My Custom Blend Performs Well at 8% but One Component Discolours the Wax — How Do I Identify Which Fragrance Is Causing It?

My Custom Blend Performs Well at 8% but One Component Discolours the Wax — How Do I Identify Which Fragrance Is Causing It?

 

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Fragrance Formulation · Discolouration
Nobody can tell you from a bottle which oil will change your wax's colour, and CSI publishes no discolouration data for any oil. What you can do is isolate it: pour every component alone, and the blend with each one left out, beside an unscented control, and let the pattern point at the culprit.
16 jars
one diagnostic set for a three-oil blend · 11 kept in the dark, 5 in daylight · no wicks, no burning, clear jars
Quick answers — read this first
How do I find which fragrance oil is discolouring my candle? Pour, side by side, an unscented control, the full blend, each oil alone (at its blend share and at 8%), and the blend with each oil left out. Watch them over four weeks. The oil whose presence tracks the colour is the culprit. See the protocol.

Can you tell me which oils discolour? No, and nobody should guess. CSI publishes no composition or discolouration data per oil. The single-component test on this page answers it for your wax, your storage and your light. See why a test beats a list.

What if no single oil discolours but the blend does? Then it is an interaction between components, or the extra load. Test the three pairs. If the unscented control also changes, the cause is the wax or the process, not the fragrance. See reading the results.

How do I fix it without losing the blend's performance? Lower the culprit's share and rebalance, replace it with a similar oil that tests clean, colour the wax on purpose, or protect the candle from light. Re-test performance after any change. See the fixes.
The short answer
Answer: Isolate it: unscented control, full blend, each component alone at its blend share and at 8%, and leave-one-out blends, in clear jars, dark and light, watched for four weeks.
Read it: Culprit = the component whose presence tracks the colour. No single culprit = interaction or load. Unscented control changes too = wax or process.
Data honesty: CSI publishes no discolouration, composition or vanillin data for any oil. Ask for the MSDS and IFRA documents on WhatsApp; they are safety documents, not colour predictions.
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In this guide
Finding the component that discolours: controls, singles and leave-one-out Hypothetical result pattern if component A were the cause. Real results are yours to read; nothing here says which oil discolours. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Unscented Blend A share B share C share A 8% B 8% C 8% No A No B No C Controls Singles at share Singles at 8% Leave one out slight change clear change matches unscented Reading: every candle containing A has changed, the stronger with more A, and "No A" matches unscented.
The eleven dark-stored jars of the protocol, with an invented example of what the results would look like if component A were responsible. Every jar containing A has shifted, the single-at-8% jar most of all, while the jar without A matches the unscented control. Five further jars (unscented, blend and each single at 8%) sit in daylight to separate light-driven change from change over time.
Example component A
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Straight answer
My custom blend performs well at 8% but one component discolours the wax. How do I identify which fragrance is causing it?
Isolate it with single-component controls. Pour a set of small candles from the same wax, on the same day, into clear jars: an unscented control; the full blend at 8%; each component alone at the grams it has in the blend; each component alone at 8%, to exaggerate any effect; and the blend with each component left out. Keep one set in the dark and duplicate the key jars in daylight. Photograph and score them against the unscented control at day 1, 3, 7, 14 and 28. The culprit is the component whose presence tracks the colour: every jar with it changes, the 8% jar most, and the blend without it matches the unscented control. If no single oil changes but the blend does, it is an interaction, so test pairs. If the unscented control changes too, look at the wax lot and the process, not the fragrance. CSI publishes no discolouration data for any oil, so this test, not a list, is the answer. Once you know, lower that oil's share, replace it with a similar oil that tests clean, or colour the wax on purpose, and re-test performance. For a three-oil blend the full set is 16 jars and costs ₹3,335.72 including scale, jug and sticks.
One line: isolate every component against an unscented control, and let the pattern name the culprit.
The diagnostic set needs your components as single oils, your wax from one lot, and clear jars. It needs no wicks, because colour change shows in the solid wax. The example on this page uses a three-oil fruity blend, Mango Coconut (A), Honeydew Melon (B) and Fresh Strawberries (C), each bought as a 50 g, with 16 Yankee 130 ml clear jars at ₹47.20 each.
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Why a test beats a list

The internet is full of lists of oils that "always discolour". None of them was made with your wax, your blend or your windowsill.

Discolouration in candles is real and common. Wax that was cream at pouring turns yellow, tan, pinkish or brown over days or weeks, or fades unevenly where light reaches it. In general candle-making practice, it is commonly linked to certain aroma materials in fragrance oils, to heat during production, to light and air during storage, and to interactions with dyes. But the same oil can behave differently in different waxes, at different loads and under different storage, and a fragrance house can reformulate an oil without changing its name.

That is why this page does not tell you which oils discolour. CSI publishes no composition, vanillin or discolouration data for any oil, and we will not guess. The example blend below is an example of a structure, not a suspect list: nothing in our data says Mango Coconut, Honeydew Melon or Fresh Strawberries changes colour. What we can give you is a method that answers the question for your blend in about four weeks, for the cost of a few jars and some oil. For documents on any oil, the MSDS and IFRA certificate are available on WhatsApp; they are safety and compliance documents, not colour predictions.

General candle-making practice · causes to keep in mind, not a diagnosis
What commonly drives colour change in candle wax
Possible driver What it usually looks like Which control in this protocol isolates it
A fragrance component Jars containing one oil shift; more of it, more shift Singles at share and at 8%, leave-one-out
An interaction between components Only combinations shift, no single oil does Full blend vs singles; then pairs
Light exposure Faces towards the window change first, or light jars more than dark Daylight duplicates vs dark set
Wax lot or process heat Even the unscented jar shifts Unscented control
Dye reacting or fading Only dyed candles change Add a dyed unscented control if you colour
Argued against our own interest, plainly. The quick fix a supplier might suggest is to swap the whole blend for new oils. That throws away a blend that performs well at 8%, which is the hardest thing to find. Find the one component first. Very often the fix is a lower share of that component or one replacement, and the other two oils, and most of the blend's performance, stay as they are.

The single-component protocol

Each jar answers one question. Together they leave the culprit nowhere to hide.

All jars are 100 g of wax plus oil, poured from one lot of wax, on one day, with one process. The blend is 50% A, 30% B and 20% C at 8% total load, so a 100 g jar holds 8 g of blend: 4.0 g A, 2.4 g B and 1.6 g C (CSI's convention: load is a share of the finished weight). The singles-at-share jars hold exactly those grams of one oil, so they show what that oil does at its real concentration. The singles-at-8% jars exaggerate it, which makes a slow effect visible sooner. The leave-one-out jars keep the other two oils at their blend grams and simply omit one.

100 g per jar · blend = A 50% / B 30% / C 20% at 8% · 11 jars in the dark, 5 in daylight
The diagnostic set in grams
Jar What it is A B C Total oil Wax Stored
1 Unscented wax — — — 0.0 g 100.0 g dark
2 Full blend at 8% 4.0 g 2.4 g 1.6 g 8.0 g 92.0 g dark
3 A alone at its blend share 4.0 g — — 4.0 g 96.0 g dark
4 B alone at its blend share — 2.4 g — 2.4 g 97.6 g dark
5 C alone at its blend share — — 1.6 g 1.6 g 98.4 g dark
6 A alone at 8% 8.0 g — — 8.0 g 92.0 g dark
7 B alone at 8% — 8.0 g — 8.0 g 92.0 g dark
8 C alone at 8% — — 8.0 g 8.0 g 92.0 g dark
9 Blend without A — 2.4 g 1.6 g 4.0 g 96.0 g dark
10 Blend without B 4.0 g — 1.6 g 5.6 g 94.4 g dark
11 Blend without C 4.0 g 2.4 g — 6.4 g 93.6 g dark
12 Unscented wax — — — 0.0 g 100.0 g light
13 Full blend at 8% 4.0 g 2.4 g 1.6 g 8.0 g 92.0 g light
14 A alone at 8% 8.0 g — — 8.0 g 92.0 g light
15 B alone at 8% — 8.0 g — 8.0 g 92.0 g light
16 C alone at 8% — — 8.0 g 8.0 g 92.0 g light

Two design choices matter. First, the leave-one-out jars do not top the other oils back up to 8%. Keeping their grams identical to the full blend means the only difference between jar 2 and jar 9 is the absence of A. Second, the daylight set duplicates only the jars that carry the most information: unscented, full blend and each single at 8%. That separates "this oil changes colour over time" from "this oil changes colour in light", which need different fixes.

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Buy each component as a single oilUse the same lot you blend from if you can; note the lot or order date for each bottle. If the blend was premixed long ago, make a fresh premix for jars 2 and 13, and keep the old premix as an extra jar.
2
Weigh the wax from one bag1,512.0 g in total for the set. Melt and handle it exactly as in production; for CSI 464, CSI's guidance is 80–90°C, confirm on the product page. Record the temperature you actually used, because process heat is one of the suspects.
3
Dose each jar and stir the same wayWeigh oil into each portion of wax, stir for the same fixed time (a working practice, for example two minutes), and pour into a clean, clear jar. Small doses such as 1.6 g are fine to weigh directly for a colour test; exact precision matters less here than in a scent test.
4
Label under the jar and photograph day 1Number on the base, not the side, so labels do not shade the wax. Photograph all jars together on white paper, same place, same time of day.
5
Store two setsEleven jars capped in a dark cupboard, five on a bright windowsill out of direct heat. Keep both sets at similar room temperature.
6
Score at day 3, 7, 14 and 28Same place, same light, same phone. These checkpoints are working choices; if your problem appeared later than four weeks, keep watching.
If you dye the candle, add one more jar
Colour change in a dyed candle can come from the dye, not the fragrance. Add a jar of dyed, unscented wax at your usual dye dose (follow the dye's product page; CSI does not publish dose rates) and, if you can, a dyed full-blend jar. CSI liquid dyes start at Candle Dye Liquid Brown ₹236.00 for 15 g.

Watching and scoring colour

Colour is easy to misjudge by eye, especially when you are looking for it. Always judge against the unscented control from the same storage, on a white background, and score each jar as a difference from that control, not on its own. A phone photograph at every checkpoint, taken in the same place, gives you a record you can compare side by side later.

Score each jar against the unscented control from the same storage · 0 = matches, 3 = strong change
Colour scoring sheet
Jar Day 1 Day 3 Day 7 Day 14 Day 28 Colour seen (yellow / tan / pink / brown / faded)
1 · Unscented wax
2 · Full blend at 8%
3 · A alone at its blend share
4 · B alone at its blend share
5 · C alone at its blend share
6 · A alone at 8%
7 · B alone at 8%
8 · C alone at 8%
9 · Blend without A
10 · Blend without B
11 · Blend without C
12 · Unscented wax (light)
13 · Full blend at 8% (light)
14 · A alone at 8% (light)
15 · B alone at 8% (light)
16 · C alone at 8% (light)

Also note where the colour appears. Change at the top surface first suggests air or light. Change on the side facing the window points to light. Uniform change through the whole jar in the dark set points to time. Change only near the wick hole of a burned candle is a different problem, related to heat, and is not what this protocol tests; if that is your issue, add burned versions of the blend and singles.

The CSI principle
Judge colour against a control, never against memory.
Wax colour drifts slowly, and a jar looked at every day never seems to change. The unscented control, poured from the same wax on the same day and stored beside it, is the only fair reference. Without it, you cannot tell a fragrance problem from a wax problem.

Reading the results

Read the pattern across the jars, not any single jar. Most results fall into one of five patterns:

Working decision table · apply to the dark set first, then compare the daylight set
What the pattern means
Pattern Meaning Next step
Every jar with one component changes, most at 8%, and the blend without it matches unscented That component is the culprit Go to the fixes
Two components each change a little on their own Two contributors, adding up in the blend Fix the stronger one first, re-test
No single changes; the full blend does; leave-one-out jars are partly changed Interaction between components Pour the three pairs (A+B, A+C, B+C) at blend grams
Unscented control changes too Wax lot, storage or process heat Check wax lot, melting temperature and storage; fragrance may be innocent
Only daylight jars change Light-driven change Protect from light: storage, jar choice, packaging

The single-at-8% jars are the most sensitive, so an effect often shows there first. Do not convict a component on its 8% jar alone, though: an oil that yellows slightly at 8% may do nothing visible at the 1.6 g it contributes to the blend. The singles-at-share and leave-one-out jars tell you whether it matters at the concentration you actually use. Checking physical compatibility between components covers separation and haze, which can look like colour change in a clear jar.

Blaming the newest oil. Makers often assume the last oil they added is the one causing trouble. The protocol regularly shows otherwise: the new oil is clean, and an older component, or the combination, is responsible. Let the jars decide, not the order you bought the oils in.

Fixing it without losing performance

Your blend performs well at 8%, so every fix should change as little as possible and be re-tested for performance. In order of how little they disturb the blend:

Every fix needs a repeat of the colour test and a performance check at the same cure age
Fixes, from least to most disruptive
Fix What you change Performance risk Re-test
Protect from light Storage, jar colour or packaging None Daylight set only
Colour the wax deliberately Add a dye that hides or suits the shift None to scent; check dye dose on its page Dyed jars, dark and light
Lower the culprit's share e.g. A from 50% to 40%, raising B and C Moderate: the scent shifts Colour + blind scent test
Replace the culprit A similar-direction oil that tests clean Higher: new balance Full blend ladder + colour
Accept and disclose Tell customers colour may vary naturally None None

If you lower the culprit's share, keep the total at 8% and rebalance: for a 200 g candle (16 g of oil), moving A from 50% to 40% and letting B and C share the difference in their existing 3:2 proportion gives B 36% and C 24%: 6.40 g A, 5.76 g B and 3.84 g C. Test it with the small-step method in I Want to Make My Existing Candle Fragrance Stronger by Blending in Another Fragrance Oil — How Should I Test the New Combination Without Ruining the Original Profile?, scored for both colour and scent. If you replace the culprit, run the replacement through this protocol before it goes into a blend, then re-ladder the blend; I Have a Fragrance That Is Too Sweet — Can I Blend It with Woody or Fresh Fragrance Oils to Make It More Sophisticated for Candles? and I Have a Floral Fragrance That Smells Flat in Candles — What Type of Fragrance Oil Can I Blend with It to Improve Perceived Freshness and Diffusion? show ladders with real CSI oils.

Colouring the wax on purpose is an honest and common fix when the shift is mild and even. A warm tan or amber tone can make a slight yellowing invisible and suits many gourmand and woody blends. CSI's liquid dyes include Brown at ₹236.00 and Red at ₹236.00 for 15 g; follow the dye's product page for dose, since CSI does not publish dose rates per kilo. Accepting and disclosing is also legitimate: many makers print "natural colour variation may occur" on the label. What matters is that the customer is not surprised.

A blend that performs at 8% is worth protecting. Find the one component that misbehaves, change as little as you can, and prove the scent survived.
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Example component A · 50% of the blend
Mango Coconut Fragrance Oil
Component A in the example blend. Nothing in CSI's data says it discolours; it is here as part of an example structure. It is one of the oils with a real bulk step: ₹3.96/g at 1 kg against ₹5.00/g at 100 g.
Pack Price Per gram Diagnostic sets covered
15 g ₹93.22 ₹6.21 0.4
50 g ₹250.00 ₹5.00 1.4
100 g ₹500.00 ₹5.00 2.8
500 g ₹1,982.00 ₹3.96 13.9
1 kg ₹3,964.00 ₹3.96 27.8
36.0 g needed for the full diagnostic set Buy Mango Coconut
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Example component B · 30% of the blend
Honeydew Melon Fragrance Oil
Component B. No colour claim is made for it. Priced almost flat from 50 g to 100 g, with a real saving at 500 g and 1 kg: ₹3.40/g at 1 kg.
Pack Price Per gram Diagnostic sets covered
15 g ₹105.02 ₹7.00 0.5
50 g ₹217.12 ₹4.34 1.8
100 g ₹435.42 ₹4.35 3.6
500 g ₹1,699.20 ₹3.40 17.9
1 kg ₹3,398.40 ₹3.40 35.7
28.0 g needed for the full diagnostic set Buy Honeydew Melon
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Example component C · 20% of the blend
Fresh Strawberries Fragrance Oil
Component C. No colour claim is made for it. Its 15 g carries a steep tester premium (₹7.55/g), so the 50 g at ₹4.25/g is the better buy for a diagnostic set.
Pack Price Per gram Diagnostic sets covered
15 g ₹113.28 ₹7.55 0.6
50 g ₹212.40 ₹4.25 2.1
100 g ₹377.60 ₹3.78 4.2
500 g ₹1,770.00 ₹3.54 20.8
1 kg ₹3,540.00 ₹3.54 41.7
24.0 g needed for the full diagnostic set Buy Fresh Strawberries
Colour problems cost the most in festive gifting, when candles sit on shop shelves and in gift boxes for weeks before Diwali on 8 November 2026 or through the November–February wedding season. Start the four-week protocol now if a festive blend is affected. For MSDS and IFRA documents on any oil in your blend, or a quote on a replacement component, message us on WhatsApp.
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Shopping list: a 16-jar diagnostic set

Oil use across all 16 jars is 36.0 g of A, 28.0 g of B and 24.0 g of C. A 50 g of each covers that. For B and C, a 50 g is also cheaper than enough 15 g testers: Honeydew Melon 50 g is ₹217.12 against two 15 g at ₹210.04 (only 30 g), and Fresh Strawberries 50 g is ₹212.40 against two 15 g at ₹226.56. Wax is 1,512.0 g from a single lot; the 1 kg and 500 g bags cover it with a margin. No wicks are needed.

Oils and wax CSI live pricing, 24 September 2026 · Yankee jars, jug and sticks pulled 24–25 September · scale verified 10 September 2026
The diagnostic set, priced
Item Quantity Line total
Mango Coconut 50 g 36.0 g needed (component A) ₹250.00
Honeydew Melon 50 g 28.0 g needed (component B) ₹217.12
Fresh Strawberries 50 g 24.0 g needed (component C) ₹212.40
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg + 500 g 1,512.0 g needed (same lot) ₹898.00
Yankee Glass Jar 130 ml with clear cap × 16 16 clear test jars with caps, 100 g each ₹755.20
Candle Making Weighing Scale 1 ₹354.00
Candle Wax Pouring Jug 1 ₹531.00
Bamboo Stirring Sticks pack of 5 1 ₹118.00
Total ₹3,335.72

Without the scale, jug and sticks, the consumables come to ₹2,332.72. If you already hold the three oils, the test costs only the wax and jars. For a two-oil blend, drop the C jars (jars 5, 8, 11 and 16): 12 jars in all. The Yankee jars come with clear caps, which keeps air exposure the same for every jar in the dark set.

The example components at production sizes: Mango Coconut ₹500.00 / 100 g, ₹1,982.00 / 500 g, ₹3,964.00 / 1 kg; Honeydew Melon ₹435.42 / 100 g, ₹3,398.40 / 1 kg; Fresh Strawberries ₹377.60 / 100 g, ₹3,540.00 / 1 kg. All three are among the oils where the kilo is genuinely cheaper per gram. At 50/30/20 and 8%, the blend costs ₹72.98 of oil per 200 g candle at 100 g rates. How Do I Document a Custom Candle Fragrance Formula so My Production Team Can Reproduce the Same Scent and Strength Every Time? covers recording which lot of each component went into each batch, which is what lets you trace a colour problem next time.
Why trust this guide

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, and it does not sell a blending service. CSI sells single fragrance oils; any blend you build from them is your formula. This page deliberately names no oil as one that discolours: CSI has no data that would support such a claim, and a list would send you to replace the wrong component. The method finds it in your wax instead.

Every oil and wax price on this page is CSI live pricing, pulled on 24 September 2026. Wick, jar, scale and thermometer prices are those verified for Blog 760 on 10 September 2026; the jug, stirring sticks and other equipment were pulled on 24–25 September 2026. Out-of-stock sizes are flagged, never offered as buyable. Grams, ratios, per-gram and per-candle figures are plain arithmetic on those prices, shown to two decimals so you can check them.

CSI publishes no throw, cure-time, composition or discolouration data for any individual oil, so nothing here ranks oils by performance. Test ratios, cure checkpoints and tolerances are labelled working assumptions for your own trials, not specifications. For MSDS and IFRA documentation, a restock date, or a quote on a production quantity of any component, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

Which fragrance oils cause candle discolouration?
It depends on the oil's formulation, the wax, the load, heat and light, and oils can be reformulated. CSI publishes no discolouration data per oil, so rather than trust a list, test your own components alone and in the blend against an unscented control.
Why is my soy candle turning yellow?
Common causes are a fragrance component, light exposure, process heat or the wax itself. Pour an unscented control from the same wax: if it yellows too, the wax or process is involved; if only scented jars do, isolate the component with single-oil jars.
How do I test if a fragrance oil discolours wax?
Pour it alone at your blend's grams and at 8% into clear jars beside an unscented control from the same wax, keep one set dark and one in daylight, and compare them on white paper at day 1, 3, 7, 14 and 28.
Can I stop fragrance oil from discolouring my candles?
You can reduce or hide it: lower the culprit's share, replace it with an oil that tests clean, dye the wax deliberately, or keep candles away from light. Re-test scent performance after any change.
Does light make candles change colour?
Light exposure is commonly linked to colour change and fading in candle wax. Keep duplicate jars in the dark and on a windowsill; if only the daylight jars change, protect finished candles from light in storage and packaging.
Do I need to burn the candles to test discolouration?
No. Colour change during storage shows in the solid wax, so the test jars need no wicks. Burned candles are only needed if the colour change appears around the melt pool while burning.
Isolate it, then fix it
An unscented control, every oil alone, every oil left out — and the pattern names the culprit.
Single oils from ₹68.44, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599.00 a kilo, Yankee 130 ml clear jars at ₹47.20 each, and liquid dyes from ₹236.00. MSDS and IFRA documents for any oil on WhatsApp.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team for makers already formulating their own candles. The single-component protocol applies to any supplier's oils and any wax. The example blend is a structure for illustration only; CSI publishes no composition, vanillin or discolouration data for any oil, and this page makes no claim that any named oil changes colour.

Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on the product pages named on each card — Eco Candle Wicks, Premium Candle Wicking Needle and Bamboo Wick Holder. They are general product reviews, not assessments of the guidance set out here. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" appears only on the three reviews Judge.me recorded as verified — Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy and Sneha Tamang; the reviews from Ashwini, LJ and Lalitha Jagan are published but not recorded as verified, and carry no badge.

Figures pulled 24 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Fragrance oils (size by size, as quoted on this page): Mango Coconut ₹93.22 / 15 g, ₹250.00 / 50 g, ₹500.00 / 100 g, ₹1,982.00 / 500 g, ₹3,964.00 / 1 kg; Honeydew Melon ₹105.02 / 15 g, ₹217.12 / 50 g, ₹435.42 / 100 g, ₹1,699.20 / 500 g, ₹3,398.40 / 1 kg; Fresh Strawberries ₹113.28 / 15 g, ₹212.40 / 50 g, ₹377.60 / 100 g, ₹1,770.00 / 500 g, ₹3,540.00 / 1 kg; Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹68.44 / 15 g. Wax, equipment and other catalogue items pulled 24–25 September 2026: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599.00 / 1 kg; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299.00 / 500 g; Yankee Glass Jar 130 ml with clear cap ₹47.20 / each; Candle Wax Pouring Jug ₹531.00 / each; Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118.00 / pack of 5; Candle Dye Liquid Brown ₹236.00 / 15 g; Candle Dye Liquid Red ₹236.00 / 15 g. Figures verified 10 September 2026 (Blog 760): Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00 / each.

Non-price figures and assumptions: Load is a share of the finished weight (oil = W × L): a 100 g jar at 8% holds 8 g of blend (A 4.0 g, B 2.4 g, C 1.6 g); leave-one-out jars keep the other components at their blend grams. The 16-jar design, the day 1/3/7/14/28 checkpoints, the 0–3 scoring scale and the two-minute stir are working practices, not specifications. Causes of discolouration listed are general candle-making practice, not CSI measurements. Yankee 130 ml fill weight is not published; 100 g per jar is a test pour. CSI's CSI 464 guidance is 80–90°C; confirm on the product page, and follow the wax maker's instructions for other waxes. Dye dose rates are not published by CSI; follow the dye's product page. Per-candle oil cost is at 100 g rates and excludes wax, wick, jar, labour, packaging, freight and GST. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
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