What Happens If You Don’t Cure a Candle?

Skip the cure and the candle still lights. The wick still works. What you lose is the settled scent. Fragrance that has not moved through the wax tends to flash off the top and then leave a bland pool. People call that “no throw”. It is often impatience.

What you will notice

• A sharper, almost solvent cold throw that does not match the burn.
• Hot throw that improves if you put the lid on and wait a week — which feels like a trick, and is not.
• In extreme cases, a wet-looking top as oil sits on the surface instead of in the crystal structure of the wax.

Our jars are cured before they leave. If you are pouring at home, two weeks for soy-coconut is the number we actually use. Longer on cure times.