹331.58 of material actually consumed. Fragrance load ceilings of up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 are the wax manufacturers' stated formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices, pack sizes and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
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