I Want to Make Scented Votives for Hotels — What Raw Materials Should I Test Before Quoting a 2,000-Piece Order?
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How much wax for 2,000 votives? At a weighed 70 g fill and 7% load, 65.1 g of wax per votive, so 130.2 kg for 2,000 before allowances. Weigh your own fill to confirm.
Which fragrances suit hotels? Fresh, broadly acceptable profiles. A shortlist of Eucalyptus Spearmint, Lemongrass and Lime and Blue Ocean is a reasonable start; let the buyer judge cured samples.
What do the materials cost per votive? About ₹85.82 in the worked example with CSI 464, Eucalyptus Spearmint, a 70 g votive jar and an Eco C1, excluding packaging, labour, shipping and GST.
Pin down the hotel's brief before you test a single oil
Hotels buy votives for lobbies, restaurant tables, spa rooms and turndown service. Each setting asks something different of the same small candle: a restaurant may want a gentle scent that does not compete with food, a spa may want a clear, calm fragrance, and housekeeping wants every piece to look identical on the tray. Ask the buyer four questions before you price anything: where will they burn, for how long per session, in what holder, and how many fragrances.
The holder question decides the format. If the hotel supplies its own glass and wants free-standing votives, you are moulding them and need a harder wax. If they want a finished candle in glass, you are filling a votive jar with container wax. This page works through the second, more common route using CSI's Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram, because a filled glass votive ships, stacks and presents more consistently.
A starting specification for a filled hotel votive
Weigh your own fill before trusting any figure. The jar's listing names it as 70 gram; fill five jars to your pour line and weigh them, because that average is what you will be quoting against. The worked example uses 70 g as an illustration.
| Element | Starting choice | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Vessel | Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram | ₹318.60 per 10 = ₹31.86 each; uniform, clear presentation |
| Wax | CSI 464 soy flakes | Container wax, single pour, same price per kg in every pack |
| Fragrance load | 7% of total weight | Room for a moderate throw in a small pool; tested at 6% and 8% too |
| Oils to shortlist | Eucalyptus Spearmint, Lemongrass and Lime, Blue Ocean | Fresh profiles, 0% vanillin on the Eucalyptus and Blue Ocean pages |
| Wick candidates | Eco C1, then Eco C2 | Small diameter; no CSI chart, so burn-test |
| Dye | None at first | Clear jars show colour variation; leave it out unless the buyer asks |
The oil shortlist leans fresh and clean for a reason. Hotel guests encounter these candles without choosing them, so broadly acceptable profiles reduce complaints. Eucalyptus Spearmint is rated "moderate to strong" on its own page with a 199°C flashpoint; Blue Ocean lists a 143°C flashpoint and is described as phthalate-free; Lemongrass and Lime is rated "moderate" on its page. Those ratings are the product pages' own, not measured data, which is exactly why you test.
The five tests that protect the quote
A small batch that burns beautifully once is not enough evidence for 2,000 pieces. Each test below answers a question the hotel could otherwise answer for you, after delivery.
Matching the test to the hotel's real use
Ask how long a votive burns per service. A restaurant table may light a votive for one dinner sitting and then extinguish it; a lobby may leave candles burning all evening. Those are very different burns. Test in sessions that match the brief, extinguish, let the votive cool fully, then relight it the next day. A wick that behaves on a single long burn can behave differently after several short ones, and the hotel will see the repeated pattern, not your one long test.
Check the glass as well. After a full session, note how warm the votive jar becomes and whether soot marks the rim. Housekeeping staff handle these jars and will notice both. Remove any cracked or chipped glass from production as a general safety rule.
Quoting the materials for 2,000 pieces
At a 70 g fill and 7% load, each votive takes 70 × 0.07 = 4.9 g of Eucalyptus Spearmint and 70 − 4.9 = 65.1 g of wax. For 2,000 pieces that is 65.1 × 2,000 = 130.2 kg of wax and 4.9 × 2,000 = 9.8 kg of oil, before any loss allowance.
| Material | Need | Pack plan | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSI 464 wax | 130.2 kg | 14 × 10 kg (or a WhatsApp quote for larger volume) | 14 × ₹5,074.00 = ₹71,036.00 |
| Eucalyptus Spearmint | 9.8 kg | 10 × 1 kg | 10 × ₹3,068.00 = ₹30,680.00 |
| Votive jars | 2,000 | 200 × pack of 10 | 200 × ₹318.60 = ₹63,720.00 |
| Eco C1 wicks | 2,000 | 2 × pack of 1,000 | 2 × ₹5,900.00 = ₹11,800.00 |
Per votive, materials come to wax 65.1 g × ₹0.5074 per g (₹5,074.00 ÷ 10,000 g = ₹0.5074 per g, so ₹33.03) + oil 4.9 g × ₹3.068 per g (₹3,068.00 ÷ 1,000 g = ₹3.068 per g, so ₹15.03) + jar ₹31.86 + wick ₹5.90 = ₹85.82, excluding packaging, labels, labour, shipping and GST. Your quote adds those and your margin, all of which are your own figures.
Two cautions on the table. Thirteen 10 kg packs would give only 130 kg, short of the 130.2 kg needed and with no allowance at all; fourteen packs leave about 9.8 kg for spills, rejects and the second sample batch. And CSI lists no 25 kg or 100 kg pack, so at this volume ask CSI on WhatsApp (+91 7397976926) for a quote rather than assuming a price.
Buy this to test, then buy this once the hotel signs
| Item | Pack | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Eucalyptus Spearmint | 50 g | ₹212.40 |
| Lemongrass and Lime | 50 g | ₹330.00 |
| Blue Ocean | 50 g | ₹247.00 |
| Votive jars | 2 × pack of 10 | 2 × ₹318.60 = ₹637.20 |
| CSI 464 wax | 1 kg + 500 g | ₹507.40 + ₹260.00 = ₹767.40 |
| Eco C1 wicks | 20 | ₹118.00 |
| Eco C2 wicks | 10 | ₹94.40 |
The test order totals ₹212.40 + ₹330.00 + ₹247.00 + ₹637.20 + ₹767.40 + ₹118.00 + ₹94.40 = ₹2,406.40. If the buyer picks a different oil, order only that oil in kilograms; there is no reason to stock all three. Request the oil's IFRA and MSDS documents on WhatsApp before you submit, since hospitality buyers often ask for them, and keep the GST invoice with your batch records.
Plan for reorders from the start. Hotels that like a candle tend to reorder it, and they expect the next delivery to match. Record the pack sizes, the dates you bought them and the batch details on your GST invoices, and keep two or three finished votives from each production run as reference samples. When a reorder arrives, burn a reference beside a new one before shipping.
Give the hotel a quote that names the specification you tested, not a range. If they later ask for a stronger scent or a different jar, that is a new specification and it deserves its own test, not a quiet change on the production line.
Where this page fits
CSI already has guides that cover parts of this question. This page turns the product above into a raw-material list; these go deeper on the rest:
Three things to buy for this job
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 5 | ₹159.30 | In stock |
| Pack of 10 | ₹318.60 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹68.44 | In stock |
| 50 g | ₹212.40 | In stock |
| 100 g | ₹354.00 | In stock |
| 500 g | ₹1,652.00 | In stock |
| 1 kg | ₹3,068.00 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260.00 | In stock |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | In stock |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537.00 | In stock |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074.00 | In stock |
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Prices are live CSI prices from October 2026; product pages are authoritative. Where a spec is not published — such as a wick size for your jar, a mould's cycle life or a wax's survival temperature — this guide says so rather than filling the gap.
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Product facts (October 2026, CSI live store): Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram: Pack of 5 ₹159.30, Pack of 10 ₹318.60 — 70 g votive and sampler jar. Eucalyptus Spearmint Fragrance Oil: 15 g ₹68.44, 50 g ₹212.40, 100 g ₹354.00, 500 g ₹1,652.00, 1 kg ₹3,068.00 — flashpoint 199°C · 0% vanillin · up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin · rated "moderate to strong". Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (flakes): 500 g ₹260.00, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537.00, 10 kg ₹5,074.00 — 100% soy container wax in flakes · single pour · stated fragrance load up to 10% · stated shelf life 60 months (cool, dry storage).
Assumptions: Fragrance load is a percentage of total candle weight (200 g = 184 g wax + 16 g oil at 8%); CSI wax pages phrase their ceilings as a share of wax weight. Material cost per candle covers wax, oil, vessel, wick and dye only — it excludes packaging, labels, labour, shipping and GST. CSI publishes no wick sizing chart, burn times or wax survival temperatures, so every wick named is a candidate to test. Retail prices, budgets, margins and packaging costs are the reader's own figures. Test counts and loads are suggested starting points. Prices re-checked 1 October 2026; product pages are authoritative.