Candle calculators.
Tested recipes.
Score before you pour.
Free bench tools built by chandlers who pour every week.
Wax, fragrance, wick and burn time calculators. Ten bestseller recipes that load straight into the builder. Bench tools stay free. Studio unlocks the business side.
Cost your first candle in 90 seconds.
Free. No sign in. Uses your region's wax, wick and fragrance defaults.
Build my first candleFive free calculators.
One pour, sorted.
Vessel volume to wax grams, with overhead for your sample pour.
Safe load by wax family, flashpoint flagged, IFRA clamped.
CD, ECO, HTP and wood. Picked by vessel diameter, from published draw data.
Hours per pour, learns from your real burn tests over time.
Unit cost and suggested retail with 2x, 2.5x and 3x margins.
Build the whole candle in one place.
The Recipe Builder runs every calculator at once, scores your pour, and flags safety issues before you light the melter.
Beyond the calculators.
Scent, labels, compliance.
Pick top, heart and base notes or a target scent. Get a fragrance oil combo sized to your wax.
Paste a perfume's notes. We map it to fragrance oils you can actually buy.
Auto-generate the mandatory hazard block from your fragrance load. Studio Pro to print or save.
Ten candles makers actually sell.
Tested at the bench. Each one loads into the builder with one click, ingredient list and batch costing included.
The reference candle. Soft soy, gentle vanilla, single-pour and beginner-proof.
Two Libbey 2917s, deep sandalwood at the wax max, cured a fortnight.
The guides we wish we'd had.
Best Wax for Candles: An Honest Maker's Guide (2026)
I've poured every common candle wax through the Bristol studio. Here's what soy, coconut, paraffin, beeswax, apricot and rapeseed actually feel like to work with, and which one fits the candle you want to sell.
How to Start a Candle Business: A Realistic 90-Day Plan
A working chandler's 90-day plan to go from first pour to first paid order. Kit budget, first 10 SKUs, batch costing, channel choice, and the compliance checklist that keeps you out of trouble.
Beeswax vs Soy Candles: A Real Comparison
Burn time, scent throw, environmental impact, and cost compared honestly. The right answer depends on what you're optimizing for.
The full manual.
Free to read.
A five-act technical manual on making candles that sell. Bench setup, wick sizing, scent throw, pricing and compliance, scaling and DTC. Cited to EN 15493, ASTM, IFRA, and CLP.
Bench setup, the pour, reading defects, curing, and where paraffin still wins.
Four-burn protocol, wick selection, vessel choice, formulation, batch records.
True costs, pricing, CLP and ASTM labelling, the legal-fear FAQ.
Melts, discovery sets, bundles, shipping bands, refills, upsells worth doing.
Batch scaling tolerances, VAT thresholds, DTC economics, fulfilment and hiring.
"Every candle you've ever lit was made by someone who failed at it first. We're just shortening the part where you fail."
Best Wax for Candles: An Honest Maker's Guide (2026)
I've poured every common candle wax through the Bristol studio. Here's what soy, coconut, paraffin, beeswax, apricot and rapeseed actually feel like to work with, and which one fits the candle you want to sell.
Read the article →The Maker's Codex, as a PDF
The full five-act manual. Bench setup, wick sizing, scent throw, pricing, compliance, scaling. Cited to EN 15493, ASTM, IFRA and CLP. We email your regional edition (metric or imperial, GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, AUD).