I Need 92 Kg of Soy Wax for Confirmed Production — Should I Order 100 Kg or More to Cover Tests, Losses and Replacements?

The short answer: 100 kg is enough only if your losses are lean

A confirmed run of 92 kg of wax is a tidy number: at 200 g candles and an 8% load (184 g of wax each) it is exactly 500 candles. Ordering 100 kg gives you 8 kg of headroom — 8.7% over the net need. Whether that is enough depends on four lines that every run spends wax on: pour and process loss, test candles, cosmetic rejects that are re-poured, and replacements for candles that break or fail in transit. The right order is the sum of those lines, rounded up to real packs.

With labelled example allowances, a lean run (3% loss, 6 test candles, 1% rejects, 0.5% replacements) needs 97.24 kg and fits inside 100 kg with 2.76 kg to spare. A typical run (4%, 10, 2%, 1%) needs 100.28 kg — 0.28 kg over. A cautious run (5%, 14, 3%, 2%) needs 103.78 kg — 3.78 kg over, about 21 candles' worth. So 100 kg is a reasonable order only if your own records say your runs are lean. Otherwise order to the gross need — on CSI 464's flat ladder, to the nearest kilogram.

That is the whole answer, and it rests on something only you have: your own loss record. If you have run batches before, count how much wax you bought against how many saleable candles you shipped; that ratio is your real allowance and it beats every example on this page. If you have not, use the typical case and keep a record this time. The 75 kg post builds the same stack for a one-off order bought in cartons; this page is about a confirmed run where the headroom question is "is the round number enough?".

The headroom test: what 8 kg has to cover

The table lays out each allowance line for the three example scenarios and sets the total against the 8 kg of headroom that a 100 kg order gives you. Percentages apply to the net 92 kg; test candles are whole candles at 184 g. Every figure is a labelled example — replace them with your own.

The last row is the one to think about. A single batch that has to be scrapped entirely — a contaminated melt, a wrong oil added, a pour that sets badly enough to be unusable — consumes 5 kg at once and takes every scenario past 100 kg. Not every reject is a total loss: candles with cosmetic faults can often be melted down and re-poured, recovering much of their wax (an example recovery of 50% is used nowhere in the totals above, so the stack is slightly conservative). But a confirmed run should be able to survive one bad batch without an emergency order.

Rounding to real packs: 100, 101, 104 or 105 kg

Once you know your gross need, round it up to packs you can actually buy. The two example waxes behave differently. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 is ₹507.40 a kilo in every bag from 1 kg to 10 kg, so you can stop at the nearest kilogram above your need. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks is cheapest above 1 kg in 5 kg bags (₹599.00 a kilo; the 10 kg bag is ₹599.90), so the order steps in 5 kg units. CSI lists no 100 kg pack; 100 kg is ten 10 kg bags or twenty 5 kg bags, and anything above the listed bags is a WhatsApp quote with no published discount.

In CSI 464 the difference between the round 100 kg and the typical gross need is one 1 kg bag (₹507.40); the cautious case adds four (₹2,029.60). In Chunks the step from 100 kg to 105 kg is one 5 kg bag (₹2,995.00), which covers both the typical and the cautious cases. Those are small sums against a run of 500 candles carrying ₹242.94 to ₹259.79 of materials each.

Build your own allowance record from this run

The examples on this page are only a starting point. The most valuable thing a 92 kg run can give you, besides 500 candles, is your own loss record. Write down five numbers and the next order will not need any examples at all.

Before the run: the first bag against a control

The test-candle line in the stack is not decoration. Before 500 candles are poured, pour three from the first bag of this delivery beside three controls from your retained, approved wax — same oil lot, wick, jar and day — and score them. CSI publishes no lot numbers or batch-consistency data, so this is how you know the delivery behaves like the wax you approved.

The two waxes priced for this run

Priced because their ladders round differently, not because one performs better. CSI publishes no data ranking them; order the wax your candle is approved in.

The decision rule

For the reader who asked: if you have no loss record, order the typical gross need — 10 × 10 kg + 1 × 1 kg of CSI 464 (₹51,247.40) or 21 × 5 kg of Chunks (₹62,895.00) — check the first bag against a control, and record the five numbers above as you go. Next time, order from your record. Whether wholesale wax moves COGS on a 1,000-candle order looks at the money side of a run this size, and setting a reorder point turns repeat runs into a system.

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