Candle Makers: How to Tell If Your Candle Is Under-Wicked or Over-Wicked | Candle Making Science

This video is for candle makers.

If you’ve ever poured a candle that looked perfect — smooth top, great color, strong scent — but then burned badly, this video explains why.

In this Candle Making Science breakdown, I show you how to read burn behavior so you can tell if your candle is under-wicked or over-wicked. This is not about how a customer burns a candle — it’s about recipe design, wick selection, and combustion balance.

No guessing.
No blaming the customer.
Just candle making science 🔬🕯️

🔬 What You’ll Learn in This Video

✔ Clear signs of an under-wicked candle (tunneling, weak flame, poor scent)
✔ Clear signs of an over-wicked candle (soot, mushrooming, deep melt pool)
✔ What a properly wicked candle actually looks like
✔ Why wick charts are only a starting point
✔ How fragrance load, fragrance type, dye, and airflow change burn behavior
✔ When to wick up or wick down — without guessing

🎓 Free Candle Making Science Challenge

If you want to understand why these problems happen — not just how to fix them — I’ve created a FREE 7-Day “Why Before the Wax” Candle Making Challenge inside my Skool community.

In just 30 minutes a day, you’ll learn:
✔ How wax, wick, fragrance, and temperature work together
✔ Why candles fail before they’re ever lit
✔ How to test candles with confidence instead of trial and error

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