Does Pouring Temperature Affect Candle Glass Adhesion?
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CSI 464 flakes from ₹260 / 500g · Eco Soy CSI 400 from ₹399 / 1kgPen thermometer ₹354Stocked in India · ships nationwide
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Pour hot and the wax shrinks off the glass. Pour cool and it never grabs it. The band exists because both failures sit either side of it.
★★★★★
"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
ThenirvaofficialVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Soy CSI 400
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★★
"So I live in a very cold region and it was becoming very difficult for me to maintain the temperature. My temperature would drop within seconds… the wax stays warm for a longer time in the melter…"
Arzoo VyasApr 2026
Mini Electric Wax Melter
★★★★★
"It has made my candle making journey so much easier. I used to double boil and was thinking of quitting due to the complexity of it and the time it took."
Tanya WaliaVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Mini Electric Wax Melter
★★★★★
"The jars were of good quality"
Soumili GopeVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid
★★★★★
"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
ThenirvaofficialVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Soy CSI 400
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★★
"So I live in a very cold region and it was becoming very difficult for me to maintain the temperature. My temperature would drop within seconds… the wax stays warm for a longer time in the melter…"
Arzoo VyasApr 2026
Mini Electric Wax Melter
★★★★★
"It has made my candle making journey so much easier. I used to double boil and was thinking of quitting due to the complexity of it and the time it took."
Tanya WaliaVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Mini Electric Wax Melter
★★★★★
"The jars were of good quality"
Soumili GopeVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. They are general reviews of the wax, melter and jars named on each card, not of the pour-temperature method described below. One longer review is shortened with an ellipsis; wording is otherwise unedited.
✓ Published melt and pour bands where the wax maker states them✓ 80 containers in the jar collection✓ GST invoicing · MSDS on request
Candle Troubleshooting · Glass Adhesion
Yes — and it pulls in two directions at once. A hot pour wets the glass and then contracts away from it. A cool pour contracts less and never bonds at all. This page is about the strip between those two failures, and how to find yours in six jars.
80–90°C
the band CSI publishes for melt and pour on CSI 464, and for fragrance addition on Eco Soy CSI 400 · six-jar test costs ₹1,069.08 in consumables · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Does pour temperature affect glass adhesion? Yes, and in two opposing ways. Hotter wax wets the glass better but shrinks more on the way down, peeling back off. Cooler wax shrinks less but is too viscous to wet the surface at all. Adhesion is best in the middle.
What should I pour at? The band published for your wax. CSI 464: melt and pour at 80–90°C. Eco Soy CSI 400: fragrance added at 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring. No pour figure is published for any other wax on the store — ask, do not borrow.
Why does the same advice fail for other makers? Because pour temperature only matters relative to jar temperature. An 85°C pour into a cold December jar behaves like a far hotter one. The differential is the variable.
Cheapest fix? A pen thermometer at ₹354. It beats every adhesion additive sold anywhere, and we do not sell one.
The short answer
Yes — but not in a straight line. Adhesion rises with pour temperature up to a point, then falls again. Too cool is a wetting failure; too hot is a contraction failure. Wax pulling away from the glass is what the hot end looks like in the jar.
The published band: 80–90°C for melt and pour on CSI 464, and 80–90°C for fragrance addition with two minutes of stirring on Eco Soy CSI 400. No published pour figure exists for the other CSI waxes.
Adhesion is not a "hotter is better" variable. Wetting improves as the wax gets hotter; contraction worsens as it has further to cool. The two effects cross, and the crossing point is the band. The shaded strip is the 80–90°C figure published for CSI 464 and Eco Soy CSI 400.
Does pouring temperature affect candle glass adhesion?
Yes, and it is one of the few variables that decide it — but not the way most makers assume, because it pulls in two directions at once. Hot wax is thin, so it flows into the microscopic texture of the glass: good wetting, the first requirement of any bond. Hot wax also has further to fall before it is solid, and soy contracts as it cools, pulling inward away from the surface it just wetted. Pour cool and the problem inverts — less contraction, but wax stiff enough that it sets against the glass rather than into it, so there was never much bond to lose. The band exists because both failures sit either side of it. That is why poor glass adhesion has more than one cause, why wax pulling away and wet spots turn up in one batch, and why the internet contradicts itself here. CSI publishes 80–90°C for melt and pour on CSI 464, and the same band for fragrance addition on Eco Soy CSI 400. Find your point inside it with six jars, then stop moving it.
One line: adhesion is an inverted U against pour temperature — cool pours fail to wet the glass, hot pours wet it and then shrink off it. Find the top of the curve inside the published 80–90°C band and write it into the recipe.
You cannot tune a variable you are not measuring. A Pen Thermometer at ₹354 and a Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354 are the whole equipment list for this page.
Every other variable in candle making has a direction. This one has two, and they point at each other.
For wax to stick, molten wax has to flow into the microscopic roughness of the glass rather than bridge over it. That is wetting, and it improves as the wax gets hotter and thinner. On that argument alone you should pour as hot as the wax tolerates.
Then the second mechanism arrives. Soy occupies less volume solid than liquid and gives that volume up while cooling, so the further the wax has to cool, the more it contracts. Some of that shrinkage comes out of the top, which is why dishing travels with hot pours. Some comes out of the sides, and that is what peels a freshly bonded film off the glass. On that argument alone you should pour as cool as you can.
Which failure you have, in one observation. A too-cool pour looks patchy almost immediately — the wax set against the glass, not into it. A too-hot pour looks perfect for an hour, then develops pale patches and lifted edges overnight as contraction finishes. Bad at twenty-four hours but fine at one means the hot side; bad immediately means the cool side.
It also explains the contradictory advice. A maker in Chennai drops ten degrees, fixes their jars and posts "pour cooler". A maker in Shimla raises ten and posts "pour hotter". Both are right about their own bench; neither is describing a rule. The general fault is diagnosed in why does my candle have poor glass adhesion; this page covers only the temperature variable inside it.
Adhesion is cosmetic, not a safety fault
Wax that has pulled away burns as well as wax that has not; what it damages is the photograph. Price the fix as presentation, not safety — how to price candles in India in 2026.
The published band, and the waxes with no published band
CSI publishes temperature guidance for two waxes. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes) states melt and pour at 80–90°C — a pour figure, and the one to work to. Eco Soy CSI 400 states fragrance addition at 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring — an addition figure. The two are a few degrees apart in practice, but they are not the same instruction.
Said plainly: for every other wax on the store, CSI publishes no pour temperature. That includes Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468, Soy Pillar Wax, Natural Soy Pearl Wax, the beeswax and the paraffins. We will not invent numbers for them, and you should distrust any page that does. Message +91 7397976926 and we will tell you what the manufacturer states — or that nothing is stated and you need to bracket it with the six-jar method below.
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The one with a published pour band
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes)
Solve adhesion on this wax, for the unglamorous reason that it is the one with a stated 80–90°C melt-and-pour band: you tune inside a published range instead of guessing at one.
Size
Price
Per kg
200g jars filled
500g
₹260.00
₹520.00
≈2
1kg
₹507.40
₹507.40
≈5
5kg
₹2,537.00
₹507.40
≈25
10kg
₹5,074.00
₹507.40
≈50
₹101.48 of wax in a 200g jar at 1kg pricingBuy CSI 464
2
Published addition band · cheapest soy per kg
Eco Soy CSI 400
The cheapest soy per kilogram at ₹399.00, and the second wax with a published figure. Read it as a constraint on the pour too: add fragrance at 85°C, spend six minutes centring wicks, and the number you actually poured at is not 85°C — your recipe sheet is fiction.
Priced above:CSI 464 ₹260 / 500g to ₹5,074 / 10kg (₹507.40/kg) · Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 / 1kg and ₹1,996 / 5kg · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500g · Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500g. Only the first two carry a published 80–90°C figure. CSI live pricing, September 2026; the product page is authoritative.
Pour temperature and jar temperature are one variable
A hot pour into a cold jar is worse than a moderate pour into a warm one. The number on your thermometer is half the measurement.
Consider the first two seconds after the wax touches the glass. A cold jar is a heat sink pressed against the exact film that should be wetting it. That contact layer chills, stiffens and stops flowing into the surface, while the wax a few millimetres inward is still molten and will contract for another hour. You have manufactured both failures at once: a poorly wetted skin, and a large contraction behind it pulling on that skin.
Warm the jar and the same pour behaves differently. The contact layer stays fluid a few seconds longer, wets properly, and the whole mass then cools as one thing at one rate. Contraction still happens; it just pulls evenly on a bond that had time to form. This is why the differential matters more than the absolute. The sibling page on whether preheating candle jars improves glass adhesion owns the how; this page insists only that you cannot tune one without knowing the other.
Why online advice contradicts itself
The same pour temperature, four different benches
Bench
Pour
Jar as it sat
What the maker concludes
Coastal summer, warm workshop
Top of the band
Warm already — small differential
"Pour hot, works every time." True on that bench
North Indian winter, unheated room
Top of the band
Cold — large differential
"Pouring hot ruins adhesion." Also true on that bench
Air-conditioned studio, 22°C
Bottom of the band
Cool and stable
"Pour cool, never had a problem" — until the AC is off
Same studio, AC off, 34°C day
Bottom of the band
Warm
Same recipe, different result, no explanation
Two consequences. Record room temperature and jar state beside the pour figure, or the recipe is not repeatable. And treat a season change as a reason to re-run the test: a recipe that held in August drifts in December because the jars are colder, not because the wax changed — rule the wax in or out with how to verify wax quality before you buy.
The CSI principle
There is no correct pour temperature. There is a correct temperature difference between your wax and your glass, and the pour figure is only half of it.
Which is why copying a number off someone else's blog fails about half the time, and why the six jars below are worth one evening.
The six-jar test: three temperatures × two jar states
The whole method. Three pour temperatures across the published band, each poured into one unwarmed jar and one warmed jar. Six jars, one evening, one wax, one fragrance, one jar model, one wick. A test with two variables answers one question; a test with five answers none.
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Set the three temperatures before you melt anythingOn CSI 464, take the bottom, middle and top of the band — 82°C, 86°C and 90°C. On a wax with no published band, bracket wider and expect one repeat. Deciding mid-pour is how a test turns into a batch.
2
Label six identical jars A to FOne model, one diameter, one colour. Six White Matte Glass Jars at ₹70.80 each work well, because matte does not disguise a flaw; the pack of 10 at ₹708 leaves four spare. A, C and E stay unwarmed; B, D and F are warmed exactly as the jar preheating guide describes.
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Melt once, pour in three passesMelt about 1.2 kg together so every jar comes from one melt. Add fragrance, stir the full two minutes with a bamboo stirring stick, then pour A and B at 90°C, C and D at 86°C, E and F at 82°C. Read the thermometer as the wax leaves the jug. On a 600 ml Steel Pouring Pitcher at ₹708 or a Candle Wax Pouring Jug at ₹531, two jars is all you get before the reading moves off.
4
Cool all six identicallySame surface, same shelf, same spacing, no draught, no fan, no fridge, lids off. Different cooling rates will swamp the effect you are measuring, and moving a jar while it sets is itself a cause of flaws.
5
Inspect at 48 hours and again at day 7Two readings, because the fault develops. At 48 hours the wax has done most of its contracting; by day 7 any late lifting has shown itself. Score each jar out of five for wall contact, note where the flaws sit — base, mid-wall, under the rim — and photograph all six in the same light, side by side.
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Write the winning combination into the recipeNot into your head. Into the written recipe for that scent, beside the wax, load, wick and jar. "Pour at 86°C into a warmed jar" is a specification and belongs with the others.
Record sheet · copy this table to the bench
Six jars, two inspections, one decision
Jar
Pour temp
Jar state
Room temp
48 hr — wall contact /5
Day 7 — wall contact /5
Where the flaws sit
A
90°C
Unwarmed
____ °C
___ / 5
___ / 5
____________
B
90°C
Warmed
____ °C
___ / 5
___ / 5
____________
C
86°C
Unwarmed
____ °C
___ / 5
___ / 5
____________
D
86°C
Warmed
____ °C
___ / 5
___ / 5
____________
E
82°C
Unwarmed
____ °C
___ / 5
___ / 5
____________
F
82°C
Warmed
____ °C
___ / 5
___ / 5
____________
What the test costs
Six White Matte Glass Jars at ₹70.80 = ₹424.80 · 1.2 kg of CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg = ₹608.88 · six Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 = ₹35.40. Consumables ₹1,069.08, plus a pen thermometer at ₹354 once. The six jars are sellable afterwards, so this is a test that produces stock rather than scrap.
Read the results as a ranking, not a verdict. If D beats C and B beats A, warming helps at your bench. If every warmed jar wins and the temperature gaps are small, jar state is dominant and pour temperature a fine-tune. If C and D beat everything, the middle of the band is your answer. If all six are poor, temperature is not the cause — go back to the general adhesion diagnosis.
Testing a wax with no published band, or scaling before Diwali on 8 November 2026? Send us the wax and the jar and we will tell you what the manufacturer states — including where nothing is stated. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS on request.
You measured 86°C. Jar one got 86°C. Jar fifty got nothing close.
This is the failure that survives a perfect test. You find your number, write it into the recipe, and on a fifty-jar day the last third comes out flawed anyway. Nothing is wrong with the recipe. The jug was cooling the whole time you poured — faster once half empty, with less mass holding heat and more exposed steel. Add wick centring and interruptions, and jar forty took wax several degrees cooler than jar one. A fifty-jar run at 200g is 10 kg of wax and roughly twenty refills of a 600 ml pitcher: twenty chances to miss your recipe.
Sub-batches, the free option. Pour in lots of eight to ten jars rather than fifty, checking the thermometer at the start of each lot and again halfway. It costs nothing but adds melting cycles, and it is the right answer below roughly a hundred jars a week.
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Equipment that holds the number
Wax melters, priced
A thermostatted melter removes batch drift as a category: the wax holds at a set temperature until you draw it off. A remade 200g candle in CSI 464 costs ₹101.48 in wax, ₹70.80 for a fresh jar and ₹5.90 for a wick — ₹178.18 before fragrance, packaging or your time, so the break-even is closer than makers expect.
Melter
Capacity
Price
Break-even in remakes avoided
Mini Electric Wax Melter
1 litre
₹2,360.00
≈13 candles
WAX MELTER (Imported)
10 kg
₹21,240.00
≈119 candles
Electric Wax Melter
20 litres
₹23,600.00
≈132 candles
WAX MELTER (Imported)
20 kg
₹25,960.00
≈146 candles
Start at the ₹2,360 mini melter unless you are already past a hundred jars a weekBuy the mini melter
Do not read that table as a push toward the 20-litre unit. Buy the ₹2,360 one, or buy nothing and pour in sub-batches. A ₹23,600 melter is sensible past several hundred jars a week and a poor purchase for someone whose problem a ₹354 thermometer would solve. Weighing volume against machine: scaling to 1,000 orders a month and is candle making actually profitable in India in 2026.
What else moves when you move the pour temperature
Adhesion is not the only thing on this dial, which is why you change it deliberately and once. Surface finish: pour temperature sets how evenly the top settles and how the wall reads through the glass — the same family as wet spots in candle jars, prevented in how to prevent wet spots in container candles. Sinkholes: hotter pours contract more, and some of it goes downward into a cavity instead of sideways off the glass — see does pouring temperature cause candle sinkholes, with a Hot Air Gun at ₹531 for the repair. Fragrance retention: the hotter the wax when the oil goes in, the more top notes leave before the jar is filled — which is why Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies 80–90°C rather than "as hot as possible", and why the 92 fragrance oils want a controlled bench. Tune the three together, then stop.
A ₹354 thermometer will do more for your glass adhesion than any additive ever sold for the purpose — and we do not sell one.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
That is the argument against our own interest, stated flatly. There is a healthy trade in bottles promising better container adhesion. CSI does not stock an adhesion additive and is not planning to, because the fault is a temperature-differential and cooling-rate problem, and nothing dissolved into the melt changes either. The pen thermometer at ₹354, the weighing scale at ₹354 and one evening of six jars beat anything you can pour in — the rest is method, and method is free. Full bench list: the complete candle making raw material list.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The convenient thing here would be to name a precise figure for every wax we sell. We have not, because the manufacturer states a band for two of them and nothing for the rest. Inventing the others would sell wax today and cost us the customer by March.
Every price here is live CSI stock, marked CSI live pricing, September 2026, and links to the product page, where current pricing takes precedence. The 80–90°C figures are the published guidance for CSI 464 (melt and pour) and Eco Soy CSI 400 (fragrance addition with two minutes of stirring) — formulation guidance, not regulatory limits, and not transferable to other waxes.
The six-jar protocol, the record sheet and the inverted-U model apply to any supplier's wax. For a published band on a wax not named here, or for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS documentation, message us at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Does pouring temperature affect candle glass adhesion?
Yes, in two opposing ways at once. Hotter wax is thinner and wets the glass better; it also has further to cool and contracts more, pulling the set wax back off. Adhesion peaks in the middle and falls at both ends. On Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 the published band is 80–90°C; your best point sits inside it.
Should I pour hotter or cooler to stop wax pulling away from the glass?
Look at when the fault appears. Good at one hour, pale patches by morning means the hot side: the wax wetted the glass then contracted off it, so come down a few degrees. Patchy immediately means the cool side: it never wetted, so go up. The mechanism is in why does candle wax pull away from the glass.
What pour temperature does CSI publish for its waxes?
Two figures, both 80–90°C: melt and pour for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes), and fragrance addition with two minutes of stirring for Eco Soy CSI 400. For the other waxes — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468, Soy Pillar Wax, Natural Soy Pearl Wax, the beeswax and the paraffins — no pour temperature is published. Ask at +91 7397976926 rather than borrowing a figure from a different wax.
Does warming the jar matter more than the pour temperature?
Often, yes — what the wax experiences is the difference between its temperature and the glass. A hot pour into a cold jar is worse than a moderate pour into a warm one: the contact layer chills before it can wet the surface while the core goes on contracting. Run both together in the six-jar test above; the full method is in does preheating candle jars improve glass adhesion.
Why do the first jars in my batch look better than the last ones?
Because the jug cooled while you poured, faster as it emptied, so jar forty went in several degrees below jar one. Fix it with sub-batches of eight to ten jars, or a thermostatted melter — the Mini Electric Wax Melter at ₹2,360 pays for itself at roughly thirteen avoided remakes, at ₹178.18 each.
Is there an additive that improves glass adhesion?
Not one we stock. Poor adhesion is a wetting and contraction problem, driven by the wax-to-glass temperature difference and the cooling rate, and nothing dissolved into the melt changes either. A pen thermometer at ₹354 and one evening of six jars will outperform any additive on the market. That is not a sales line — we do not sell the alternative.
Find your number, then stop moving it
Three temperatures. Two jar states. Six jars. One line in the recipe.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260/500g with a published 80–90°C melt-and-pour band, Eco Soy CSI 400 from ₹399/1kg, White Matte Glass Jars at ₹70.80 each, Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10, a pen thermometer at ₹354 and a 1-litre melter at ₹2,360. Message us for bulk pricing and GST invoicing — or just to ask what band is published for the wax you own.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the inverted-U model, the six-jar protocol and the record sheet apply to any supplier's wax. Glass adhesion is a cosmetic fault, not a safety fault.
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. They are general reviews of the wax, melter and jars named on each card — none of them is a review of the pour-temperature method described here. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; the "Verified buyer" badge appears only where Judge.me recorded the reviewer as a verified buyer, which is why the Arzoo Vyas card carries no badge. One longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and is otherwise unedited. No locations are attached, because Judge.me does not store them.
Temperature figures:80–90°C is the published melt-and-pour band for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes) and the published fragrance-addition band, with two minutes of stirring, for Eco Soy CSI 400. These are wax formulation figures, not regulatory limits. No pour temperature is published by CSI for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468, Soy Pillar Wax, Natural Soy Pearl Wax, the beeswax or the paraffins, and none has been invented here. The 82°C / 86°C / 90°C test points are simply the bottom, middle and top of the published band.
Prices — CSI live pricing, September 2026: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260 / 500g, ₹507.40 / 1kg, ₹2,537 / 5kg, ₹5,074 / 10kg (₹507.40/kg) · Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 / 1kg, ₹1,996 / 5kg · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500g · Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500g · cheapest wax per kg on the store, Semi Refined Paraffin at ₹220 / 1kg · White Matte Glass Jar ₹354 per pack of 5 and ₹708 per pack of 10 (₹70.80 each) · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 per 10 (₹5.90 each) · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 · Steel Pouring Pitcher Large 600 ML ₹708 · Candle Wax Pouring Jug ₹531 · Hot Air Gun ₹531 · Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118 per pack of 5 · Mini Electric Wax Melter (1 litre) ₹2,360 · WAX MELTER (Imported) ₹21,240 for 10 kg and ₹25,960 for 20 kg · Electric Wax Melter 20 litres ₹23,600.
Calculations: Six-jar test consumables = 6 jars at ₹70.80 (₹424.80) + 1.2 kg CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg (₹608.88) + 6 wicks at ₹5.90 (₹35.40) = ₹1,069.08. Remake cost per 200g candle = ₹101.48 wax + ₹70.80 jar + ₹5.90 wick = ₹178.18, excluding fragrance, packaging and labour; melter break-evens are each melter's price divided by that figure. A fifty-jar run at 200g each is 10 kg of wax. Collection counts are 92 fragrance oils and 80 containers as at the September 2026 stock pull. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
