I Accidentally Added 100 g Fragrance Oil Instead of 80 g to 1 Kg Soy Wax — Can I Add More Wax to Bring the Fragrance Load Back to 8%?
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CSI batch-rescue guides · fragrance load
Your kilo is not ruined. It is 250 grams of plain wax away from being the batch you meant to make — and one percentage point bigger than you think.
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Candle Business Guides · Batch Rescue
Yes. The batch is recoverable by arithmetic, not by luck — you add unscented wax until the oil you already poured is 8% of the wax it sits in. The only thing that can still go wrong is which "8%" you are aiming at, because the two common definitions differ by exactly one oil weight.
+250 g
unscented wax added to 1 kg — takes 100 g of oil from 10% to 8% of total wax weight · ₹149.75 of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks · or +150 g if your 8% meant 8% of the finished candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Can the batch be saved? Yes, if the wax is still molten or can be remelted and you have plain wax to hand. 100 g of oil in 1,000 g of wax is 10% of wax weight. To make that same oil 8%, the wax must total 1,250 g — so you add 250 g.
Why 250 g and not 200 g? Because you are not diluting by subtracting the 20 g of surplus. You are growing the denominator. 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g of wax, and 1,250 − 1,000 = 250 g. The finished batch weighs 1,350 g, not 1,100 g.
Which 8% do I mean? This is the part that trips people. 8% of total wax weight = 80 g per kilo of wax. 8% of finished candle weight = 87 g per kilo of wax. CSI's Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states its range as "8% to 13% of total wax weight", so this guide works on wax weight throughout.
What does the correction cost?₹149.75 of wax at ₹599 per kilo, one extra jar, one extra wick — and one burn test, because the candle you were about to test no longer exists. You end up with six 200 g candles instead of five.
The short answer
Add wax, don't remove oil: oil cannot be taken back out of wax. The only lever is the wax side of the ratio, so every correction in this family makes the batch bigger.
The formula: wax needed = oil ÷ target load. Wax to add = that figure minus the wax already in the pot. For 100 g of oil at 8% of wax weight: 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250, minus 1,000, equals 250 g.
Then retest: the wick you sized for a 10% candle has not been tested in an 8% candle. Correcting the load invalidates the burn test you were planning to run, and cure restarts from the day of the new pour.
The two conventions are not a rounding difference. On a single kilo they ask for 250 g or 150 g of correction wax, and the gap between them always equals the oil already in the pot. Pick one convention, write it on the batch sheet, and never mix them inside a recipe.
I put 100 g of fragrance oil into 1 kg of soy wax instead of 80 g. Can I add wax to get back to 8%?
Yes, and the sum is short. Your 100 g of oil is 10% of 1,000 g of wax. For that same oil to be 8% of the wax it sits in, the wax must weigh 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g, so you add 250 g of the same unscented wax — ₹149.75 at Luxury Soy Wax Chunks pricing of ₹599 per kilo, or a ₹299 half-kilo pack with 250 g left over. The corrected batch weighs 1,350 g, which is the number most people get wrong: adding wax does not shrink the problem, it grows the batch. At a 200 g fill you now pour six candles instead of five, with 150 g spare, and the wax-plus-oil cost per candle falls from ₹207.09 to ₹190.93 — exactly what the batch would have cost if you had weighed correctly, because an 8% blend always costs the same per gram. Two conditions apply. First, add the same wax: a different wax makes a blend with no stated specification. Second, state your convention. If your 8% meant 8% of the finished candle rather than 8% of the wax, the target is 1,150 g of wax and only 150 g added — CSI's own pages phrase loads as a share of total wax weight, and the Lavender Fragrance Oil page says "6-10% of total wax weight" in as many words. Then remelt gently, stir two full minutes, repour, and start the cure and the burn test again from scratch.
One line: 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g of wax, so add 250 g, expect 1,350 g of batch and six candles, and retest — the old wick was chosen for a candle that no longer exists.
Correcting a kilo needs plain wax and nothing else. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g at ₹299 covers this correction twice over, and Eco Soy CSI 400 is ₹399 a kilo if that is the wax already in your pot.
Two makers can both pour "8%" into a kilo of wax and end up 7 g apart. Only one of them can be right about their own recipe.
Before you weigh a single gram of correction wax, settle this. "Fragrance load" is a ratio, and the ratio has two denominators in common use. Percentage of total wax weight divides the oil by the wax alone: 8% of 1,000 g of wax is 80 g of oil, and the finished blend weighs 1,080 g. Percentage of finished candle weight divides the oil by the whole blend: for the oil to be 8% of everything, one kilo of wax needs 1,000 × 8 ÷ 92 = 86.96 g, call it 87 g, and the blend weighs 1,087 g.
Seven grams per kilo sounds like nothing. It is 0.7 of a percentage point, and it is the difference between a load that sits neatly inside a stated band and one that creeps toward its edge. It also changes your correction by a large amount, because the correction multiplies the error. On the wax-weight basis your 100 g of oil needs 1,250 g of wax. On the finished-candle basis it needs 1,250 g of total blend, which is 1,150 g of wax. Same target number, 100 g difference in what you buy.
The same "8%", two denominators
What each convention asks for on one kilo of wax, and what it asks you to add after a 100 g pour
Basis
Oil for 1 kg of wax at 8%
Blend weight
Oil as a share of the blend
Wax target for 100 g of oil
Wax to add
8% of total wax weight (CSI product pages)
80 g
1,080 g
7.41%
1,250 g
250 g
8% of finished candle weight
86.96 g ≈ 87 g
1,087 g
8.00%
1,150 g
150 g
Difference
6.96 g
7 g
0.59 points
100 g
100 g
Worked out above: wax-weight basis — oil = wax × 0.08 = 1,000 × 0.08 = 80 g; wax target = oil ÷ 0.08 = 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g. Finished-candle basis — oil = wax × 8 ÷ 92 = 86.96 g; total target = oil ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g, of which wax = 1,250 − 100 = 1,150 g. The gap in "wax to add" is 1,250 − 1,150 = 100 g, which is the oil weight itself; the algebra is oil ÷ L minus (oil ÷ L − oil).
That last line is the rule worth memorising. The two conventions always differ by exactly the weight of oil in the pot. If you have 120 g of oil in there, they differ by 120 g of wax. If you have 550 g, they differ by 550 g. It is why a maker who switches convention halfway through a batch sheet — reading a load off a product page, then correcting with a formula from a video — lands a long way from either target.
What CSI's pages actually say, and how this series reads them
The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight" with "10% Recommended", fragrance added at 80–90°C and a pour at 70–80°C. The Lavender Fragrance Oil page states "6-10% of total wax weight for candles". Both are the wax-weight basis, so every sum in this guide uses wax weight and says so. Where you see an 8% figure elsewhere on this site calculated as a share of the finished candle — 200 g at 8% being 184 g of wax and 16 g of oil — that is the other convention, clearly labelled. Neither is wrong. Mixing them is.
The correction, worked all the way through
Here is the whole thing on one kilo of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599 per kilo with Lavender Fragrance Oil at the 100 g price of ₹540, which is ₹5.40 a gram. Nothing here is rounded until the last column.
1 kg wax · 100 g oil · corrected to 8% of wax weight
Every downstream number the correction moves
What you are measuring
Intended batch (80 g oil)
The batch you actually made
After adding 250 g of wax
Wax
1,000 g
1,000 g
1,250 g
Oil
80 g
100 g
100 g (unchanged — you cannot remove it)
Load, % of wax weight
8.00%
10.00%
8.00%
Load, % of finished candle
7.41%
9.09%
7.41%
Batch weight
1,080 g
1,100 g
1,350 g
200 g candles from the batch
5 (80 g spare)
5 (100 g spare)
6 (150 g spare)
Wax + oil in the batch
₹1,031
₹1,139
₹1,288.75
Wax + oil per gram of blend
₹0.9546
₹1.0355
₹0.9546
Wax + oil per 200 g candle
₹190.93
₹207.09
₹190.93
Jars and wicks needed
5
5
6
Burn test status
Planned
Planned at 10%
Void — retest at 8%
Read the per-gram row twice, because it contains the most reassuring fact in this whole guide. An 8% blend of this wax and this oil costs ₹0.9546 a gram whether you mix it correctly the first time or arrive there by correction. The over-dose did not destroy value. It converted ₹149.75 of wax you had not planned to buy into 270 g of extra sellable blend, and it left your per-candle material cost exactly where your costing sheet already had it. The real bill for the mistake is the wax outlay, one more jar, one more wick, an hour of remelting and a burn test you now have to run again.
1
Freeze the numbers before you touch the potWrite down the wax weight you melted, the oil weight you poured, and how you know. If the oil went in from a bottle, weigh the bottle now and subtract from its start weight — a ₹354 scale settles the argument in ten seconds. If you genuinely do not know how much oil went in, you cannot calculate a correction; skip to the decision table further down.
2
Choose the basis and write it on the sheet"8% of total wax weight" or "8% of finished candle weight". This guide uses wax weight because that is how the CSI wax and oil pages are phrased. Circle it. You will need to read it again in three weeks when you scale the recipe.
3
Compute the wax target, then the additionWax target = oil ÷ target load = 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g. Wax to add = 1,250 − 1,000 = 250 g. Weigh out 250 g of the same wax. Do not estimate by eye and do not top up from a different bag — a two-wax blend has no stated load, melt point or pour temperature anywhere.
4
Remelt inside the stated temperatures and stirBring the scented wax back to a clear melt, add the 250 g of flakes or chunks, and hold it in the range the wax page states for adding fragrance — 80–90°C on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks. Stir for a full two minutes; the Eco Soy CSI 400 page specifies exactly that, and it is good practice on any soy. Do not push the wax above what its page states in order to speed the melt.
5
Weigh the finished pot and check it against 1,350 gIf the pot reads 1,330 g you lost 20 g to the vessel and the spoon. That matters for the candle count, not the load — the load is set by the oil-to-wax ratio, which loss does not change if the loss is uniform blend. Record the actual figure and plan the pour from it.
6
Pour six, label six, and restart the clockPour at the stated 70–80°C into six wicked jars. Mark every jar "8% corrected, poured today". Cure runs from this pour, not the first one — the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing. Then burn one. The hot throw test method has a usable score sheet.
The mistake: subtracting instead of dividing. The instinct is "I am 20 g over, so I need 20 g more wax for every 80 g I had" — or worse, "add 200 g, that makes it 1,200 and 100 is 8.3%, close enough". Neither is the sum. You are not correcting the oil; the oil is fixed at 100 g forever. You are choosing a wax weight that makes 100 g into 8%, and that is a division: oil ÷ target load. Dividing gives 1,250 g. Subtracting gives you a batch that is still 8.3% and still not the recipe you documented. For the mechanism behind why the surplus matters at all, see can too much fragrance oil make a candle smell weaker.
What one percentage point is worth
This guide's unit of analysis is the percentage point, because that is the unit the mistake happens in. On one kilo of wax, one percentage point of load is 10 g of oil — ₹54 of Lavender at the 100 g price. And undoing one percentage point always costs the same amount of wax: 125 g per kilo, or ₹74.88 on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks. That figure does not change with how far over you are, which makes the whole family of corrections easy to hold in your head.
Correcting to 8% of wax weight · per 1 kg of wax already in the pot
Every over-dose from 9% to 13%, and what removing each point costs in wax
What you poured
Oil in the pot
Wax target at 8%
Wax to add
Cost at ₹599/kg
Corrected batch
200 g candles
9% of wax weight
90 g
1,125 g
125 g
₹74.88
1,215 g
6
10% (this guide's case)
100 g
1,250 g
250 g
₹149.75
1,350 g
6
11%
110 g
1,375 g
375 g
₹224.63
1,485 g
7
12%
120 g
1,500 g
500 g
₹299.50
1,620 g
8
13%
130 g
1,625 g
625 g
₹374.38
1,755 g
8
The column that should change your behaviour is the last one. A maker who over-doses by five percentage points on a single kilo does not end up with a ruined kilo — they end up committed to eight candles when they planned five, needing three more jars, three more wicks and three more labels than they own. That is the honest cost of a load error at small scale: not spoiled material, but a production plan that no longer fits the stock on your shelf. The same effect at 10 kg is the subject of correcting a full 10 kg production batch.
The CSI principle
You cannot take oil out of wax. You can only change what the oil is a percentage of.
Every fragrance-load rescue in candle making is one division and one addition. Divide the oil you poured by the load you want, subtract the wax you already have, and add the difference. The batch gets bigger, never smaller — which is why the correction is a stock decision as much as a chemistry one.
What the extra 250 g changes
The load is the easy part. The wick is the part people forget, and it is the part a customer notices.
A corrected batch is a new formula, and a new formula is an untested formula. Fragrance oil is not inert filler: it changes how the pool behaves, how much fuel the wick draws and how the wax sets. A wick that produced a clean, full pool in a 10% candle has never been burned in an 8% one. It may well be fine. You do not know, and "probably fine" is not a specification you can put behind a candle you sell.
What survives the correction and what does not
Every variable in the recipe, and whether the 250 g of wax invalidates it
Variable
Still valid?
What to do
Wax identity and its stated temperatures
Yes, if you added the same wax
Nothing. Keep following the page: add at 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C
Fragrance oil identity
Yes
Nothing. The oil is the same oil
Fragrance load
No — it changed from 10% to 8%
Rewrite the batch sheet; the old figure is now wrong in your records
Wick size
No
Burn one corrected candle to a full pool before committing the rest to a customer
Cure time already served
No — it restarts at the new pour
48 hours minimum, ideally 1–2 weeks, from today
Jar and fill weight
Yes
Nothing, but you need one extra jar
Colour, if you dyed the batch
No — 250 g of clear wax lightens it
Judge by calculation, not by eye: the dye is now spread over 1,350 g instead of 1,100 g
Cost per candle
Yes, and it improves
₹190.93 of wax and oil per 200 g candle, back to the planned figure
Don't sell the five candles you already poured "just to clear them". If you poured at 10% before spotting the error and the jars are already setting, you have two separate batches, not one: five candles at 10% and six at 8%, in the same jar, with the same label and the same scent name. That is the fastest way to a customer telling you your candles are inconsistent. Either remelt the five into the correction — which is what this guide assumes — or keep them entirely separate, label them as a different batch code, and burn-test them on their own. Mixed-load stock under one SKU is a traceability problem before it is a quality problem.
One more downstream number, for anyone whose 10% pour was deliberate and is now wondering whether to correct at all. 10% is inside the stated 8–13% band on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and is in fact the figure that page recommends. If your wax states a 13% ceiling and your oil page states up to 10%, then a 10% batch is not out of specification — it is simply not the recipe you wrote down. Correcting it is a consistency decision, not a safety one. The calculation changes completely if your wax states a lower ceiling, which is the case covered in 12% in a wax rated for 8–10%.
Correct, pour anyway, or write off
Three routes, and at one kilo the arithmetic is lopsided enough that one of them is almost always right. The figures below use the same wax and oil throughout, with the 100 g oil priced at ₹5.40 a gram and the wax at ₹0.599 a gram.
The three routes · 1 kg of wax, 100 g of oil, ₹1,139 already spent
What each choice costs you and what it leaves you holding
Route
New money
You end up with
Choose it when
Correct to 8%
₹149.75 wax + 1 jar + 1 wick
Six 200 g candles at ₹190.93 of materials each, needing a fresh burn test
You have the wax, the jars and a use for a sixth candle. This is the default
Pour it at 10% and relabel the batch
₹0
Five candles at ₹207.09 of materials each, at a load your wax page still covers
Your wax states a ceiling of 13% and your oil page covers 10% and you are willing to run this as its own batch code with its own burn test
Write off the pot
₹1,031 to start again, plus ₹1,139 binned
Five candles and a ₹1,139 hole
Almost never at this scale — only if you cannot establish how much oil went in, or the oil is wrong for the wax in some other way
The threshold, stated so you can apply it to your own numbers: correct the batch whenever the wax you must add costs less than the oil already sitting in the pot. Here, 250 g of wax is ₹149.75 against ₹540 of Lavender — the correction is worth about three and a half times what it costs. On a cheaper oil the margin narrows but stays comfortable; at ₹3.00 a gram for Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil, the 100 g in the pot is ₹300 against the same ₹149.75. The write-off only becomes rational when the oil is unknown or unsuitable, not when it is merely over-measured.
An over-dosed kilo is not a loss. It is a larger batch that has not been told what it is yet.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
What to buy to correct a kilo
Corrections are cheap because plain wax is cheap. The cards below show every listed pack of the three container waxes most likely to be in your pot, with the price per kilo and how many 200 g candles each pack fills at 8% of wax weight — 185 g of wax and 14.81 g of oil per candle on this convention.
1
Correction wax · stated 8–13% of total wax weight
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks for Jar / Container Candles
The wax this guide's arithmetic is priced on, and the one whose page is most explicit about the convention: "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", with 10% recommended, fragrance in at 80–90°C and a pour at 70–80°C. For a single-kilo correction the 500 g pack at ₹299 is the right buy — it covers a 250 g addition twice and keeps the rest sealed for the next one. Listed pricing is flat at ₹599 a kilo from 1 kg to 10 kg, so there is no penalty for buying the small pack now.
If CSI 464 is the wax in your pot, the same sum applies but the stakes are higher: its page states a fragrance load up to 10%, which means a 100 g pour into one kilo is sitting exactly on the stated ceiling rather than comfortably inside a band. Correcting to 8% buys you headroom for the next batch's measuring error. The page states melting point and pour temperature both as 80–90°C; attribute those to the page and log what your thermometer actually reads. One CSI customer, Thenirvaofficial, calls it "one of the best wax for container Candles".
The oil this guide prices · stated 6–10% of total wax weight
Lavender Fragrance Oil
Worth showing because the price per gram is what makes the correction obviously worthwhile. At the 100 g price of ₹540 the oil is ₹5.40 a gram, so the 20 g of surplus you poured is ₹108 of material you are not going to throw away to save ₹149.75 of wax. The page states a recommended load of 6-10% of total wax weight for candles and 10-15% for wax melts — note that the oil page and the wax page can state different ceilings, and the honest rule is to work to the lower of the two.
Size
Price
Per 100g
200g candles @ 8% of wax wt
15 gm
₹105.02
₹700.13
≈1
50 gm
₹270
₹540
≈3
100 gm
₹540
₹540
≈6
500 gm
₹2,620
₹524
≈33
1 kg
₹5,221
₹522.10
≈66
₹5.40 per gram at the 100 g pack — ₹540 of oil is in your potBuy Lavender oil
Priced above: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299, 1 kg ₹599, 5 kg ₹2,995, 10 kg ₹5,999 — ₹0.599 per gram, so 250 g = ₹149.75. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 — ₹0.5074 per gram, so 250 g = ₹126.85. Lavender Fragrance Oil 100 gm ₹540 = ₹5.40 per gram; 20 g of surplus = ₹108. Candle counts in the size tables use 185 g of wax per 200 g candle at 8% of wax weight (185 g wax + 14.81 g oil = 199.81 g).
Correcting the same error at production scale? The same waxes ship in 5 kg and 10 kg packs at flat listed per-kilo pricing, and bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation are handled on WhatsApp.
Brief, because prevention is worth less to you right now than the correction was. Three habits remove almost every version of this error.
Three lines on a batch sheet
Write the wax weight, the oil weight and the basis before you melt anything — "1,000 g wax · 80 g oil · 8% of wax weight". Then tare the pot and weigh the oil into it rather than pouring from the bottle by count or by eye; a 20 g overshoot on a 100 g target is the kind of thing that happens when you are pouring from a 500 g bottle and counting seconds. Finally, weigh the bottle before and after so the batch sheet records what actually went in, not what you intended. Those three lines are also what make a correction possible later: the rescue in this guide only works because you know the oil figure.
If you are correcting because your scale resolution is coarse, that is worth fixing at the source. On a 1 kg batch, a scale that reads to 1 g resolves 0.1 of a percentage point of load — fine. On a 15 g trial bottle poured into a 120 g test jar, the same scale is resolving nearly a full percentage point. Weigh the small batches on the same instrument you weigh the big ones, and step the batch size up rather than the precision down. The full first-test layout is in how to compare two fragrance oils using a controlled burn test.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. We sell wax, which means the version of this page that made us the most money would tell you to bin the kilo and buy two more. Instead it tells you that ₹149.75 of correction wax recovers ₹540 of oil, that ten percent is inside the stated band on the wax most of you are holding, and that in one of the three routes above the right answer is to spend nothing at all.
Every price and pack size here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Fragrance loads, add temperatures, pour temperatures and cure guidance are quoted only where the product page states them — "8% to 13% of total wax weight" with 10% recommended and a 48-hour minimum cure on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, "up to 10%" on CSI 464, "6-10% of total wax weight" on Lavender Fragrance Oil. Those are wax and oil formulation figures, not regulatory limits, and where a page states nothing we say so.
For help checking a correction on a batch larger than a kilo, for bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documentation, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How much wax do I add to bring 100 g of fragrance oil in 1 kg of wax back to 8%?
250 g, on the total-wax-weight basis CSI's pages use. The sum is oil ÷ target load: 100 ÷ 0.08 = 1,250 g of wax needed, minus the 1,000 g you already have. The corrected batch weighs 1,350 g and fills six 200 g candles with 150 g spare. At Luxury Soy Wax Chunks pricing of ₹599 a kilo that addition costs ₹149.75. If your 8% meant 8% of the finished candle instead, the answer is 150 g.
Is 8% fragrance load measured on the wax or on the finished candle?
Both conventions are in use, and they are not interchangeable. 8% of total wax weight is 80 g of oil per kilo of wax; 8% of finished candle weight is 87 g per kilo of wax. CSI product pages state loads as a percentage of total wax weight — the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page says "8% to 13% of total wax weight" and the Lavender page says "6-10% of total wax weight". Pick one, write it on your batch sheet, and never switch mid-recipe.
Can I just pour the candles at 10% instead of correcting the batch?
Possibly. 10% of total wax weight is inside the stated 8–13% range on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, and that page recommends 10%. If your oil page also covers 10% — Lavender states 6-10%, Sandalwood states up to 10% for soy — then pouring is a legitimate choice. Treat it as its own batch: new batch code, new burn test, and do not mix those candles with 8% stock under the same label. If your wax states a lower ceiling, correct instead.
Do I have to use the same wax to correct the batch?
Yes, if you want the result to be a formula you can document. Adding a different wax gives you a blend whose melt behaviour, pour window and fragrance-holding capacity are stated nowhere — not on either product page and not in any test you have run. The load arithmetic still works, because it only counts grams, but every other specification becomes unknown. If the same wax is genuinely unavailable, treat the result as a brand-new formula and burn-test it from zero rather than carrying your old wick choice across.
Does correcting the load mean I have to burn-test again?
Yes. Fragrance oil changes how a wick draws fuel and how the pool opens, so a wick proven at 10% has not been proven at 8%. Cure also restarts from the new pour — the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing. Burn one corrected candle to a full melt pool, check flame height and soot, and only then commit the rest. A corrected batch is a recoverable batch, not a tested one.
What if I don't know exactly how much fragrance oil went in?
Then you cannot calculate a correction, because every formula here starts from the oil weight. Weigh the bottle and compare it with the labelled fill — CSI oils are listed at 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg, so the shortfall usually tells you the answer. If that fails, the honest fallback is to dilute by ratio rather than to a target: add an equal weight of unscented wax, which halves whatever the load was, then burn-test and treat the result as a new formula. Guessing a load and printing it on a label is the one option to avoid.
Fix the kilo, keep the oil
250 grams of plain wax, ₹149.75, one extra jar — and the batch you meant to make in the first place.
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299 or 1 kg ₹599 with a stated 8–13% of total wax weight, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 with a stated ceiling up to 10%, Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399, Lavender Fragrance Oil 100 gm ₹540, Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10 and a Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354 so it does not happen twice. Message us to check your correction maths before you remelt.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the dilution arithmetic, the two load conventions and the retest rule apply to any supplier's wax.
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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299, 1 kg ₹599, 5 kg ₹2,995, 10 kg ₹5,999 (₹0.599/g); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 (₹0.5074/g); Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399; Lavender Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹105.02, 50 gm ₹270, 100 gm ₹540, 500 gm ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221 (₹5.40/g at the 100 g pack); Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil 100 gm ₹300; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Stated specifications as published on product pages: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "10% Recommended", add fragrance 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C (the same page also states 75–80°C in its details table), cure minimum 48 hours ideally 1–2 weeks before burn testing; CSI 464 "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", melting point and pour temperature both stated 80–90°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir 2 minutes; Lavender Fragrance Oil "6-10% of total wax weight for candles", "10-15% for wax melts". Loads are wax and oil formulation figures, not regulatory limits. Assumptions, labelled as such: all load arithmetic on this page is a percentage of total wax weight unless the finished-candle basis is named; the 200 g fill weight and the resulting candle counts are planning figures — weigh your own filled jar; candle counts in the pick-card tables assume 185 g of wax per 200 g candle at 8% of wax weight; remelt losses to the pot and utensils are not included in the candle counts and should be measured on your own batch; ₹149.75 = 250 g × ₹0.599, ₹126.85 = 250 g × ₹0.5074, ₹74.88 = 125 g × ₹0.599, ₹224.63 = 375 g × ₹0.599, ₹299.50 = 500 g × ₹0.599, ₹374.38 = 625 g × ₹0.599; per-gram blend costs are (wax g × wax ₹/g + oil g × oil ₹/g) ÷ batch g. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
