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On a 200 g candle the three loads are 12 g, 16 g and 20 g of oil, and across 100 candles they are ₹15,804.32, ₹17,689.76 and ₹19,575.20 of materials. Which one is better is not a matter of opinion — it is a nine-jar blind test that costs ₹1,578.40 and answers the question for your wax, your oil and your jar.
₹3,770.88
the whole 6%-to-10% decision, per 100 × 200 g candles in Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 with Lavender at 1 kg pricing · ₹37.71 a candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Which load is better, 6%, 8% or 10%? Whichever one wins a blind test in your own wax. If you have not tested, start at 8%: it sits inside every stated load range CSI publishes, it is affordable, and it leaves you room to move in both directions.
What are the three loads in grams? On a 200 g candle, 12 g, 16 g and 20 g of oil, with 188 g, 184 g and 180 g of wax. On a 120 g jar, 7.2 g, 9.6 g and 12 g.
What does the difference cost? Going from 6% to 10% on 100 × 200 g candles costs ₹3,770.88 more in CSI 464 with Lavender — less than the oil alone, because you also buy 8 g less wax per candle.
Is 10% always the strongest? No. 10% puts the most oil in the jar. Cure, wick and pool area decide how much of it reaches the room — which is why the test below is blind and cured, not sniffed off a warm pour.
The short answer
Check both ceilings before you choose: your wax states one and your oil's page states one. CSI 464 states up to 10%, so 10% is its top. Lavender states 6–10% for candles. Both agree, so all three loads are available to you.
Then run three loads side by side: nine 120 g jars, three per load, one wax, one oil, one wick size, scored blind at day 14.
Then pick the cheapest load that ties: if 8% scores within one point of 10%, pour 8% and keep ₹1,885.44 per 100 candles.
Bar length is total materials — wax plus oil — for 100 × 200 g candles at CSI 464's ₹507.40 per kilo and Lavender's ₹5,221 per kilo. The steps are even because each two-point move swaps exactly 4 g of wax for 4 g of oil per candle. What is not even is the payoff, and that is what the test is for.
Is 6%, 8% or 10% fragrance load better — and how do I decide without guessing?
There is no universally better load, and anyone who gives you one number without asking what wax you pour is guessing. What there is, is a cheap experiment that settles it permanently for your recipe. On a 200 g candle the three loads are 12 g, 16 g and 20 g of oil against 188 g, 184 g and 180 g of wax. Across 100 candles in Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (₹507.40 a kilo) with Lavender Fragrance Oil (₹5,221 a kilo) that is ₹15,804.32, ₹17,689.76 and ₹19,575.20 of materials — a spread of ₹3,770.88, or ₹37.71 a candle. Before you choose, check two published numbers: your wax's stated load and your oil page's stated candle load. CSI 464 states up to 10%; Lavender states 6–10% for candles; so all three loads are open. Then pour nine 120 g jars — three at each load, same wax, same oil, same Eco Candle Wick, same jar — cure the full fortnight, and have someone else hide the labels before you score them. The basket costs ₹1,578.40. Then apply the rule that saves real money: pour the cheapest load that scores within one point of the best. Most makers who run this find 8% ties 10% once the candle is properly cured and correctly wicked, and 6% wins on light citrus in small rooms.
One line: the three loads are 12 g, 16 g and 20 g on a 200 g candle and ₹3,770.88 apart per hundred — run nine jars blind at day 14 and pour the cheapest load that ties.
Everything the nine-jar test needs: CSI 464 1 kg at ₹507.40, Lavender 100 g at ₹540, ten Amber jars at ₹472 and ten Thin (C1) Eco Wicks at ₹59 — ₹1,578.40 for an answer you keep.
Percentages are an argument. Grams are a decision you can weigh out.
Almost every disagreement about load is really a disagreement about arithmetic. So before anything else, here are the three loads as weights. This series calculates load the way the CSI load-and-throw guide does — as a share of the finished candle. A 200 g candle at 8% is 16 g of oil plus 184 g of wax, and the two add up to the 200 g the customer holds.
Oil and wax by candle size · 6%, 8% and 10% of the finished candle
What to weigh out for one candle at each load
Finished candle
6% oil / wax
8% oil / wax
10% oil / wax
Extra oil, 6% → 10%
70 g votive
4.2 g / 65.8 g
5.6 g / 64.4 g
7 g / 63 g
2.8 g
100 g tin
6 g / 94 g
8 g / 92 g
10 g / 90 g
4 g
120 g jar
7.2 g / 112.8 g
9.6 g / 110.4 g
12 g / 108 g
4.8 g
150 g jar
9 g / 141 g
12 g / 138 g
15 g / 135 g
6 g
200 g jar
12 g / 188 g
16 g / 184 g
20 g / 180 g
8 g
300 g jar
18 g / 282 g
24 g / 276 g
30 g / 270 g
12 g
The other convention, stated once so it never confuses you again
Some product pages express load as a share of wax weight instead. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page words its range as "8% to 13% of total wax weight", and several oil pages say "of total wax weight" too. The two conventions are close but not identical: 10% of wax weight is 9.09% of the finished candle, because 100 g of wax plus 10 g of oil is a 110 g candle. Pick one convention, write it at the top of your recipe card, and never mix them inside a batch. The full derivation is in how to calculate fragrance load for candles.
Notice the last column. The entire argument between 6% and 10% is 8 g of oil on a 200 g candle — about a teaspoon and a half. That is small enough that people dismiss it and large enough that it moves both your cost and your candle. Which is exactly why it deserves a test rather than an opinion.
What each load is actually good at
Load is not a quality dial where higher means better. It changes how much oil the wax has to dissolve and hold, and each of the three levels has a set of jobs it does well. Read the table as a shortlist of hypotheses to test, not as a verdict.
6% vs 8% vs 10% · the honest comparison
Where each load earns its place, and where it costs you money for nothing
6%
8%
10%
Oil in a 200 g candle
12 g
16 g
20 g
Materials per 100 candles
₹15,804.32
₹17,689.76
₹19,575.20
Suits
Sharp citrus, mint, eucalyptus, light florals; small rooms; bathrooms; travel tins
Almost everything; the default for a first commercial recipe
Woody, gourmand, oud, tobacco, heavy amber; large rooms; retail candles judged in one sniff
Risk if you get it wrong
A candle a customer calls "subtle" when they wanted "strong"
Least risk in either direction
Oil the wax may not fully hold if you are near a ceiling; wick struggling; money spent on throw you cannot detect
Wick consequence
The least oil for the wick to carry; still needs its own burn test
Baseline — wick-test here first
More oil in the pool; re-test the wick rather than assuming the same size carries over
If the candle has not cured 14 days or the wick never opens a full pool, all three loads will read as weak and the test will teach you nothing
The mistake that makes this whole comparison meaningless. Judging three loads at 48 hours. Fragrance perception changes across the cure, and a 6% jar at day 18 can beat a 10% jar at day 3 — which means a rushed test will send you to the wrong load and cost you money on every candle afterwards. Cure all nine jars together, in the same carton, with lids on, and burn them on the same day. Why the fortnight matters is set out in why your candle needs a 14-day cure.
One more honest point about the 6% column. It exists because light, volatile accords can be legible at low concentration and shrill at high concentration. Citrus Lemon, whose page describes "Top Notes Zesty lemon, lime — sharp, bright, immediately energising" over a mandarin finish and states a candle load of 6–10%, is precisely the kind of oil where the cheapest arm of the test can win outright. Do not assume the bottom of the range is the beginner's setting. Sometimes it is the right answer.
The cost of the decision, per 100 candles
Here is the arithmetic in full, because the number that decides most production runs is not the percentage — it is the difference in rupees when you multiply it by a hundred. All figures are CSI live pricing, September 2026, on a 200 g candle in CSI 464 at ₹507.40 a kilo (₹0.5074 per gram).
100 × 200 g candles · CSI 464 wax, four oils at 1 kg pricing
Total materials at each load, and what the 6% → 10% move costs you
Worked out above: per 100 candles, wax = 100 × wax grams × ₹0.5074, oil = 100 × oil grams × the kilo price ÷ 1,000. At 6%: 18,800 g wax = ₹9,539.12, plus 1,200 g oil. At 8%: 18,400 g = ₹9,336.16, plus 1,600 g. At 10%: 18,000 g = ₹9,133.20, plus 2,000 g. Lavender at ₹5.221 a gram therefore contributes ₹6,265.20, ₹8,353.60 and ₹10,442. Oil prices: Citrus Lemon ₹2,832/kg, Sandalwood ₹5,026.80/kg, Lavender ₹5,221/kg, Dark Vanilla ₹7,646/kg.
Two findings in that table are worth pinning to the wall. First, the price of the oil decides how much the decision matters. On Citrus Lemon the whole 6%-to-10% question is worth ₹1,859.68 across a hundred candles — barely more than the test basket, so just test at 10% and be done. On Dark Vanilla the same question is worth ₹5,710.88, which is three times the cost of testing properly and more than enough to justify a careful, cured, blind comparison before you commit.
Second, and less obvious: raising the load makes the wax line fall. Every gram of oil you add is a gram of wax you do not buy. Moving from 6% to 10% on a hundred 200 g candles adds ₹4,176.80 of Lavender but removes ₹405.92 of CSI 464, so the net cost is ₹3,770.88 rather than ₹4,176.80. It is a rebate of about 10% on the decision, and it gets bigger the more expensive your wax is relative to your oil. On CSI 468 at ₹650 a kilo the wax rebate over the same move is ₹520.
Cost the decision once, at your real volume
Take your monthly candle count, multiply the per-candle gap by it, and write the annual figure on the recipe card. At 200 candles a month, the 8%-to-10% step on Lavender is ₹3,770.88 a month and ₹45,250.56 a year. That is the number that should decide whether you run the test — and, if you do run it, whether the winning margin was real.
Which loads your wax and your oil allow
Before you test three loads, confirm all three are available to you, because a load is only usable if both published figures reach it: the wax's stated fragrance load and the oil page's stated candle load. The lower of the two is your working ceiling. Those are formulation figures published by the maker of each material — they describe how much oil the wax is built to hold and the rate the oil is recommended at. They are not regulatory limits, and CSI never recommends pouring above the lower of them.
Stated ceilings · CSI container waxes, September 2026
Which of 6%, 8% and 10% each wax page puts on the table
A wax with no stated load is not a wax with no limit.Eco Soy CSI 400 publishes an add temperature and a stirring time but no maximum load. That silence is not permission — it simply means the number you would normally work to is not there, so the conservative arm of the test becomes your reference. On a wax with no published ceiling, run 6% and 8% first and only add a 10% arm once the lower two have burned clean and cured well.
The oil side is just as concrete, and it is the half most makers never read. Of CSI's 107 fragrance-oil pages, 72 state a candle load and 58 of those cap it at 10% — the most common phrasings being "Up to 10% for soy wax" and "6–10% of total wax weight". Lavender states "6–10% for candles, 10–15% for wax melts". British Rose states "Soy Candles Up to 10% Of total wax weight. Cure 48–72 hours before burn testing." Fresh Strawberries is tighter still at "6–9% of total wax weight for candles" — which quietly removes the 10% arm from your test.
Read the oil page for the word "melts"
Wax-melt figures are routinely higher than candle figures on the same page — 10–15% is common, and some pages go to 12% for melts. A maker who copies the melt number into a candle is not raising their load, they are exceeding a published recommendation by accident. If a percentage looks unusually generous, check which product it belongs to before you weigh anything out. The 12% question specifically is answered in can I use 12% fragrance oil in a candle.
The nine-jar blind test that settles it
This is the part that turns an argument into an answer. Nine jars, three loads, one variable. The discipline that makes it worth doing is that you do not know which jar is which when you score it — because knowing you are holding the 10% jar is enough to make you smell more in it.
The test basket · CSI live pricing, September 2026
₹1,578.40 of materials, or ₹2,286.40 with the two instruments you keep
All nine jars must get the oil at the same temperature
Basket total
₹2,286.40
The instruments are bought once and used for every batch after
1
Write the nine recipes before you melt anythingThree jars at 6% (112.8 g wax + 7.2 g oil each), three at 8% (110.4 g + 9.6 g), three at 10% (108 g + 12 g). That is 993.6 g of wax and 86.4 g of oil in total, which is why one kilo and one 100 g bottle are the right packs. Number the jar bases 1–9 in pencil and keep the key on paper, not on the jar.
2
Melt in three small batches, not one big oneMelt 338.4 g, 331.2 g and 324 g of CSI 464 separately and add 21.6 g, 28.8 g and 36 g of Lavender to them. One pot per load stops you dosing a load twice, and it lets you pour all three jars of a load from the same well-stirred melt so they really are triplicates.
3
Hold the temperature and the stir identical across all threeCSI 464's page states melt and pour at 80–90°C; add the oil inside that band and stir a full two minutes, which is the technique the Eco Soy CSI 400 page specifies and good practice on any soy. Write down the actual reading for each pot. If the 10% pot got its oil ten degrees cooler than the 6% pot, you have tested temperature, not load — see best temperature for adding fragrance oil to soy wax.
4
Cure all nine together for 14 daysLids on, one closed carton, room temperature, out of sunlight, all poured the same evening. Two weeks is the standard practice for soy containers in this series, and it is also roughly where most soy candles stop changing week to week. Do not open the carton to "check" — you are sampling the cure every time you do.
5
Score cold throw blind, then burn blindHave someone else cover the numbers and re-letter the jars A–I. Score each on cold throw at arm's length, then burn three at a time for three hours in the same room with the windows shut, scoring at 30 and 120 minutes. Reset your nose between jars: two minutes outside, or coffee beans. Only after all nine scores are written does anyone reveal the key.
6
Average each load's three jars and apply the tie ruleThree jars per load exist so that one odd jar cannot decide a ₹3,770.88 question. Average the three. Then pick the cheapest load whose average is within one point of the best average. If 8% averages 4.1 and 10% averages 4.4, pour 8% — the gap is inside the noise of a nine-jar test and the saving is ₹1,885.44 per hundred candles.
Do not change the wick between arms. It is tempting to "give the 10% jar a thicker wick so it burns properly". The moment you do, you have run two experiments at once and can attribute the result to neither. Wick first at 8% until a jar reaches a full pool cleanly, then fix that wick and vary only the load. If the 10% arm then burns badly, that is a finding: at this load in this jar the wick needs re-testing, which is the subject of wrong wick size is killing your hot throw.
A word on how to score. Use the same five-point scale for every jar and every rater: 1 = you must put your nose in the jar, 2 = noticeable at arm's length, 3 = noticeable across a small room, 4 = fills a small room, 5 = fills a room and is noticed by someone who did not know a candle was lit. That last rung is the one customers actually pay for, and it is the only rung that is hard to fake. Note soot, mushrooming and minutes to a full melt pool alongside the scent scores, because a load that wins on smell and loses on burn has not won.
Three oils worth running the test with
Run the test on an oil you intend to sell, not on a curiosity. These three are stocked in every size from a trial bottle to a kilo, state a candle load on their pages, and between them cover the three places where the 6-versus-8-versus-10 question usually lands. Per-candle figures below are the oil only, on a 200 g candle at 8% (16 g) at 1 kg pricing.
1
Herbal floral · the reference oil for a load test
Lavender Fragrance Oil
It carries more published customer reviews than any other oil in the range, which makes it the sane choice for a test whose whole purpose is to remove doubt. Its page states a candle load of 6–10% — exactly the span of this comparison — and describes lavender top notes, herbal green mid notes and a soft musk base. One CSI customer, Akansha, writes: "Fragrance is awesome. Hot throw is also very good after burn candle." At ₹5,221 a kilo the three arms of your test cost ₹62.65, ₹83.54 and ₹104.42 of oil per 200 g candle.
Size
Price
Per kg
120g test jars @ 8%
15 gm
₹105.02
₹7,001.33
≈1
50 gm
₹270
₹5,400
≈5
100 gm
₹540
₹5,400
≈10
500 gm
₹2,620
₹5,240
≈52
1 kg
₹5,221
₹5,221
≈104
₹83.54 of oil per 200 g candle at 8%, 1 kg pricingBuy Lavender
2
Citrus · the oil where 6% can win
Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil
The cheapest kilo in the candle range at ₹2,832, and the case study for why higher is not automatically better. Its page states "Top Notes Zesty lemon, lime — sharp, bright, immediately energising", a bright grapefruit and orange heart and a tangy mandarin base, with a candle load of 6–10%. Bright top-weighted accords can read as sharp rather than strong when you push them, and at this price the whole 6%-to-10% question is worth only ₹1,859.68 per hundred candles — cheap enough that many makers simply test the top of the range and move on. Avanthi Cheeli's review reads: "Quality is good with good fragrance."
Size
Price
Per kg
120g test jars @ 8%
15 gm
₹81.42
₹5,428
≈1
50 gm
₹170
₹3,400
≈5
100 gm
₹300
₹3,000
≈10
500 gm
₹1,420
₹2,840
≈52
1 kg
₹2,832
₹2,832
≈104
₹45.31 of oil per 200 g candle at 8%, 1 kg pricingBuy Citrus Lemon
3
Gourmand · the oil where the test pays for itself
Dark Vanilla Fragrance
At ₹7,646 a kilo this is where load discipline turns into margin. The 6%-to-10% gap here is ₹5,710.88 per hundred candles — more than three times the cost of the nine-jar test — so this is the oil to test properly rather than default upward on. Its page states a candle load of 6–10% and answers its own discolouration question with a plain yes, so plan for a warm-toned candle or a coloured vessel rather than expecting a white one. One reviewer calls it "One of the best fragrance oils".
Size
Price
Per kg
120g test jars @ 8%
15 gm
₹130
₹8,666.67
≈1
50 gm
₹410
₹8,200
≈5
100 gm
₹790
₹7,900
≈10
500 gm
₹3,840
₹7,680
≈52
1 kg
₹7,646
₹7,646
≈104
₹122.34 of oil per 200 g candle at 8%, 1 kg pricingBuy Dark Vanilla
Priced above: per-candle oil cost = 1 kg price ÷ 1,000 × 16 g. Lavender ₹5,221/kg → ₹83.54 · Citrus Lemon ₹2,832/kg → ₹45.31 · Dark Vanilla ₹7,646/kg → ₹122.34. At 6% multiply by 12 g instead, at 10% by 20 g. Pack prices for every size are in the tables above, and the full 1 kg price ladder across the range is in candle fragrance oil 1 kg price in India.
The CSI principle
A load is not better because it is higher. It is better because it won, and only a blind test can tell you that it did.
Every maker who has ever raised their load and felt an improvement was also holding a candle they had cured for two more weeks than the last one. Nine jars, three loads, one day of scoring — and you never have to have this argument again.
Once the test has named your load, the order gets simple: one wax, one wick size, and a 500 g or 1 kg bottle of the scent that won. Working back from Diwali on 8 November 2026, a fortnight of cure means committing by mid-October. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled on WhatsApp.
A test is only useful if you have decided in advance how you will read it. Write these three rules on the score sheet before you burn anything, because deciding afterwards is how makers talk themselves into the expensive arm.
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The tie rulePour the cheapest load whose average score is within one point of the best. A one-point margin over three jars is not a reliable difference, and paying ₹1,885.44 per hundred candles for it is buying noise.
2
The burn vetoAny load whose jars soot, mushroom or fail to reach a full pool in three hours is out, whatever it scored on scent. A candle that smells wonderful and burns badly generates returns, not reorders.
3
The one-oil ruleThe answer belongs to that oil in that wax in that jar. It does not transfer. A woody oil, a coconut-soy wax or a 300 g vessel is a new question — a cheaper one, because you already own the scale, the thermometer and the method.
What most makers do with the answer is the interesting part. If 8% wins or ties, you have a default for your whole range and a documented reason for it, which is worth more than the rupees. If 10% wins clearly, you have learned something specific about that oil and you should expect to re-test the wick, because more oil in the pool changes the burn. And if 6% wins — which happens more often than makers expect on citrus, mint and light florals — you have just found a saving of ₹3,770.88 per hundred candles that also makes the candle better. That is the only kind of cost reduction worth having.
One test, one scent — but the method scales. Running this on four scents sounds like four times the work. It is not: the wax, the jars, the wicks and the instruments are shared, and only the oil changes. Four scents at nine jars each is 36 jars, about 4 kg of wax and roughly 350 g of oil — and it produces a load table for your entire range. That is the same exercise a manufacturer runs before a 1,000-candle production run, described in maximum vs best-performing fragrance load.
The right load is not the highest one your wax permits. It is the lowest one nobody can tell apart from the highest.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient version of this page would tell every maker to pour 10%, because we sell the oil and the difference is ₹4,176.80 of Lavender per hundred candles. Instead the page gives you a tie rule designed to send you to the lowest load you can get away with. A maker whose candles perform and whose costs work keeps ordering; a maker who overspends on oil they cannot smell does not.
Every price, pack and specification quoted here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which always takes precedence. Fragrance loads are quoted only where the page states them — "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464, "up to 13%" and an "8% to 13% of total wax weight" range with 10% recommended for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, "Up to 13%" for Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468, nothing stated for Eco Soy CSI 400. These are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Candle-load figures for oils are quoted verbatim from their own pages. We describe test protocols for you to run; we publish no burn-test results of our own.
For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, or MSDS and IFRA documentation on a specific oil, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Is 10% fragrance load better than 8%?
It puts 25% more oil in the candle — 20 g instead of 16 g on a 200 g candle — and costs ₹1,885.44 more per hundred candles in CSI 464 with Lavender. Whether that reads as stronger depends on the oil, the cure and the wick. On base-heavy woody and gourmand accords it often does; on sharp citrus it often does not. Run three jars at each and score them blind at day 14. And check your wax: CSI 464 states up to 10%, so 10% is its stated maximum, not a step on the way up.
How much fragrance oil is 8% in a 200 g candle?
16 g of oil and 184 g of wax, calculated as a share of the finished candle. At 6% it is 12 g and 188 g; at 10%, 20 g and 180 g. If your wax page words its range as a share of wax weight instead — as the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page does — then 8% of 184 g of wax is 14.72 g, a slightly lower dose. Choose one convention and write it on the recipe card. Weigh both components; do not measure oil by volume.
Can I use 6% fragrance load and still have a candle that sells?
Yes, particularly with bright citrus, mint, eucalyptus and light florals, in small rooms and small vessels. 6% is 12 g in a 200 g candle and saves ₹3,770.88 per hundred candles against 10% on Lavender. What it cannot survive is a short cure or an undersized wick, because it has less margin for error. Check that your oil page allows it — most CSI pages that state a range start at 6%, and Fresh Strawberries states 6–9%.
Which fragrance load should a beginner start with?
8%, on a wax that publishes a load range. It sits inside every stated band CSI lists, it is the convention this series costs everything at, and it leaves you room to move either way after a burn test. Start with CSI 464 at ₹507.40 a kilo or Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599, one 100 g bottle of oil, and one wick size. Then run the nine-jar test once your wick is settled.
Does a higher fragrance load make a candle burn differently?
It can, which is why the burn veto matters. More oil in the wax changes what the wick is drawing up and how the pool behaves, so a wick that is correct at 6% is not automatically correct at 10%. Symptoms to watch for at the top of a range are a flame that struggles, mushrooming, soot, or a pool that never reaches the glass. Wick-test at your chosen load, not at a different one — the mechanics are in wick sizing and fragrance load.
How much does it cost to test 6%, 8% and 10% properly?
₹1,578.40 of materials for nine 120 g jars: CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40, Lavender 100 gm ₹540, ten Amber jars ₹472 and ten Thin (C1) Eco Wicks ₹59. Add a ₹354 scale and a ₹354 thermometer the first time for ₹2,286.40. Set that against the ₹3,770.88 a hundred candles that the 6%-versus-10% choice is worth, and the test pays for itself on the first batch.
Stop arguing, start scoring
Nine jars. Three loads. One wick. ₹1,578.40 for an answer that belongs to your workshop.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40 a kilo with a stated 10% load, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599 with a stated 8–13% range, Lavender Fragrance Oil from ₹105.02 for 15 g to ₹5,221 a kilo, Citrus Lemon from ₹81.42, Amber 120 gm jars at ₹47.20 each and Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for ten. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation once the test has picked your load.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the gram arithmetic, the nine-jar blind protocol, the five-point scale and the tie rule apply to any supplier's materials. The test described here is a protocol for you to run — CSI publishes no burn-test results of its own.
Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; wording is unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Load is calculated as a share of the finished candle (200 g at 8% = 184 g wax + 16 g oil); where a page words its range as a share of total wax weight, that is noted in the text. Wax prices: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹0.5074/g), Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 1 kg ₹650, Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399. Oil prices at 1 kg: Citrus Lemon ₹2,832, Sandalwood ₹5,026.80, Lavender ₹5,221, Dark Vanilla ₹7,646; Lavender 100 gm ₹540 and 15 gm ₹105.02, Citrus Lemon 15 gm ₹81.42. Other basket items: Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid (stated 120 gm capacity, 6 cm diameter, 6.5 cm height) pack of 5 ₹236, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 for ₹59, Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354, Pen Thermometer ₹354. Per-100-candle totals: wax grams × 100 × per-gram wax price plus oil grams × 100 × per-gram oil price — at 6% ₹9,539.12 + ₹6,265.20 = ₹15,804.32; at 8% ₹9,336.16 + ₹8,353.60 = ₹17,689.76; at 10% ₹9,133.20 + ₹10,442 = ₹19,575.20. Stated specifications as published on product pages: CSI 464 "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", melt and pour 80–90°C; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13% (8–13% of total wax weight, 10% recommended), add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C; CSI 468 up to 13%, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir 2 minutes, no load stated. Oil-page candle loads quoted verbatim: Lavender "6-10% for candles, 10-15% for wax melts"; Citrus Lemon "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48-72 hours"; British Rose "Soy Candles Up to 10% Of total wax weight. Cure 48-72 hours before burn testing."; Fresh Strawberries "6-9% of total wax weight for candles". Counts of pages stating a candle load are taken from the 107 CSI fragrance-oil product pages as published in September 2026; 92 oils list a 100 g pack in stock, from ₹300. Fragrance loads on wax pages are formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Cure of 14 days reflects standard practice for soy container candles. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
