Which Candle Raw Materials Should Have the Highest Safety Stock Because Running Out Would Stop Almost Every Product I Make?
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The material most likely to stop your whole production line is probably the cheapest thing in your candle.
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"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
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Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
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"Fragrance oil is sooo good smell so good we love it a lot"
Arshad ShaikhVerified buyer · Mar 2026
British Rose Fragrance Oil
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"Coffee fragrance is quite strong and feels like yummy"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Apr 2026
Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil
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Candle Business Guides · Criticality
Rank materials by a single ratio: the monthly revenue a material gates, divided by what one extra week of it costs. On the 440-candle month worked below, the wick shared by all ten SKUs scores 521× and the dearest jar scores 29× — an eighteen-fold spread across four materials you were about to treat the same.
521× vs 29×
rupees of monthly revenue protected per rupee spent on one extra week of cover — the shared Thin (C1) wick against the dearer of two jar formats, on 440 candles a month at the reader's ₹699 retail · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Which materials deserve the highest safety stock? The ones that gate the most SKUs, ranked by what protection costs. On this collection that is, in order: the shared wick, the wax, then each jar format — and individual fragrance oils last, despite good ratios, because a fragrance stock-out is recoverable and a wax or wick stock-out is not.How do I rank them without guessing? Use one number per material: monthly revenue gated ÷ cost of one extra week of cover. Wick ₹3,07,560 ÷ ₹590 = 521×. Wax ₹3,07,560 ÷ ₹7,611 = 40×. Clear jar ₹1,53,780 ÷ ₹4,720 = 33×. Vanilla Bean oil ₹61,512 ÷ ₹1,843.20 = 33×.
What does a day of total shutdown cost? At 20 candles a working day and ₹699 retail, ₹13,980 of output per day — ₹69,900 across five working days. The entire baseline safety stock for all nine material lines is ₹15,337.51, or 1.1 days of output.
Is there a standard safety-stock percentage? No. Safety stock is derived from your own demand spread and lead-time spread. Here the reader's output has ranged 350–560 candles a month and their jar lead time has been 18 days — their figures, not CSI's. CSI publishes no delivery times.
The short answer
Count SKUs gated first, then price the protection: a material in ten of ten products carries ten times the consequence of one in two, and the cheapest of them is usually the wick.
Highest safety stock goes to the non-recoverable lines: wax and the shared wick, because with either missing nothing can be poured at all. Jars come next because each gates half the range.
Fragrance oils get the floor, not the ceiling: one oil out stops two SKUs and the other eight keep pouring. Raising all five oils by a week costs ₹5,673.60 and protects nothing you cannot already work around.
In this guide
The two lines that gate all ten SKUs sit at opposite ends of this chart — the wick at 521× and the wax at 40× — which is exactly why consequence and cost have to be ranked separately before they are combined. Cheap oils score well on the ratio but are deliberately not funded first; the reason is in the section on recoverable risk.
Top of the ranking · 521×
Eco Candle Wicks · 100 Thin (C1) ₹590
Gates every SKU · 40×
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 · 10 kg ₹5,074
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Straight answer
Which raw materials should carry the highest safety stock in a candle business?
The materials that appear in the most SKUs — and among those, fund the cheapest first. Work the reader's case: 440 candles a month across 10 SKUs (five fragrances in two jar colourways), a 150 g wax fill at 8% of total wax weight so 12 g of oil per candle, 22 working days, retail ₹699. That is 66 kg of CSI 464, 5.28 kg of oil across five scents, 440 Thin (C1) wicks and 440 jars a month, and ₹3,07,560 of monthly revenue. Rank each line by revenue gated ÷ the cost of one extra week of cover: wick 521× (₹590), British Rose 80×, Roasted Coffee 68×, Dark Vanilla Oud 45×, wax 40× (₹7,611), Vanilla Bean 33×, clear jar 33× (₹4,720), pink jar 29× (₹5,350). Then apply one correction the ratio cannot see: a fragrance stock-out stops two SKUs and the other eight keep pouring, so it is recoverable; wax and the shared wick are not. The funded answer is therefore deepest on the wick, deep on wax, moderate on each jar, floor on each oil. The baseline safety stock across all nine lines is ₹15,337.51; raising the three non-recoverable lines to the levels argued below costs ₹7,915.55 more, against ₹13,980 of output lost per idle working day. All volumes, prices and the reader's 18-day jar lead time are stated in the citation strip.
One line: rank by revenue gated per rupee of cover, then fund the non-recoverable lines first — which usually means the wick before the wax, and the wax before any single fragrance.
The top of this ranking costs almost nothing. Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wicks are ₹5.90 a piece at every listed pack from 10 to 1,000, so 500 pieces is ₹2,950 and 1,000 is ₹5,900 — no per-piece penalty either way.
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"Stops almost every product", counted
Every maker knows which material scares them. Almost nobody has counted which one actually halts the most products.
"Almost every product" is not a feeling, it is a column total. Write your SKUs down one side of a page and your materials across the top, tick each cell where that SKU needs that material, and add the columns. The result is a ranking of consequence that takes ten minutes and changes how you spend for the rest of the year.
The reader's ten SKUs are five fragrances — Vanilla Bean, British Rose, Eucalyptus Spearmint, Roasted Coffee and Dark Vanilla Oud — each poured into two 150 g jars, the Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid and the Pink Glass Jar with Golden Lid. One wax, one wick size. Here is the column count, with the daily consumption and reorder point that follow from it.
Exposure grid · 440 candles a month, 10 SKUs, 22 working days
What each material gates, what it consumes, and when it has to be reordered
| Material line | SKUs gated | Monthly revenue gated | Per working day | Reader's lead time | Lead-time demand | Baseline safety stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 10 of 10 | ₹3,07,560 | 3 kg | 7 days | 21 kg | 5.25 kg |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | 10 of 10 | ₹3,07,560 | 20 pieces | 7 days | 140 pieces | 35 pieces |
| Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid | 5 of 10 | ₹1,53,780 | 10 pieces | 18 days | 180 pieces | 45 pieces |
| Pink Glass Jar with Golden Lid | 5 of 10 | ₹1,53,780 | 10 pieces | 18 days | 180 pieces | 45 pieces |
| Each of five fragrance oils | 2 of 10 | ₹61,512 | 48 g | 12 days | 576 g | 144 g |
Worked out above: 440 ÷ 22 = 20 candles a working day. Wax 20 × 150 g = 3 kg/day; × 7 days = 21 kg. Wicks 20/day; × 7 = 140. Each jar format carries five SKUs, so 220 a month, 10 a day; × 18 = 180. Each oil carries two SKUs, so 88 candles a month, 4 a day, 48 g a day; × 12 = 576 g. Revenue gated = SKUs gated ÷ 10 × 440 × ₹699. Baseline safety stock uses the reader's own spread — output has ranged 350 to 560 candles a month, a peak of 25 a day against an average of 20 — so safety stock = (25 − 20) × that line's share × lead-time days: wax 5 × 0.150 × 7 = 5.25 kg, wicks 5 × 7 = 35, each jar 2.5 × 18 = 45, each oil 1 × 12 g × 12 = 144 g.
Two things in that table are worth sitting with. First, the jar reorder point is 180 pieces against 220 a month — an 18-day lead time means you must place the jar order while 82% of a month's jars are still on the shelf. Second, the wick's entire lead-time demand plus safety stock is 175 pieces, which is less than two listed 100-packs and under ₹1,100 of glass-free, break-free, shelf-stable stock. The scariest column and the cheapest column are the same column.
Gated revenue, not gated units
Count the revenue each material gates, not just the unit count, because SKUs rarely sell at one price. If your 150 g clear-jar line retails at ₹699 and a votive line at ₹349, a material shared only by the votives gates half the revenue per unit of the one shared by the big jars. Use your own selling prices — the ₹699 here is the reader's figure and nothing on this page is a claim about what candles should sell for. For the money-side view of the same question, see splitting a ₹2 lakh inventory budget across the four lines.The cover ratio, material by material
Consequence and cost now get combined into one comparable number. Cover ratio = monthly revenue gated ÷ the rupee cost of one extra week of that material's cover. One week here is five working days, which at 20 candles a day is 100 candles. A high ratio means protection is cheap relative to what it protects; a low ratio means you are paying real money for the same reassurance.
Cover ratio ranking · one extra week = 100 candles of production
Every material line, priced at its listed pack rate, ranked by protection per rupee
| Rank | Material | One extra week | Rate used (listed pack) | Cost of that week | Revenue gated | Cover ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | 100 pieces | ₹5.90 each (flat, 10 to 1,000) | ₹590 | ₹3,07,560 | 521× |
| 2 | British Rose Fragrance Oil | 240 g | ₹3.186/g (500 g ₹1,593) | ₹764.64 | ₹61,512 | 80× |
| 3 | Eucalyptus Spearmint | 240 g | ₹3.304/g (500 g ₹1,652) | ₹792.96 | ₹61,512 | 78× |
| 4 | Roasted Coffee Fragrance | 240 g | ₹3.78/g (500 g ₹1,890) | ₹907.20 | ₹61,512 | 68× |
| 5 | Dark Vanilla Oud | 240 g | ₹5.69/g (500 g ₹2,845) | ₹1,365.60 | ₹61,512 | 45× |
| 6 | Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 15 kg | ₹507.40/kg (flat, 1 kg to 10 kg) | ₹7,611 | ₹3,07,560 | 40× |
| 7 | Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil | 240 g | ₹7.68/g (500 g ₹3,840) | ₹1,843.20 | ₹61,512 | 33× |
| 8 | Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid | 50 jars | ₹94.40 each (10s and 20s) | ₹4,720 | ₹1,53,780 | 33× |
| 9 | Pink Glass Jar with Golden Lid | 50 jars | ₹107 each (10s and 20s) | ₹5,350 | ₹1,53,780 | 29× |
The spread is eighteen-fold from top to bottom, and the two lines that gate every single SKU sit at positions one and six. That is the central finding of this page: consequence and cost are almost uncorrelated in a candle business. The wick is 2.20% of a ₹268.57 candle's material cost and sits in 100% of units. The jar is 35.15% of it and sits in 50%. Treat them as one problem and you will either waste cash on glass or get caught by a ₹5.90 component.
Don't read the ratio as a shopping list. British Rose at 80× looks like the second-best buy on the page, and on pure arithmetic it is — but what it protects is two SKUs out of ten, and you would not shut the workshop over it. The ratio tells you how cheap protection is, not how badly you need it. Use it to decide the order in which you fund lines that genuinely need funding, never to decide which lines those are. The lines that need funding come from the exposure grid, and the recoverable-versus-not test in the next section is the filter between the two.
One more thing the ratio quietly reveals. Because the Thin (C1) and Thick (C2) rates are flat at every listed pack — ₹5.90 and ₹9.44 a piece from 10 pieces to 1,000 — there is no pack-ladder argument for keeping wick cover thin. On CSI 464 the per-kilo price is also flat at ₹507.40 from 1 kg to 10 kg, so the same applies to wax: you are not being rewarded for a bigger bag, which means you are also not being punished for buying the quantity you actually need. Check the ladder per item rather than assuming volume pays; on several CSI lines it does not.
Why the ratio alone gives the wrong answer
A stock-out you can work around is an inconvenience. A stock-out you cannot is a closed workshop.
Here is the test that reorders the ranking. Ask of each material: if this is out on Monday morning, can I pour anything at all?
Recoverable vs non-recoverable stock-outs
What you can still produce on the morning each material runs out
| Material out | What you can still pour | Output that day | Revenue that day | Recoverable? | Funding verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy wax | Nothing | 0 of 20 candles | ₹0 of ₹13,980 | No | Fund above the formula |
| Thin (C1) wick | Nothing — every SKU uses it | 0 of 20 | ₹0 of ₹13,980 | No | Fund first; it is the cheapest line on the page |
| Clear jar | The five pink-jar SKUs | 10 of 20 | ₹6,990 of ₹13,980 | Partly — if the pink SKUs can absorb demand | Fund to the formula plus the long lead time |
| Pink jar | The five clear-jar SKUs | 10 of 20 | ₹6,990 of ₹13,980 | Partly | Same, at a dearer unit price |
| One fragrance oil | The eight SKUs on the other four scents | 16 of 20 | ₹11,184 of ₹13,980 | Yes — that scent's orders slip, production continues | Floor only |
That column headed "recoverable" is the filter. It costs ₹7,915.55 to lift the three non-recoverable or half-recoverable lines from the formula baseline to a level you can defend: wax from 5.25 kg to 10.5 kg of safety stock (₹2,663.85 to ₹5,327.70), the wick from 35 to 140 pieces (₹206.50 to ₹826), and each jar format from 45 to 68 pieces (₹4,248 to ₹6,419.20 on clear, ₹4,815 to ₹7,276 on pink). The five oils stay at 144 g each, ₹3,404.16 in total. Baseline total ₹15,337.51; funded total ₹23,253.06. Against ₹13,980 of output per idle day, the entire increase buys itself back in a little over half a day of avoided shutdown.
Name every multiplier as a choice
There is no published standard for "double the wax safety stock" or "four times the wick". Those are choices made on this reader's exposure grid and lead times, and they should be written in your sheet as choices with one line of reasoning each — "×4 on C1 because it gates 10/10 and costs ₹5.90" — so that the next person to look at the sheet can disagree with the reasoning rather than the number. Anyone who tells you most candle businesses hold a particular percentage is inventing it.The four safety-stock buys, priced
One card per line, in funding order, with every listed pack and how far it goes at this reader's 150 g fill. The per-unit column is the one to read first: flat ladders make depth painless, stepped ladders make it a decision.
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Fund first · 521× · gates 10 of 10 SKUs
Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1)
The highest-ranked line and the cheapest. Monthly use is 440 pieces; lead-time demand is 140 and the funded safety stock argued above is another 140, so the reorder point is 280 pieces and the whole buffer costs ₹826. The listed rate is ₹5.90 a piece at 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000, so a single 1,000-piece pack at ₹5,900 is a little over two months of cover at no per-piece premium. The page states these wicks pair with soy wax, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes; it states no diameter, so match C1 to your 7 cm jar by burn test, not by a printed number. Thick (C2) is the same flat story at ₹9.44, though its 10-piece pack is currently sold out.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks | ₹59 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 20 Wicks | ₹118 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks | ₹295 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 100 Wicks | ₹590 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 500 Wicks | ₹2,950 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 1000 Wicks | ₹5,900 | ₹5.90 |
₹826 funds the whole wick buffer — 0.27% of a month's revenue Buy Eco Candle Wicks
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Fund second · 40× · gates 10 of 10 SKUs
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form)
The other non-recoverable line. At 66 kg a month this reader buys 6 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg + 1 × 1 kg = ₹33,488.40, which is exactly ₹507.40 a kilo because the ladder is flat from 1 kg to 10 kg — the 500 g pack at ₹260 is the only dearer rung, at ₹520 a kilo. The product page states a fragrance load of up to 10% and gives melt and pour as 80–90°C, so the 8%-of-wax-weight figure used throughout this page sits inside its stated range. One CSI customer calls it "one of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner." Above 10 kg there is no listed pack; recurring volumes are quoted on WhatsApp.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 150g candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260 | ₹520 | ≈3 |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹507.40 | ≈6 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537 | ₹507.40 | ≈33 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074 | ₹507.40 | ≈66 |
₹76.11 of wax per 150 g candle · ₹5,327.70 funds the safety stock Buy CSI 464
3
Fund third · 33× · 5 of 10 SKUs, 18-day lead time
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
Half the collection and a third of the material cost in one component. The page states a 150 g fill capacity, height 8 cm, outer diameter 7 cm, base diameter approximately 6.5 cm and that it is safe for hot pour up to 85°C — a rare jar listing that gives you a weight rather than a volume, which is why the 150 g fill is used throughout this page. At ₹94.40 a jar in both the 10-pack and the 20-pack the ladder is flat, so depth costs exactly the unit price with no discount and no premium. The companion Pink Glass Jar with Golden Lid is the same stated size at ₹107 a jar, which is why it ranks last on the cover ratio.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹944 | ₹94.40 |
| Pack of 20 | ₹1,888 | ₹94.40 |
₹94.40 a jar — 35.15% of a ₹268.57 candle's material cost Buy Clear Glass Jars
4
Floor only · 33× · 2 of 10 SKUs
Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil
The dearest oil in this set at ₹7.68 a gram on the 500 g pack, and the one that proves why high unit cost plus low exposure equals a floor rather than a buffer. Monthly use across its two SKUs is 1,056 g; lead-time demand at 12 days is 576 g; safety stock stays at 144 g, or ₹1,105.92. Note the ladder: ₹3,840 for 500 g is ₹7.68 a gram against ₹7,646 for 1 kg at ₹7.646 a gram — a difference of ₹0.034 a gram, which is not a reason to double your holding. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack; anything above it is a quote, never a guessed figure. Per-scent velocity is what properly sets each oil's number, and that is the whole subject of calculating individual fragrance-oil stock levels.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | candles @ 12 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹130 | ₹866.67 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹410 | ₹820 | ≈4 |
| 100 gm | ₹790 | ₹790 | ≈8 |
| 500 gm | ₹3,840 | ₹768 | ≈41 |
| 1 kg | ₹7,646 | ₹764.60 | ≈83 |
₹92.16 of oil per 150 g candle at the 500 g rate Buy Vanilla Bean Oil
The CSI principle
Safety stock belongs on the material whose absence stops everything, starting with the one that costs the least to hold.
The expensive component is rarely the dangerous one. In a candle the dangerous one is usually a ₹5.90 wick sitting in every single unit you sell — and nobody has ever gone broke over a cupboard of wicks.
Funding the top of the ranking costs ₹826 in wicks and ₹5,327.70 in wax safety stock against ₹13,980 of output per idle working day. For recurring monthly volumes across wax, wicks, jars and oils — and anything above the listed packs — bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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Building the ranking from your own numbers
Five steps, one sheet, and the only external inputs are your own sales record and your own order history. Nothing here needs software.
1
Build the exposure grid and total the columnsSKUs down the side, materials across the top, a tick in every cell. Column totals are SKUs gated. Then multiply each total by your own average selling price and monthly units to get revenue gated. Ten minutes, and it is the input no formula can supply.
2
Price one extra week of each line at the pack you would really orderOne week = your working days per week × daily consumption. Look up the per-unit rate at the pack you would actually buy — not the smallest, not the biggest — because CSI ladders differ per item: C1 wicks are flat at ₹5.90 from 10 to 1,000, CSI 464 is flat at ₹507.40 from 1 kg to 10 kg, and the 150 g clear jar is flat at ₹94.40 in both packs.
3
Divide and rankRevenue gated ÷ cost of that week = cover ratio. Sort descending. Expect the ranking to surprise you; in this worked case the cheapest component and the most critical component turned out to be the same one, while two materials that gate every SKU landed five places apart.
4
Apply the recoverable test and set floorsFor each line, write what you could still pour on the morning it ran out. Anything that answers "nothing" gets funded above the formula. Anything that answers "the other eight SKUs" gets the formula floor and no more. This single column is what stops a tidy ratio from sending your cash to the wrong shelf. The related priority question — which shortage to buy out of first — is worked through in whichever component stops production first.
5
Total the bill and compare it with one idle dayAdd the funded safety stock across every line and set it against your own revenue per working day. In this case ₹23,253.06 of buffer against ₹13,980 a day — under two days of output, protecting against shutdowns that last a lead time. If your buffer costs more than a week of output, you are over-buffered somewhere; go back to step four and find the recoverable line you over-funded.
Three ways the ranking goes wrong
The method is simple enough that it fails in simple ways. These are the three that cost the most.
Trap one: counting a material once when it sits in several SKUs. If one oil appears in a 150 g jar, a 70 g votive and a wax melt, its consumption is the sum of all three, not the biggest of them — and its exposure is three SKUs, not one. Makers routinely set an oil's reorder point from its flagship SKU and then run out two weeks early because two smaller lines were quietly drinking from the same bottle. Add first, then divide. Aggregating one material across several product lines is covered in detail in bulk inventory for only the top four fragrances.
Trap two: funding the ratio and forgetting the reorder point. Safety stock is the buffer below the reorder point, not a substitute for it. With an 18-day jar lead time, this reader's clear-jar reorder point is 180 pieces plus 68 of safety stock — 248 jars on the shelf when the order is placed. A business that funds a generous buffer but reorders at 100 jars has bought protection it will never reach. Set the trigger first, then the buffer under it; the formula and its two halves are set out in lead-time consumption plus safety stock.
Trap three: letting the grid go stale. Every number on this page is a function of SKU count and daily consumption, both of which move. Launch a sixth fragrance and each oil's exposure falls from 2 of 10 to 2 of 12 while the wick's stays at 100%; grow from 440 to 560 candles a month and every reorder point rises by 27% without anyone touching the sheet. Reprice and recount on a stated cadence — monthly while you are growing — and write the date at the top.
Rank what stops you, not what costs you. They are almost never the same list.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials and does not sell finished candles. The commercially convenient advice here would be to tell you to buffer everything deeply, because that is a larger order. Instead this page argues for a ₹826 wick buffer and a floor on five fragrance oils, because a maker who runs out of a ₹5.90 component loses ₹13,980 of output a day and a maker with ₹60,000 of slow oil on a shelf eventually stops ordering altogether.
Every price, pack size and per-unit rate is live CSI stock in September 2026, taken from the linked product pages, where current pricing always takes precedence. Specifications appear only where a product page states them — CSI 464's up-to-10% load and 80–90°C melt and pour, the Clear and Pink Glass Jars' stated 150 g fill capacity, 8 cm height, 7 cm outer diameter and 85°C hot-pour limit. Stated fragrance loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. The 440-candle volume, the 10-SKU map, the ₹699 retail price, the 350–560 monthly spread and all four lead times are the reader's own figures. CSI publishes no delivery times, no minimum order quantity and no stock-availability promise, and the cover-ratio and safety-stock formulas here are standard inventory practice rather than CSI claims.
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Frequently asked questions
Which single raw material should have the most safety stock in a candle business?
Usually the wick size shared by every SKU, because it combines the highest consequence with the lowest cost. In the worked case it gates 10 of 10 SKUs and ₹3,07,560 of monthly revenue, and a full funded buffer of 140 pieces costs ₹826 at the flat ₹5.90 listed rate. Wax comes second: the same 10 of 10 exposure, but ₹7,611 for each extra week of cover. Run your own grid — if your range uses two wick sizes evenly, the answer shifts to the wax.
How do I calculate safety stock without inventing a percentage?
Derive it from your own two spreads. Demand spread: (peak daily consumption − average daily consumption) × lead-time days. Here (25 − 20) candles a day gives 5.25 kg of wax, 35 wicks, 45 of each jar and 144 g of each oil. Lead-time spread: average daily consumption × (worst-case lead time − normal lead time), added on top where a supplier has actually been late. Both inputs come from your records. A flat "hold 20%" rule is a guess dressed as a standard.
Should fragrance oils ever carry high safety stock?
Only when one oil behaves like a shared material. An oil used in a single SKU gates 2 of 10 products here, and on the morning it runs out the other eight still pour — so it earns a floor, not a buffer. But an oil poured into four SKUs across two sizes is a different animal: sum its consumption across every SKU first, and if it gates half your revenue, fund it like a jar. The classification method is the subject of A, B and C fragrance groups by velocity.
What does a day of stopped production actually cost?
Your own daily output multiplied by your own selling price. In the worked case 20 candles a working day at ₹699 is ₹13,980, so five working days lost is ₹69,900. Set that figure against the cost of the buffer that would have prevented it — ₹23,253.06 across nine material lines here — and most safety-stock arguments settle themselves. Use your own price; nothing on this page is a claim about what candles should sell for.
Do bigger packs make deeper safety stock cheaper?
Check the item; do not assume. On Eco Candle Wicks the rate is flat — ₹5.90 for Thin (C1) and ₹9.44 for Thick (C2) at every pack from 10 to 1,000. On Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 it is flat at ₹507.40/kg from 1 kg to 10 kg, with only the 500 g pack dearer at ₹520/kg. The 150 g Clear Glass Jar is ₹94.40 in both the 10-pack and the 20-pack. Vanilla Bean moves by ₹0.034 a gram between 500 g and 1 kg. On these lines, depth is a space decision, not a price one.
How often should I redo this ranking?
Whenever an input moves, and on a fixed cadence besides — monthly if you are growing, quarterly if you are flat. Four things change the answer: a new SKU on an existing material, a change in daily consumption above roughly 15%, an observed lead time lengthening, and a pack price or ladder changing. Everything else is noise. Put the date on the sheet, and record the reasoning next to each multiplier so the next review argues with the logic rather than the number.
Rank first, then fund
The material most likely to stop everything costs ₹826 to protect for a month.
Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wicks at ₹5.90 a piece from 10 to 1,000 (1,000 for ₹5,900), Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg from 1 kg to 10 kg (10 kg ₹5,074), the 150 g Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid at ₹94.40 a jar, and Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil at ₹7.68/g in 500 g. Message us for recurring monthly volumes, bulk pricing above the listed packs, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the exposure grid, cover ratio and safety-stock arithmetic are standard inventory practice and 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; wording is unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Reader's stated inputs — 440 candles a month across 10 SKUs (five fragrances × two 150 g jar colourways), 150 g wax fill at 8% of total wax weight (12 g oil per candle, ≈7.4% of the finished 162 g), 22 working days a month giving 20 candles a day and 100 a five-day week, retail ₹699 a candle giving ₹3,07,560 of monthly revenue and ₹13,980 of output a working day, monthly output spread of 350–560 candles (peak 25 a day against an average of 20), and observed lead times of 7 days on wax, 7 on wicks, 12 on fragrance and 18 on jars. CSI publishes no delivery times; those lead times are the reader's own records. Prices used: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 — ₹507.40/kg from 1 kg up and ₹520/kg at 500 g; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 20 ₹118, 50 ₹295, 100 ₹590, 500 ₹2,950, 1,000 ₹5,900 at ₹5.90 a piece throughout, Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 a piece with the 10-piece pack currently sold out; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10 ₹944 and Pack of 20 ₹1,888, ₹94.40 a jar; Pink Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10 ₹1,070 and Pack of 20 ₹2,140, ₹107 a jar; fragrance oils at their listed 500 g rates — Vanilla Bean ₹3,840 = ₹7.68/g (1 kg ₹7,646 = ₹7.646/g), British Rose ₹1,593 = ₹3.186/g, Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹1,652 = ₹3.304/g, Roasted Coffee ₹1,890 = ₹3.78/g, Dark Vanilla Oud ₹2,845 = ₹5.69/g. Derived figures: monthly consumption 66 kg of wax (bought as 6 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg + 1 × 1 kg = ₹33,488.40), 5.28 kg of oil at 1,056 g per scent, 440 wicks, 440 jars at 220 per format. Cover ratio = monthly revenue gated ÷ cost of one extra week (100 candles) of cover: wick ₹3,07,560 ÷ ₹590 = 521×, British Rose ₹61,512 ÷ ₹764.64 = 80×, Eucalyptus Spearmint ÷ ₹792.96 = 78×, Roasted Coffee ÷ ₹907.20 = 68×, Dark Vanilla Oud ÷ ₹1,365.60 = 45×, wax ₹3,07,560 ÷ ₹7,611 = 40×, Vanilla Bean ÷ ₹1,843.20 = 33×, clear jar ₹1,53,780 ÷ ₹4,720 = 33×, pink jar ÷ ₹5,350 = 29×. Baseline safety stock ₹15,337.51 (wax ₹2,663.85 + wicks ₹206.50 + clear jars ₹4,248 + pink jars ₹4,815 + five oils ₹3,404.16); funded version ₹23,253.06 (wax 10.5 kg ₹5,327.70, wicks 140 ₹826, clear jars 68 ₹6,419.20, pink jars 68 ₹7,276, oils unchanged), a difference of ₹7,915.55. Per-candle material cost ₹268.57 = wax ₹76.11 + Vanilla Bean oil ₹92.16 + wick ₹5.90 + clear jar ₹94.40, giving a 2.20% wick share and a 35.15% jar share; the British Rose and pink-jar version is ₹227.24. Stated specifications as published on the product pages: CSI 464 fragrance load up to 10%, melt and pour stated as 80–90°C; Clear and Pink Glass Jars with Golden Lid 150 g fill capacity, height approximately 8 cm, outer rim approximately 7 cm, base approximately 6.5 cm, safe for hot pour up to 85°C; Eco Candle Wicks stated to pair with soy wax, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes, with no diameter stated. Largest listed packs: 10 kg on CSI 464, 1 kg on fragrance oils, 1,000 pieces on Eco Candle Wicks, 20 on the 150 g jars. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.