Charred wick
Hey, everyone! I keep reading that we must trim the wicks and get rid of the charred part. The issue is: I literally never, not even once in my life, saw a candle wick that is not charred completely after each use. Be it with commercial paraffin candles, beeswax, and so on. They always get very stiff, prone to breaking and completely black, top to bottom (basically anything above the wax pool). So how do you get that ideal state in which you have a non-charred wick? I don't even know what it looks like, honestly. I tried thick wicks, thin wicks, braided, non braided, and so on. Always the same result.
Now that I have decided to make my own beeswax candles for personal use, I keep getting the issue of the flame getting weaker until it is extinguished. Someone suggested it may be due to the charring, since it burned really nicely until I snuffed the flame with a candle snuffer. Now that I am trying to get it lit again it doesn't work anymore once the wax pool has been formed. I'm using a 4mm thick wick in a 5cm radius pillar candle. Any ideas?