Container candles and the cure

Container candles are poured straight into the jar or tin they will be sold and burned in, so there is no mould to release and no seam to hide, but they trade that convenience for a wait. The jars this book works to are seventy millimetres across, which is still inside the band the chart in chapter three gives a #3 wick, one size below the pillar's.

Fresh from the pour, the wax has not fully bonded to the container wall or hardened all the way through, and a candle burned too soon after pouring often burns unevenly or pulls away from the glass in patches, a cosmetic fault called wet spots.