I Have 10 Kg of Soy Wax — Approximately How Many 100 g Finished Candles Can I Make if Each Candle Contains 8% Fragrance?
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And realistically? With a 3% pour-loss allowance you pour 105. Keep 4 as test candles and 101 are sellable. Both allowances are working assumptions; use your own if you have them.
How many should I promise a client? 95. That keeps a 3% buffer for QC rejects on top of the 101 sellable and rounds down to a clean number. If you can top up with another bag of wax, you can promise more, but not from this bag alone.
How much fragrance oil do I need to use the 10 kg? About 865 g for 105 candles including loss. In Japanese Cherry Blossom, 1 × 500 g + 4 × 100 g (₹4,500.00); the 1 kg is cheaper per gram but costs ₹342.00 more in total here.
Why 100 is the wrong answer
The division treats every 100 g candle as 100 g of wax. It is not. The 100 g is the finished candle, and 8% of it, 8 g, is fragrance oil. Only 92 g of each candle comes out of the wax bag. When the wax is what you have and the oil is bought separately, the wax runs out after 108 candles, not 100. The oil you add stretches the wax.
| Method | Calculation | Answer | What it gets wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight division | 10,000 g ÷ 100 g | 100 | Treats the candle as pure wax; leaves 800 g of wax unused |
| Oil as 8% of the wax | 10,000 g ÷ 92 g, oil = 92 g × 8% | 108 × 99.36 g | Right count, candles 0.64 g light, true load 7.41% |
| Finished-weight split (correct) | 10,000 g ÷ (100 g × 0.92) | 108 (108.70) | Nothing — but assumes zero loss and no tests |
| Finished weight possible | 10,000 g ÷ 0.92 | 10,869.57 g | Same answer in kilos: 108.7 candles' worth |
The straight division is the safer mistake, because it undercounts: you would promise 100 and have wax left over. The mistake that bites is the reverse one, on the forward calculation, where makers buy 100 g of wax per 100 g candle and end up with 8% too much wax. The 300 × 100 g wedding-favour guide and the 500 × 100 g corporate guide work that forward direction. This page runs it backwards: you already have the wax, and the question is how far it goes.
From 108 to the number you can sell
The theoretical 108 assumes every gram of wax ends up in a finished candle. In a real kitchen or workshop it does not: wax stays in the jug and the melter, a top-up pour uses a little more, the odd jar is remelted. And before selling a batch, you pour a few candles to test the wick and the burn. Each step takes candles out of the count, in this order.
| Step | Operation | Candles | Wax used or left |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Theoretical | 10,000 g ÷ 92 g | 108 (108.70) | 9,936 g used, 64 g left |
| 2 · Pour loss 3% | 10,000 g ÷ (92 g × 1.03) | 105 | 9,949.8 g used incl. loss, 50.2 g left |
| 3 · Test candles | 105 − 4 | 101 | 4 kept for wick and burn checks |
| 4 · QC buffer 3% | 101 × 0.97 = 97.97 | 97 | Allowance for rejects at final check |
| 5 · Promise | round down to a clean number | 95 | What goes on the quote |
Why round the promise down to 95 rather than quote 97? Because a clean number is easier to deliver and easier to discuss, and because the gap is small insurance. If every candle passes, you have a handful to spare for a replacement or a sample. If the wick test sends you back to pour a second round, you are still inside the promise. The general version of this logic, with more constraints than wax, is in the 100 kg commercial-run guide.
The count at other loads and losses
The title fixes 8%, but it is worth seeing how the count moves. A higher load puts more oil and less wax in each candle, so the same bag of wax makes more candles; it also needs more oil. Pour loss works the other way. CSI 464 is rated up to 10% by the wax maker, so all three loads below are inside its ceiling.
| Load | Wax per candle | No loss | 3% loss | 5% loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6% | 94 g | 106 | 103 | 101 |
| 8% | 92 g | 108 | 105 | 103 |
| 10% | 90 g | 111 | 107 | 105 |
Two things stand out. Moving from 6% to 10% adds four or five candles from the same bag, because each candle carries 4 g more oil and 4 g less wax. That is not a reason to raise the load: those extra candles cost more in fragrance than the wax they save, and the load should be decided by a burn test, not by the wax count. And a 5% loss costs about five candles against a perfect pour. If your real loss is higher, fix the process before you buy more wax; the 25 kg guide shows how the loss rate eats into a bigger bag.
A per-kilo rule of thumb
| Finished fill | Wax per candle | Candles per kg of wax | From 10 kg (no loss) | From 10 kg (3% loss) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 46.0 g | 21.74 | 217 | 211 |
| 80 g | 73.6 g | 13.59 | 135 | 131 |
| 100 g | 92.0 g | 10.87 | 108 | 105 |
| 150 g | 138.0 g | 7.25 | 72 | 70 |
| 200 g | 184.0 g | 5.43 | 54 | 52 |
The rule is simply 1,000 ÷ (fill × 0.92). It is useful for checking a quote in your head, but it is a theoretical ceiling. For anything you are going to promise, run the full five steps above. For wax-melt packs rather than candles, the same formula applies with a different load; the 10 kg wax-melt guide works it at 12%, which only Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (rated up to 13%) allow among CSI's waxes with a published ceiling.
What you need to buy to use the bag
Having the wax is half the order. To turn 105 candles' worth of wax into candles, you need the oil, the wicks and the jars. At 8% with a 3% loss allowance, the oil is 105 × 8 g × 1.03 = 865.2 g.
| Material | Need | Packs | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese Cherry Blossom Fragrance Oil | 865.2 g | 1 × 500 g + 4 × 100 g | ₹4,500.00 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 | 105 + 2% spare | 1 × 100 + 1 × 10 | ₹649.00 |
| Yankee Glass Jar 130 ml with clear cap | 105 + 1 spare | 106 × ₹47.20 | ₹5,003.20 |
| To use the bag you have | ₹10,152.20 | ||
| Replacement bag: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 10 kg | 1 × 10 kg | ₹5,074.00 |
| Including the wax | ₹15,226.20 |
On the oil, the arithmetic has a small twist. Japanese Cherry Blossom's 1 kg is ₹4.84 a gram against ₹5.00 for the 500 g and 100 g, so the kilo is cheaper per gram. But this bag needs only 865 g, and 500 g plus four 100 g bottles cost ₹4,500.00, ₹342.00 less than the 1 kg at ₹4,842.00. Buy the kilo only if you will use the spare 135 g on the next bag. Per candle, raw materials come to ₹138.52 (92 g of CSI 464, 8 g of oil at the 1 kg rate, one wick, one Yankee jar), excluding labour, labels, boxes, freight and GST.
| Pack | Price | Per kg | 100 g candles at 92 g wax |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260.00 | ₹520.00 | 5 |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹507.40 | 10 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537.00 | ₹507.40 | 54 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074.00 | ₹507.40 | 108 |
| Pack | Price | Per gram | 100 g candles at 8 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹104.00 | ₹6.93 | 1 |
| 50 g | ₹270.00 | ₹5.40 | 6 |
| 100 g | ₹500.00 | ₹5.00 | 12 |
| 500 g | ₹2,500.00 | ₹5.00 | 62 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,842.00 | ₹4.84 | 125 |
The same five steps work for any bag and any candle. 10 kg at 10% into 200 g candles shows what happens at the top of CSI 464's ceiling, 50 kg into 200 g candles with 5% wastage scales the method to a full sack, and the 1,000 × 100 g guide runs the same candle forwards, from an order to a wax quantity. For wax already in stock across many orders, I Have 30 Kg of Soy Wax in Stock and Average 180 g Finished Candles — Approximately How Many Customer Orders Can My Current Wax Inventory Support? converts it into customer orders instead of candles.
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. A supplier would rather you thought 10 kg made fewer candles than it does. This page shows the full count, explains why the easy answer of 100 undercounts, and tells you when the kilo of oil is not the cheaper buy.
Wax and oil prices are CSI live pricing, pulled on 24 September 2026; wick and jar prices are as verified in September 2026. The candle counts are arithmetic on the weights, rounded down; the costs are arithmetic on listed prices, shown to two decimals.
The 3% pour loss, 4 test candles and 3% QC buffer are working assumptions, not measured CSI rates. CSI 464's 10% ceiling is the wax maker's stated formulation maximum, not a regulatory limit. Wick sizes and the Yankee jar's fill weight are not published. For help checking your count, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documents, message CSI on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
- I Need to Make 300 × 100 g Wedding-Favour Candles — How Much Wax Should I Buy if Each Finished Candle Includes 8% Fragrance Oil?
- I Need to Produce 500 × 100 g Candles for Corporate Gifting — How Many 10 Kg Packs of Wax Will I Need After Accounting for Fragrance?
- I Need to Produce 1,000 × 100 g Scented Candles — How Much Wax and Fragrance Oil Should I Order Before Beginning Production?
- I Have 10 Kg of Soy Wax and Use 10% Fragrance — How Many 200 g Finished Candles Can I Produce from the Wax?
- I Have 25 Kg of Soy Wax — How Many 150 g Candles Can I Produce at 8% Fragrance Load After Allowing for Production Loss?
- I Have 50 Kg of Candle Wax — How Many 200 g Finished Candles Can I Realistically Produce When Fragrance and 5% Wastage Are Included?
- I Have 100 Kg of Wax for a Commercial Production Run — How Do I Calculate the Maximum Number of Finished Candles Before Promising Quantities to a Client?
- I Have 10 Kg of Wax Melt Wax — How Many 50 g Wax-Melt Packs Can I Produce After Adding 12% Fragrance?
- I Have 30 Kg of Soy Wax in Stock and Average 180 g Finished Candles — Approximately How Many Customer Orders Can My Current Wax Inventory Support?
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Figures pulled 24 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260.00 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / 1 kg, ₹2,537.00 / 5 kg, ₹5,074.00 / 10 kg. Japanese Cherry Blossom Fragrance Oil ₹104.00 / 15 g, ₹270.00 / 50 g, ₹500.00 / 100 g, ₹2,500.00 / 500 g, ₹4,842.00 / 1 kg. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹5,999.00 / 10 kg. Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹4,248.00 / 10 kg. Wick and jar figures: Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹59.00 / 10, ₹590.00 / 100 (₹5.90 each); Yankee Glass Jar 130 ml with clear cap ₹47.20 each.
Non-price figures and assumptions: Load is a share of finished weight: oil = W × L, wax = W × (1 − L); candles from a wax quantity = floor(wax ÷ (W × (1 − L))). CSI 464 is rated up to 10% fragrance load and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13% (wax makers' stated maximums, not regulatory limits). The 3% pour loss, 4 test candles and 3% QC buffer are working assumptions. CSI's CSI 464 guidance of 80–90°C should be confirmed on the product page. Wick size per jar and the Yankee jar's fill weight are not published. Material cost excludes labour, packaging, freight and GST. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and stock change; the linked product pages are authoritative.