Buy 1 Kg Fragrance Oil for Soy Candle Making

Candles per kilo

The formula is candles per kg = 1,000 ÷ (candle weight × load). It depends on two things you control: the size of your candle and your load. The table covers the common soy sizes at 6%, 8% and 10%. All three loads sit inside the published ceilings of both CSI 464 (up to 10%) and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (up to 13%).

Plan 3–5% extra for pour loss and test burns. This is a working assumption, so measure your own over a few batches. At 8% in 200 g candles, a kilo realistically fills about 60 candles, leaving 40 g for losses. At 10%, you get 50 candles before loss, 48 after. The 85 g Golden Aluminium Tin row shows why tin and small-format makers reach the kilo sooner than they expect to need it: at 8%, one kilo is 147 tins.

The 24 kilos that cost less

Across the 91 oils that list both a 100 g and a 1 kg, only 24 are 5% or more cheaper per gram at 1 kg. Here they are, in order of saving, with the 1 kg stock status on 24 September 2026 and the oil cost of a 200 g soy candle at 8% at the kilo rate. Five of the 24 had no 1 kg in stock on the pull date and are marked. Do not plan around them until they are restocked.

Read the list for what it says about range planning. Citronella's 62.3% is the outlier. Its 100 g is priced high (₹7.67 a gram) and its kilo low (₹2.89). Fresh, fruity and festive-spice oils dominate the rest: Honeydew Melon, Mango Coconut, Verbena, Roasted Coconut, Eucalyptus Spearmint, Lemongrass and Lime, and the Cinnamon, Pumpkin Spice and Fallen Leaves group at 10.0%. If two oils could do the same job in your soy range, and one is on this list, the one on the list is the cheaper scent to grow.

Kilos out of stock

Seventy-three oils were in stock at 1 kg on the pull date. 19 oils list a 1 kg that was not: Vetiver, Rajnigandha (Tuberose), Freshwater (BBW Inspired), Moca Coffee, Into The Night (BBW Inspired), Dahlia (BBW Inspired), Sacred Sandal Ember, Spiced Rum, Khamrah (Lattafa Inspired), Coffee Blast, Grapefruit Oleo, Butterfly (BBW Inspired), Baccarat Rouge 540 Inspired, Ombre Leather (Tom Ford Inspired), Regal Royal Oud, Frankincense and Tonka (1 kg), Wild Berry, Acqua Di Gio Inspired, Spicy Raspberry (second listing). Some of these have smaller sizes in stock. Vetiver, for example, is buyable up to 500 g (₹2,900.00, ₹5.80 a gram), and Freshwater (BBW Inspired) up to 100 g. Others have nothing in stock at any size.

For a soy maker this has one practical consequence. Do not make an oil your bestseller unless its production size is in stock, or unless you have asked for and received a restock date. A kilo that is out of stock in October is a problem in November, with Diwali on 8 November and the November–February wedding season behind it. Check the live product page before every order. Stock changes, and the page is always authoritative.

When a kilo pays

The first reason is on the list above. The second depends on how fast you use a scent. The table shows how long one kilo lasts at different monthly volumes of 200 g candles at 8%.

Wax to match a kilo

A kilo of oil implies a lot of wax, and many makers under-order it. At load L, wax = oil × (100 − L) ÷ L. The table gives the wax, its cost in both container soy waxes and the 200 g candles it makes, for one kilo of oil at each load.

At 13%, only Luxury Soy Wax Chunks apply, because CSI 464 is rated up to 10%. For Natural Soy Pearl (₹424.80 a kilo from 5 kg) no ceiling is quoted here, so check the product page before planning above 10%. The point of the table: one kilo of oil at 8% commits you to about 11.5 kg of wax, ₹5,835.10 in CSI 464, before jars and wicks. Budget both together. Bulk planning for soy manufacturers scales this to 1,000-candle runs.

A three-kilo order

Here is a worked kilo order that shows both reasons. Two kilos are on the saving list (Mango Coconut and Roasted Coconut), and one is flat-priced but a proven festive seller (Apple Cinnamon). Each kilo pours 60 candles of 200 g at 8%, 960 g, leaving 40 g (4.2%) for pour loss. That is 180 candles in all, 33.12 kg of wax, so 35 kg of CSI 464 in three 10 kg bags and one 5 kg bag.

Material cost covers oil, wax, wick and jar. It excludes labour, packaging, freight and GST. The two coconut kilos save ₹1,987.00 between them against 100 g bottles. The Apple Cinnamon kilo saves nothing and is there only because the scent sells steadily through the festive months. Roasted Coconut has no 500 g size, so the kilo is the only way to get its lower rate.

Oil and wax prices are CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026. Jar and wick prices were verified on 10 September 2026. Delivery and GST are not included. Carry-over: 40 g of each oil before losses, about 0.56 kg of CSI 464 after a 4% allowance, and 20 wicks. If you pour in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks instead, seven 5 kg bags (₹20,965.00) replace the CSI 464 lines.

Related reading: buying oils for soy for every size, soy at 6–8% for load costs, and Buy 1 Kg Fragrance Oil for Container Candle Production and Buy 1 Kg Fragrance Oil for Commercial Wax Melt Making for kilos in container and wax-melt production.

Before any kilo: the soy hub to choose the scent, strong oils for soy to find its load, and the soy supplier checklist to make sure the kilo comes with its MSDS and IFRA certificate.

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