My Old Wax Held 10% Fragrance Without Problems but My Replacement Wax Develops Oil Droplets — Can Practical Fragrance Capacity Differ Between Waxes?

My Old Wax Held 10% Fragrance Without Problems but My Replacement Wax Develops Oil Droplets — Can Practical Fragrance Capacity Differ Between Waxes?

 

Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹450.00 / kg Woody Oud from ₹93.22 / 15 g Chunks rated to 13% · CSI 464 to 10%
CSI change-control guides · I changed my wax
Why 10% can hold in one wax and bead in another, which ceilings are actually published, and the ladder that finds your new load.
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✓ Two published ceilings, stated exactly ✓ Prices pulled 24 September 2026 ✓ GST invoicing · MSDS & IFRA documentation on request
Change Control · Wax → Fragrance Capacity
A stated ceiling is the most a wax maker allows; practical capacity is what your candle holds with your oil in your climate. Among CSI's container waxes, 10% sits inside a published ceiling only in Chunks — in CSI 464 it is the ceiling, and elsewhere none is published.
9.09%
the true load of a "10%" recipe written as a share of wax (100 g into 1 kg) — check this before blaming the wax · ladder kit ₹3,257.64 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Can practical fragrance capacity differ between waxes? Yes. It belongs to the wax–oil pair and your conditions, and it can sit below any stated maximum. Droplets at an unchanged 10% are the evidence that it does for this oil.

Is 10% allowed in every CSI wax? Only Chunks (up to 13%) and CSI 464 (up to 10%) have stated ceilings in this series. In CSI 464, 10% is the ceiling — no headroom. Soy Pearl and CSI 468: none quoted; ask CSI on WhatsApp.

What should I check first? Your convention. "10% of wax" is only 9.09% of the candle; a new batch sheet written as a true 10% adds 11.1% more oil.

How do I find the new load? 12 candles: old wax 10% as control, new wax at 10%, 9%, 8%; hot and cool spots; burn one of each. Approve the highest step that stays dry and throws.
The short answer
Answer: Yes. Practical capacity is a wax–oil pair result that can differ between waxes and sit below a stated maximum.
Ceilings: Chunks up to 13%; CSI 464 up to 10% (10% = no headroom); Natural Soy Pearl and CSI 468 not quoted in this series. Formulation limits, not regulatory.
Test: Check the convention, then ladder 10/9/8% in the new wax against 10% in the old, with storage and burn checks. Method: wax-change hub.
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In this guide
Your 10% against each CSI wax's stated ceiling Stated ceilings are wax makers' formulation maximums — not targets, not regulatory. Where none is published, the bar is open. 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% Soy Wax Chunks stated up to 13% CSI 464 flakes stated up to 10% — no headroom Natural Soy Pearl no ceiling published — test Coconut Soy CSI 468 no ceiling published — test your 10% Practical capacity — what a wax holds with your oil, in your jar and your summer — can sit below any stated figure. Only a load ladder against a control candle shows where it is.
Shaded bars are the only two fragrance ceilings published for CSI container waxes in this series; dashed bars mark waxes with no published ceiling. Your 10% sits inside the Chunks ceiling, exactly on the CSI 464 ceiling, and against an unknown for Soy Pearl and CSI 468. Practical capacity with your oil can be lower than any of these — which is what the ladder tests.
New wax in the example
Natural Soy Pearl Wax · ₹450.00 / kg
Only in summer?
Sweating at 8% after a wax change
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Wax maker's maximum on WhatsApp
Straight answer
My old wax held 10% fragrance without problems but my replacement wax develops oil droplets — can practical fragrance capacity differ between waxes?
Yes. Practical capacity — how much of a particular oil a wax holds dry in your candle, through cure and storage — belongs to the wax–oil pair and your conditions, and it can sit below any stated maximum. Droplets at an unchanged 10% are direct evidence that it differs for this oil. Start with the facts: among CSI's container waxes, only Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (up to 13%) and CSI 464 (up to 10%) have stated ceilings in this series, so 10% is inside a published ceiling only in Chunks, is exactly the ceiling in CSI 464, and is an untested value in Natural Soy Pearl or CSI 468. Next, check the convention: a "10%" written as a share of wax is really 9.09% of the candle, so a new batch sheet written as a true 10% quietly adds 11.1% more oil. Then run a ladder — the old wax at 10% as control, the new wax at 10%, 9% and 8% — stored hot and cool and burned for throw, and approve the highest load that stays dry and still throws. In the Woody Oud example that is 12 candles and ₹3,257.64 in CSI materials.
One line: the ceiling is what the maker allows; the droplets are your candle telling you what the new wax actually holds.
To find what the new wax actually holds, run a 12-candle load ladder: the old wax at 10% as control, the new wax at 10%, 9% and 8%. In this example — Natural Soy Pearl Wax replacing Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, Woody Oud, 200 g White Matte jars — the kit is ₹3,257.64 with control wax from stock.
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Yes — and "stated maximum" and "practical capacity" are different numbers

10% worked in your old wax. That is a fact about your old wax.

Practical fragrance capacity — how much of a particular oil a wax will hold in your candle, through cure and storage, without oil appearing on the surface or at the glass — is a property of the wax–oil pair and your conditions. It can differ between waxes. It can differ between oils in the same wax. And it can sit well below the wax maker's stated maximum, because a stated maximum is a formulation limit the maker is willing to stand behind, not a promise that every oil will be held at that level in every jar and climate.

So the short answer is yes, practical capacity can differ between waxes, and droplets in the new wax at an unchanged 10% are the most direct evidence you will get that it does for this oil. The useful answer is what to do with that evidence: check which ceilings are actually published, check that your "10%" really is 10% in the convention you think, and then run a load ladder in the new wax beside a control in the old one to find the highest load the new wax holds dry — and whether that load still throws.

The ceilings matter here, so here they are exactly. Of CSI's four container waxes, only two have a stated fragrance ceiling in this series: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13% and Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 up to 10%. So 10% is inside the stated ceiling only in Chunks, and in CSI 464 it is the stated ceiling — no headroom at all. Natural Soy Pearl Wax and Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 have no ceiling quoted in this series, so 10% in either is a test value, not a figure anyone has published. The worked example moves a Woody Oud candle from Chunks at 10% to Natural Soy Pearl. We are not saying Soy Pearl holds less than Chunks — CSI publishes no oil-retention data for any wax. Your droplets are the data.

The CSI principle
A stated ceiling is the most a wax maker will allow. Practical capacity is what your candle will hold. Test for the second.
Neither is an optimum, and neither is regulatory. Only the load ladder, beside a control, tells you where your candle actually sits.

What is published, and what is not

Before testing, get the facts straight. The table below is every fragrance ceiling on record for CSI's container waxes in this series, and what 10% means against each.

Stated ceilings · wax makers' formulation maximums · not regulatory, not optimum
Your 10% against each CSI container wax
Wax Stated ceiling 10% against it What that means for you
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks Up to 13% Inside, 3 points below Allowed; practical capacity still to be proven for each oil
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 Up to 10% Exactly at the ceiling Allowed but no headroom; any measuring error takes you over
Natural Soy Pearl Wax Not quoted in this series Unknown Check the product page or ask CSI on WhatsApp; 10% is a test value
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 Not quoted in this series Unknown Check the product page or ask CSI on WhatsApp; 10% is a test value
Any blend you make None published Unknown Your own formula — test it; 4813, 4816

Two consequences follow. First, if your replacement wax is CSI 464, a 10% formula is legal on paper but has no margin: a scale that reads a gram high, or oil added as a percentage of wax instead of the finished candle, puts you over. For CSI 464 a working load below 10% is the prudent choice for any formula you want to repeat reliably. Second, if your replacement is Soy Pearl or CSI 468, nobody has told you 10% is allowed at all. Ask for the wax maker's stated maximum before you settle a production load; CSI can check it on WhatsApp.

Treating the ceiling as the recipe. "Chunks take 13%, so my new wax will take at least 10%." A ceiling on one wax says nothing about another, and even within one wax the ceiling is the most the maker allows, not the load every oil will hold. Fix: start from your own ladder. 8% is the default working load across CSI's guides; 10% has to earn its place in each wax.

First check: is your 10% really 10%?

Half the "capacity" problems after a wax change are arithmetic problems that the old wax happened to forgive.

CSI's convention is that load is a share of the finished candle: oil = candle weight × load. Many makers write recipes as a share of the wax instead: 100 g of oil into 1 kg of wax, "10%". That is actually 9.09% of the finished 1,100 g. If your old recipe card was written one way and your new batch sheet the other, the new candles contain more oil than the old ones — even though both say 10%.

Two ways of writing "10%" · CSI uses share of finished weight
The same label, two different candles
How the recipe is written Oil into 1 kg of wax True load (share of finished candle) Oil in a 200 g candle
"10% of wax" (oil = wax × 10%) 100 g 9.09% 18.18 g
"10% of candle" (CSI convention) 111.11 g 10.00% 20.00 g
Difference 11.11 g 0.91 points 1.82 g more oil (11.1%)

That 11.1% difference in oil is not large, but at the edge of what a wax holds it can be the difference between dry and droplets. Check both recipe cards. If the old wax was really running at 9.09% and the new batch at a true 10%, you have changed two things — the wax and the load — and the ladder below must include the old true load. The wax-change hub puts load under CONFIRM for exactly this reason.

Why two waxes can hold the same oil differently

In general candle-making practice, fragrance oil sits within the wax as it cools and crystallises. How much of a particular oil a wax can keep bound — and how well it keeps it through warm days, cool nights and the vibration of a delivery van — depends on the wax's make-up and on the oil's own make-up. Some oils commonly behave as "heavy" in one wax and unremarkable in another. That is why capacity is best thought of per pair. CSI publishes no oil composition for its oils and no oil-retention data for its waxes, so nothing on this page predicts where Woody Oud will sit in Soy Pearl. The ladder does.

Where the droplets appear is a clue, not a diagnosis. Beads on the top surface after cure commonly point to more oil than the set wax is holding. Oil at the glass edge or a wet ring can also come from shrinkage and adhesion changes, which a wax change can alter too — the rough-tops post covers the surface side. Droplets that appear only after a hot spell are a storage-stability result — the summer-sweating post covers that test. This page is about the load itself.

Where the oil appears · general practice clues, not CSI measurements
Reading the droplets
Where you see oil Commonly associated with Test that separates it
Beads on the top after cure, cool room Load above what the set wax holds Load ladder (this page)
Only after hot days Storage stability of the pair Summer storage test
At the glass edge, wet ring Shrinkage / adhesion change Process trials
Pooled under the lid in transit Load and heat together Ladder + hot-spot storage
In the pool when lit, separated Oil not fully mixed in / added at the wrong temperature Re-pour following the new wax maker's instructions

The load ladder

Three loads in the new wax, one control in the old — each poured, cured and stored identically. The counts, loads and checkpoints are labelled working practice. The ladder stops at 10% because that is the load you were running; it never goes above 13% in any wax, and for CSI 464 it would not go above 10%.

12 candles · 200 g White Matte · load = share of finished weight
Ladder grams per candle
Variant Load Oil Wax Candles
Control · Chunks 10% 20 g 180 g 3
Soy Pearl 10% 20 g 180 g 3
Soy Pearl 9% 18 g 182 g 3
Soy Pearl 8% 16 g 184 g 3
1
Weigh oil to the gram, in one conventionUse one convention for every candle — CSI's: oil = 200 g × load. At 10% that is 20 g of Woody Oud and 180 g of wax. A weighing scale that reads to 0.1 g matters more here than anywhere else.
2
Follow each wax maker's instructionsAdd the oil at the temperature and with the stirring the new wax maker recommends — not the Chunks routine. CSI publishes no temperature for Soy Pearl; the only CSI figure on record is CSI 464's 80–90°C, which does not apply here. Stirring time is a working practice; keep it identical across the ladder.
3
Pour all twelve the same day, one oil lotSame Eco Thin C1 wick pack, same White Matte jars, same cooling space.
4
Place themOf each variant's three candles, one goes to your hottest realistic storage spot, one to a cooler reference spot, and one is kept for burning.
5
Inspect at fixed checkpoints48 hours, 7 days and 14 days are the labelled examples used in this series. Photograph the top and the glass edge in the same light; dab with a plain tissue; note beads, wet spots and rings.
6
Burn the third candle of each beside the control3–4 hour cycles (a commonly used cycle). Score hot throw blind at a fixed minute and record pool, flame, soot and jar reading. A load that stays dry but throws no better than a lower one is not worth its oil.
7
Pick the highest dry load that throwsThe approved load is the highest ladder step that stays dry at every checkpoint in both spots and throws at least as well as you need — never above the wax's stated ceiling where one exists.
One sheet per checkpoint
Capacity scoring sheet
Variant Top: dry / beads / wet Glass edge Tissue Hot throw (blind 0–5) Pool / flame / jar vs control
Control · Chunks 10% ___ ___ clean / marked ___ reference
Soy Pearl 10% ___ ___ clean / marked ___ ___
Soy Pearl 9% ___ ___ clean / marked ___ ___
Soy Pearl 8% ___ ___ clean / marked ___ ___
A load that is "nearly dry" is not dry
If the 9% candle shows one bead at 14 days in the hot spot, it has not passed; it has told you the edge is between 8% and 9% in that spot. Approve 8% or run a narrower ladder (8.5%) — do not approve the load that nearly held.

The priced ladder kit

Grams use the CSI convention plus a 5% pour-loss allowance, labelled as a working assumption. The three Soy Pearl steps need 1,719.9 g of wax; the control needs 567.0 g of Chunks; Woody Oud for all twelve candles is 233.1 g.

12-candle ladder · wax & oil CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026 · wicks & jars verified 10 September 2026
Kit: Chunks 10% control vs Natural Soy Pearl at 10 / 9 / 8%, Woody Oud
Item Need Buy Price
Natural Soy Pearl Wax 1,719.9 g 2 × 1 kg ₹900.00
Woody Oud Fragrance Oil 233.1 g 2 × 100 g + 1 × 50 g ₹1,177.64
Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 12 + 2 spare 1 × 20 ₹118.00
White Matte Glass Jar 12 3 packs of 5 ₹1,062.00
Kit, control wax from stock ₹3,257.64
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (only if you hold none) 567.0 g 2 × 500 g ₹598.00
Kit, control wax bought ₹3,855.64

Woody Oud is priced flat from 100 g (₹4.53 a gram at 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg), so 233.1 g is cheapest as two 100 g bottles and a 50 g (₹1,177.64); the 500 g bottle (₹2,265.60) would buy nothing cheaper per gram. Two 1 kg bags of Soy Pearl (₹900.00) leave 280.1 g for a narrower second ladder if the edge falls between two steps.

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New wax in this example · ceiling not published in this series
Natural Soy Pearl Wax
Natural Soy Pearl is the incoming wax. No fragrance ceiling is quoted in this series; ask CSI on WhatsApp for the wax maker's stated maximum before approving any production load, and treat 10% as a test value until then. ₹450.00 a kilo at 1 kg; ₹424.80 from 5 kg.
Pack Price Per kg Candles at 180 g wax (10%)
1 kg ₹450.00 ₹450.00 5.56
5 kg ₹2,124.00 ₹424.80 27.78
10 kg ₹4,248.00 ₹424.80 55.56
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2
Control wax in this example · up to 13% load
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks carried the approved 10% formula — inside their stated 13% ceiling. They are the control. One 500 g bag makes 2.78 candles at 180 g of wax, so two bags cover three controls.
Pack Price Per kg Candles at 180 g wax (10%)
500 g ₹299.00 ₹598.00 2.78
1 kg ₹599.00 ₹599.00 5.56
5 kg ₹2,995.00 ₹599.00 27.78
10 kg ₹5,999.00 ₹599.90 55.56
₹598.00 as 2 × 500 g if you need control wax Buy Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
3
Unchanged oil · one lot, every step
Woody Oud Fragrance Oil
Woody Oud stays the same oil; only the load moves. At 10% a 200 g candle takes 20 g; at 8%, 16 g. Price is flat from 100 g, so buy 100 g bottles for tests.
Pack Price Per gram Test candles at 20.0 g
15 g ₹93.22 ₹6.21 0.75
50 g ₹271.40 ₹5.43 2.50
100 g ₹453.12 ₹4.53 5.00
500 g ₹2,265.60 ₹4.53 25.00
1 kg ₹4,531.20 ₹4.53 50.00
₹1,177.64 for 250 g Buy Woody Oud

What a lower approved load does to cost

If the ladder settles on 9% or 8% in Soy Pearl, the cost per candle falls, because Woody Oud costs far more per gram than wax. At the 1 kg oil rate (₹4.53 a gram) and the 5 kg Soy Pearl rate (₹424.80 a kilo):

Per 200 g candle · oil at 1 kg rate · Soy Pearl at 5 kg rate · excludes wick, jar, labour, packaging, freight and GST
Oil and wax cost by approved load
Load Oil Oil cost Wax cost Oil + wax
10% 20 g ₹90.62 ₹76.46 ₹167.09
9% 18 g ₹81.56 ₹77.31 ₹158.88
8% 16 g ₹72.50 ₹78.16 ₹150.66
7% 14 g ₹63.44 ₹79.01 ₹142.45

Moving from 10% to 9% saves ₹8.21 a candle, or ₹3,285.12 on a 400-candle run — a real number, and a trap if it tempts you to accept a lower load that no longer throws. The ladder's burn candles are there to stop that. Comparing total finished-candle economics weighs load, wax price and throw together, and the lower-effective-load post covers redesigning a formula around a lower load properly.

Argued against our own interest, plainly. A lower approved load means you buy less of our oil. That is fine. A higher load than the wax holds means oily candles with our wax in them, which is not. If Soy Pearl will not hold Woody Oud at a load that throws, keep Woody Oud in Chunks — where your 10% sat inside a published 13% ceiling and held dry — and use Soy Pearl for oils that suit it.

Deciding, and recording the new load

The approved load belongs to the pair. Write it that way.
Decision rule · droplets after a wax change at an unchanged load
What the ladder tells you
Result Verdict Next step
Soy Pearl 10% dry like control; droplets earlier were a convention error Capacity was never the problem Fix the batch sheet; KEEP 10% after burn checks
10% beads; 9% dry at all checkpoints; throw acceptable Practical capacity for this pair sits between 9% and 10% Approve 9% for Woody Oud in Soy Pearl
10% and 9% bead; 8% dry; throw acceptable Wider gap Approve 8%; consider a narrower ladder for other heavy oils
All steps bead, control dry Pairing problem Keep this oil in the old wax
Control beads too Your 10% was always at the edge Re-ladder both waxes
One line per oil per wax
Load record after a capacity retest
Field Entry
Pair Woody Oud Fragrance Oil in Natural Soy Pearl Wax
Convention Share of finished candle (CSI): oil = W × L
Stated ceiling Not quoted in this series — wax maker's figure from CSI on ___
Approved load ___% (ladder 10 / 9 / 8%; dry at 48 h / 7 / 14 days, hot and cool spots)
Throw Blind hot throw vs Chunks 10% control ___
Still approved Woody Oud 10% in Chunks (13% stated ceiling)
Signed Name ___ · date ___
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If the droplets appear only in summer, the summer-sweating post runs the storage side. If you run several heavy oils, the ten-fragrance post and the twenty-fragrance post show how to ladder a representative few. If the replacement is CSI 464 and your formula is 10%, remember you are at its stated ceiling; the wax-change checklist puts that on the CONFIRM line. And if you are changing from pure soy to a blend to carry more fragrance, the soy-paraffin post covers what that reopens.

The ceiling is what the wax maker allows. The droplets are what your candle is telling you.
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Stated ceilings, in one place: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13%; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 up to 10%; Natural Soy Pearl Wax and Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 not quoted in this series. Never exceed 13% in any wax. Browse Candle Wax and Fragrance Oils.
Why trust this guide

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. Fragrance load is where a supplier of both oil and wax gains from saying "go higher". We publish only the two ceilings the wax makers state — Chunks 13%, CSI 464 10% — and no oil-retention data for any wax, and we would rather you ran a lower load, or kept an oil in the wax that holds it, than sold oily candles.

Every wax and oil price here comes from live CSI listings pulled on 24 September 2026. Wick and jar prices are those verified for Blog 760 on 10 September 2026, with wick packs rechecked on 25 September 2026. Load conversions, per-candle costs and pack choices are arithmetic shown to two decimals.

The 10/9/8% ladder, three candles per variant, storage spots, checkpoints and the 5% pour-loss allowance are labelled working practices. Stated ceilings are wax makers' formulation maximums, not regulatory limits and not optimum loads. For the stated maximum of any wax without a published ceiling, bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documents, WhatsApp +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

What is the maximum fragrance load for soy wax?
It depends on the wax. For CSI's container waxes, only two ceilings are stated in this series: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13% and CSI 464 up to 10%. For Natural Soy Pearl and CSI 468, ask CSI on WhatsApp for the wax maker's stated maximum.
Why does my candle have oil droplets on top?
Commonly because the load is above what the set wax holds with that oil. Check your load convention first, then compare with a control in a wax that held it and run a load ladder.
Is 10% fragrance load too much?
Not in a wax rated above it — Chunks are rated to 13%. In CSI 464, 10% is the stated maximum with no headroom. In waxes without a published ceiling, 10% is a test value. Practical capacity with your oil may be lower in any of them.
Should fragrance load be calculated on wax weight or total weight?
CSI uses total finished weight (oil = candle weight × load). "10% of wax" is 9.09% of the candle. Either works if every recipe and batch sheet uses the same one.
Can some fragrance oils hold at higher loads than others in the same wax?
Yes, in general practice capacity is per oil as well as per wax. CSI publishes no oil composition data, so ladder the oils at highest risk first — the twenty-fragrance post shows how.
Does lowering fragrance load reduce hot throw?
It can, which is why the ladder burns one candle of each step beside the control. Approve the highest load that stays dry and throws well enough — not simply the lowest dry one.
Find the load it holds
Check the ceiling. Check the convention. Then let a ladder, not a label, set the new load.
Natural Soy Pearl ₹450.00 for 1 kg, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299.00, Woody Oud from ₹93.22, Eco wicks ₹118.00 for 20 and White Matte jars ₹354.00 for 5. Tell us the oils and loads and we will price the ladder.
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Figures pulled 24 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹450.00 / 1 kg, ₹2,124.00 / 5 kg, ₹4,248.00 / 10 kg, ₹21,240.00 / 50 kg. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299.00 / 500 g, ₹599.00 / 1 kg, ₹2,995.00 / 5 kg, ₹5,999.00 / 10 kg (rated up to 13%). Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260.00 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / 1 kg, ₹2,537.00 / 5 kg, ₹5,074.00 / 10 kg (rated up to 10%). Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 ₹325.00 / 500 g, ₹650.00 / 1 kg, ₹3,185.00 / 5 kg, ₹6,370.00 / 10 kg. Woody Oud Fragrance Oil ₹93.22 / 15 g, ₹271.40 / 50 g, ₹453.12 / 100 g, ₹2,265.60 / 500 g, ₹4,531.20 / 1 kg. Figures verified 10 September 2026 (Blog 760), wick packs rechecked 25 September 2026: Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹59.00 / 10, ₹118.00 / 20 (₹5.90 each); White Matte Glass Jar ₹354.00 / 5; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00.

Non-price figures and assumptions: CSI convention: load is a share of finished weight (200 g at 10% = 20 g oil + 180 g wax). Oil added at 10% of wax weight gives a true load of 9.09%; to hit a true L on a fixed wax weight, oil = wax × L ÷ (1 − L). Only two fragrance ceilings are published for CSI waxes in this series (Chunks 13%, CSI 464 10%); they are wax makers' formulation maximums, not regulatory or optimum. The ladder, three candles per variant, storage spots, checkpoints and 5% pour loss are labelled working practices. CSI publishes no oil-retention, crystallisation or oil-composition data. Costs exclude labour, packaging, freight and GST. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November.
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