I Mixed Lavender and Vanilla at the Wrong Ratio and Vanilla Is Overpowering Everything — Can I Rebalance the Existing Fragrance Blend Without Starting Again?
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CSI batch rescue guides · blend ratios
Adding wax changes how loud a blend is. Only adding oil changes its ratio — and the ratio is where your rescue runs out of room first.
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✓ Ratio formula shown and worked in grams✓ Ceilings quoted from both oil pages✓ Bulk pricing & GST invoicing on WhatsApp
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You can move the ratio, but not as far as you think, and not before you have waited out the cure. A 30:70 blend can be pushed to 44% lavender inside the load both product pages recommend — after that every extra gram of lavender takes you above 10% of wax weight, and the batch stops being a candle you can describe.
44%
the most lavender a 30:70 blend can reach without breaking the 6–10% for candles both the Lavender and vanilla pages state · 20 g of lavender added to a 1 kg / 80 g batch, ₹108 at ₹5.40 a gram · a true 70:30 flip would need 106.67 g and an 18.67% load · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Can I rebalance it? Yes, by 44% lavender at most. The formula is add = (target share × current total oil − current lavender) ÷ (1 − target share). On 24 g lavender and 56 g vanilla, reaching 44% takes 20 g; reaching 70% takes 106.67 g and a load of 18.67% of wax weight.
Should I do it today? No. Vanilla reads louder in hot and freshly poured wax than it does in a cured candle. Wait for the cure the pages state — 48–72 hours for soy on both vanilla pages — and re-smell before you spend a rupee.
Won't adding wax help? It changes the wrong thing. Wax dilutes both oils equally, so it makes the candle quieter at the same 30:70 ratio. Wax changes intensity; only oil changes proportion.
What is the cheaper answer? Rename it. Put the dominant note first — a vanilla candle with lavender in it — and a ₹576 ratio chase becomes a product decision that costs nothing.
The short answer
Ratios move asymmetrically: because you can only add, every step towards parity costs more than the last. Going from 30% to 44% lavender costs 20 g. Going from 44% to 70% costs another 86.67 g — more than four times as much oil for less than twice the movement.
Test on 100 g, not on the batch: three bench samples at 44%, 50% and 60% lavender need 1.85 g, 2.96 g and 5.56 g of lavender — ₹10, ₹16 and ₹30. Fifty-six rupees answers a question that costs ₹576 to answer in the pot.
Know which ceiling you are against: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% of total wax weight, but the Lavender page states 6–10% for candles and the vanilla pages state up to 10% for soy. The lower figure is the one a customer can check.
Bar length is lavender's share of the fragrance blend; every figure comes from a 1 kg batch carrying 24 g of lavender and 56 g of vanilla. The two solid bars are the only rebalanced blends that stay inside the 6–10% for candles both pages recommend. Notice how the bars bunch: the first 20 g of lavender buys 14 percentage points of share, and the next 86.67 g buys 26 — at a load nearly twice the ceiling.
My lavender and vanilla came out at roughly 30:70 and the vanilla has taken over. Can I rebalance the blend I already have?
Yes, within a narrow band, and only after you have let it cure. Take a 1 kg batch of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks carrying 24 g of Lavender and 56 g of Vanilla Bean — 80 g of oil, a load of 8% of wax weight on the basis CSI's pages use, or 7.41% of finished candle weight. To make lavender a share t of the blend you add (t × 80 − 24) ÷ (1 − t) grams. That gives 20 g for 44%, 32 g for 50% and 106.67 g for 70%. Only the first of those stays inside the 6–10% for candles that both the Lavender page and the vanilla pages state: 20 g takes the load to exactly 10% of wax weight, 32 g takes it to 11.2% and 106.67 g to 18.67%. So 44% lavender is your ceiling, ₹108 of oil at ₹5.40 a gram, and it leaves the blend still fractionally vanilla-led. Two things follow. First, do not spend that ₹108 today: vanilla is loudest in warm and green wax, and both vanilla pages state a cure of 48–72 hours for soy — re-smell then. Second, resist the instinct to add wax instead. Wax lowers both oils together, so it makes a 30:70 candle a quieter 30:70 candle; the wax lever belongs to the too-much-oud post, where the target is one note's absolute concentration rather than a ratio.
One line: cure it, re-smell it, then add at most 20 g of lavender for 44% — and if 44% is not enough, the honest fix is the label, not the formula.
Before you commit the batch, buy small: Lavender Fragrance Oil is ₹105.02 at 15 gm and ₹5.40 a gram at both 50 gm (₹270) and 100 gm (₹540), so there is no per-gram penalty for the small bottle at 50 g and up — and 15 g is more than enough for three bench samples.
The blend you are unhappy with does not exist yet. You are smelling an intermediate state of it.
This is the cheapest paragraph on the page, so it goes first. Almost every "the vanilla has taken over" message arrives within a day of the pour, and vanilla is precisely the note that most misleads you at that stage. A freshly poured candle is still giving off the volatile top of the blend while the wax is soft and open, and the sweet, heavy, low-volatility materials in a vanilla are the ones that read strongest in a warm room next to a pot you have just been stirring. Nothing about that is a measurement of the candle you will sell in a fortnight.
The pages themselves give you the waiting period. Vanilla Bean states a cure of 48–72 hours for soy wax and 24–48 hours for paraffin; Dark Vanilla states 6–10% for soy candles with a 48–72 hour cure; the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing. For a blend judgement rather than a burn test, 72 hours is the minimum that means anything and seven days is better. How far a family can move across a cure is the whole subject of how cure time changes the smell of different fragrance families.
The mistake: correcting a blend from the pot, on the day. Twice over, actually. You are judging a scent while your nose has been saturated by the same oil for twenty minutes — olfactory fatigue makes the note you have been smelling quieter, not louder, so the note that seems dominant is often the one you added second and handled least. And you are judging the wrong candle, because the cure has not happened. If you add 20 g of lavender on day one and the cure then brings the lavender forward on its own, you have arrived at a blend you never designed and cannot reproduce. Pour one jar, close the workshop, come back on day three in a different room. That costs nothing and it is the single highest-value action available to you.
The ratio formula, and why it gets steeper
If the cured candle really is too vanilla, the arithmetic is straightforward — and it is worth understanding why it behaves the way it does, because the shape of the curve is the actual answer to the question in the title.
Let A be the grams of lavender already in the batch, T the total grams of oil, and t the share of the blend you want lavender to be. Because you can only add, the amount to add is:
add = (t × T − A) ÷ (1 − t)
The divisor is what makes this unpleasant. As t rises towards 1, (1 − t) shrinks towards zero, so the grams required climb away from you. Getting lavender from 30% to 44% costs 20 g. Getting it from 44% to 70% costs another 86.67 g. That is 4.3 times the oil for 1.9 times the movement, and it is not a quirk of these two oils — it is true of every addition-only rebalance you will ever do. It is also why the single most valuable habit in blending is weighing the smaller component first, while the batch is empty and a gram is still a gram.
Rebalancing a 24 g : 56 g blend in 1 kg of wax · CSI live pricing, September 2026
What each target share costs in lavender, in load, and in rupees per candle
Target lavender share
Lavender to add
Total oil
Load, wax basis
Load, finished candle
Lavender cost
Materials per 200 g candle
30% — as poured
—
80 g
8.0%
7.41%
—
₹234.20
44% — the ceiling
20 g
100 g
10.0%
9.09%
₹108.00
₹255.80
50%
32 g
112 g
11.2%
10.07%
₹172.80
₹268.76
60%
60 g
140 g
14.0%
12.28%
₹324.00
₹299.00
70%
106.67 g
186.67 g
18.67%
15.73%
₹576.02
₹349.40
Worked out above: batch = 1,000 g Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599 + 24 g Lavender at ₹5.40/g (the 50 gm and 100 gm rate) = ₹129.60 + 56 g Vanilla Bean at ₹7.90/g (the 100 gm rate) = ₹442.40, so ₹1,171.00 as poured. The batch is 1,080 g, which is five whole 200 g candles with 80 g over — and it stays five candles at every row in the table, because even 106.67 g of extra oil only takes the batch to 1,186.67 g. That is why the per-candle column rises steadily here: you are buying oil without buying candles. Lavender at 106.67 g means buying the 100 gm pack (₹540) plus a 15 gm bottle (₹105.02) — ₹645.02 for 115 g — since there is no 110 g size.
Compare that last column with what happens in the neighbouring rescues and the difference in this post's economics becomes obvious. When you correct a load by adding wax, the batch grows and the candle count grows with it, so cost per candle barely moves and sometimes falls. When you correct a ratio by adding oil to a fixed quantity of wax, the batch barely grows at all — 80 g of oil becomes 186.67 g and the candle count stays at five — so every rupee of oil lands directly on the unit cost. Chasing a ratio is the most expensive thing you can do per candle in this entire cluster.
Two ceilings, and here the oil pages are the binding one
The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states a recommended fragrance load of 8% to 13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, which on 1 kg is 130 g of headroom. It would happily hold the 50:50 blend. But the Lavender page states 6–10% for candles and the Vanilla Bean page states up to 10% for soy wax, so at 112 g you are outside what CSI publishes about your oils even though you are inside what it publishes about your wax. Work to the lower figure. One CSI customer, Emma Bechara, makes the case for staying low better than a specification can: "you can go for the minimum percentage in candle still it will give amazing smell". The full argument is in how to make candles smell strong without exceeding the safe fragrance load.
Wax changes intensity; oil changes ratio
Most makers reach for wax when a scent is wrong, because adding wax is the correction they have read about most often. On this specific problem it does nothing useful, and understanding why makes the whole cluster easier to navigate.
The two levers on a two-oil blend
What each one moves, what it leaves alone, and which problem it belongs to
Read the last two rows as a diagnostic question you should answer before you do anything. Is the complaint that the candle smells too strongly of vanilla, or that it does not smell enough of lavender? They feel identical when you are standing over the jar and they have opposite solutions. If a visitor says "that is a lovely vanilla candle" you have a naming problem. If they say "that is overwhelming" you have a load problem and wax is your lever. If they say "I can't find the lavender" you have a ratio problem and this page's 20 g is your answer. Deciding which sentence you are hearing is worth more than either correction.
Do not pull both levers at once. Adding 20 g of lavender and 500 g of wax in the same operation gives you a batch whose load, whose ratio, whose weight and whose candle count have all changed together — and if the result is wrong you cannot tell which change did it. It also invalidates any comparison with the reference jar you kept. One variable, one batch, one note in the batch sheet. If you genuinely need both corrections, do the ratio first on a 100 g bench sample, confirm it, and treat the wax dilution as a separate decision with its own test. The reasoning behind single-variable testing runs through how to compare two fragrance oils using a controlled burn test.
Three ₹10 bench samples before one ₹576 decision
You own the perfect test medium: 1,080 g of wax already carrying the exact fault. Decant 300 g of it into three 100 g portions and buy the answer for fifty-six rupees.
1
Work out what 100 g of your scented wax containsAt 8% of wax weight, 100 g of the batch is 92.59 g of wax and 7.41 g of oil — of which 30% is lavender (2.22 g) and 70% is vanilla (5.19 g). Everything below scales from those two numbers, and they are the reason a bench sample is a fair model rather than an approximation: the sample has the same ratio and the same load as the batch.
2
Weigh the three additionsApply the same formula at sample scale. For 44% lavender add 1.85 g; for 50% add 2.96 g; for 60% add 5.56 g. At ₹5.40 a gram that is ₹10.00, ₹16.00 and ₹30.02 — ₹56.02 for all three, against ₹576.02 to reach 70% in the pot. A 15 gm bottle of Lavender at ₹105.02 covers the lot with room to repeat.
3
Pour four votives, not threePour the three variants and one control from the untouched batch. Clear Glass Votive Jars state a capacity of about 70 g of wax fill and cost ₹31.86 each in the pack of 5, so the four vessels are ₹127.44. Label them on the base before you pour — 44, 50, 60, control — because after three days you will not remember.
4
Add at the stated temperature and stir two timed minutesRemelt each 100 g portion, bring it to the 80–90°C add window the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states, weigh in the lavender and stir for a timed two minutes. A 1.85 g addition into 100 g of wax is easy to under-mix, and an under-mixed sample will read as an inconsistent blend rather than a wrong one — the fault described in the cool-add reheat post.
5
Cure 72 hours, then rank them blindHave someone shuffle the four votives and cover the labels. Rank them for cold throw and for whether you can identify lavender at all. Do it in a room with no open oil in it. If you cannot pick the 44% sample out from the control, the 20 g correction is not worth ₹108 — and that is a genuinely useful result, not a failure.
6
Burn the winner before you scale itWhichever sample wins, it is a new formula at a new load with a wick you have not tested against it. Burn the votive for up to three hours: time to a full melt pool, flame height, soot, and throw at 30 and 120 minutes, scored against your notes using the hot throw testing guide. Only then take the correction to the remaining 780 g.
The CSI principle
A ratio you can only push in one direction is not a dial. It is a door you have already walked through — so the question is never "how do I get back", it is "how far into the room am I willing to pay to go".
Twenty grams of lavender buys fourteen percentage points. The next eighty-seven grams buy twenty-six, at a load your own product pages do not support and a unit cost half again as high. Nothing about that arithmetic is a reason to despair — it is a reason to weigh the minor component first, next time, and to name this batch honestly this time.
The answer nobody wants: rename the candle
If 44% lavender is not enough, you have three options and only one of them is free.
Option one: rename it. The blend you actually made is a vanilla candle with a lavender lift. Put the dominant note first — and now the 70:30 you are unhappy with is a deliberate composition rather than a miss. This is not a rhetorical trick; it is what the ratio genuinely is, and a customer who buys a vanilla-led candle and receives one is satisfied, while a customer who buys a lavender candle and receives this is not. It costs a label revision. Vanilla-led gourmands also have a wider audience than most makers expect, which is the argument in vanilla vs coffee: which gourmand candle has wider appeal, and if you decide to commit to the vanilla direction, Dark Vanilla is the deeper option in the range.
Option two: split the batch. Take 540 g — half the batch — push it to 44% lavender with 10 g of oil, and leave the other half as the vanilla-led version. You get two small products from one mistake, two labels, and two data points about which one your customers reach for. The cost is ₹54 of lavender and the discipline to keep the two halves separate from the pot onwards. This is the option most small makers should take, because it converts a formulation problem into market research.
Option three: accept the material as material. If neither version is a product you want on your shelf, 1,080 g of scented soy is still a legitimate second life. There is no wick in a wax melt, so the entire wick-retesting question disappears, and the fragrance pages commonly state 10–15% for wax melts against 6–10% for candles — meaning a load that is high for a candle can be right for a melt. It is also perfectly good stock for the wick-test blanks every maker needs and nobody budgets for. What it should not become is a candle sold under a name that does not describe it.
There are two ways to fix a blend where the wrong note leads. One costs five hundred and seventy-six rupees and a fortnight. The other costs a new label.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
What to buy, and in what size
Three lines. Note that the right pack size here is the small one — a rebalance is a 20 g operation and a bench test is a 6 g operation, so the 15 g and 50 g bottles are the efficient buys, not the 500 g.
1
The oil you are adding · flat-priced from 50 g
Lavender Fragrance Oil | Candle Fragrances
The most-reviewed lavender in the CSI range and the oil this rebalance runs on. Its page states a recommended load of 6–10% for candles and 10–15% for wax melts, and — usefully for a rescue — the listed price per gram is identical at 50 gm and 100 gm, ₹5.40, so a 20 g correction costs ₹108 whichever of those you buy. The 15 gm bottle at ₹105.02 works out dearer per gram (₹7.00) but is the right buy for bench samples, where you need six grams and not sixty. The page states no flash point; it mentions IFRA, and documentation is supplied on request rather than asserted here. Akansha's review speaks to what you are trying to recover: "Fragrance is awesome. Hot throw is also very good after burn candle."
The oil for makers who take option one and rename the candle as a vanilla. Its page is candid about both sides of the trade: Flashpoint ~191-193°C, a recommended 6–10% for soy wax candles with a 48–72 hour cure, 6–8% for paraffin, and 10–15% for wax melts — and a straight answer to whether it discolours candles, which is yes. That last point is the reason a vanilla-led candle is usually easier to sell in an amber or coloured jar than in clear glass, and why the discolouration is worth designing around rather than fighting: see why some vanilla fragrance oils turn candle wax yellow. One CSI customer's review of it is three words long and to the point: "One of the best fragrance oils".
Size
Price
Per kg
100 g bench samples @ 8%
15 gm
₹130
₹8,666.67
≈2
50 gm
₹410
₹8,200
≈6
100 gm
₹790
₹7,900
≈13
500 gm
₹3,840
₹7,680
≈67
1 kg
₹7,646
₹7,646
≈135
₹8.20 / g at 50 gm, ₹7.90 / g at 100 gm · stated 6–10% for candlesBuy Dark Vanilla
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The vessel a ratio test needs
Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram
A ratio test needs four small identical vessels, not four different ones — change the jar and you have changed the burn as well as the blend, and the comparison is worthless. This votive states a capacity of about 70 g of wax fill, which is the smallest honest unit for a cold-throw and hot-throw comparison, and at ₹31.86 each in the pack of 5 a four-jar test costs ₹127.44. Your 1,080 g batch would fill about fifteen of them, so a 10-pack at ₹318.60 also covers a split-the-batch experiment. Note the page's body text refers to purple matte and matte white finishes despite the clear-glass title, so buy on the stated capacity rather than the description.
Size
Price
Per piece
Pack of 5
₹159.30
₹31.86
Pack of 10
₹318.60
₹31.86
₹31.86 each in the pack of 5 · a four-variant ratio test for ₹127.44Buy Votive Jars
Blending two oils well is easier when you can afford to be wrong. Most CSI oils list from 15 g, and 1 kg is the largest listed pack — above that, pricing is quoted and the listed per-kilo figure is the ceiling. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and SDS or IFRA documentation requests all go through WhatsApp.
A ratio correction looks like the mildest intervention in this series and it is not. Three things move together when you add 20 g of lavender to that batch, and each one has its own test.
Retest scope after a ratio correction
What changed, why it matters, and what to check
What changed
From → to
Why it matters
Test
Total fragrance load
8.0% → 10.0% of wax weight
More oil in the fuel changes how the wick draws
Full melt pool and flame height on one cured jar
Blend composition
30:70 → 44:56
A different material mix reaches the flame
Throw at 30 and 120 minutes, soot, mushrooming
Heat history
One cycle → two
The batch has been held at temperature again
Compare against your reference jar, not against memory
Colour risk
56 g of vanilla in a slightly larger blend
Vanilla Bean states 2.5% vanillin and warns of potential discoloration
An unwicked disc kept beside a control for 14 days
Fill weight per jar
Unchanged
You still pour 200 g into the same jar
Nothing — no label recalculation needed
Candle count
5 → 5
The batch grew 20 g; that is not a candle
Nothing
The two "nothing" rows are the good news, and they are what makes a ratio correction administratively simpler than a wax dilution: your net weight on the label is still right, your jar is still right, and your production quantities do not need recalculating. The four rows above them are why the batch still cannot ship until a jar has burned. A rebalanced blend is a new formula wearing the old formula's packaging, and the honest position is that it is untested until you test it — the same position taken in do I need to repeat the wick test after correcting a batch.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The version of this page that sells the most lavender tells you to chase 70:30 — that is ₹576.02 of oil on a single 1 kg batch, more than five times the correction we actually recommend. We have put the ₹108 answer in the headline and a free answer, renaming the candle, in its own section, because a maker who learns to weigh the minor component first stops needing rescue posts.
Every price and stated specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026, and the linked product pages are always authoritative. Loads are quoted only where a page states them, and CSI's wax pages express them as a percentage of total wax weight — the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page says "8% to 13% of total wax weight". The Lavender page states 6–10% for candles and no flash point; Vanilla Bean states up to 10% for soy wax, a 203°C flashpoint and 2.5% vanillin with a discolouration warning; Dark Vanilla states 6–10% for soy candles and a ~191-193°C flashpoint. These are formulation figures, not regulatory limits. Where a page mentions IFRA we say it mentions IFRA; CSI supplies SDS and IFRA documentation on request and no certificate is asserted here. No page in the fragrance range states a shelf life or a storage specification, so neither does this one.
For help picking a second oil that will sit under a note you already have, for bulk pricing above the 1 kg listed pack, GST invoicing, or an SDS or IFRA documentation request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate how much of the second oil to add to fix a blend ratio?
Use add = (target share × current total oil − current amount of that oil) ÷ (1 − target share). With 24 g of lavender in 80 g of total oil, a 44% target needs (0.44 × 80 − 24) ÷ 0.56 = 20 g; a 50% target needs 32 g; a 70% target needs 106.67 g. Then check the result against your ceilings: 20 g takes a 1 kg batch to exactly 10% of wax weight, which is the top of the 6–10% band both the Lavender and vanilla pages state for candles.
Why does vanilla overpower lavender even at a low percentage?
Two reasons worth separating. Compositionally, vanilla materials are heavy, low-volatility and sweet, so they persist while a fresher herbal note dissipates — and the CSI pages reflect that, describing Vanilla Bean as a single creamy-sweet note and Dark Vanilla as rich vanilla into deep caramel and cream. Practically, you are usually judging too early: both vanilla pages state a cure of 48–72 hours for soy wax, and a day-one judgement flatters the heaviest note in the blend. Wait, then decide.
Can I add wax instead of more lavender to fix the balance?
No — it fixes a different problem. Adding wax dilutes both oils in the same proportion, so a 30:70 blend stays a 30:70 blend and simply becomes quieter. Wax is the right lever when one note is too loud in absolute terms, which is a question of grams per kilo of wax rather than share of the blend; that is the method used in the too-much-oud post. For a ratio problem, only oil moves the ratio. If you need both corrections, do them as two separate batches with two separate tests.
What is the maximum fragrance load for a lavender and vanilla blend?
Work to the lower of two published figures. Your wax sets one: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8% to 13% of total wax weight, with 10% recommended, and CSI 464 states up to 10%. Your oils set the other: the Lavender page states 6–10% for candles and the Vanilla Bean page states up to 10% for soy wax. So a blend of those two in Chunks should be held at 10% of wax weight even though the wax would hold 13%. Both are formulation figures published by CSI, not regulatory limits.
How much does it cost to rebalance a blend versus remaking the batch?
A 20 g lavender correction is ₹108 and takes materials from ₹234.20 to ₹255.80 per 200 g candle, because the batch gains oil without gaining a candle. Remaking 1 kg from scratch at the same ratio costs ₹1,171.00 and throws away the ₹1,171.00 already spent. So rebalancing is cheap in absolute terms and expensive per candle — which is exactly why the two free options, renaming the candle or splitting the batch into two products, deserve a serious look before you open the bottle.
Do I need to burn-test again after adjusting a blend ratio?
Yes. Three things changed at once: the total load went from 8.0% to 10.0% of wax weight, the material mix reaching the flame changed, and the wax took another heat cycle. Any of those can shift how the wick behaves, and the wick was chosen against the old formula. Cure at least to what the pages state — 48–72 hours for soy on the vanilla pages, a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks on the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page — then check melt pool, flame, soot and throw at 30 and 120 minutes against a reference jar.
Cure it, bench-test it, then decide
44% lavender for ₹108, or 70% for ₹576.02 and a load your own pages do not support. Fifty-six rupees of bench samples will tell you which.
Lavender Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹105.02, 50 gm ₹270, 100 gm ₹540, 500 gm ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221 — ₹5.40 a gram at 50 gm and 100 gm, stated 6–10% for candles; Dark Vanilla 15 gm ₹130 to 1 kg ₹7,646 with a stated ~191-193°C flashpoint and a 48–72 hour soy cure; Vanilla Bean 50 gm ₹410 with a stated 203°C flashpoint and 2.5% vanillin; Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram ₹159.30 for 5; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599/kg, stated 8–13% of total wax weight. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and SDS or IFRA documentation.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the ratio formula, the bench-sample method and the two-lever distinction apply to any supplier's oils.
Customer reviews: The five 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: Stated specifications as published on product pages — Lavender Fragrance Oil: recommended fragrance load "6-10% of total wax weight for candles", "10-15% for wax melts", no flash point stated, page mentions IFRA (documentation on request; no certificate asserted here); Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil: "Flashpoint: 203°C", "Recommended Fragrance Load: Up to 10% for soy wax Up to 6% for paraffin wax", "Cure Time: 48–72 hours for soy wax 24–48 hours for paraffin wax", "Vanillin Content: 2.5% (Potential discoloration; test with lighter waxes…)", single note, "Main Aroma: Creamy, sweet vanilla with subtle caramel undertones"; Dark Vanilla Fragrance: "Flashpoint ~191-193°C", "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48-72 hours. 6-8% for paraffin wax, cure 24-48 hours. 10-15% for wax melts", page states that it will discolour candles; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks: "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "10% Recommended", "Recommended fragrance add temp 80-90°C", "Pour at 70-80°C", cure "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests"; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 "Fragrance Load Up to 10%"; Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram "Capacity: ~70g wax fill" (its body text refers to purple matte and matte white finishes despite the clear-glass title). Loads are formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Prices — Lavender Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹105.02, 50 gm ₹270, 100 gm ₹540, 500 gm ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221; Vanilla Bean 15 gm ₹130, 50 gm ₹410, 100 gm ₹790, 500 gm ₹3,840, 1 kg ₹7,646; Dark Vanilla 15 gm ₹130, 50 gm ₹410, 100 gm ₹790, 500 gm ₹3,840, 1 kg ₹7,646; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299, 1 kg ₹599, 5 kg ₹2,995, 10 kg ₹5,999; Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram pack of 5 ₹159.30, pack of 10 ₹318.60. Worked batch, stated as assumptions: 1,000 g wax + 24 g Lavender + 56 g Vanilla Bean = 80 g of oil, a load of 8% of wax weight and 7.41% of finished candle weight, with lavender at 30% of the blend; batch 1,080 g = five whole 200 g candles with 80 g over; materials ₹599 + ₹129.60 + ₹442.40 = ₹1,171.00, or ₹234.20 per candle excluding jar, wick and label. Ratio formula add = (t × T − A) ÷ (1 − t): 44% needs 20 g (₹108.00, load 10.0% of wax weight, ₹255.80 per candle); 50% needs 32 g (₹172.80, 11.2%, ₹268.76); 60% needs 60 g (₹324.00, 14.0%, ₹299.00); 70% needs 106.67 g (₹576.02 at ₹5.40/g, 18.67%, ₹349.40) and would require buying the 100 gm pack plus a 15 gm bottle, ₹645.02 for 115 g. Bench samples: 100 g of the scented wax contains 92.59 g wax and 7.41 g oil (2.22 g lavender, 5.19 g vanilla), so 44% needs 1.85 g (₹10.00), 50% needs 2.96 g (₹16.00) and 60% needs 5.56 g (₹30.02) — ₹56.02 for all three; four 70 g votives at ₹31.86 each = ₹127.44; the 1,080 g batch fills about fifteen 70 g votives. A 14–21 day cure for soy containers is standard practice rather than a CSI specification. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
