I Want to Make a Deep Burgundy Candle in Soy Wax — Should I Use Liquid Candle Dye, Dye Chips or Another Wax-Compatible Colourant?
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There is no burgundy dye. There is red, there is a darkener, and there is a ratio you have to hold at a constant total dose or your wick test means nothing.
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CSI lists no burgundy and no maroon dye, so burgundy is a blend you mix from red and a darkener. That makes the answer easy: liquid, at ₹9.44 per millilitre, because it is the only form in the range you can dose by parts — and a chip pack publishes no weight at all.
₹9.44 / ml
Candle Dye Liquid | Red at the 50 ml price · about ₹3.93 of colourant in a 150 g burgundy candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Liquid, chips or mica for burgundy? Liquid. Burgundy is not a stocked colour, so you are mixing red with brown, purple or black — and a ratio needs two colourants you can measure in fractions. Candle Dye Liquid | Red is ₹236 for the smallest size and ₹472 for 50 ml. Red Candle Dye Chips are ₹250 for a pack with no stated weight or count, so no ratio can be expressed from them.Is mica an option? Not for this brief. CSI lists nine micas and none is burgundy or maroon. The mica pages describe a mineral dust that "creates a gorgeous pearly glow" — a shimmer, not a saturated hue — and none states a numeric dose.
How much colourant in total? No CSI dye page states a dose. Fix your own total first — this guide works at 0.30 ml per 100 g of wax, which is 0.42 ml in a 150 g candle and about ₹3.93 — then vary only the ratio inside that total. Hold the total constant and the wick sees the same colourant load in every cell.
Will soy reach a deep burgundy? The red dye page says red in soy "tends to produce lighter to medium shades of red" because soy is naturally opaque. Expect a muted, oxblood burgundy rather than a saturated one — and note that Tobacco Vanilla's own page names "deep burgundy" as a wax colour its browning suits.
The short answer
Buy two liquids, not one chip pack: red plus one darkener. Two bottles at ₹236 each give you every burgundy between scarlet and oxblood. A chip pack gives you one colour and no way to say how much you used.
Hold the total dose constant, vary the parts: four cells at 6:0, 5:1 and 4:2 red-to-brown and 5:1 red-to-purple, all at the same 0.30 ml per 100 g. The wick then faces one colourant load, not four, so the ratio is the only thing you are judging.
Judge the hue in the jar you will sell, in clear glass: a burgundy read off a chip on baking paper is not the burgundy a customer sees through 150 g of wax in a Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid at ₹94.40.
In this guide
- The straight answer
- There is no burgundy dye — which is the real question
- Liquid, chips and mica compared on what the pages state
- The unit problem: gm, ml and one pack with neither
- The constant-dose ratio matrix
- The oil that deepens the colour on purpose
- The costed six-jar burgundy basket
- Running the ratio matrix
- FAQ
This is the whole method. Four jars, one total dose, four ratios. Because the total colourant load is identical in every cell, any difference you see is hue — and the wick bracket you pick from the burn test is valid for all four, which it would not be if the doses differed.
₹9.44 per ml at 50 ml
Candle Dye Liquid | Red · from ₹236
The darkener · one part in six
Brown Candle Dye Liquid · 15 ml ₹236
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Straight answer
Liquid candle dye, dye chips or another wax-compatible colourant for a deep burgundy soy candle?
Liquid, and two bottles of it. The decision is settled by a fact about the range rather than by the merits of the forms: CSI lists no burgundy and no maroon dye, so burgundy has to be mixed from red plus a darkener — brown, purple or black. Mixing means ratios, and ratios need a colourant you can measure in fractions. Liquid gives you that at ₹236 for the smallest bottle and ₹472 for 50 ml — ₹9.44 per millilitre. Red Candle Dye Chips at ₹250 and Brown Candle Dye Chips at ₹236 are single packs whose weight and count are not stated anywhere on the page, which means a ratio expressed in chips is not a recipe anyone else could reproduce. Mica is out on availability before it is out on merit: none of CSI's nine micas is burgundy or maroon, and the mica pages describe a pearlescent shimmer, not a saturated colour. Then the method: because no dye page states a dose, fix your own total — this guide starts at 0.30 ml per 100 g of wax, which is 0.42 ml and about ₹3.93 in a 150 g candle — and run four cells that vary only the ratio inside that fixed total: 6:0, 5:1 and 4:2 red-to-brown, and 5:1 red-to-purple. Pour all four into the jar you will actually sell, Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid at ₹94.40, because clear glass is the only honest place to judge a blended hue. Expect a muted burgundy: the red dye page states that red in soy "tends to produce lighter to medium shades" because soy is naturally opaque. Total for the six-jar test, including the wick retest pair: ₹3,366.80.
One line: buy red and one darkener as liquids, fix the total dose, vary only the ratio, and judge the result through clear glass in the production jar.
Mixing burgundy? Candle Dye Liquid | Red from ₹236, Brown Candle Dye Liquid 15 ml at ₹236, and Natural Soy Pearl Wax at ₹450/kg — stepping down to ₹424.80/kg at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg.
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There is no burgundy dye — which changes the question
Every article comparing liquid dye with dye chips assumes you want a colour someone sells. For burgundy, nobody does.
CSI lists 17 candle dyes — eleven liquids and six chip packs — plus nine mica powders. The colours available are black, blue, brown, green, orange, pink, purple, red and yellow. There is no burgundy, no maroon, no oxblood, no wine. So the honest reframing of your question is not "which form of burgundy dye is best" — it is "which form of colourant lets me mix a shade that does not exist, repeatably, at a dose I can write down".
Put that way, the answer stops being a matter of preference. A ratio is two numbers. If one of your two colourants cannot be measured — and a chip pack with no stated weight cannot — you do not have a ratio, you have a memory of one. That is fine for a single candle you make for yourself and useless for a collection you intend to reproduce next month from a new pack.
CSI's dye collection by colour and form · September 2026
What exists, in which form, and whether it can be part of a measured blend
| Colour | Liquid | Chips | Mica | Use in a burgundy blend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Yes — from ₹236 | Yes — ₹250, no stated weight | No | The base. Five parts in six. |
| Brown | Yes — 15 ml ₹236, 50 ml ₹590, 100 ml ₹1,062 | Yes — ₹236, no stated weight | No | The warm darkener. One or two parts in six |
| Purple | Yes — from ₹236, 50 ₹472, 100 ₹900 | No | Yes — 10 gm ₹116.82 | The cool darkener. Takes red towards wine rather than brick |
| Black | Yes — 15 ml ₹236, 50 ml ₹472 | Yes — ₹236, no stated weight | No black mica is listed | The most powerful darkener and the easiest to overshoot. Half a part at most |
| Pink | Yes — ₹236, one size | No | Yes — 10 gm ₹116.82 | Not useful here — moves red away from depth |
| Burgundy / maroon | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | — |
The shortcut worth knowing about: a maroon jar. If what your customer needs to perceive is a deep burgundy object, the Maroon / Deep Red Matte Glass Jar at ₹70.80 in the pack of ten delivers it with no colourant in the wax and no wick retest. Its page states a fill weight of 200 ml — a volume, so weigh one filled jar — and dimensions of height 8 cm, width 7 cm; note also that its body text describes a white matte jar, a page copy error rather than a different product. That route is genuinely cheaper and safer. Everything below is for the case where the wax has to be burgundy because the jar is clear and the colour is the product.
Liquid, chips and mica compared on what the pages actually state
Set marketing aside and compare the three forms on published information only. This is what each type of page commits to, and the pattern is consistent: the liquid pages tell you how the colour behaves in different waxes, the chip pages tell you the chips dissolve evenly, and the mica pages tell you a sprinkle is enough. Only one of those three is usable as a specification.
Three colourant forms · published information only
Unit, dose, wax behaviour and blendability, as the pages state them
| Form | Sold in | Stated dose | What the page says about wax behaviour | Can you express a ratio? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid dye — 11 listings | 15, 50 and 100 units (see the unit problem below) | Not stated on any page | "Red dye in soy wax tends to produce lighter to medium shades of red… Paraffin wax is clearer than soy wax, allowing for more vibrant color payoff" | Yes — measurable in fractions, repeatable between batches |
| Dye chips — 6 listings | One pack, "Default Title", no stated weight or count | Not stated on any page | "these chips dissolve evenly in wax"; "precise control over color intensity"; suitable for "pillars, votives, or containers" | No — not until you weigh the pack yourself and write the figure on it |
| Mica powder — 9 listings | 10, 20, 50 and 100 gm | "Just a sprinkle is all you need!" — no numeric rate on any of the nine | "Creates a gorgeous pearly glow"; "All-natural and safe to use"; "won't clog your wick" | By weight, yes — but no burgundy or maroon mica is listed, and shimmer is not depth |
The mica claims deserve one careful sentence, because makers quote them at each other constantly. "Won't clog your wick" and "All-natural and safe to use" are the product pages' own wording, not measurements, and no mica page publishes a particle size, a dose or a burn test. Mica is a pigment that is suspended in wax rather than dissolved in it, which is a materially different situation from a dye — and it is why a mica candle's wick behaviour is something you establish at your own bench regardless of what any page says. For a deep, even, matte burgundy, a suspended shimmer is not the effect you are after in any case. The general comparison is covered in liquid colours vs mica powder in candle making and candle liquid dye vs dye chips.
Chips are not a worse product — they are a worse unit
Nothing here says dye chips make an inferior candle. A chip pack is a perfectly good way to colour a batch if you are colouring to taste and never need to reproduce it exactly. The moment you need a ratio — two colourants in a fixed proportion, repeated next quarter from a new pack — an unweighed pack stops working. If chips are what you have, put the unopened pack on the scale at ₹354, subtract the packaging, write the net weight on the pack, and you have converted it into a usable unit for the price of thirty seconds.The unit problem: gm, ml, and one pack with neither
Before you commit any arithmetic to a batch sheet, look closely at how the liquid dyes are actually sold, because the variant labels are not consistent — and on one product they are not even consistent with each other. Candle Dye Liquid | Red lists its three sizes as "15 gm", "50 ml" and "100 gm": two weights and a volume inside one product. Brown Candle Dye Liquid lists 15 ml, 50 ml and 100 ml. Candle Dye Liquid | Purple lists 15 ml, 50 gm and 100 gm.
This is not a reason to avoid the products; it is a reason to fix your own unit and stick to it. The practical answer is to work in grams, because a scale is more precise than counting drops and because a gram is a gram whatever the label says. Weigh the bottle, dose your melt, weigh the bottle again, and record the difference. Once you have done that twice you also know the conversion for that specific dye and can cost it either way. The prices below are the live figures with the listed unit reproduced as the page gives it.
The three liquids in the burgundy blend · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Listed sizes exactly as the store labels them, and cost per listed unit
| Liquid dye | Smallest | Middle | Largest | Best cost per listed unit | Page note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candle Dye Liquid | Red | 15 gm ₹236 (₹15.73) | 50 ml ₹472 (₹9.44) | 100 gm ₹900 (₹9.00) | ₹9.00 at the largest size | Units mix gm and ml across the three variants |
| Brown Candle Dye Liquid | 15 ml ₹236 (₹15.73) | 50 ml ₹590 (₹11.80) | 100 ml ₹1,062 (₹10.62) | ₹10.62 at 100 ml | Consistent ml units; the closing line of the page text refers to Red dye — a copy error |
| Candle Dye Liquid | Purple | 15 ml ₹236 (₹15.73) | 50 gm ₹472 (₹9.44) | 100 gm ₹900 (₹9.00) | ₹9.00 at the largest size | Body text says "shades of black" — a copy error; the product is purple |
One CSI brown listing has a pricing anomaly — use the other one. There are two brown liquids in the range. On Candle Dye Liquid | Brown the 100 gm variant is listed at the same price as the 15 gm variant, which is almost certainly a data error rather than a bargain, so this guide does not quote or plan around it. Use Brown Candle Dye Liquid instead, whose ladder of 15 ml at ₹236, 50 ml at ₹590 and 100 ml at ₹1,062 behaves normally. One CSI customer, Ashwini, writes of the brown liquid: "It mixes very well and give you various shades like light to dark depending upon the amount of dye you add." That is exactly the behaviour a ratio depends on.
The constant-dose ratio matrix
Here is the method, and it is the opposite of the instinct. The instinct is to add red until it looks red, then add brown until it looks burgundy — which changes both the hue and the total colourant load at the same time, so the candle you end up liking has an unknown dose and an unproven wick. Instead: fix the total dose first, then divide it into parts.
No CSI dye page states a dose, so the total is your own decision and this guide starts at 0.30 ml of combined colourant per 100 g of wax — a deliberately modest figure, chosen because the customer review above and CSI's own copy both describe these liquids as concentrated. In a 150 g candle that is 0.42 ml in total, costing about ₹3.93 at ₹9.44 per unit. Then split that 0.42 ml six ways and allocate the parts.
Four burgundy cells at one constant total · 0.42 ml per 150 g candle
Parts, millilitres, cost, and the hue each cell is testing for
| Cell | Parts (of six) | Red | Darkener | Colourant cost per candle | What you are testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A — control | 6 red : 0 | 0.42 ml | — | ₹3.93 | What red alone actually looks like in your soy and your jar. Without this, you cannot tell what the darkener did |
| B — warm | 5 red : 1 brown | 0.35 ml | 0.07 ml brown | ₹3.93 | The classic oxblood direction. Usually the closest to "deep burgundy" in soy |
| C — earthy | 4 red : 2 brown | 0.28 ml | 0.14 ml brown | ₹3.93 | Whether more brown deepens the red or muddies it into brick. Often the latter |
| D — cool | 5 red : 1 purple | 0.35 ml | 0.07 ml purple | ₹3.93 | The wine direction. A cooler burgundy that reads as more expensive in clear glass |
Worked out above: the Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid page states a 150 g fill capacity — a weight, which is why the arithmetic here is exact. At 8% of total wax weight that is 138.89 g of wax + 11.11 g of oil (150 ÷ 1.08). Total colourant = 0.30 ml per 100 g of wax × 1.3889 = 0.4167 ml per candle, costed at ₹9.44 per unit = ₹3.93. Parts: one sixth of 0.4167 = 0.0694 ml, so five parts is 0.3472 ml and two parts is 0.1389 ml, rounded in the table. Six jars for the full test use 2.50 ml of colourant in total — well inside one 15 ml bottle of each dye. The 0.30 ml per 100 g total is our own starting figure, not a CSI specification.
Never let black be more than half a part on a first test. Black is the most powerful darkener in the range and the one that turns a burgundy into a dirty maroon in a single overshoot. If you want to test it, do so as a fifth cell at 5.5 red : 0.5 black rather than substituting it for brown at one part, and keep the total at the same 0.42 ml so the cell stays comparable with the other four. The same caution applies in reverse: the darkener is the component you can reduce; the red is the component you cannot, because without enough red there is no burgundy to darken.
The oil that deepens the colour on purpose
In a white candle, a browning fragrance oil is a problem. In a burgundy candle, it is a free half-step down the ladder.
Vanilla-heavy and tobacco oils brown light wax over time, and the CSI pages that carry them say so plainly. In a burgundy brief that stops being a defect and becomes a design decision, and one page states the case better than this guide could: the Tobacco Vanilla page advises that for candles you should "use dark wax colours — amber, brown, black, or deep burgundy — where the natural browning enhances the appearance", and elsewhere that "the natural browning is a feature for this fragrance, not a flaw".
That is a genuine saving. An oil that deepens the wax over the first weeks means you can pick the lighter of two cells at the judging stage, knowing the candle will settle darker in the customer's home rather than lighter. It also means the colour you photograph should be a cured jar, not a fresh one. The stated load is 7–10% in soy, paraffin or blended wax, with the page advising a start at 7%, and its maximum table lists candles at 10% — so 10% is the ceiling and 8% is a sensible first test. The wax under it, Natural Soy Pearl Wax at ₹450/kg, states no load ceiling and no temperatures at all, which makes the oil's 10% the only published number governing this formula — and it makes logging your own add and pour temperatures compulsory rather than optional.
The burgundy formula · component by component
What each page states, what it leaves to you, and the cost in one 150 g candle at 8%
| Component | Product | What the page states | What is yours to establish | Cost per candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container | Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid | 150 g fill capacity · height 8 cm · outer diameter 7 cm · base diameter approx. 6.5 cm | Nothing on fill — this is one of the few jars stating a gram figure | ₹94.40 |
| Wax | Natural Soy Pearl Wax | "Suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs". No load, no temperatures, no colour | Add and pour temperatures, and the load ceiling — hold at 8% | ₹62.50 |
| Fragrance | Tobacco Vanilla | 7–10% in soy, paraffin or blended wax; start at 7%; candles capped at 10%; browning in light wax is expected and suits deep burgundy | Whether 8% throws in your jar; how much the browning deepens your chosen cell | ₹88.78 |
| Colourant | Red + brown or purple liquid | Behaviour in soy versus paraffin. No dose | The total dose and the ratio — both of them, entirely | ₹3.93 |
| Wick | Eco Candle Wicks C1 / C2 | No diameter. Sizes appear only as variant names | The bracket, tested at the final dose and load in this jar | ₹5.90 or ₹9.44 |
| Materials total | Plus a ₹2.50 wick sticker | ₹261.55 |
Photograph the cured jar, not the fresh one
With a browning oil in a burgundy wax, the candle you pour and the candle you ship are two different shades. Hold the four cells for at least 21 days before you choose, then photograph the winner at that age and use that image on the listing. It costs you three weeks once and it removes an entire category of customer complaint permanently. The mechanism behind the shift is set out in why some vanilla fragrance oils turn candle wax yellow.The costed six-jar burgundy basket
Four jars for the ratio matrix, two more at the winning ratio for the wick bracket. Six jars out of a pack of ten leaves four spares, which on a test involving three dye bottles and a browning oil you will be glad of.
Six-jar burgundy basket · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Every line, the pack bought, and what the test consumes
| Item | Pack | Price | What the test uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax | 1 kg | ₹450 | 833.33 g across six jars at 8% (₹375) |
| Tobacco Vanilla Fragrance Oil | 100 g | ₹799 | 66.67 g across six jars (₹532.69) — 100 g is the smallest listed size |
| Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid | Pack of 10 | ₹944 | 6 poured, 4 spare · ₹94.40 each |
| Candle Dye Liquid | Red | 15 gm | ₹236 | About 2.08 ml across the six jars |
| Brown Candle Dye Liquid | 15 ml | ₹236 | About 0.28 ml — cells B and C only |
| Candle Dye Liquid | Purple | 15 ml | ₹236 | About 0.07 ml — cell D only |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | 10 wicks | ₹59 | Bracket A on three jars |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thick (C2) | 20 wicks | ₹188.80 | Bracket B on three jars; the 10-pack of C2 is currently sold out |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 1 sheet · 40 | ₹100 | One per jar |
| Bamboo Stirring Sticks | Pack of 5 | ₹118 | A fresh stick per cell, so no colour carries over |
| Basket total | ₹3,366.80 | ₹841.70 per blend ratio tested · ₹561.13 per jar |
Worked out above: a 150 g stated fill at 8% of total wax weight = 138.89 g wax + 11.11 g oil. Six jars = 833.33 g of wax at ₹0.45/g = ₹375, and 66.67 g of oil at ₹7.99/g = ₹532.69. Colourant = 0.4167 ml per candle × 6 = 2.50 ml in total, split across the three bottles as the table shows. Basket total ₹450 + ₹799 + ₹944 + ₹236 + ₹236 + ₹236 + ₹59 + ₹188.80 + ₹100 + ₹118 = ₹3,366.80; ÷ 4 ratio cells = ₹841.70; ÷ 6 jars = ₹561.13. Materials in one finished candle: ₹62.50 wax + ₹88.78 oil + ₹94.40 jar + ₹9.44 C2 wick + ₹2.50 sticker + ₹3.93 colourant = ₹261.55. A scale and a thermometer are assumed on the bench — otherwise add the Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354 and the Pen Thermometer at ₹354.
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The base colour · five parts in six
Candle Dye Liquid | Red
The only sensible base for a burgundy in this range, and the cheapest liquid per listed unit at the largest size — ₹9.00 against ₹9.44 at 50 and ₹15.73 at 15. Its page states how the colour behaves rather than how much to use: red in soy "tends to produce lighter to medium shades of red" because soy is naturally opaque, while paraffin allows "more vibrant color payoff". It states no dose, like every dye in the range. Note the variant labels mix units — 15 gm, 50 ml, 100 gm — so decide whether you are working in grams or millilitres and weigh the bottle before and after dosing to fix your own conversion.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹236 | — |
| 50 ml | ₹472 | — |
| 100 gm | ₹900 | — |
₹3.28 of red per 150 g candle in the 5:1 cells Buy Candle Dye Liquid Red
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The warm darkener · one part in six
Brown Candle Dye Liquid
The darkener that takes red towards oxblood rather than wine, and the one whose listed sizes are labelled consistently in millilitres at 15, 50 and 100. Its page states the same soy-versus-paraffin behaviour and no dose. Buy the 15 ml bottle at ₹236 — a full six-jar matrix needs about 0.28 ml of it, so one small bottle is a lifetime supply at test scale and the 50 ml at ₹590 only makes sense once a ratio is in production. Worth knowing before you shop: a second brown liquid exists in the range with a pricing anomaly on its largest variant, so this is the listing to use.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 15 ml | ₹236 | — |
| 50 ml | ₹590 | — |
| 100 ml | ₹1,062 | — |
₹0.65 of brown per 150 g candle in cell B Buy Brown Candle Dye Liquid
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The wax · no stated ceiling, real bulk step-down
Natural Soy Pearl Wax
A straightforward container soy for a burgundy jar candle, described on its page only as "suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs" — no stated fragrance ceiling, no stated temperatures and no stated colour. That is a real constraint and worth naming: it means the fragrance oil's number is the only published ceiling in your formula, and it means your own add and pour temperatures have to be logged rather than looked up. What it gives you in return is one of the genuine bulk step-downs in the range — ₹450 per kilo at 1 kg falling to ₹424.80 at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg, which is ₹3.50 less wax in every 150 g candle once the formula is proven.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 150g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹450 | ₹450 | ≈7 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,124 | ₹424.80 | ≈35 |
| 10 kg | ₹4,248 | ₹424.80 | ≈71 |
| 50 kg | ₹21,240 | ₹424.80 | ≈359 |
₹62.50 of wax per 150 g candle at 1 kg pricing Buy Natural Soy Pearl Wax
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The container · a stated gram fill, in clear glass
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
One of the few CSI jars that states its capacity as a weight rather than a volume — "150g fill capacity", with a stated height of 8 cm, outer diameter of 7 cm and base diameter of approximately 6.5 cm. That single figure is why every number on this page is arithmetic instead of estimate. Clear glass is the right vessel for a blended shade for the same reason a frosted or matte jar is the wrong one: you need to see the hue through the full depth of the wax, which is what your customer will do. At ₹94.40 a jar in the pack of ten it is the most expensive line in the basket, and the one that most determines whether the candle reads as luxury.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹944 | ₹94.40 |
| Pack of 20 | ₹1,888 | ₹94.40 |
₹94.40 per jar in the pack of 10 · ₹94.40 in the pack of 20 Buy Clear Glass Jars
Running the ratio matrix
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Write the four cells on the batch sheet before you melt anythingCell A 6:0, cell B 5:1 red:brown, cell C 4:2 red:brown, cell D 5:1 red:purple — every one at a total of 0.4167 ml of colourant per jar. Then convert the parts to the actual figures you will dose: one part is 0.0694 ml. Fix a C1 or C2 wick in each jar with a sticker now, and label the base with the cell and the date.
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Melt four separate 150 g charges, colour first, fragrance secondEach charge is 138.89 g of Natural Soy Pearl Wax and 11.11 g of Tobacco Vanilla at 8% of wax weight. Because this wax states no temperatures, record your own: melt fully, note the temperature at which you add the dye, stir until no streaks remain, then add the fragrance and stir a further two minutes. A fresh bamboo stirring stick per cell — a stick that has been in cell C will carry brown into cell D.
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Dose by weight if you can, by counted drops if you mustThe most precise method available on a home bench is to weigh the dye bottle on the scale, dose, and weigh again — the difference is your dose, in grams, recorded. If you dose by drops instead, count them and also record how many drops made up one gram for that bottle, so your recipe can be reproduced by someone with a scale later. Either way the number goes on the batch sheet, because the dye page will never tell you what you used.
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Judge the hue at day 21, against cell ALine the four jars up in daylight with cell A at the left. Cell A is the reference that makes the other three readable — you are looking at what one and two parts of a darkener did to a known red, not at four unrelated colours. Note whether cell C has deepened the red or shifted it to brick, and whether cell D reads cooler and more expensive through the glass. With a browning fragrance oil underneath, expect all four to be a shade darker than they were on pour day.
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Pour two more jars at the winning ratio and bracket the wickOne on C1, one on C2, same wax, same 8% load, same total dose. This is the pour that decides the wick, and it has to happen at the final colourant dose because colourant is additional material in the melt pool that the flame did not see in an uncoloured test. Burn each for up to three hours at day 14 and record minutes to a full melt pool at the glass, flame height, mushrooming, and a white-tissue wipe of the glass above the pool.
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Lock the recipe in grams, then scale the wax before the dyeWrite the final formula as grams per jar, not as "a squeeze" or "six drops": wax, oil, red, darkener, wick size, add temperature, pour temperature, cure days. Then scale in the right order — the wax is where the money is, and Natural Soy Pearl Wax steps down to ₹424.80/kg at 5 kg. A 15 ml bottle of each dye will outlast your first several hundred candles, so there is no reason to buy colourant in bulk until the recipe has shipped.
The CSI principle
Fix the total, then argue about the ratio. A shade you found by adding until it looked right is not a recipe and its wick test is worthless.
Holding the colourant load constant across every cell is what makes a blend test cheap: four hues judged for the price of four jars, and one wick bracket that is valid for whichever one you choose.
Ratio locked? Scale the wax, not the dye: Natural Soy Pearl Wax steps from ₹450/kg to ₹424.80/kg at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg, and Tobacco Vanilla lists at 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack — above that it is a quote, and listed per-kilo prices are the ceiling.
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We do not sell burgundy. We sell red, brown and purple, and a ratio you can write down — which is more useful, because your burgundy is not anyone else's.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The version of this page that sells the most dye would give you a burgundy recipe in drops and let you find out later that drops are not repeatable. Instead it tells you that a maroon jar with no dye in the wax is the cheaper and safer route for most briefs, that our chip packs publish no weight, that one of our brown listings has a pricing anomaly, and that our own red dye page says soy tends towards lighter to medium shades. A maker whose burgundy is reproducible next quarter keeps ordering wax by the five kilo. A maker who cannot repeat their own colour stops.
Every price, pack size and specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which is always authoritative. Dye dosage is reported as "not stated" wherever the page says nothing, and both the 0.30 ml per 100 g starting total and the four-cell ratio matrix are explicitly our own method, not CSI figures. The soy-versus-paraffin passage and the "deep burgundy" recommendation are quoted verbatim from the Candle Dye Liquid | Red and Tobacco Vanilla pages. No CSI page publishes a dye dose, a burn time, a wick diameter for the Eco C1 and C2 sizes, a colour for any wax, or a lab result, and none is implied here.
For help converting a chip pack into a weight, choosing between the two brown liquid listings, bulk pricing, GST invoicing, or SDS and IFRA documentation requests, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make burgundy candle dye?
By mixing, because CSI lists no burgundy or maroon dye. Use Candle Dye Liquid | Red as the base with a darkener: five parts red to one part brown for a warm oxblood, four to two for an earthier brick, or five to one with purple for a cooler wine. Fix the combined total first — this guide starts at 0.30 ml per 100 g of wax, which is 0.42 ml in a 150 g candle — and vary only the ratio inside it, so the wick faces the same colourant load in every cell.
Is liquid dye or dye chips better for candle making?
For a single colour, either works. For a blended colour like burgundy, liquid, decisively — and the reason is a unit rather than a quality. CSI's six chip listings are each sold as one pack under a "Default Title" variant with no stated weight or count on the page, so a ratio expressed in chips cannot be reproduced from a new pack. Liquid is sold in 15, 50 and 100 unit bottles from ₹236, which makes a dose writable, costable and repeatable. Weigh a chip pack and note the figure and it becomes usable too.
Can I use mica powder to colour a burgundy candle?
Not in CSI's range: none of the nine mica powders is burgundy or maroon. The nearest are Pink and Purple Mica at ₹116.82 for 10 gm, and neither gets you a deep red. Beyond availability, mica does a different job — the pages describe a mineral dust that "creates a gorgeous pearly glow" and say "just a sprinkle is all you need!", with no numeric dose on any of the nine. A pearlescent shimmer suspended in wax is not a saturated hue dissolved in it, and for burgundy you want the second thing.
How much liquid dye per kilo of soy wax?
No CSI dye page states a dose, so any figure you are given is someone's starting point rather than a specification. This guide's starting point is 0.30 ml of combined colourant per 100 g of wax — 3 ml per kilo — chosen deliberately low because the liquids are concentrated; one CSI customer describes them as "concentrated color so a little amount gives the candle good pastel shade". Dose by weighing the bottle before and after, record the figure in grams, and adjust in the direction your own cured jars tell you.
Why does my red soy candle look pink or pale instead of deep burgundy?
Partly dose and partly the material, and CSI's own page says so: "Red dye in soy wax tends to produce lighter to medium shades of red. This is because soy wax is naturally opaque, which can slightly soften the color intensity." The same page notes paraffin is clearer and allows "more vibrant color payoff". So in 100% soy, expect a muted oxblood rather than a saturated wine. Raising the total dose helps up to a point and then flattens; a darkener at one part in six usually does more for depth than more red does.
Does adding two dyes instead of one affect the wick?
Not because there are two of them — because of the total colourant in the melt pool, which is why the method above holds that total constant across every ratio. Colourant is additional material the flame has to deal with and is less completely consumed than wax or fragrance, which is the mechanism behind clogging and mushrooming. Practically: a wick bracket proved on uncoloured wax is not proof at any dose, so bracket C1 against C2 again at the final dose in the actual jar before you sell.
No burgundy in the catalogue. One in your batch sheet.
Buy red and one darkener as liquids, fix the total dose, run four ratios in the jar you will sell, and write the winner down in grams.
Candle Dye Liquid | Red from ₹236 (₹9.00 per unit at the largest size), Brown Candle Dye Liquid 15 ml at ₹236, Candle Dye Liquid | Purple 15 ml at ₹236, Red and Brown Candle Dye Chips at ₹250 and ₹236 for makers colouring to taste. Natural Soy Pearl Wax at ₹450/kg falling to ₹424.80/kg at 5 kg, Clear Glass Jars with Golden Lid at ₹944 for ten with a stated 150 g fill, Tobacco Vanilla from ₹799 / 100 g with a stated 7–10% soy load, Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for ten, Bamboo Stirring Sticks at ₹118 for five. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the constant-total ratio matrix, the parts arithmetic and the weigh-the-bottle dosing method apply to any supplier's liquid dye.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; two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: CSI lists 17 candle dyes — 11 liquids and 6 chip packs — plus 9 mica powders, in black, blue, brown, green, orange, pink, purple, red and yellow; the Candle Dyes collection page shows 25 products. No burgundy or maroon colourant is listed in any form, and not one of the 17 dye pages states a dose. Liquid prices and the units exactly as the store labels them: Candle Dye Liquid | Red 15 gm ₹236, 50 ml ₹472, 100 gm ₹900; Brown Candle Dye Liquid 15 ml ₹236, 50 ml ₹590, 100 ml ₹1,062; Candle Dye Liquid | Purple 15 ml ₹236, 50 gm ₹472, 100 gm ₹900; Candle Dye Liquid | Black 15 ml ₹236, 50 ml ₹472; Pink Liquid Candle Dye ₹236, one size. Chips: Red ₹250, Brown ₹236, Black ₹236 — each a single "Default Title" pack with no stated weight or count. Mica: Pink and Purple 10 gm ₹116.82; no black, burgundy or maroon mica is listed. Page notes recorded honestly: Candle Dye Liquid | Brown lists its 100 gm variant at the same price as its 15 gm variant — a probable data error, not quoted or planned around here; Candle Dye Liquid | Purple's body text says "shades of black"; Brown Candle Dye Liquid's closing line refers to Red dye; Maroon / Deep Red Matte Glass Jar's body text describes a white matte jar. Verbatim from the Candle Dye Liquid | Red page: "Red dye in soy wax tends to produce lighter to medium shades of red. This is because soy wax is naturally opaque, which can slightly soften the color intensity. Paraffin Wax: Red dye typically achieves a wider range of color in paraffin wax, from pastel tones to darker shades. Paraffin wax is clearer than soy wax, allowing for more vibrant color payoff." Chip pages state "these chips dissolve evenly in wax" and "precise control over color intensity". Mica pages state "Creates a gorgeous pearly glow", "All-natural and safe to use", "Just a sprinkle is all you need!" and "won't clog your wick" — page wording, not measurements. Verbatim from the Tobacco Vanilla page: for candles "use dark wax colours - amber, brown, black, or deep burgundy - where the natural browning enhances the appearance"; "the vanilla and tonka content will cause browning in white or light-coloured wax"; stated load 7–10% in soy, paraffin or blended wax, "Start at 7%", maximum table lists Candles (Soy / Paraffin / Blends) 10%; prices 100 g ₹799, 500 g ₹3,999, 1 kg ₹7,499. Natural Soy Pearl Wax: page states "Suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs" and no fragrance load, temperatures or colour; 1 kg ₹450, 5 kg ₹2,124, 10 kg ₹4,248, 50 kg ₹21,240 (₹424.80/kg from 5 kg). Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram): stated "150g fill capacity", "Height 8cm, outer diameter 7cm", base diameter approximately 6.5 cm; Pack of 10 ₹944, Pack of 20 ₹1,888. Maroon / Deep Red Matte Glass Jar: stated fill weight 200 ml, height 8 cm, width 7 cm; Pack of 5 ₹354, Pack of 10 ₹708. Eco Candle Wicks state no diameter, with C1/C2 appearing only as variant names: Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, Thick (C2) 20 ₹188.80 (C2 10-pack sold out). Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹100. Bamboo Stirring Sticks Pack of 5 ₹118, Pack of 50 ₹1,062, Pack of 100 ₹1,888. Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354, Pen Thermometer ₹354. Planning assumptions, stated as assumptions: the 0.30 ml of combined colourant per 100 g of wax total and the 6:0 / 5:1 / 4:2 / 5:1 ratio cells are our own method and are not published by CSI; all loads are a percentage of total wax weight (8% of wax weight = 7.41% of the finished candle, 10% = 9.09%); a 150 g fill at 8% = 138.89 g wax + 11.11 g oil, at 10% = 136.36 g + 13.64 g; colourant per candle = 0.30 × 1.3889 = 0.4167 ml, one part of six = 0.0694 ml, costed at ₹9.44 per unit = ₹3.93; six jars use 833.33 g wax, 66.67 g oil and 2.50 ml colourant; basket ₹450 + ₹799 + ₹944 + ₹236 + ₹236 + ₹236 + ₹59 + ₹188.80 + ₹100 + ₹118 = ₹3,366.80, ÷ 4 cells = ₹841.70, ÷ 6 jars = ₹561.13; per-candle materials ₹62.50 + ₹88.78 + ₹94.40 + ₹9.44 + ₹2.50 + ₹3.93 = ₹261.55; the 21-day hue judgement and the 14-day cure before burn testing are standard practice, not published CSI figures. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.