Silicone moulds for chandlers, from your first pillar to a full production schedule.

Usually, yes, provided the silicone tool is well designed. Wax contracts as it cools and pulls away from the mould wall, which is why silicone is so well suited to chandlery. If your wax keeps sticking, the cause is usually a straight wall with no taper, an undercut that was not accounted for, a silicone grade that is too hard for the relief, or wax poured too hot and slumping into every pore of the surface. Tell us your wax, pour temperature and fragrance load, and we can usually design out the need for release spray entirely. That also helps your candles look better.

Yes, the base is usually the most sensible place for it. Raised or recessed lettering is straightforward, although very fine or thin strokes can fill and blur in wax. We will tell you honestly if your typeface needs opening up before it will read clearly. Cutting your branding into the tool means every candle carries it without a label or a second operation. If you are working towards wholesale, it is one of the cheapest ways to make a hand-poured range look considered.

We measure mould life in pulls rather than months, and wax is one of the kinder materials, so a good tool used sensibly can last a long time. What shortens its life is heat cycling, solvent-heavy release agents, aggressive demoulding and cleaning with anything abrasive. Our tooling is covered for two years or two thousand uses against manufacturing defect. Wear from normal use is not a defect. If a mould is central to your production week, order a spare with it and store it unused.

If you own the candle, or have the right to reproduce its shape, we can copy it for you. This is often a better route than copying the mould itself, because a used tool may have drifted from the original. We measure the part, rebuild it, correct anything that needs correcting and keep the record. That means we can make a like-for-like spare in a year. We will not reproduce somebody else's protected design, so please tell us where the shape came from.

Wax melts are not food, so the usual chandlery grades apply. If your product will genuinely come into contact with food, chocolate or an ingredient, that work runs through TCI Culinary, our sister division. It is built on declared food-contact grades, with the traceability a food buyer will ask for. The word silicone is not a food-safety claim. It helps to be clear at the enquiry stage, because retro-fitting compliance to an existing tool is rarely possible.