Bulk Fragrance Oils for Scented Tealight Production

Oil and wax for 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000

Everything on this page follows from two numbers: the fill weight of your tealight and the load. We use illustrative fills of 12 g and 15 g — no tealight cup is listed by CSI, so there is no published cup size to use — and 8% as the working load, inside both published ceilings (13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, 10% for CSI 464). Oil is fill × load; wax is the rest. The table adds the 3–5% allowance most makers plan for pour loss and test burns, which is a working assumption, not a measured figure.

Two things in the table matter more than they look. The fill column: moving from 12 g to 15 g adds a quarter to both oil and wax, so a supplier's cup that holds a little more than you assumed will quietly under-order your run. Weigh ten filled cups and take the average before you order anything. The allowance columns: on 10,000 tealights, the gap between 3% and 5% is 192 g of oil. That is a 100 g bottle and more — enough to be worth deciding on purpose rather than by accident.

Turning grams into a pack order

CSI lists oil up to 1 kg, so a bulk run is built from 1 kg, 500 g and 100 g packs. The cheapest combination is not always "all kilos", because some oils price their 500 g at or below half their 1 kg. The table below finds the cheapest listed combination (100 g and up) covering each run at 12 g, 8%, with the 5% allowance, for three oils with different price shapes.

Three price shapes show up. Jasmine is cheapest in 500 g packs: two cost ₹3,922.00 against ₹3,923.00 for the 1 kg, so the order is built from half-kilos. Fallen Leaves and Cucumber Green Tea price their 500 g and 1 kg at the same per-gram rate, so the kilo simply means fewer bottles. All three have a real bulk saving against their own 100 g — 8.8% for Jasmine, 10.0% for Fallen Leaves and 5.7% for Cucumber Green Tea — which is why the per-tealight figure falls as the run grows and the 100 g top-up becomes a smaller share of the order.

Beyond the listed packs — a standing order of several kilos a month, or one run that needs more than a shelf of 1 kg bottles — ask for a quote. No discount figure is published, and on most oils the listed kilo is already priced flat against the 100 g, so the quote is about supply and consistency as much as rate. Wholesale fragrance oils for tealight manufacturers lists the 24 oils whose kilo genuinely costs less and explains what to put in the quote request.

Wax for the run

At 12 g and 8%, each tealight holds 11.04 g of wax. With the 5% allowance that is 11.59 kg per 1,000 tealights. CSI lists three waxes in bulk bags that suit a small container; the table prices the cheapest bag combination (1 kg and up) for each run. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and CSI 464 are priced flat per kilo at every bag size, while Natural Soy Pearl Wax drops from ₹450.00 a kilo at 1 kg to ₹424.80 from 5 kg — the only bulk break in the wax range. One quirk: the Chunks 10 kg bag is ₹599.90 a kilo against ₹599.00 for the 5 kg, so the cheapest Chunks order is built from 5 kg bags.

The price gap is real — on 10,000 tealights, ₹20,182.00 between Chunks and Soy Pearl — but price is not the first question. The two soy container waxes are the only ones with a published fragrance ceiling: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13%, CSI 464 up to 10%. For Natural Soy Pearl Wax, no ceiling is in our data: check the product page or ask on WhatsApp for the wax maker's stated maximum, and run your 8% pour as a test before committing 50 kg to it. Whichever wax you choose, burn-test it in your cups with your wicks first.

Splitting a run across scents

Few bulk tealight runs are one scent. A festive or gifting order of 10,000 might be four scents of 2,500 each. Splitting changes the order in two ways: each scent needs its own allowance, and smaller quantities per oil push more of the order into 100 g top-ups. Here is 10,000 12 g tealights split four ways at 8% with 5% allowance:

The four-scent run costs ₹43,068.50 in oil against ₹33,628.82 for 10,000 in Cucumber Green Tea alone. Most of that gap is the choice of scents, not the split: Sandalwood is ₹5.03 a gram at every size from 100 g, and it has no bulk break to lean on. That is a business decision, not a mistake — festive buyers commonly expect a woody or floral option — but it is worth seeing the number before you commit. The tealight shortlist covers which families suit which occasions, and how much fragrance oil to buy for Diwali production covers the festive planning side.

Running a bulk batch without waste

The oil order is only right if the production run matches it. These steps keep the grams you bought in the tealights you sell.

A bulk order is the last step, not the first. The oil in it should already have passed a side-by-side tealight test, been bought small via Buy Fragrance Oils for Tealight Candle Making while it proved itself, and belong to a family that suits the format — which fragrances work best in small candles sets out that reasoning.

Here are the three oils used in this page's orders, with every listed size, so you can re-cost the run at your own quantities.

For the single-question version of this page, I'm Producing 1,000 Scented Tealights — How Much Fragrance Oil Should I Order? answers the 1,000-tealight case directly. For where to source every component of a commercial run, see Where to Buy Fragrance Oils for Commercial Tealight and Votive Production, and for the votive equivalent, where CSI does list containers, see Buy Fragrance Oils for Votive Candle Making.

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