Min. 100 units · 3–5 days
Votive Candle Boxes
Custom Candle Packaging
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Pillar Candle Boxes built to your specification — your dimensions, your board, your print.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing and which disclosures apply. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Pillar Candle Boxes hold an unwrapped wax pillar with no vessel protecting it. That is the starting point for the specification, because wax is soft. Any board contact under pressure leaves a mark, so the fit has to hold without pressing.
In service they are used for home and gift retail where pillars are sold unwrapped.
Pillar Candle Boxes are specified for home and gift retail where pillars are sold unwrapped. Wax is soft. Any board contact under pressure leaves a mark, so the fit has to hold without pressing.
Shelf presence is decided at arm's length, not close up. Contrast, the front panel hierarchy and how the pack sits next to competitors matter more than a finish that only reads in the hand.
If pillar candle boxes will be faced on a shelf, tell us the facing orientation so the strongest panel is the one the customer sees.
Regulated products carry information that is not optional, and it competes for the same panel area as the brand design. The panel is almost always the binding constraint, not the structure.
Tell us which disclosures apply before we cut the die and we will block the area on the dieline. Retrofitting a warning panel into a finished layout usually means redrawing it.
A snug cavity with a soft or lined contact face, or a shrink wrap inside the carton.
The options we would consider for this format are below; wax is soft. Any board contact under pressure leaves a mark, so the fit has to hold without pressing.
Colour and scent both matter, and a window lets customers see the wax without handling it.
Finishes are costed one at a time because each is a separate operation — that way you can see which one is carrying the price.
Colour and scent both matter, and a window lets customers see the wax without handling it.
Offset lithography, Digital press, Flexography are all available for this format. Run length usually decides which is cheapest: digital removes the plate cost on short quantities, offset and flexo overtake it at volume.
Supply artwork on the dieline we send you, with 3 mm bleed past every trim edge and all text held 4 mm inside the fold lines.
Supply a print-ready PDF or vector file with fonts outlined and images at 300 dpi. Our prepress team checks every file before a proof is issued. On a regulated pack the check that matters most is that required copy still holds its minimum type size at final scale.
Sized closely to the pillar diameter and height, since there is no glass to take contact.
Send the contents rather than a box size. The pillar is treated like a jar candle, but the wax itself is the exposed surface here.
Tell us what goes inside, how many you need and when. Those three answers are enough for us to specify and price the job properly.
We issue a dieline template, prepress checks your artwork against it, and a dated proof comes back for sign-off. Where your quality system needs it, that approval is recorded against a revision number.
Foil, soft-touch and deboss all read differently in person than on a screen, so we recommend a printed prototype rather than a digital proof alone for anything finish-led.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
The pillar is treated like a jar candle, but the wax itself is the exposed surface here.
The rest of these come up often enough across the format to be worth stating plainly.
Reference
| Product | Pillar Candle Boxes |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Candle Packaging |
| Construction | Die-cut, creased and seam-glued |
| Board thickness | 12pt – 18pt depending on product weight |
| Ships as | Flat-packed, glued one seam |
| Materials | 12pt SBS paperboard, 14pt SBS paperboard, 16pt SBS paperboard, 18pt kraft board |
| Printing | Offset lithography, Digital press, Flexography |
| Finishes | Gloss lamination, Matte lamination, Soft-touch lamination, Spot UV, Foil stamping |
| Minimum order | Minimum order is 100 units on any format, and unit cost falls sharply as the quantity rises. |
| Lead time | 3 to 5 business days after artwork approval |
| Shipping | Across the US, UK, Canada and Australia |
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Sized closely to the pillar diameter and height, since there is no glass to take contact.
The wax surface marks against the board, and a marked pillar cannot be sold as new.
Specified for home and gift retail where pillars are sold unwrapped.
Wax is soft. Any board contact under pressure leaves a mark, so the fit has to hold without pressing.
This format sits in our custom candle packaging range, alongside 11 other made-to-order formats.
Answers
Specification, minimums and lead times for pillar candle boxes.
Hold them without pressing. Wax is soft enough that board contact under pressure leaves a mark, so the cavity needs to locate the pillar rather than grip it — or line the contact face.
At the widest point, which is frequently not the base, and including the cap or pump. Send us the actual container if you can — a measurement from a drawing misses flex and applied label thickness, and both decide whether pillar candle boxes close cleanly.
More than most brands allow for. Ingredient copy and any warnings compete directly with the design, and adding them late usually forces a reflow. We block the area on the dieline before you commit design time.
Rarely without compromise. A box built to present is not built to survive a carrier network alone. A presentation box inside a plain protective outer usually costs less overall than one box trying to do both.
Yes. Where your quality system requires it we issue dated proofs against a revision number and retain the approval record. Ask at quoting so the documentation is built alongside the job rather than reconstructed later.
We can produce child-resistant structures with certified closures. Compliance is verified against the regulations in force when your order runs, so send the specific requirement your licence operates under rather than a general description.
Flat and glued along one seam, so they pop open on your packing line. That keeps freight cost down considerably compared with a pre-assembled structure.
3 to 5 business days after artwork approval, plus freight. Folding carton runs with applied finishes can take longer because each finish is a separate pass, and we confirm a firm date in writing with the quote.
Prices start from $0.30 per piece for large-volume orders. For this format the biggest levers are quantity, print route, board grade and how many finishing passes are involved. We quote each element separately so you can see where the money is going. Rigid construction is hand-assembled, so labour is a larger share of the unit cost here than it is on a machine-glued carton and quantity discounts flatten out sooner.
Yes. We can send a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure, or a printed prototype for colour and finish. Sample costs are normally credited against the production order. Ask for the printed prototype rather than the plain sample if the question is finish — soft-touch, foil and deboss all read differently in the hand than on a screen.
Send the current specification or a physical sample and we will quote to match it rather than proposing an alternative you would then have to re-approve internally. Send the existing artwork as well as the sample — on a regulated pack it is usually the panel area given to required copy, not the dimensions, that differs between suppliers.
All 50 US states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, on the same timeline everywhere: 3 to 5 business days of production after artwork approval, then 5 to 7 business days in transit. Every run is made to order and shipped directly to your address rather than pulled from stock, so you receive current production rather than whatever has been sitting in a warehouse. Freight is costed separately by weight, volume and destination. Assembled and finished packs are worth protecting in transit with a plain outer carton, which we will quote alongside if you are shipping direct to customers.
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Send the dimensions, the quantity and the disclosures that have to appear. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.