I Already Have Fragrance Oils but Need Wax, Jars and Wicks — How Do I Choose Quantities Based on the Fragrance Inventory I Already Own?
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What does the example make? 1 kg Lavender, 500 g Roasted Coffee and 250 g Dark Vanilla → 99 poured, 90 saleable after a six-candle ladder and three confirmations.
What do I buy? 2 × 10 kg Soy Pearl, 101 White Matte jars, a wick ladder, production wicks and stickers: ₹17,386.40.
Should I stretch the oil with a lower load? No. Set the load from your tests and the wax's stated ceiling; a weaker candle to save oil costs more than the oil.
How many candles your oil can scent
The title does not say how much oil you own, so this page uses an example stock: 1 kg of Lavender, 500 g of Roasted Coffee and a part-used 250 g of Dark Vanilla. Replace it with your own weighed stock. The arithmetic runs backwards from the oil: each candle poured consumes its oil share (fill × load) plus the same re-pour and pour-loss allowances as everywhere else in this series — 17.52 g per 200 g candle at 8%.
| Format | 6% load | 8% load | 10% load |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 g White Matte jar (illustrative fill) | 133 | 99 | 78 |
| 85 g Golden Aluminium Tin (published fill) | 312 | 234 | 186 |
Two levers move the count a long way. Load: the same 1.75 kg of oil scents 133 candles of 200 g at 6% but only 78 at 10%. Format: in CSI's 85 g Golden Aluminium Tin (the one CSI container with a published fill) it scents 234 at 8%. Choose the load from your own tests and the wax's stated ceiling (CSI 464 up to 10%; Chunks and CSI 468 up to 13%; Soy Pearl none published), not to stretch the oil — a weak candle sold is a customer lost.
The worked plan: oil first, then everything else
The plan uses one format — 200 g in the White Matte Glass Jar, at an illustrative fill (CSI does not publish fill weights for its glass jars (only the 85 g Golden Aluminium Tin and the 50 g Heart Cutout Velvet Jar have published fills); weigh one test pour) — because mixing formats would add a second wick ladder (why one jar is cheaper). The wick ladder (six candles) is poured in the largest stock, Lavender, so the smaller stocks lose only their one confirmation candle each.
| Owned oil | Stock | Candles poured | Of which tests | Saleable | Oil left after pour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavender | 1,000 g | 57 | 7 | 50 | 1.6 g |
| Roasted Coffee | 500 g | 28 | 1 | 27 | 9.6 g |
| Dark Vanilla | 250 g | 14 | 1 | 13 | 4.8 g |
| Total | 1,750 g | 99 | 9 | 90 |
Every scent ends with a few grams spare — the rounding-down margin — which is fine to keep for a re-pour or a bench test. The total is 99 candles poured, which now sizes the wax, jars and wicks. Re-poured rejects go back into a cleaned jar, so jars carry breakage only; wicks and wax carry the re-pour allowance.
| Material | Rule | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Wax | 99 ÷ (1 − 5%) × 184 g × (1 + 4%) | 19,942 g |
| Jars | 99 × (1 + 2%) breakage | 101 |
| Wicks | 99 ÷ (1 − 5%) | 105 |
| Stickers | 1 per wick, sheets of 40 | 105 |
The priced wax, jar and wick order
Wax is the one material with a real choice of price structure. Soy Pearl is ₹450.00 a kilo at 1 kg and ₹424.80 from 5 kg — the only CSI soy wax with a bulk break — while CSI 464 is flat at ₹507.40. CSI's product page publishes no fragrance ceiling, melt point or pour temperature for Soy Pearl, so confirm 8% in your ladder and ask on WhatsApp for the maker's stated maximum; CSI 464's page states up to 10%. CSI publishes no data that makes either wax better in your jar.
| Item | Need | Buy | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax | 19,942 g | 2 × 10 kg | ₹8,496.00 |
| White Matte Glass Jar | 101 jars | 10 × pack of 10 + 1 × pack of 5 | ₹7,434.00 |
| Eco Thin C1 × 20 + Thick C2 × 10 — ladder | 3 + 3 | 20 + 10 | ₹212.40 |
| Production wicks (after the ladder) | 102 less spares | Thin 1 × 50 + 2 × 20 or Thick 1 × 100 | ₹944.00 |
| Wick stickers | 105 | 3 × 40 | ₹300.00 |
| CSI total | ₹17,386.40 | ||
| Per saleable candle (oil already owned) | ₹193.18 | ||
| Same order with CSI 464 instead of Soy Pearl | 2 × 10 kg | ₹19,038.40 |
With the oil already paid for, the bought materials come to ₹193.18 per saleable candle on the Soy Pearl route; the CSI 464 route costs ₹1,652.00 more for the same candles. The owned oil still has a value — at CSI's current listed prices the example stock would cost about ₹9,086.00 to replace — and it belongs in your candle costing even though it is not on this order.
| Line | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lid for the White Matte jar | example ₹15.00 | CSI does not list a lid for this jar |
| Label | example ₹8.00 | three scents, one design |
| Documentation for owned oils | — | MSDS / IFRA from the supplier you bought them from; CSI supplies documents on WhatsApp for oils bought from CSI |
Balance the range, or accept uneven stock?
The example stock gives 50 Lavender, 27 Roasted Coffee and only 13 Dark Vanilla candles. If you want the three scents to sell side by side, the cheapest fix is to top up the small stock, not to cut the large one. Bringing Dark Vanilla up to 27 saleable candles needs 240.4 g more oil.
| Line | Quantity | CSI cost |
|---|---|---|
| Dark Vanilla | 240.4 g → 2 × 100 g + 1 × 50 g | ₹1,990.00 |
| Extra wax, jars and wicks | 14 more candles | about ₹2,276.10 |
| Total to balance | about ₹4,266.10 |
Whether that is worth it depends on how you sell. A market stall with a "limited batch" scent can live with 13 candles; a website with equal photographs of three scents probably cannot. Dark Vanilla's per-gram price barely drops with size (₹7.90 at 100 g, ₹7.65 at 1 kg), so there is no bulk reason to buy more than the top-up needs. Do it after the ladder, once you know the wick — the extra candles use the same approved wick.
Check the oil before you build around it
Owned oil has a history you need to know before you size a whole order around it. How long has it been open, how has it been stored, and do you have its documents? CSI does not publish shelf lives for its fragrance oils, so judge the stock by its storage (cool, dark, tightly closed) and confirm it in the test candles: if a confirmation candle smells noticeably weaker than you expect, find out before pouring the batch.
Buy now, buy after the ladder
| When | Lines | CSI cost | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Soy Pearl, White Matte jars, wick ladder packs, stickers | ₹16,442.40 | Needed whichever wick wins |
| After the ladder | Production wicks; optional Dark Vanilla top-up | ₹944.00 + ₹1,990.00 (optional) | Wick decided; top-up only if you want an even range |
If you have several more oils than you can use in one run, treat them as a queue rather than a reason to buy more wax: pour the scents with the most stock first and keep the small bottles for bench tests. Candles and wax melts from the same oils shows another way to use up uneven stock, and one oil across three products combines the BOMs.
| Pack | Price | Per kg | Candles at 184.0 g wax |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹450.00 | ₹450.00 | 5.4 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,124.00 | ₹424.80 | 27.2 |
| 10 kg | ₹4,248.00 | ₹424.80 | 54.3 |
| 50 kg | ₹21,240.00 | ₹424.80 | 271.7 |
| Pack | Price | Per kg | Candles at 184.0 g wax |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260.00 | ₹520.00 | 2.7 |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹507.40 | 5.4 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537.00 | ₹507.40 | 27.2 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074.00 | ₹507.40 | 54.3 |
| Pack | Price | Per jar | This order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 5 | ₹354.00 | ₹70.80 | 1 |
| Pack of 10 | ₹708.00 | ₹70.80 | 10 |
| Pack | Price | Per gram | Candles at 16.0 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹130.00 | ₹8.67 | 0.9 |
| 50 g | ₹410.00 | ₹8.20 | 3.1 |
| 100 g | ₹790.00 | ₹7.90 | 6.2 |
| 500 g | ₹3,840.00 | ₹7.68 | 31.2 |
| 1 kg | ₹7,646.00 | ₹7.65 | 62.5 |
Related budget questions
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. This page sells you only wax, jars and wicks, recommends the cheaper wax route unless your tests disagree, and suggests skipping an oil top-up if uneven stock suits you.
Wax prices are CSI live pricing, re-checked 1 October 2026; oil prices are CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026, stock re-checked 4 October 2026; jar, wick and sticker packs are from the CSI listing re-checked 4 October 2026. Capacity, allowances, rounding and totals are computed to two decimals.
The owned oil stock, the 200 g fill, the 8% load, the 5% reject (re-poured), 4% pour-loss and 2% breakage rates, the ladder and confirmation counts and the packaging figures are labelled examples. CSI publishes no oil shelf lives, per-oil IFRA percentages, flash points, throw or demand data. For documents, GST invoicing or help sizing an order, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
- I Already Have Wax but Need Everything Else for 200 Candles — What Should My Fragrance, Wick, Jar and Dye Shopping List Look Like?
- I Already Have 100 Jars and Wicks — How Much Should I Budget for Soy Wax and Three Fragrance Oils to Turn Them into Saleable Candles?
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- How Do I Build a Candle Startup Purchase Plan That Moves from ₹10,000 Testing Inventory to ₹25,000, ₹50,000 and ₹1 Lakh Commercial Inventory as Sales Grow?
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Figures: Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹450.00 / 1 kg, ₹2,124.00 / 5 kg, ₹4,248.00 / 10 kg, ₹21,240.00 / 50 kg; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260.00 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / 1 kg, ₹2,537.00 / 5 kg, ₹5,074.00 / 10 kg (CSI live pricing, re-checked 1 October 2026). Lavender Fragrance Oil ₹105.02 / 15 g, ₹270.00 / 50 g, ₹540.00 / 100 g, ₹2,620.00 / 500 g, ₹5,221.00 / 1 kg; Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil ₹93.22 / 15 g, ₹230.00 / 50 g, ₹390.00 / 100 g, ₹1,890.00 / 500 g, ₹3,738.00 / 1 kg; Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil ₹130.00 / 15 g, ₹410.00 / 50 g, ₹790.00 / 100 g, ₹3,840.00 / 500 g, ₹7,646.00 / 1 kg (CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026, stock re-checked 4 October 2026). White Matte Glass Jar ₹354.00 / 5, ₹708.00 / 10 (₹70.80 each); Golden Aluminium Tin (85 g published fill) ₹360.00 / 12 (₹30.00 each); Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹118.00 / 20, ₹295.00 / 50, ₹590.00 / 100, ₹2,950.00 / 500, ₹5,900.00 / 1,000 (₹5.90 each; the 10-pack is out of stock on the 4 October 2026 re-check); Thick C2 ₹94.40 / 10, ₹188.80 / 20, ₹472.00 / 50, ₹944.00 / 100, ₹4,720.00 / 500, ₹9,440.00 / 1,000 (₹9.44 each); Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹12.00 each at every pack (₹120.00 / 10 to ₹12,000.00 / 1,000); wick stickers ₹100.00 / 40 (CSI listing re-checked 4 October 2026).
Non-price figures and assumptions: Load is a share of finished weight (oil = W × L; 200 g at 8% = 16 g oil + 184 g wax). Oil per candle poured includes a 5% re-pour and 4% pour-loss allowance (17.52 g). CSI does not publish fill weights for its glass jars (only the 85 g Golden Aluminium Tin and the 50 g Heart Cutout Velvet Jar have published fills); the 200 g fill and the owned stock are labelled examples. What CSI's product pages state (quoted, not CSI test results): Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — maximum fragrance load 13%, cure minimum 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — fragrance load up to 10%, shelf life 60 months cool and dry; Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 — melting point 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C, fragrance load up to 13%, shelf life 60 months cool and dry; Natural Soy Pearl — no melt point, pour temperature, fragrance ceiling or shelf life published. Breakage 2%, ladder and confirmation counts and packaging figures are labelled examples. Owned oil is valued at current listed prices for reference only. Material costs exclude labour, packaging, freight and GST. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November.