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You have three "separate" candle problems. A black ring at the rim. A river of wax running down the glass. A jar split on the second burn. You will see them diagnosed as air flow, wick length, and bad glass, in that order. Wrong, wrong, and half-right. They are one problem wearing three hats: the wick diameter does not match the jar diameter and th..

You burn a $28 candle. Three months later you've got a perfect cylindrical hole in the center, a ring of unused wax you could never reach, and a wick sitting in a crater deep enough to drown. You melt out 20 to 40 percent of what you paid for, and every candle shop will tell you the same thing: you didn't burn it long enough.I'm here to tell you th..