A round paperboard tube for your candle jar, tin or pillar, lid lifts off, and there’s an insert inside so the candle doesn’t rattle around. You can go printed wrap, foil or embossing, soft-touch too. Kraft or white board, low minimums, free design help and free ground shipping in the USA.
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A round candle in a square box always looks a little like an afterthought. So why not follow the jar? That’s candle tube packaging, really, just rolled paperboard and a lid you lift off and your printed paper wrapped round the outside, and when someone picks it up off a shelf full of square cartons it feels like you meant it.
We make these for candle brands selling gift lines, home fragrance shops and makers who want a box their customers keep. People do keep them. Tubes end up holding cotton pads, hair ties and pens, which keeps your logo on a bathroom shelf for months.
Round stuff goes in best, so a straight glass tumbler, a tin, a fat pillar, those drop right in and you’re done. Tapered jars? Bit harder (and very wide ones too). A tube sized to the widest point leaves a gap at the narrow end, which we fill with an insert. Measure height with the lid on the candle, and the widest diameter.
Our candle box dimensions guide has standard sizes for most jar types, a good place to start before sending us numbers. For thin taper candles there’s a separate style altogether, see our taper candle boxes.
The wall is made from layers of paperboard wound together. Thicker walls feel more premium and protect glass better in a parcel. For a single jar going straight to a shop shelf, a standard wall is fine. Shipping glass by mail? We’d thicken the wall and add an insert at the base so the jar can’t drop onto the bottom cap if the tube is dropped end first.
Lid fit is the detail everyone notices. Too tight, and your customer is fighting it, sometimes pulling the tube apart. Too loose and somebody grabs it by the top in the store and the whole bottom half drops on the floor, which we’ve honestly seen happen. What we go for is a slow pull with that little whoosh of air at the end. The trick is a neck. It’s just a slightly narrower ring on the base that the lid slides over, and it lets the lid sit flush too.
A card collar or a disc insert at the top and bottom keeps the jar centered. For a jar and a matchbox set, a split insert holds both. If you prefer a classic folding carton, our jar candle boxes do the same job in a square shape.
There’s no front. Seriously, the wrap goes all the way round, so we usually tell people to think of it like turning the tube in your hand, brand and scent first, then a quarter turn later the notes and burn time, and the warnings and barcode end up round the back where nobody minds. Watch the seam. Anything printed right on it can get clipped or land a bit crooked.
Finishes? Soft-touch is lovely on a tube, and we do gold or silver foil and embossing on them all the time. Kraft paper with one color looks natural and suits soy candle lines. Inks are soy-based or water-based. One practical point. If your fragrance oil weeps, a coated inner lining stops it marking the tube.
Our designers set up the wrap artwork and check it for print issues at no extra cost. You’ll get a digital proof, and a physical sample is a good idea for tubes because lid fit is so personal. Minimums are low, often around 50 tubes depending on the size. Standard production runs 10 to 12 business days after approval, with free ground shipping anywhere in the USA. See more styles in candle packaging boxes.
Yes, with an insert that fills the gap at the narrower end so the jar can’t wobble.
Firm enough to stay on when the tube is lifted by the lid, but slow and smooth to pull off by hand.
With a thicker wall and a base insert, yes for most jars. For fragile or heavy glass, add a corrugated outer box.
Similar options include luxury candle boxes, custom taper candle boxes, custom candle boxes with inserts and custom jar candle boxes. Browse all of them in custom candle packaging boxes. For measurements, see candle box dimensions.
