My Monthly Candle Sales Fluctuate Between 300 and 700 Units — Should I Base Raw-Material Inventory on Average Sales or Peak Demand?
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Average and peak are both the wrong answer on their own. The spread between them is the number that actually sizes your shelf.
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Neither, on its own. Size your cycle stock on the 500-unit average and size your safety stock on the 400-unit spread — which on a fourteen-day lead time puts the soy wax trigger at 72.5 kg. Then lean each material differently, because being wrong about wicks costs ₹1,180 and being wrong about fragrance costs ₹9,081.
72.5 kg
soy wax reorder point — average-rate cycle stock plus a buffer derived from the 300–700 spread, on a 14-day lead time · 185 g fill · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Average or peak? Split the question. Cycle stock — the quantity you reorder — is sized on the average, because that is what you consume over a year. Safety stock is sized on the spread, because that is what the variability costs you. The two together give one trigger: 72.5 kg of wax on a 14-day lead time.What is the 400-unit spread worth? At a 185 g fill with fragrance at 8% of wax weight, 400 candles is 74 kg of wax, 5.92 kg of oil, 400 wicks and 400 jars — about ₹69,870 of materials. The 200 units between the 500 average and the 700 peak are ₹34,935.
What does getting it wrong cost? Buying only for the average leaves a trigger of 51.8 kg, which at the peak rate of 5.18 kg a day covers just 10 of your 14 lead-time days — roughly 112 candles unmade. Buying a full peak month in a 300-unit month carries 74 kg forward, about 3.3 weeks of average production.
Which materials lean toward peak? The cheap shared ones. 200 extra Eco Candle Wicks cost ₹1,180 and never expire; 200 units of a single fragrance oil cost ₹9,081 and only sell if that scent sells. Lean toward peak on wax and wicks, toward average on fragrance.
The short answer
Average sets the order quantity; the spread sets the buffer. Cycle stock = average daily consumption × lead time = 51.8 kg. Safety stock = (peak daily − average daily) × lead time = 20.7 kg. Trigger = 72.5 kg, which reads as 3.3 weeks in a quiet month and 2.3 weeks in a busy one.
The two errors are not the same size. Over-buying a shared material parks cash for a few weeks. Under-buying in a 700-unit month loses the sales permanently. Price both before you choose a side.
Then set the lean per material, not for the whole shelf. Wax and wicks: buy toward peak, because surplus is simply next month's production. Fragrance oil and seasonal jars: buy toward average and top up, because surplus has only one home.
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Bar length is kilograms of soy wax. The dashed box is the whole argument: the 400 units between your quiet month and your busy one are 74 kg of wax and 5.92 kg of oil, and they are what the extra 20.7 kg of buffer exists to absorb.
Real step-down at 1 kg
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₹40.12 each in 5s · ₹29.50 in 100s
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Straight answer
With sales swinging between 300 and 700 candles a month, should I buy for the average or for the peak?
Use the average for the quantity you order and the spread for the buffer you hold, then set a different lean for each material. The arithmetic, at a 185 g fill with fragrance at 8% of wax weight (14.8 g per candle) and 25 working days: a 300-unit month draws 55.5 kg of wax at 2.22 kg a day, the 500-unit average draws 92.5 kg at 3.70 kg a day, and a 700-unit month draws 129.5 kg at 5.18 kg a day. On your observed 14-day lead time, cycle stock at the average rate is 3.70 × 14 = 51.8 kg; the buffer that absorbs the swing is (5.18 − 3.70) × 14 = 20.7 kg; the trigger is 72.5 kg. Read it in weeks and it tells you something useful: the same 72.5 kg is 3.3 weeks of cover in a quiet month and 2.3 weeks in a busy one. Fragrance follows the same shape — 5.80 kg in total against 4.14 kg if you had used the average alone. Then separate the materials. 200 units of extra Eco Candle Wicks cost ₹1,180, 200 extra 200 ml Salsa jars cost ₹5,900, 37 kg of extra CSI 464 costs ₹18,773.80 — and 2.96 kg of a single fragrance costs ₹9,081.28 that only moves if that one scent moves. Lean toward peak on the shared materials and toward average on the scent-specific ones.
One line: order for 500, buffer for the 400-unit swing, and buy wicks and wax generously while buying fragrance tightly.
Buffer the cheap shared lines first: Eco Candle Wicks 500 for ₹2,950 at a flat ₹5.90 each, 200 ml Salsa jars 100 Pcs for ₹2,950 at ₹29.50 each, CSI 464 10 kg at ₹5,074. Keep fragrance at 500 g packs from ₹1,593 until a scent proves itself.
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What a 400-unit swing weighs
You do not have a 500-candle business. You have a 300-candle business and a 700-candle business, and you find out which one you are about three weeks too late.
Before you can decide between average and peak, the swing has to stop being a sales statistic and become a pile of material. At a 185 g fill, every candle is 185 g of wax, 14.8 g of fragrance oil at 8% of wax weight, one wick and one jar — 199.8 g in the glass, which is the same dose expressed as 7.41% of the finished candle if you prefer that convention. Multiply by the swing and the 400 units between your worst month and your best month become 74 kg of wax, 5.92 kg of oil, 400 wicks and 400 jars.
Put a price on it and the decision stops feeling abstract. On CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg, British Rose at the 1 kg rate of ₹3.068 a gram, an Eco Candle Wick at ₹5.90 and a 200 ml Salsa jar at ₹29.50 in the 100-piece pack, one candle's materials are ₹174.68. The 400-unit spread is therefore ₹69,870.16 of raw material — and the 200 units between the average and the peak, which is the part actually in dispute, is ₹34,935.08.
The swing, in material · 185 g fill · 8% of wax weight
Your quiet month, your average month, your busy month and the gap between them
| Month | Candles | Soy wax | Fragrance oil | Wax per working day | Materials at ₹174.68 a candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet | 300 | 55.5 kg | 4.44 kg | 2.22 kg | ₹52,404 |
| Below average | 400 | 74.0 kg | 5.92 kg | 2.96 kg | ₹69,872 |
| Average | 500 | 92.5 kg | 7.40 kg | 3.70 kg | ₹87,340 |
| Above average | 600 | 111.0 kg | 8.88 kg | 4.44 kg | ₹1,04,808 |
| Peak | 700 | 129.5 kg | 10.36 kg | 5.18 kg | ₹1,22,276 |
| The spread | 400 | 74.0 kg | 5.92 kg | 2.96 kg | ₹69,870 |
Worked out above: wax = candles × 185 g; oil = candles × 14.8 g; wax per working day = monthly wax ÷ 25. Materials per candle = 0.185 kg × ₹507.40 (₹93.87 wax) + 14.8 g × ₹3.068 (₹45.41 oil) + ₹5.90 wick + ₹29.50 jar = ₹174.68. Spread value = 400 × ₹174.68 = ₹69,870.16, made up of 74 kg of wax (₹37,547.60), 5.92 kg of oil (₹18,162.56), 400 wicks (₹2,360) and 400 jars (₹11,800).
The mistake: treating the average as a forecast. Five hundred is a description of the past twelve months, not a prediction about next month. In a business that genuinely moves between 300 and 700, the month that lands exactly on 500 may be the rarest outcome of all. Planning stock from the average alone is planning for the one month you are least likely to have. The fix: keep the average for the quantity you reorder — over a year it is right by definition — and use the range for the buffer. One number cannot do both jobs, and trying to make it do both is how businesses end up simultaneously out of lavender and sitting on 200 kg of wax.
Average for the cycle, the spread for the buffer
Inventory has two jobs and they need two different inputs. Cycle stock exists to cover normal consumption between deliveries, and the honest input for "normal" is the average — otherwise you systematically over-buy every month of the year to protect against a month that happens twice. Safety stock exists to cover the difference between normal and bad, and its honest input is the variability, which here you can read straight off your own figures as a 400-unit range.
There is no universal multiplier for how much of a spread to protect, and anyone quoting you a standard percentage is guessing on your behalf. What you can do is derive the buffer from your own numbers: cover your lead time at the peak rate rather than the average rate, and the arithmetic sizes itself.
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Write your own range, in candles, from your own monthsNot a feeling — twelve months of unit sales. Here it is 300 at the bottom, 700 at the top, 500 in the middle. If your bottom is 350 and your top is 900, every figure below changes and the method does not.
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Convert the bottom, the middle and the top into daily ratesDivide by working days: 300 ÷ 25 = 12 candles a day = 2.22 kg of wax; 500 ÷ 25 = 20 a day = 3.70 kg; 700 ÷ 25 = 28 a day = 5.18 kg. Do the same for oil: 177.6 g, 296 g and 414.4 g a day.
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Size cycle stock on the middle rateAverage daily consumption × lead-time days = 3.70 × 14 = 51.8 kg of wax, and 0.296 × 14 = 4.14 kg of oil. This is the part of the trigger that pays for itself every cycle.
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Size safety stock on the gap between the middle and the top(Peak daily − average daily) × lead time = (5.18 − 3.70) × 14 = 20.7 kg of wax, and (0.4144 − 0.296) × 14 = 1.66 kg of oil. This is the part that only earns its keep in a busy month — and it is the part you are deciding whether to pay for.
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Add them for one trigger, then read it in weeks both ways72.5 kg of wax and 5.80 kg of oil. Divide by the average weekly draw (22.2 kg) and it is 3.3 weeks; divide by the peak weekly draw (31.08 kg) and it is 2.3 weeks. Quoting only the first number is how businesses talk themselves into feeling safe.
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Decide the lean material by material, not once for the shelfThe trigger above is the arithmetic floor. Now go line by line and ask what being wrong costs — a question the next two sections answer in rupees. Wicks get a generous lean; a single fragrance oil does not.
Two ways to build the trigger · 14-day lead time
What each basis protects, and where it leaves you exposed
| Basis | Wax trigger | Oil trigger | Holds up in a 300 month? | Holds up in a 700 month? | Idle stock in a quiet month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average rate only | 51.8 kg | 4.14 kg | Comfortably — 3.9 weeks of cover | No. Covers 10 of 14 lead-time days; about 112 candles unmade | None |
| Average + spread buffer | 72.5 kg | 5.80 kg | Yes — 5.4 weeks of cover, more than you need | Yes — all 14 days covered at 5.18 kg a day | 20.7 kg of wax, 1.66 kg of oil ≈ ₹15,599 |
| Full peak month on the shelf | 129.5 kg | 10.36 kg | Yes, overwhelmingly | Yes | 74 kg of wax, 5.92 kg of oil ≈ ₹55,710 |
Stabilise the lead time before you grow the buffer
Notice that the buffer is multiplied by the lead time. At 14 days the spread buffer is 20.7 kg of wax; at 7 days the same spread only needs 10.4 kg. Halving or stabilising your own ordering cycle halves the cost of your volatility — permanently and for every material at once. Placing orders on a fixed day, keeping your quantities and specifications written down so nothing waits on a conversation, and consolidating wax, wick, jar and oil into one order all pull in that direction. It is a better return than any pack ladder on this page.What each error costs, priced
The reason "average or peak" feels unanswerable is that most people compare the two errors in the abstract, where they look symmetrical. They are not. Over-buying a shared material converts cash into material you will certainly use — just later than you wanted. Under-buying in a peak month converts demand into nothing at all, and the month does not come back. But over-buying a scent-specific material is a genuine risk of a write-off, which is why the answer differs by line.
Pricing both errors · 185 g fill · CSI live pricing, September 2026
The cost of each wrong guess, and how long it takes to undo
| Decision | What happens in a 300 month | What happens in a 700 month | Worst-case rupees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trigger on the average (51.8 kg) | Fine. Nothing idle. | Wax runs out 4 days before the delivery lands; about 112 candles unmade | 112 candles of lost margin — the only figure here you can never recover |
| Trigger with the spread buffer (72.5 kg) | 20.7 kg of wax and 1.66 kg of oil sit idle — 5.6 working days of average production | Production never stops | ≈₹15,599 parked for a few weeks |
| Buy a full peak month every month | 74 kg of wax and 5.92 kg of oil carried forward — 3.3 weeks of average production | Production never stops | ≈₹55,710 standing, every quiet month |
| Buffer the wicks to peak | 200 spare wicks, indefinitely usable | Never the constraint | ₹1,180 — the cheapest insurance on this page |
| Buffer one fragrance to peak | 2.96 kg of one scent idle; it only moves if that scent moves | That scent never stops you | ₹9,081.28 of single-scent exposure |
Read the last two rows together and the whole strategy falls out. ₹1,180 buys you complete protection on the wick line; ₹9,081.28 buys you protection on one scent out of several, and creates the one kind of inventory that can genuinely become dead. That asymmetry — not a view about whether next month is good or bad — is what should decide where your money goes.
Don't buffer every scent to peak demand "to be safe". If you carry five fragrances and buffer each one for a 700-unit month, you are holding peak cover on all five while only one month in several needs it on any of them. The exposure multiplies while the protection does not, because a candle needs one scent, not five. The fix: buffer the shared lines — wax, your main wick size, your core jar — to the top of the range, and buffer fragrance per scent against that scent's own velocity, in 500 g rather than 1 kg packs where the per-gram penalty is small. On Sandalwood the per-gram rate is identical at 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg, so the small pack costs nothing at all.
Which materials lean peak, which lean average
This is the table to copy onto your own sheet. The lean is driven by three things: whether the material is shared across every SKU, what 200 extra units of it cost, and whether a surplus has a second home if the collection changes. Nothing here depends on a forecast.
Lean by material · the 200 units between 500 and 700
Cost of over-buying each line, and the recommended lean
| Material | Shared across SKUs? | 200 extra units costs | If the collection changes | Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy wax (CSI 464) | Yes — every candle | 37 kg · ₹18,773.80 | Still wax; pours into anything | Toward peak |
| Main wick size (Eco C1) | Yes, if one size dominates | 200 wicks · ₹1,180 | Still usable in any jar of that diameter | Well beyond peak |
| Core jar (200 ml Salsa) | Yes, if it is your standard vessel | 200 jars · ₹5,900 | Usable as long as the vessel stays in the range | Toward peak — breakage argues for it too |
| Core fragrance (British Rose) | No — one scent only | 2.96 kg · ₹9,081.28 | Only moves if that scent moves | Toward average, topped up |
| Secondary fragrances | No | Depends entirely on that scent's share | Highest dead-stock risk in the business | Average or below, in 500 g packs |
| Seasonal jar colour or lid | No — one collection | 200 jars · ₹5,900 up to ₹12,400 on coloured Salsa jars at ₹62 each | Usually nothing to fall back on | Below average, bought to confirmed demand |
| Dye and additives | Partly | Small in rupees, long in shelf time | Colour-specific; low volume | Average; smallest pack that avoids repeat ordering |
One more honest note on that table. The pack ladders decide how cheaply you can execute the lean, and they do not all reward volume. On Eco Candle Wicks the listed price is a flat ₹5.90 for Thin (C1) at every pack from 10 to 1,000, so there is no penalty for buffering wicks and no reward for over-buying them either — buy the quantity you want. On the 200 ml Salsa jar there is a genuine step: ₹40.12 each in the 5-piece pack against ₹29.50 in the 50 and 100, so the jar lean toward peak pays for itself. Check each line on its own page rather than assuming the big pack is cheaper.
Buying fragrance and jars against a swing
Three cards, chosen because they are the lines where a 300-to-700 swing actually hurts. Each table shows every listed pack with its price, the per-gram or per-piece rate and how many 200 g-class candles the pack covers at 14.8 g of oil or one jar each.
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Core fragrance · a ladder that does reward the kilo
British Rose Fragrance Oil
Use this as the template for a scent you are confident about. The ladder genuinely steps down — ₹3.422 a gram at 100 g, ₹3.186 at 500 g and ₹3.068 at 1 kg — so one kilo beats two 500 g bottles by ₹118. A kilo is 67 candles of cover at 14.8 g each, which at the 500-unit average is a little over three working days if it were your only scent, and considerably longer in practice. Buy the kilo for the scent that carries your range, and size it on the average month rather than the peak: 7.4 kg of total oil a month across all scents means your core scent's share is what matters, not the headline. Two CSI customers describe its cold and hot throw in their published reviews; your own cured burn test is still the one that counts.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 200g-class candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹94.40 | ₹629.33 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹212.40 | ₹424.80 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹342.20 | ₹342.20 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,593 | ₹318.60 | ≈33 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,068 | ₹306.80 | ≈67 |
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Secondary fragrance · a ladder that rewards nothing
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
The important card on this page, because it kills a habit. Sandalwood lists at ₹5,026.80 a kilo — and ₹5,026.80 a kilo at 500 g, and ₹5,026.80 a kilo at 100 g. Two 500 g bottles cost exactly what one kilo costs. So for any scent you are not certain about, the 500 g pack is strictly better: the same per-gram price, half the cash committed, and half the exposure if that scent turns out to be a 300-unit scent rather than a 700-unit one. This is what "lean toward average on fragrance" looks like in practice — not buying less than you need, but buying it in units that let you stop. One CSI customer's published review of this oil is a plain "Very good".
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 200g-class candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹93.22 | ₹621.47 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹271.40 | ₹542.80 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹502.68 | ₹502.68 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,513.40 | ₹502.68 | ≈33 |
| 1 kg | ₹5,026.80 | ₹502.68 | ≈67 |
₹74.40 of oil per candle · identical per gram at 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg Buy Sandalwood oil
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Core jar · the lean that pays for itself
200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap
Your standard vessel is the line where buffering to peak is both cheapest and most necessary — glass breaks, and a jar shortage stops every candle, not one scent. The ladder has a real step: ₹40.12 a jar in the 5-piece pack against ₹29.50 in the 50 and 100. A 700-unit month needs seven 100-piece packs, ₹20,650; the 500-unit average needs five, ₹14,750; the 200-jar difference is ₹5,900. Add a breakage allowance — at 3% of a 700-unit month that is 21 jars — and buying the sixth or seventh pack early is easy to justify. The page states the capacity as "200ml capacity … for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles": that is millilitres, not grams, so weigh one filled jar before you treat 185 g as the fill.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Pcs | ₹200.60 | ₹40.12 |
| 50 Pcs | ₹1,475 | ₹29.50 |
| 100 Pcs | ₹2,950 | ₹29.50 |
₹29.50 a jar from the 50-piece pack up · ₹10.62 a jar cheaper than the 5-pack Buy 200 ml Salsa jars
Priced above: British Rose Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹94.40, 50 gm ₹212.40, 100 gm ₹342.20, 500 gm ₹1,593, 1 kg ₹3,068 — per gram ₹3.422, ₹3.186 and ₹3.068, so two 500 g bottles (₹3,186) cost ₹118 more than one kilo. Sandalwood Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹93.22, 50 gm ₹271.40, 100 gm ₹502.68, 500 gm ₹2,513.40, 1 kg ₹5,026.80 — ₹5.0268 a gram at 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg alike. Oil per candle = 14.8 g × the per-gram rate. 200ml Salsa Glass Jar 5 Pcs ₹200.60 (₹40.12 each), 50 Pcs ₹1,475 and 100 Pcs ₹2,950 (₹29.50 each). Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹5.90 each at every listed pack from 10 to 1,000.
1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack, so a 10.36 kg peak month is eleven bottles split across your scents. For recurring volumes above the listed packs, bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS or IFRA documentation are handled on the bulk line — send your range, not a single month.
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The one-page sheet to fill in each month
All of the above collapses into seven rows you can keep in a notebook or a spreadsheet. Fill it in on the same day each month. The only inputs are your own unit sales, your own lead time and the pack prices on the product pages.
Blank monthly sheet · substitute your own figures
Seven rows that turn a volatile sales number into a trigger
| Row | How to fill it | Worked example (300–700, avg 500) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Average, low and peak months | Twelve months of unit sales | 500 · 300 · 700 |
| 2 · Daily rates | Each ÷ working days, × 185 g | 3.70 kg · 2.22 kg · 5.18 kg of wax a day |
| 3 · Lead time | Your own observed order-to-usable gap, in days | 14 days |
| 4 · Cycle stock | Average daily × lead time | 51.8 kg wax · 4.14 kg oil |
| 5 · Spread buffer | (Peak daily − average daily) × lead time | 20.7 kg wax · 1.66 kg oil |
| 6 · Trigger | Rows 4 + 5, converted to weeks both ways | 72.5 kg wax · 5.80 kg oil = 3.3 weeks average, 2.3 weeks peak |
| 7 · Lean per line | Cost of 200 extra units of each material | Wicks ₹1,180 · jars ₹5,900 · wax ₹18,773.80 · one scent ₹9,081.28 |
And one discipline to go with it: subtract committed stock before you read row 6. If you have accepted a 150-candle order, 27.75 kg of wax and 2.22 kg of oil are promised and should not be counted as available. In a business whose volume swings this much, large orders are exactly what create the swing — so the sheet that ignores them will mislead you precisely in the months that matter.
The CSI principle
Buy the average. Buffer the spread. Lean by material.
The average tells you how much material a year of your business consumes, so it belongs in the order quantity. The spread tells you how wrong a single month can be, so it belongs in the buffer. And the price of 200 spare units — ₹1,180 for wicks, ₹9,081 for one fragrance — tells you which lines deserve generosity. Three different questions, three different numbers, one sheet.
Buffer the material every candle needs. Ration the material only one candle needs.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The easy commercial answer to "average or peak" is peak, every time, on every line — it sells more of everything. This page argues for peak on wicks and wax, average on fragrance, and below average on seasonal jars, because a business holding ₹9,000 of a scent that did not sell orders less next quarter, not more.
Every price and pack size is live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing is always authoritative. Fragrance pack ladders are quoted from those pages exactly as listed, including the cases where the larger pack carries no per-gram advantage at all. We publish no throw or performance claim about any oil beyond what its page states and what customers have written in their own published reviews. The 300–700 range, the 500 average, the 185 g fill, the 8% load, 25 working days and the 14-day lead time are the reader's inputs, used to show the method. CSI publishes no delivery time, no minimum order quantity and no stock-availability promise, and none is implied here.
For bulk pricing on volumes above the listed packs, GST invoicing, or MSDS and IFRA documentation, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 with your monthly range rather than a single figure.
Frequently asked questions
Should raw-material inventory be based on average or peak candle sales?
Both, in different places. Cycle stock — the quantity you reorder each time — goes on the average, because over a year the average is what you consume. Safety stock goes on the spread between average and peak, because that is what the variability costs. On a 300–700 range with a 500 average and a 14-day lead time, that gives 51.8 kg of cycle stock plus a 20.7 kg buffer: a single 72.5 kg trigger for soy wax, and 5.80 kg for fragrance oil in total.
How do I calculate safety stock from my own sales range?
Convert your peak month and your average month into daily consumption, take the difference, and multiply by your lead time. Here: 700 ÷ 25 = 28 candles a day = 5.18 kg of wax; 500 ÷ 25 = 20 a day = 3.70 kg; the gap is 1.48 kg a day, and over 14 days that is 20.7 kg. There is no standard percentage to apply instead — the whole point is that the figure comes from your spread and your lead time, both of which you can measure.
Is it ever right to hold a full peak month of stock?
For a cheap, shared material, yes. Two hundred spare Eco Candle Wicks cost ₹1,180, are used in every candle of that jar diameter and do not care which month it is — holding peak cover there is trivial insurance. For fragrance it is rarely right: 2.96 kg of one scent is ₹9,081.28 that only moves if that scent moves. For a seasonal jar colour it is almost never right, because a surplus has nowhere to go once the collection ends.
What does a stock-out actually cost in a 700-unit month?
With a trigger built on the average alone, 51.8 kg of wax covers 10 of your 14 lead-time days at the peak rate of 5.18 kg a day — so production stops for about four days, which at 28 candles a day is roughly 112 candles. Price that at your own margin, not at material cost, and compare it with the ≈₹15,599 the spread buffer parks for a few weeks. In most candle businesses the comparison is not close.
Do bigger fragrance packs always cost less per gram?
No, and it is worth checking every time. British Rose does step down — ₹3.186 a gram at 500 g against ₹3.068 at 1 kg, so the kilo saves ₹118. Sandalwood does not: it is ₹5.0268 a gram at 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg alike, so two 500 g bottles cost exactly what one kilo does. For an uncertain scent in a volatile business, that makes the smaller pack strictly better. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack.
How often should I recalculate the trigger if my sales keep moving?
Recompute whenever your average moves by more than about a tenth, and in any case on a fixed quarterly cadence — the sheet above takes ten minutes. Two things make it urgent: the average drifting upward, which quietly turns a safe trigger into a stock-out, and the spread widening, which needs a bigger buffer even if the average has not moved at all. Also re-measure your lead time on every delivery, because the buffer is multiplied by it.
Order for the average, buffer for the swing
72.5 kg of wax and 5.80 kg of oil on the trigger — then ₹1,180 on wicks and restraint on fragrance.
British Rose Fragrance Oil 500 g ₹1,593 and 1 kg ₹3,068, Sandalwood Fragrance Oil 500 g ₹2,513.40 and 1 kg ₹5,026.80 at an identical per-gram rate, 200 ml Salsa jars ₹2,950 per 100 (₹29.50 each), Eco Candle Wicks at a flat ₹5.90 each to 1,000, and Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg flat to 10 kg. Send us your monthly range for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the consumption, cycle-stock, safety-stock, days-of-cover and cost-of-error arithmetic are standard inventory methods that apply to any supplier.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. Reader's assumptions, stated in-text and used in every calculation: monthly unit sales ranging 300 to 700 with a 500 average; 185 g wax fill per 200 g-class candle; fragrance dosed at 8% of wax weight = 14.8 g per candle (equivalent to 7.41% of the 199.8 g finished candle); one wick and one jar per candle; 25 working days a month and a six-day working week; observed supplier lead time of 14 days; a 3% jar breakage allowance. These are the reader's inputs, not CSI figures — CSI publishes no delivery time, no minimum order quantity and no stock-availability promise, and this page makes no claim about what sells. Derived figures: wax 55.5 / 74.0 / 92.5 / 111.0 / 129.5 kg a month at 300 / 400 / 500 / 600 / 700 candles, with daily rates of 2.22 / 2.96 / 3.70 / 4.44 / 5.18 kg; oil 4.44 / 5.92 / 7.40 / 8.88 / 10.36 kg a month, daily 177.6 / 236.8 / 296 / 355.2 / 414.4 g; cycle stock 3.70 × 14 = 51.8 kg wax and 4.14 kg oil; spread buffer (5.18 − 3.70) × 14 = 20.7 kg wax and 1.66 kg oil; trigger 72.5 kg wax and 5.80 kg oil, equal to 3.3 weeks at the 22.2 kg average weekly draw and 2.3 weeks at the 31.08 kg peak weekly draw; an average-only trigger of 51.8 kg covers 10 of 14 lead-time days at the peak rate, about 112 candles; materials per candle ₹93.87 wax + ₹45.41 oil + ₹5.90 wick + ₹29.50 jar = ₹174.68, so the 400-unit spread is ₹69,870.16 and the 200-unit average-to-peak gap is ₹34,935.08, comprising 37 kg wax ₹18,773.80, 2.96 kg oil ₹9,081.28, 200 wicks ₹1,180 and 200 jars ₹5,900. Prices used in maths: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 (₹507.40/kg flat); British Rose Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹94.40, 50 gm ₹212.40, 100 gm ₹342.20, 500 gm ₹1,593, 1 kg ₹3,068; Sandalwood Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹93.22, 50 gm ₹271.40, 100 gm ₹502.68, 500 gm ₹2,513.40, 1 kg ₹5,026.80; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 500 ₹2,950, 1000 ₹5,900 (₹5.90 each at every pack); 200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap 5 Pcs ₹200.60, 50 Pcs ₹1,475, 100 Pcs ₹2,950; 200ml Salsa coloured jars (Amber, Green, Red, Purple, Light Pink) Pack of 5 ₹310, Pack of 50 ₹3,100, Pack of 100 ₹6,200 (₹62 each). Stated specifications as published on product pages: CSI 464 fragrance load up to 10%, melting point and pour both stated as 80–90°C; the 200ml Salsa Glass Jar page states "The 200ml capacity provides ample space for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" — capacity is in millilitres, not grams, so weigh one filled jar before planning from it. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance oil pack. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.