Fragrance Load, Mixing Temperature, Pour Temperature and Cure Time — How Do They Work Together?
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CSI technical guides · process & settings
Four settings decide a candle, they are published in four different places, and only one CSI wax page fills in all four of them.
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Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468
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Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★★
"all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468
★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Soy CSI 400
★★★★★
"…Cold through and hot though both are perfect."
Priyanka PurohitVerified buyer · Sep 2026
Lavender Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"…10 kgs of wax melts in mere 20-30 minutes…"
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Electric Wax Melter
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"This stirring stick is quite helpful In mixing the colours and stirring the wax…"
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Candle Business Guides · Temperature & Incorporation
They are not four independent dials. Each one changes what the next one has to do, and three of the four are published somewhere you can quote. This page builds a process card per CSI wax out of stated figures alone, then gives you the rules for every cell the pages leave blank.
10 of 60
the process cells CSI's 15 wax pages actually fill — load ceiling, fragrance add temperature, pour temperature and cure, one row per wax. One page fills all four; ten pages fill none · CSI page text and live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
How do the four settings interact? Load sets the work the other three have to do. A higher load needs the upper end of the add band and the full stir, is less forgiving of a hot pour, and wants a longer cure before you judge it.Which figure wins when two sources disagree? Four rules: load = the lower of the wax's and the oil's ceilings; add temperature = the wax's band, pulled down by any instruction on the oil page; pour = the wax's band, capped by the vessel; cure = the longest figure stated.
What if the page is blank? Ten of CSI's 15 wax pages state none of the four. That is not permission to borrow a soy figure quietly — it is a cue to pick a number, write it on the card as yours, and test it.
What does one setting cost when it moves? One load point across 100 × 200 g candles is 200 g of oil — ₹948.72 of Apple Cinnamon. Cure costs nothing and moves more.
The short answer
Set them in order, not in parallel. Load first, because it is the constraint; then add temperature, because dissolution has to succeed; then pour, because that is where the surface is decided; then cure, because that is when you are allowed to have an opinion.
Only one CSI wax page states all four. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks publish 8–13% with 10% recommended, add at 80–90°C, pour at 70–80°C, and a cure of minimum 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks. Everything else is partial.
A blank is a decision, not a default. Write your own figure on the card, mark it as yours, and prove it with a burn test — see why every combination needs testing.
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In this guide
The solid arrows are the sequence: you cannot choose an add temperature sensibly until you know the load, or a cure window until you know both. The dashed lines are why a batch that was fine at 8% goes wrong at 13% with nothing else changed.
The only four-of-four card in the range
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks · 1 kg ₹599
States 13% and a 58–60°C pour
Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 · 1 kg ₹650
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Straight answer
How do fragrance load, mixing temperature, pour temperature and cure time work together?
As a chain with one constraint at the front. Load is the constraint: it is capped by the wax, and every gram you add makes the other three settings work harder. Add temperature exists to dissolve that load — which is why a batch at 13% is less forgiving of a cool addition than the same wax at 8%. Pour temperature decides the surface and the vessel's safety, and it starts from wherever your addition left the melt. Cure decides when your opinion counts, and a heavier load generally wants the longer end of it. Set them in that order and you have a process; set them independently and you have four habits that drift. The figures themselves come from three different places, so the rules are simple: take the lower of the wax's and the oil's load ceilings, take the add temperature from the wax unless the oil page states its own instruction, take the pour from the wax and cap it at the vessel's stated limit, and take the longest cure anybody states. On Luxury Soy Wax Chunks all four are published — 8–13% with 10% recommended, add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, cure minimum 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks — and that is the only page in the range where you can build a card without making a decision of your own. CSI 464 states a 10% ceiling and an 80–90°C pour but no add temperature; CSI 468 states 13% and a 58–60°C pour; Eco Soy CSI 400 states 85°C and a two-minute stir and nothing else. Ten of the fifteen wax pages state none of the four, and the honest move there is to write your own number on the card and burn-test it, not to borrow a soy figure and forget where it came from.
One line: load is the constraint, add temperature is dissolution, pour is the surface, cure is permission to judge — and every blank on a page is a number you own.
Two of the four settings are temperatures, which makes a Pen Thermometer at ₹354 the cheapest process improvement on this page. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 for 500 g is the wax whose page states all four figures, which makes it the easiest place to start a card.
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Ten cells out of sixty
Before you can run a process you have to know how much of it somebody else has written down for you. The answer is: a sixth of it.
Fifteen waxes are listed in the CSI wax collection; four settings matter for a fragranced container candle. That is a grid of 60 cells, and across all fifteen pages 10 are filled. That is not a complaint about the pages — it is the most useful fact in planning, because it says exactly where your own judgement is load-bearing.
Every CSI wax page that states any of the four · verbatim · September 2026
Who fills which cell, and where the blanks are
| Wax | Load ceiling | Add temperature | Pour temperature | Cure | Cells |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | "up to 13%"; "8% to 13% of total wax weight"; "10% Recommended" | "Recommended fragrance add temp 80-90°C" | "Recommended pour temp 75-80°C"; "Pour at 70-80°C" | "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)" | 4 |
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" | Not stated | "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C" | Not stated | 2 |
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | "Fragrance Load Up to 13%" | Not stated | "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C" | Not stated | 2 |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | Not stated | "at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes"; "80 to 90 degrees" | Not stated ("pour directly") | Not stated | 1 |
| Massage Candle Base | "around 6-10% by weight for massage candles" | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | 1 |
| The other ten waxes in the collection | None of the four settings stated on any of them — including Natural Soy Pearl, Soy Pillar Wax, Soy Wax 464 Pellets, both paraffins, Beeswax Pellets, Coconut Wax and Gel Wax | 0 | |||
Read that bottom row carefully, because it is where a lot of Indian makers actually buy. Natural Soy Pearl Wax is stocked from 1 kg to 50 kg and states none of the four. Semi Refined Paraffin states a melting point of 80–90°C and an oil content of 6–10% but no load, no add temperature and no cure. Pour those waxes and your process card is entirely your own work — fine, provided you know it and write it down instead of half-remembering a figure from a soy page.
The mistake: treating a melting point as a pour temperature. They are different numbers with different jobs, and two CSI pages make the confusion easy. Semi Refined Paraffin states "Melting Point: 80–90°C" and nothing about pouring; CSI 464 states the same figure for both its melting point and its pour temperature, which is unusual for a soy wax and worth confirming with us before you build a card on it. A melting point tells you when the wax is liquid. A pour temperature is a choice about crystallisation and surface. Never copy one into the other's box — ask instead.
Four process cards, stated figures only
Every figure in the first four rows is a verbatim quote from that wax's own page; the last two rows are arithmetic on a 200 g candle, shown so you can check it. Where a page is silent the card says so, and says what you have to decide.
Process cards · four CSI container waxes · stated figures in quotation marks
What each page gives you, and what it leaves to you
| Setting | Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | Eco Soy CSI 400 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Load ceiling | "up to 13%", "8% to 13%", "10% Recommended" | "Up to 10%" | "Up to 13%" | Your decision. Take the oil page's candle figure |
| 2 Add temperature | "80-90°C", stir "2 full minutes" | Your decision. The page states only that melt and pour both sit at 80–90°C — ask us before assuming an add figure | Your decision. The page's process sits at 50–60°C | "at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes" |
| 3 Pour temperature | "75-80°C" in the table, "70-80°C" in the steps | "80°C – 90°C" | "58°C – 60°C" | Your decision. The page says only "pour directly" |
| 4 Cure | "minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)" | Your decision. Series convention: 14–21 days | Your decision. Series convention: 14–21 days | Your decision. Series convention: 14–21 days |
| Oil in a 200 g candle at the ceiling | 26 g at 13% (20 g at the recommended 10%) | 20 g at 10% | 26 g at 13% | Set by the oil page, commonly 6–10% |
| Listed price per kg | ₹599 at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg | ₹507.40 at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg | ₹650 at 1 kg; ₹637 at 5 kg and 10 kg | ₹399 at 1 kg and 5 kg |
Two things fall out of those columns. CSI 468 is a different machine: with a stated melting point of 50–53°C and a pour of 58–60°C its whole process runs some twenty degrees cooler than a soy page's band, so a soy add temperature copied onto it is not a conservative choice but an invented one. And the Chunks card is the only one you can run without deciding anything — which is why it is the wax to learn the system on.
A card is four numbers, a date and your initials
Write it once per wax-and-oil pairing and tape it inside the cupboard door: wax and pack size, oil and pack size, load as a percentage and in grams per jar, add temperature as a target and as the reading you hit, stir time, pour reading, jar and wick, pour date, cure days, who poured it. Mark every cell that came from a page with a quotation mark and every cell you chose with your initials. Six months on, that distinction is the difference between a process you can defend to a stockist and a memory of a good batch. The recording sheet that validates it is in why every combination needs a burn test.How each setting pulls on the others
This is what makes it a system rather than a checklist. Each row is a setting you move; each cell is what that move does to the other three. Nothing here is a claim about a product — it is the mechanism.
Move one setting, read across
What changes for the other three when you turn one dial
| If you raise… | Effect on load | Effect on add temperature | Effect on pour temperature | Effect on cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load (8% → 13%) | — | Needs the upper end of the band and the full stir; margin for error shrinks as you approach the ceiling | Less forgiving. Surplus oil at the ceiling reports to the surface, and a hot pour makes that worse | Judge later, not earlier. More oil takes longer to settle and shows its faults after a warm week |
| Add temperature (80 → 90°C) | No change to what the wax can hold | — | Starts your cooling from higher up, so you wait longer for the pour reading — or drift above it | Cure cannot recover an addition that failed to dissolve; it can only reveal it |
| Pour temperature (70 → 80°C) | No effect | No effect backwards | — | Surface faults set here are permanent. Top-ups must come from the same batch or your load per jar quietly changes |
| Cure (2 days → 14 days) | No effect | No effect | No effect | — |
| The asymmetry worth memorising: load and add temperature push forward onto everything downstream. Cure pushes on nothing — it only changes what you are able to see. That is why it is the cheapest setting and the one most often cut. | ||||
The commonest failure here is a load-and-temperature mismatch: a maker goes from 8% to 13% because a page allows it, keeps adding at 80°C out of habit, pours on the same schedule and judges on day three. Three settings needed to move and none did. The batch then shows up as separation, a surface film or sweating in the first warm week — diagnosis in separation, oil on top and sweating.
Four rules when two sources disagree
Most process confusion is not ignorance. It is two correct figures from two different pages, and no rule for choosing between them.
A wax page, an oil page and a jar page all speak to the same batch and they do not coordinate. Apple Cinnamon states "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48-72 hours"; Chunks states 8–13% and "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)"; seven jar pages state "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C". Four lines resolve all of it.
The resolution rules, with a worked example on each
Which source wins for each setting, and why
| Setting | Rule | Worked example |
|---|---|---|
| Load | The lower of the two ceilings. The wax states what it can hold; the oil states what it is meant to be used at. Neither entitles you to the other's number | Apple Cinnamon "6-10%" poured into Chunks at "up to 13%" → 10%, which is 20 g in a 200 g candle. The 13% belongs to a different oil |
| Add temperature | The wax's band, pulled down by any instruction on the oil page. An oil can lower it; an oil cannot raise it above the band | Gardenia states "Flashpoint 98°C - add to wax below this temperature", which sits above the soy band, so the band still governs — 80–90°C on Chunks |
| Pour temperature | The wax's band, capped by the vessel. Glass has the final say because it is the only part that can fail structurally | Chunks state 70–80°C; a jar page states "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C" → pour at 75°C and both are satisfied |
| Cure | The longest figure anybody states, and never shorter than the day you intend to judge on | Apple Cinnamon says 48–72 hours; Chunks says ideally 1–2 weeks; this series uses 14–21 days for soy containers → cure 14 days minimum before any verdict |
The cure rule surprises people because two stated figures are shorter than the convention. Both are honest: a 48-hour minimum is about when a candle is safe and sensible to burn, while a fortnight is about when it is representative of what your customer will experience. Those are different questions — burning at 24 hours covers the first and testing after cure the second.
"I used the oil's 13% because my wax allows 13%." Two ceilings do not add up and they do not average. If the oil page says 6–10% you are at 10%, whatever the wax can hold, because the oil's figure is the one describing that particular blend's behaviour. Going to 13% on an oil rated to 10% is how a jar ends up with 6 g of surplus oil per 200 g candle — 26 g against 20 g — and surplus oil does not throw, it migrates. If you want the extra load, buy an oil whose page states it.
Setting a card in six steps
One pass, in this order, for a new wax-and-oil pairing. Ten minutes at a desk, and it saves the fortnight you would otherwise spend finding out you had guessed.
1
Copy both ceilings onto the card, in quotation marksThe wax's stated load and the oil's stated candle load, exactly as written. Then take the lower. On Chunks with Apple Cinnamon that is 10%: 20 g of oil and 180 g of wax in a 200 g candle. Write the grams, not only the percentage — grams are what your scale understands.
2
Fix the add temperature and the stir time togetherThey are one instruction, not two. The Chunks page gives "80-90°C" and "stir slowly for 2 full minutes"; Eco Soy CSI 400 gives "85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes". If your wax page is blank here, say so on the card and put your own figure next to your initials — do not leave the cell empty, because an empty cell gets filled differently every batch.
3
Fix the pour reading, then check the jarTake the wax's band and pick one number inside it — 75°C on Chunks. Then look at the vessel: if the jar page states a hot-pour limit, the lower figure wins. This is the only step where a third product gets a veto, and glass is not negotiable.
4
Write the cure date on the jar, not in your headPour date plus 14 days, on a sticker, on the base. The Chunks page's "minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)" is the floor; the series convention of 14–21 days is the judging date. A jar with a date on it is very hard to open early by accident.
5
Pour three jars, not one, and log the readings you actually got"Target 85, actual 84.6" is data. Three jars give you a sense of your own consistency before a hundred jars depend on it. Use the same scale for wax and oil, and tare properly — a 2 g error on a 20 g dose is a full load point.
6
Burn one at day 14, then freeze the cardTime to a full melt pool, hot throw at 30 and 120 minutes, mushrooming, surface after cooling. If it passes, stop adjusting: the card is now your recipe and the next change should be one variable at a time. If it fails, change exactly one setting and re-pour three jars.
The CSI principle
A process is four numbers you can point at. Anything less is a habit, and habits change without telling you.
Quote what the page states, initial what you chose, and date what you poured. The card costs a sheet of paper and is the only thing standing between one good batch and a hundred repeatable ones.
Building a card for a production run? Order the wax and oil together and ask for the paperwork in the same message — the stated specs for the wax, the SDS and IFRA documentation for the oil, GST invoicing and bulk pricing above the listed packs. With Diwali on 8 November 2026, a card frozen by mid-October still leaves a full 14-day cure on the first production batch.
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What each setting costs when it moves
Three of the four settings are free to change and one is not. Rupees against each is what stops a process discussion becoming a taste discussion. The basis is 100 × 200 g candles at 10%: 18 kg of wax and 2 kg of oil, priced from listed packs — and since the largest listed pack is 10 kg, the wax column shows the real basket.
100 × 200 g candles at 10% · 18 kg of wax + 2 kg of oil · CSI live pricing, September 2026
The wax bill for the same batch across four waxes, from listed packs
| Wax | Packs for 18 kg | Wax cost | Effective per kg | Per candle (180 g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | 3 × 5 kg + 3 × 1 kg | ₹7,185 | ₹399.17 | ₹71.85 |
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 10 kg + 5 kg + 3 × 1 kg | ₹9,133.20 | ₹507.40 | ₹91.33 |
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | 10 kg + 5 kg + 3 × 1 kg | ₹10,791 | ₹599.50 | ₹107.91 |
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | 10 kg + 5 kg + 3 × 1 kg | ₹11,505 | ₹639.17 | ₹115.05 |
Worked above: 100 × 200 g = 20,000 g of finished candle; at 10% that is 2,000 g of oil and 18,000 g of wax. Pack combinations at listed prices: Eco Soy CSI 400 = 3 × ₹1,996 + 3 × ₹399 = ₹7,185 (₹7,185 ÷ 18 = ₹399.17/kg); CSI 464 = ₹5,074 + ₹2,537 + 3 × ₹507.40 = ₹9,133.20 (₹507.40/kg); Chunks = ₹5,999 + ₹2,995 + 3 × ₹599 = ₹10,791 (₹599.50/kg); CSI 468 = ₹6,370 + ₹3,185 + 3 × ₹650 = ₹11,505 (₹639.17/kg — the 5 kg and 10 kg packs step down to ₹637/kg while the 1 kg stays at ₹650). Per candle = cost ÷ 100. Oil at 2 kg: Apple Cinnamon 2 × ₹4,743.60 = ₹9,487.20, so 20 g per candle = ₹94.87. One load point across the batch = 200 g of oil = ₹948.72 of Apple Cinnamon, ₹1,062 of Cinnamon, ₹906.24 of Woody Oud. At 8% the same candle carries 16 g = ₹75.90 of Apple Cinnamon; at 13%, 26 g = ₹123.33. 25 kg and 100 kg wax packs are not listed, so the combinations above are the real ceiling on listed pricing; for recurring volumes message us for a quote.
Now set that against the two free settings. Moving from a two-day judgement to a fourteen-day judgement costs nothing. Hitting your add temperature on purpose costs ₹354 once. Whereas a whole batch of a hundred candles in Chunks and Apple Cinnamon at 10% carries ₹20,278.20 of wax and oil — ₹202.78 a candle before jar, wick, lid or label. The settings that cost nothing are the ones that decide whether that ₹20,278.20 is a product or a lesson.
Load is the only setting that sends you an invoice. The other three send you either a good candle or an education, and they charge the same for both.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Three waxes and what their pages state
Chosen for what their pages publish rather than for what they cost. Per-candle wax figures use a 200 g candle at 10%: 180 g of wax plus 20 g of oil.
1
Container soy · the only four-of-four card
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks for Jar / Container Candles
The wax to learn the system on, because you never have to guess. Its page states the load three ways — "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", "8% to 13% of total wax weight", with "8% Starting Point", "10% Recommended" and "13% Maximum" — plus "Recommended fragrance add temp 80-90°C", "stir slowly for 2 full minutes", a pour of "70-80°C" in the steps and "75-80°C" in the table, and a cure of "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)". It also gives a fill rule: "a 200g jar candle requires approximately 160-170g of wax". Note the two pour figures and pick one for your card.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200g candles @ 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹299 | ₹598 | ≈2 |
| 1 kg | ₹599 | ₹599 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,995 | ₹599 | ≈27 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,999 | ₹599.90 | ≈55 |
₹107.91 of wax per 200 g candle at 10%, at the 18 kg pack rate above Buy Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
2
Coconut soy · a cooler process, stated
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes)
The card that proves the system matters, because copying soy figures onto it would be wrong in both temperature cells. The page states "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C" and "Suitable for single-pour container applications" — so its pour sits ten to twelve degrees below the bottom of the soy pour band, and its add temperature is not published at all. At 13% a 200 g candle carries 26 g of oil, the joint highest ceiling in the range, which is precisely the situation where the add temperature you choose deserves a burn test rather than a habit. Arminder Kaur's 5★ review reads "all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range".
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200g candles @ 13% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹325 | ₹650 | ≈2 |
| 1 kg | ₹650 | ₹650 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹3,185 | ₹637 | ≈28 |
| 10 kg | ₹6,370 | ₹637 | ≈57 |
₹115.05 of wax per 200 g candle at 10%, at the 18 kg pack rate above Buy CSI 468
3
Container soy · states the add step, nothing else
Eco Soy CSI 400
The cheapest per kilo of the four and the clearest one-cell card. Its page gives the incorporation step in full — "add your fragrance or essential oils at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes, and pour directly", with "Fragrance Add Temperature 80 to 90 degrees" and "Melt Point 100°F (37.8°C)" — and names a wick family, "Recommended Wick Eco Wicks". It states no load ceiling, no pour temperature and no cure, so three cells carry your initials: take the load from the oil's page, choose a pour reading and log it, cure 14 days before judging. Arminder Kaur's 4★ review: "Good quality wax".
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200g candles @ 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹399 | ₹399 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹1,996 | ₹399.20 | ≈27 |
₹71.85 of wax per 200 g candle at 10%, at the 18 kg pack rate above Buy Eco Soy CSI 400
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials; we do not manufacture the waxes or the fragrance oils, and we do not sell finished candles. A more flattering version of this page would print a full four-setting card for all fifteen waxes. We cannot, because ten of the fifteen pages state none of the four, and filling those cells from a different product would be the exact mistake this page tells you not to make. Naming the blanks is less impressive and considerably more useful.
Every load, temperature and cure figure quoted here comes verbatim from the CSI product page for that wax or oil, read from live listings in September 2026; every price is the listed variant price on the same date, and the pack combinations are real listed packs rather than a per-kilo extrapolation. Where a figure is arithmetic, the working is shown. Stated loads are formulation limits, not regulatory limits, and the 14–21 day cure is this series' convention for soy containers, labelled as such wherever it sits beside a shorter stated figure.
For a figure a page does not publish, for the SDS or IFRA documentation on an oil, for GST invoicing, or for pricing above the listed pack sizes — 25 kg and 100 kg wax packs are not listed — message CSI on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926. We send what exists for the product you ask about and say so plainly when nothing does.
Frequently asked questions
In what order should I set fragrance load, temperature and cure?
Load, add temperature, pour temperature, cure. Load is the constraint the other three serve, so it goes first — and it is the lower of the wax's ceiling and the oil's stated candle figure. Add temperature exists to dissolve that load. Pour temperature decides the surface and must respect the vessel. Cure decides when your verdict is worth anything. Setting them in this order means each choice is made with the information it actually needs.
Does a higher fragrance load need a higher add temperature?
It needs the upper end of the band your wax states, and the full stir time — not a figure above the band. A load near the ceiling asks more of the wax as a solvent, so margin for a cool addition shrinks. On Luxury Soy Wax Chunks that means working towards 90°C rather than 80°C at 13%, stirring the stated two minutes, and confirming the melt has gone clear before you pour.
My wax page and my fragrance oil page give different maximum loads. Which do I use?
The lower one, always. The wax's figure describes what that wax can hold; the oil's figure describes how that blend is meant to be used. Neither licenses the other. Apple Cinnamon states "6-10% for soy wax candles" and the Chunks page allows up to 13% — so you are at 10%, or 20 g in a 200 g candle. Pouring 26 g because the wax permits it leaves 6 g of surplus per jar, and surplus oil migrates instead of throwing.
What pour temperature should I use if the page doesn't state one?
Choose one, write it on the card as your own figure, and test it. Do not import a number from another wax: CSI 468 states a pour of 58–60°C against soy's 70–80°C, so "standard soy practice" would be a 20-degree error. Also check the vessel — seven CSI jar pages state "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C", and where the jar's limit is lower than the wax's band, the jar wins.
How long should I cure before judging a new card?
Take the longest figure in play and never judge before it. The Chunks page states "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)", several oil pages state 48–72 hours for soy, and this series uses 14–21 days for soy containers because that is when a candle resembles what a customer will burn. The short figures answer "is it ready to light"; the fortnight answers "is it ready to sell". Date the base of the jar so the decision is not yours to make on a busy afternoon.
Can I change two settings at once to save time?
You can, and you will lose the information. Two changes and one result tell you nothing about which change did what, which means the next batch is another guess. One variable, three jars, one fortnight. The exception is a genuinely new pairing, where every setting is new at once — in that case treat the whole card as unproven and validate it with a full burn test rather than assuming any cell is safe because it came from a page.
Write the card, then stop deciding
Four numbers, quoted where a page gives them and initialled where you chose them. That is the whole system.
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 for 500 g — the only page stating all four settings. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325, stating 13% and a 58–60°C pour. Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399, stating 85°C and a two-minute stir. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260, stating a 10% ceiling. Apple Cinnamon from ₹93.22 for 15 g, stating 6–10% for soy and vanillin present. Pen Thermometer ₹354. For stated specs, documentation, GST invoicing and bulk pricing, message us.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Every cell of every process card is either a verbatim quote from that product's page or is explicitly marked as the maker's own decision; no figure has been carried across from one wax to another. The 10-of-60 count is arithmetic on the CSI wax collection and is shown below. The interaction table describes mechanisms, not measured results, and no performance claim is made for any wax or oil. Stated loads and cure windows are formulation guidance from the pages, not regulatory limits, and nothing here is a legal, regulatory or safety-standard claim.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; four longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Coverage count — the Candle Wax collection lists 15 products; four settings (load ceiling, fragrance add temperature, pour temperature, cure) gives 15 × 4 = 60 cells; stated cells are Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 4, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 2 (load, pour), Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 2 (load, pour), Eco Soy CSI 400 1 (add), Massage Candle Base 1 (load) = 10, leaving 50 blank; the other ten waxes state none of the four. Verbatim page text — Chunks: "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "8% Starting Point", "10% Recommended", "13% Maximum", "Recommended fragrance add temp 80-90°C", "Allow wax to reach 80-90°C. Add fragrance oil and stir slowly for 2 full minutes", "Recommended pour temp 75-80°C", "Pour at 70-80°C into your prepared containers with wicks in place", "Allow candles to cure for a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests", "a 200g jar candle requires approximately 160-170g of wax"; CSI 464: "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", "Melting Point 80°C – 90°C", "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C" (the same figure twice, flagged in the text as worth confirming); CSI 468: "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C"; Eco Soy CSI 400: "add your fragrance or essential oils at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes, and pour directly", "Fragrance Add Temperature 80 to 90 degrees", "Melt Point 100°F (37.8°C)", "Recommended Wick Eco Wicks"; Massage Candle Base: "around 6-10% by weight for massage candles"; Semi Refined Paraffin: "Melting Point: 80–90°C", "Oil Content: 6–10%"; Apple Cinnamon: "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48-72 hours", "6-8% for paraffin wax", "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax" and no flash point published; Gardenia: "Flashpoint 98°C - add to wax below this temperature". Vessel limit: "Safe for hot-pour up to 85°C" appears on seven CSI jar pages. Prices used: Chunks 500 g ₹299 · 1 kg ₹599 · 5 kg ₹2,995 · 10 kg ₹5,999; CSI 464 500 g ₹260 · 1 kg ₹507.40 · 5 kg ₹2,537 · 10 kg ₹5,074; CSI 468 500 g ₹325 · 1 kg ₹650 · 5 kg ₹3,185 · 10 kg ₹6,370; Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399 · 5 kg ₹1,996; Apple Cinnamon 15 g ₹93.22 · 1 kg ₹4,743.60; Cinnamon 1 kg ₹5,310; Woody Oud 1 kg ₹4,531.20; Pen Thermometer ₹354. Batch arithmetic: 100 × 200 g = 20,000 g finished; at 10% = 2,000 g oil + 18,000 g wax. Wax packs for 18 kg: Eco Soy 3 × ₹1,996 + 3 × ₹399 = ₹7,185 (₹399.17/kg); CSI 464 ₹5,074 + ₹2,537 + 3 × ₹507.40 = ₹9,133.20; Chunks ₹5,999 + ₹2,995 + 3 × ₹599 = ₹10,791 (₹599.50/kg); CSI 468 ₹6,370 + ₹3,185 + 3 × ₹650 = ₹11,505 (₹639.17/kg). Per candle = ÷ 100. Oil: 2 kg of Apple Cinnamon = ₹9,487.20, so 20 g per candle = ₹94.87; one load point = 200 g = ₹948.72 (Apple Cinnamon), ₹1,062 (Cinnamon), ₹906.24 (Woody Oud); 16 g at 8% = ₹75.90 and 26 g at 13% = ₹123.33. Batch total for Chunks + Apple Cinnamon at 10% = ₹10,791 + ₹9,487.20 = ₹20,278.20, or ₹202.78 per candle for wax and oil alone. Load convention: a share of the finished candle, so 200 g at 10% = 180 g wax + 20 g oil; the Chunks page phrases its own load "of total wax weight", a different basis worth noting when you compare figures with another maker. 25 kg and 100 kg wax packs are not listed. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.