Some basic steps to help ensure you achieve the optimum burn with your wooden wick candles are as follows:
- Light one side of the wick and let it burn across its length.
- If it extinguishes itself you will need to trim the excess wick and relight.
- Let the candle burn until the wax melts out to the edges of the container. You may have to let it burn anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. Even if the flame appears to burn low at times, it will continue to burn. Ideally, a 3 to 4 hour burn time is recommended.
- Maintain the wick and a length of 3/16 inch. If the height of the flame exceeds 1 ½ inches or if the candle starts to smoke, blow out the candle, let the wax and wick cooldown. Then, trim the wick horizontally with wick trimmers or your fingers so that it is parallel to the wax.
- Before you relight the candle, remove the charred area of the wick. The candle is designed to extinguish itself when 3/8 inch wax remains.
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