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Vessels and lids

Tamper evidence

By Dwight Davis, Founder

Updated

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Separating what is required from what is expected, because for candles they are different answers.

There is no tamper-evident packaging requirement for candles. It is not a food, a drug or a cosmetic, and the mandatory labeling that does apply is about lead-cored wicks and about being a consumer commodity.

So this is a commercial decision rather than a compliance one.

What buyers ask for

Many wholesale accounts want a sealed unit, mostly so a candle on a shelf still smells of something when it sells.

At a market it does different work: every unit gets picked up, opened and sniffed, and an unsealed range is a range where the last few units have lost their scent.

The options

A shrink band over the lid seam. Cheap and standard.

A full shrink sleeve, which can also be the label.

A carton, which is the strongest version and gives you a printable surface, protection in transit and somewhere for the safety statements that is not the glass.

A dust cover under the lid, which keeps the surface clean without sealing anything.

Where it matters

Most at a market, where it is really scent protection.

Next in wholesale, where it is a buyer's condition.

Least online, where the customer opens the parcel themselves and nobody else has touched it.

Which means the decision follows the channel, and a maker selling in all three usually ends up sealing everything for simplicity.

References

No published source. This page is written from practice rather than from published guidance. No extension service or agency publishes on this question for candles, so nothing here is cited, and it should be weighed as experience and not as a standard.
Written from the federal regulation, the CPSC material and the published scope of the ASTM candle standards. The standards themselves are copyrighted documents that must be bought; what is described here is their scope and requirements as published, not their text. Your own burn testing against your own vessel and wick is what establishes whether a candle you made is safe.