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 👉 Join the free community here: https://www.skool.com/candle-making-s...