Should Room Temperature Become a Recorded Production Parameter if Glass Adhesion Is Important to My Product?

Should Room Temperature Become a Recorded Production Parameter if Glass Adhesion Is Important to My Product?

 

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Glass Adhesion · Production Records
Room temperature stands for three things at once — glass temperature at the pour, cooling rate and overnight change. Record it seven ways per batch, sort batches into bands, and let your own fail rates say whether it earns a place in the SOP.
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Quick answers — read this first
Should I record room temperature? Yes. It changes daily without anyone deciding it and affects glass temperature, cooling and overnight change. Unrecorded, it can never be ruled in or out.

What exactly should I record? Room at staging, wax at first and last fill, room at pour, overnight min/max, room next morning, and fan/AC/door state.

How do I know if it matters? Sort batches into temperature bands; compare fail rates once each band has 5+ batches. Confirm with a two-room test.

What does it cost? A few minutes a batch and a room thermometer. A 24-jar two-room test is ₹1,849.09 in CSI items. See the kit.
The short answer
Answer: Yes — record it at fixed moments on every batch, then compare fail rates across temperature bands. Adopt a house room window only if the bands differ and a two-room test confirms it.
Why: The room sets glass temperature at the pour, the cooling rate and overnight temperature change — all commonly linked to wet spots. CSI publishes no adhesion data by temperature.
Method: Seven readings per batch; 10 scored jars per batch; 5+ batches per band; then one melt in two measured rooms, 12 jars each, scored blind.
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In this guide
Seven readings a batch, then sort by band Room temperature becomes useful only when it is written at the same moments every batch and compared across many batches Jars staged room °C First fill wax °C Last fill wax °C Pour done room °C Overnight min / max Next morning room °C All day fan · AC · door Dark dots: the two readings that frame the cooling Below 24°C example band batches: ___ (aim 5+) jars scored: ___ (50+) fail rate: ___ % 24–28°C example band batches: ___ (aim 5+) jars scored: ___ (50+) fail rate: ___ % 28–32°C example band batches: ___ (aim 5+) jars scored: ___ (50+) fail rate: ___ % Above 32°C example band batches: ___ (aim 5+) jars scored: ___ (50+) fail rate: ___ % If the fail rate steps across bands, room temperature earns a house window in your SOP. If it is flat, keep recording — it is cheap — but look elsewhere for the cause.
Seven readings at fixed moments on every batch, then batches sorted into example room-temperature bands. Each band needs enough batches (5+) and scored jars (50+) before its fail rate means anything. A step across bands earns a house room window; a flat line says look elsewhere.
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Straight answer
Should room temperature become a recorded production parameter if glass adhesion is important to my product?
Yes — not because a warm or cool room is known to cause wet spots in your candle, but because without a record you can never tell when it does. Room temperature stands for three things commonly linked to wet spots: how cold the glass is when the wax arrives, how fast the batch cools, and how much young candles warm and cool overnight. So record it at seven fixed moments on every batch record — room at jar staging, wax at first and last fill, room at pour, overnight min/max, room next morning, and fan, AC and door state — and score a fixed sample of 10 jars per batch. After a few weeks, sort batches into temperature bands and compare fail rates once each band has 5+ batches. If the rate steps, confirm it with one melt poured into two measured rooms and scored blind; only then add a house room window to your SOP. It costs about 3.5 minutes a batch and a thermometer. No industry temperature window exists — yours comes from your records.
One line: record seven readings a batch, read them as bands, confirm with two rooms — then write your own window.
Recording room temperature costs a few minutes per batch and a thermometer. If you want to test whether it matters before you log it for months, the cheapest clear jar to run a room comparison in is CSI's Mini Glass Jars 40 ml (clear glass, black lid) — 25 for ₹634.25. Twenty-four test candles in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks with Eucalyptus Spearmint come to ₹1,849.09 with everything bought.
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The short answer, and what to start recording today

Yes. Not because room temperature is always the cause, but because without it you cannot tell when it is.

If glass adhesion is part of what you sell, room temperature should be a recorded production parameter — written on every batch record, at the same moments, every time. The reason is not that a warm or cool room is known to cause wet spots in your candle; nobody publishes that for any wax, including us. It is that room temperature affects several things that are commonly linked to wet spots at once: how cold the glass is when the wax arrives, how fast the batch cools and sets, and how much the candles warm and cool overnight. When spots come and go, the room is one of the few things that changes every day without anyone deciding it. If it is not written down, it cannot be ruled in or out.

Recording is the cheap half of the job. The useful half is reading the records: sorting your batches by the room temperature they were made in and asking whether the fail rate changes from band to band. That needs a few weeks of batches, a fixed sampling rule and honest scoring. If the rate steps — say, more spotted jars on the coolest days — you have earned a house window for the room in your SOP. If it is flat, room temperature is not your lever, and you have lost nothing but a few minutes a batch.

Start today with the seven readings in the table below. You need a thermometer for the room (a min/max or logging thermometer is a non-CSI item; an example price is used further down) and the Pen Thermometer for the wax. Write the readings on the batch record, not on a loose sheet. Score a fixed sample from every batch. That is the whole start-up cost.

Seven readings per batch · working practice · write them on the batch record
What to record, when, and why
Reading When Instrument Why it matters for adhesion
Room at jar staging When jars are laid out Room thermometer Glass takes the room's temperature; cold glass meeting hot wax is a commonly cited contributor
Wax at first fill First jar Pen Thermometer Sets the start of the pour window
Wax at last fill Last jar Pen Thermometer Shows drift across the batch
Room at pour When the last jar is filled Room thermometer Sets how fast the batch starts to cool
Overnight min / max Read next morning, then reset Min/max thermometer (non-CSI) Captures the cooling night and any warm–cool swing
Room next morning Before scoring or lidding Room thermometer Closes the record
Fan, AC, door, window All day Tick boxes Moving air changes cooling more than the number on the wall
The CSI principle
A variable you never record can never be blamed — or cleared.
Seven readings a batch turn "it happens on some days" into a question your own records can answer.

Why the room is three variables, not one

A single room reading hides three different effects, and it helps to keep them apart. The first is glass temperature at the pour. Jars staged in a cool room are cool glass; in an air-conditioned workshop at night, they can be much cooler than the wax. Cold glass meeting hot wax is commonly cited as a contributor to poor adhesion. The second is cooling rate. A cool room pulls heat out of the batch faster, and fast or uneven cooling is commonly cited too — the slow-cooling post shows how to measure it. The third is temperature change after setting. A room that is warm by day and cool by night puts young candles through a small cycle, and repeated heating and cooling can matter for adhesion as well as courier trips do.

That is why the record has a reading at staging, at pour and overnight, rather than one number. When you later find that cool-band batches spot more, the readings tell you which of the three to test: if staging was cold, try staging jars in a warmer spot; if the overnight minimum was low, try a covered cooling area; if both, test them one at a time. Wet spots are commonly described as places where wax separates from the glass as it contracts, leaving a thin air gap that looks dark through clear glass. CSI publishes no contraction or adhesion figure for any wax, and nothing here is a measured CSI result.

Season is the other reason to record. A workshop that sits at a comfortable temperature in October can be several degrees cooler in January in north India, and much warmer in May. Good adhesion in summer and patches in winter and seasonal variation: raw materials or the workshop? both depend on records like these existing before the season changes. Start now, and by the November–February wedding season you will have a baseline.

Put the thermometer where the candles are, not where you are
A thermometer on the wall by the door reads the doorway. Put the room thermometer on the cooling shelf, at jar height, away from the melter and out of direct sun, and leave it there. Readings from a different spot every day are not comparable.

Reading the records: the band analysis

One batch tells you nothing about the room. Twenty batches sorted by temperature can.

Once you have a few weeks of records, sort the batches into temperature bands by the room reading at pour. The bands below are examples — choose bands that split your own range into roughly equal groups. For each band, add up the scored jars and the jars that failed your house standard, and divide. A working practice is to wait for at least 5 batches and 50 scored jars in a band (for example, 10 per batch) before reading anything into it; fewer than that and one bad batch decides the answer.

Example bands — set your own · aim for 5+ batches and 50+ scored jars per band before reading it
Band analysis sheet
Room at pour (example band) Batches Jars scored Jars failing Fail rate Staging reading (median) Overnight min (median)
Below 24°C ___ ___ ___ ___ % ___ °C ___ °C
24–28°C ___ ___ ___ ___ % ___ °C ___ °C
28–32°C ___ ___ ___ ___ % ___ °C ___ °C
Above 32°C ___ ___ ___ ___ % ___ °C ___ °C

Read the fail-rate column from coolest to warmest. If it steps clearly in one direction, room temperature (or one of the three things it stands for) is a real factor in your process, and the staging and overnight columns tell you which to test first. If it is flat, the room is not your lever within the range you work in, whatever happened on one memorable bad day. Keep recording anyway: it is cheap, and the range changes with the season. Do not set an acceptance threshold from these numbers alone; any "house window" you adopt is your own labelled choice, and no industry figure exists.

Reading the records batch by batch. A batch spots badly on a cool morning, the maker writes "cold room" in the notes, and the next three cool batches are blamed in advance. Meanwhile two warm batches spotted just as badly and nobody connected them. Fix: never interpret a single batch. Wait for the band sheet to fill, then read the bands side by side.

Confirming it: the two-room test

The band sheet shows an association; a test shows a cause. If cool-band batches spot more, confirm it with one melt poured into two rooms. Pour 24 candles from one melt: 12 staged, filled and cooled in your normal room and 12 staged, filled and cooled in a warmer room (or your normal room at a warmer time) — labelled example conditions you measure and record rather than set to any published figure. Every other variable is the same: wax lot, oil, load, wick, jar lot, cleaning, pour temperature, spacing and surface. In the worked example the candle is CSI's Mini Glass Jars 40 ml (clear glass, black lid) at an example 30 g fill — the jar is 40 ml brim volume and its fill weight is not published, so weigh a test pour — in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks with Eucalyptus Spearmint at 8%: 2.4 g of oil and 27.6 g of wax.

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Measure both rooms firstPut the same thermometer in each room for a day. Write both readings at the times you will pour. If the rooms differ by less than your thermometer can tell, pick another pair.
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Stage half the jars in each roomLong enough for the glass to take the room's temperature — note the time. Same cleaning for all 24; Isopropyl Alcohol Spray is flammable, so let jars dry fully away from heat.
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Pour from one jug, alternating roomsKeep the jug at the wax page's pour range: Chunks' spec table states 75–80°C (its steps show 70–80°C). Log the wax at the first and last fill in each room.
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Leave each half in its roomRecord room, fan, AC and overnight min/max for both rooms.
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Score blindSomeone else codes the bases. Score four sides per jar at 48 hours and 7 days (labelled example checkpoints).

If the warmer-room half clearly beats the normal-room half, and the readings show the difference was in staging or cooling, you have a cause, and the record has earned its place. If the halves are alike, the band difference was something that travels with temperature — season, wax lot, oil lot, a new staff member — and the seasonal-variation post shows how to separate raw materials from the workshop.

What the record costs, and what it can save

The record costs time and one instrument. 7 readings at an example 0.5 minutes each is about 3.5 minutes a batch; a min/max room thermometer at an example ₹500.00 (a non-CSI item — replace with your price) is the only purchase if you already own the Pen Thermometer (₹354.00). On the other side, the worked mini candle carries ₹51.04 of CSI materials at Chunks' 5 kg rate (₹0.60 a gram), Eucalyptus Spearmint at the 1 kg rate (₹3.07 a gram), an Eco Thin C1 at ₹5.90 as the example wick line and the jar from the 100-pack at ₹21.24, before labour, packaging, freight and GST. An example batch of 200 is ₹10,207.12.

Example batch of 200 mini candles · ₹51.04 materials each · example counts, not results
What a band difference would be worth
Scenario Failing jars Saleable Cost per acceptable candle Versus no failures
Example: 6 of 200 fail in the cool band 6 194 ₹52.61 +₹1.58
Example: 20 of 200 fail in the warm band 20 180 ₹56.71 +₹5.67

If your records showed a difference like the example — and the two-room test confirmed the room was the cause — moving warm-band practice to every batch would recover 14 jars a batch: ₹714.50 of materials, which repays an example ₹500.00 thermometer in 0.7 batches. Mini candles are cheap per jar, so the bigger loss is usually the selling price and the hand labour of sorting seconds — the reject-cost post models those.

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The priced two-room test

If you already make this candle, run the two-room test in production and buy nothing. For a dedicated test, here it is in listed, in-stock CSI packs, with a 5% pour-loss working allowance on wax and oil only. Mini jars make a 12-per-arm test cheap enough that you can afford more jars than the three-per-arm minimum.

24-jar two-room test + 1 spare · Mini 40 ml · Chunks · Eucalyptus Spearmint at 8% on an example 30 g fill · oils CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026, stock re-checked 7 October 2026 · wax CSI live pricing, re-checked 7 October 2026 · jars CSI live pricing, pulled 7 October 2026 · wicks re-checked 4 October 2026
The two-room test kit
Item Need Buy Price Skip if
Mini Glass Jars 40 ml (clear glass, black lid) 24 + 1 1 × pack of 25 ₹634.25 You hold your production jar
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 695.5 g 2 × 500 g ₹598.00 You use your production lot (better)
Eucalyptus Spearmint 60.5 g 1 × 50 g + 1 × 15 g ₹280.84 You use your own oil (better)
Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 24 + 1 2 × pack of 20 (10-pack out of stock) ₹236.00 You hold your burn-tested wick
Wick stickers 24 + 1 1 × sheet of 40 ₹100.00 You hold stickers
Room thermometer (min/max) 1 per room Non-CSI example Your figure You own one
Test, CSI items ₹1,849.09 ₹77.05 per test candle

Two small points of arithmetic. The 25-pack of Black-lid Mini jars (₹634.25, ₹25.37 a jar) is cheaper than five packs of 5 (₹649.00) for 25 jars, so it is the pack used here. And two 500 g bags of Chunks (₹598.00) are ₹1.00 cheaper than one 1 kg bag (₹599.00). The Golden-lid Mini jars list their 25 and 50 packs at the same price — confirm on WhatsApp before ordering 25.

Argued against our own interest, plainly. If your records point at the room, the fix is a thermometer, a warmer staging spot or a covered cooling area — nothing we sell — and you keep your wax. The Chunks, CSI 464 and CSI 468 pages all claim good glass adhesion, so the claims cannot tell you which wax to switch to; and changing wax because of a cold week would re-open wick, load, cure and hot-throw tests on every SKU.

The decision rule

Apply it once the band sheet has enough batches, and again after the two-room test. Stop at the first true line.

Working decision rule
From the records to an SOP line
If this is true It means Do or buy
Fail rate steps across bands and the two-room test confirms it The room is a real factor Nothing from CSI. Add a house room window and a staging rule to the SOP
Steps across bands, two-room test flat Something that travels with temperature Separate materials from workshop: 7358
Band rates flat Room is not your lever in this range Keep recording; look at jar, glass prep and cooling: 7320
Staging reading is what differs Cold glass at the pour Test a warmer staging spot (measured, recorded) as one variable
Overnight minimum is what differs Cooling or cycling overnight Test a covered cooling area: 7355
All cleared; spots persist Jar–wax pairing A side-by-side wax screen in your jar — 7390

Whichever line you land on, keep the seven readings. They are what makes every later test interpretable — and they cost less per batch than one spotted jar.

Heading into the cooler months after Diwali on Sunday 8 November 2026? Start the record now so the November–February season has a baseline. Send us your jar, wax and a photo of your batch record on WhatsApp and we will help you set up the readings and the two-room test. Larger quantities are quoted on WhatsApp; no volume discount figure is published.
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Test jar · clear glass · fill not published
Mini Glass Jars 40 ml (clear glass, black lid)
CSI's page lists 40 ml clear glass jars with a black or golden lid. 40 ml is brim volume; the fill weight is not published (a labelled approximate 0.86–0.90 g per ml would put a brim-full jar at 34.4 g–36.0 g), so weigh a test pour. The table shows the Black-lid packs; Golden-lid packs list 5 at ₹129.80, 25 and 50 at ₹1,180.00 and 100 at ₹2,124.00.
Pack Price Per jar
5 ₹129.80 ₹25.96
25 ₹634.25 ₹25.37
50 ₹1,180.00 ₹23.60
100 ₹2,124.00 ₹21.24
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Example wax · constant across both rooms
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
CSI's product page states a 13% maximum fragrance load, fragrance addition at 80–90°C, a pour of 75–80°C in its spec table (the page's steps also show 70–80°C), a two-minute stir and a cure of at least 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks — and claims "excellent adhesion to glass and container surfaces" that "reduces wet spots and pull-away". CSI 464 and CSI 468 make the same adhesion claim, so it ranks nothing.
Pack Price Per kg Candles at 27.6 g wax
500 g ₹299.00 ₹598.00 18.12
1 kg ₹599.00 ₹599.00 36.23
5 kg ₹2,995.00 ₹599.00 181.16
10 kg ₹5,999.00 ₹599.90 362.32
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Example oil · cheapest 15 g in CSI's range
Eucalyptus Spearmint Fragrance Oil
Its 15 g at ₹68.44 is the cheapest in-stock 15 g in the range, which keeps small tests cheap. Per gram: ₹4.56 at 15 g, ₹3.54 at 100 g, ₹3.07 at 1 kg. No adhesion, IFRA or flash-point figure is published here.
Pack Price Per gram Candles at 2.4 g
15 g ₹68.44 ₹4.56 6.25
50 g ₹212.40 ₹4.25 20.83
100 g ₹354.00 ₹3.54 41.67
500 g ₹1,652.00 ₹3.30 208.33
1 kg ₹3,068.00 ₹3.07 416.67
₹280.84 for the test Buy Eucalyptus Spearmint
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Wax thermometer · for the two fill readings
Pen Thermometer
Reads the wax at the first and last fill of every batch. It measures wax, not glass or room air; pair it with a room thermometer on the cooling shelf.
Pack Price Readings per batch
1 ₹354.00 2 of the 7
₹354.00 — skip if you own one Buy the Pen Thermometer
Other jars? The seven readings and the band sheet work for any candle. Clear jars are in Glass Jars, waxes in Candle Wax. The section hub maps every cooling and shipping question, and the section capstone builds the record into a full production-to-courier method.
Why trust this guide

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. A supplier could answer seasonal spots with a new wax. This page asks you to record your own room first, prices a two-room test in the cheapest clear jar we list, and says plainly that we publish no adhesion data by temperature for any wax.

Oil prices are CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026, stock re-checked 7 October 2026. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, CSI 464 and CSI 468 prices are CSI live pricing, re-checked 7 October 2026; Natural Soy Pearl is CSI live pricing, re-checked 1 October 2026. Jar and Isopropyl Alcohol Spray prices are CSI live pricing, pulled 7 October 2026. Wick prices are re-checked 4 October 2026, including the Eco Thin C1 10-pack being out of stock. Every candle split, per-jar price, layout count, kit total and cost per acceptable candle on this page is computed and shown to two decimals so you can check it.

Jar counts per arm, photo checkpoints, room and glass temperatures, cooling layouts, temperature cycles, scoring scales and acceptance thresholds are labelled working practices and example settings, not industry standards — none exists for wet spots. The 30 g fill, the temperature bands, 5 batches and 10 jars per band, the 0.5-minute readings, the ₹500.00 min/max thermometer and the 200-candle batch counts are labelled examples or working practices the reader replaces. For help building a test kit, bulk quotes, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documents, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

Does room temperature affect candle wet spots?
It can, through glass temperature at the pour, cooling rate and overnight change — all commonly linked to wet spots. Whether it does in your workshop is answered by your own batch records sorted into temperature bands.
What room temperature is best for pouring soy candles?
No industry figure exists and CSI publishes none. Record the room on every batch, compare fail rates across bands, and set your own labelled house window from the results.
What should a candle batch record include?
Date, wax and oil lot, load, jar lot, wick, pour temperatures at first and last fill, room readings at staging, pour, overnight and next morning, fan/AC/door, cooling position and a scored sample.
Do I need a special thermometer to record room temperature?
A min/max or logging room thermometer (non-CSI) captures the overnight low and high. The CSI Pen Thermometer reads wax, not room air. Keep the room thermometer on the cooling shelf at jar height.
How many batches before I can tell if temperature matters?
No standard exists. A working practice is at least 5 batches and 50 scored jars per temperature band before comparing bands, then a two-room test to confirm.
Why do my candles get wet spots in winter but not summer?
Cooler rooms mean colder glass at the pour, faster cooling and larger overnight drops. Your records show which; the winter post goes further.
Record it, then read it
Seven readings a batch. Bands across weeks. Two rooms to confirm.
CSI's Mini Glass Jars 40 ml are ₹634.25 for 25 (Black lid), Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299.00 for 500 g, Eucalyptus Spearmint from ₹68.44 for 15 g and the Pen Thermometer ₹354.00. Send us your batch record and we will help set up the readings.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. The seven readings, band sheet, two-room test and decision rule apply to any candle from any supplier; the products named are CSI's.

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 used on this page: Oils — CSI live pricing, pulled 24 September 2026, stock re-checked 7 October 2026: Eucalyptus Spearmint Fragrance Oil ₹68.44 / 15 g, ₹212.40 / 50 g, ₹354.00 / 100 g, ₹1,652.00 / 500 g, ₹3,068.00 / 1 kg. Waxes — CSI live pricing, re-checked 7 October 2026: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299.00 / 500 g, ₹599.00 / 1 kg, ₹2,995.00 / 5 kg, ₹5,999.00 / 10 kg. Jars — CSI live pricing, pulled 7 October 2026: Mini Glass Jars 40 ml (clear glass, black lid) ₹129.80 / 5, ₹634.25 / 25, ₹1,180.00 / 50, ₹2,124.00 / 100 (fill weight not published); Golden lid 5 ₹129.80, 25 ₹1,180.00, 50 ₹1,180.00, 100 ₹2,124.00. Isopropyl Alcohol Spray ₹383.00 / 150 ml, ₹520.00 / 1 litre. Wicks re-checked 4 October 2026: Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹118.00 / 20, ₹295.00 / 50, ₹590.00 / 100, ₹2,950.00 / 500, ₹5,900.00 / 1000 (10-pack out of stock); Thick C2 ₹94.40 / 10, ₹188.80 / 20, ₹472.00 / 50, ₹944.00 / 100, ₹4,720.00 / 500, ₹9,440.00 / 1000; wick stickers ₹100.00 / 40. Pen Thermometer ₹354.00; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00.

Non-price figures and assumptions: Load convention: fragrance load is a share of the finished candle (oil = W × L; wax = W × (1 − L)). Example working fill 30 g (Mini jar fill not published) at 8% = 2.4 g oil + 27.6 g wax; labelled approximate 0.86–0.90 g per ml for the brim illustration. Worked costs use Chunks at the 5 kg rate, Eucalyptus Spearmint at the 1 kg rate, Eco Thin C1 ₹5.90 as the example wick line and the Mini jar at ₹21.24 (100-pack). Working practices: 12 jars per room, 5% pour loss, checkpoints at 48 hours and 7 days, 0–4 per-side house scale, 5+ batches and 50+ jars per band. Example non-CSI figures: min/max thermometer ₹500.00, 0.5 minutes per reading, temperature bands, 200-candle batch and its failure counts. What CSI's product pages state (quoted, never CSI test results): Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — 13% maximum fragrance load, fragrance addition 80–90°C, pour 75–80°C in the spec table (the step list also shows 70–80°C), stir 2 minutes, cure minimum 48 hours, ideally 1–2 weeks, and an adhesion claim; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 — up to 10% fragrance load, an 80–90°C melt/pour working range, and an adhesion claim; Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 — melting point 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C, up to 13% fragrance load, and an adhesion claim; Natural Soy Pearl — no ceiling, temperature, cure or adhesion statement published; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) — approximately 150 g fill, approximately 8 cm tall with lid, rim approximately 7 cm, base approximately 6.5 cm, "safe for hot pour up to 85°C". All three adhesion claims are the same claim, so they rank nothing; only a side-by-side test in your own jar does. CSI publishes no adhesion, wet-spot, shrinkage or contraction data for any wax, oil, dye or jar, no glass thickness or internal diameter for any jar, no wick size for any jar, and no glass-preheat, cooling-room or storage temperature. A wet spot is described here as it is commonly described in candle making — wax separated from the glass leaving a thin air gap — not as a CSI measurement. No industry acceptance threshold for wet spots exists; every threshold on this page is a labelled house standard the reader sets. Material costs exclude labour, packaging, freight and GST. Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November.
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