Prevent mushrooming in cotton wicks by trimming to about 1/4 inch (6 mm), using the smallest wick that still burns steadily, and controlling burn time, formula load, and drafts. Mushrooming is the...
Category: Homemade Candles
To pre-tab, prime, and trim candle wicks, crimp the wick into a tab, add a light wax coating only when you need more rigidity, and trim to 6–7 mm before lighting. This page covers candle wick...
CD vs ECO Wicks: Which Should You Use? [+ Quick Sizing Chart]
CD and ECO are cotton wick families for single-wick container candles, and on this page “better” means the safer first family to test for your jar, wax, and fragrance load: ECO suits many soy...
Wick curl is a candle-wick burn behavior where the lit wick bends toward one side as it burns. A small curl can be normal self-trimming, but it becomes problematic on this page when it leans the...
Candle wick problems are burn-performance symptoms that show the wick, wax, jar, or burn conditions are no longer working together as intended. Most candle wick problems come from the wrong wick size...
To size a candle wick correctly the first time, match your jar diameter and wax to a wick chart, then verify with a clean two-to-three-hour burn test. This page is for container-candle makers who...