Which Lavender Fragrance Oil Should You Buy for Candles?
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What is Lavender Cranberry Coconut and when is it the better buy? Lavender Cranberry Coconut is lavender already blended: cranberry and sweet orange at the top, French lavender and soft florals in the heart, coconut milk, vanilla and white musk at the base. The page states 8–10% in soy with a 48–72 hour cure, IFRA certification, and that the vanilla content may cause soft cream or pale golden toning in white wax. Buy it when you need a lavender no competitor has rather than the lavender everyone recognises.
How much lavender oil goes into a candle? Load is a percentage of wax weight, so 200 g of wax takes 12 g at 6%, 16 g at 8% and 20 g at 10% — ₹62.65, ₹83.54 and ₹104.42 of Lavender Fragrance Oil at 1 kg pricing. Your ceiling is the lower of the oil page's range and the wax grade's stated maximum, which for CSI 464 is 10%, so 10% governs either way.
Can I use the same lavender oil in soap? The Lavender Fragrance Oil page says yes with a warning: it accelerates trace in cold-process soap, meaning the batter thickens quickly after the oil goes in. The page advises having the mould ready first, working at room temperature, using a whisk rather than a stick blender after adding fragrance, and testing a small batch — and notes it is suitable for melt-and-pour without that concern.
Two lavenders, and what each page states
Lavender Fragrance Oil — the single note
The page describes a single-note fresh lavender: bright, clean, instantly recognisable at the top, herbal green notes through the middle for botanical depth, and a soft musk base for warmth and longevity. Family: Floral / Herbal / Fresh. Strength: strong, with the page describing noticeable cold and hot throw at standard rates. It states IFRA certification, and gives rates across the whole product range — candles 6–10% of total wax weight, wax melts 10–15%, reed diffusers 10–30%, room sprays 8–15%, body products within IFRA rates, and soap with a specific warning discussed below. Suggested partners on the page are rosemary, eucalyptus, chamomile, peppermint, cedar, vanilla, soft musk, lemon and bergamot. Sizes: 15 gm ₹105.02, 50 gm ₹270.00, 100 gm ₹540.00, 500 gm ₹2,620.00, 1 kg ₹5,221.00.
Two things the page does not publish: a flash point and a vanillin percentage. Neither is a problem for candle work at the usual 80–90°C add window, but if you need a flash point for a courier declaration or a corporate buyer's paperwork, that is a WhatsApp request rather than something to estimate.
Lavender Cranberry Coconut — lavender already composed
The page gives cranberry and sweet orange at the top, French lavender and soft florals in the heart, and coconut milk, vanilla and white musk at the base, in the family Fresh-Fruity Floral / Creamy with moderate projection. For candles it states 8–10% in soy with a 48–72 hour cure, and adds wax melts at 10–12%, reed diffusers at 15–25%, room sprays at 10–20%, body products at 1–3% and an EDP rate of 18–22%. It states IFRA certification. On colour it is explicit: the vanilla content may cause soft cream or pale golden toning in white or light-coloured wax over time, and it suggests soft purple, lavender, cream, dusty rose or blush tones instead, or testing a small batch. Sizes: 15g ₹133.00, 50g ₹399.00, 100g ₹799.00, 500g ₹3,999.00, 1kg ₹7,999.00.
| Lavender Fragrance Oil | Lavender Cranberry Coconut | |
|---|---|---|
| What the page describes | Single note — fresh lavender, herbal green middle, soft musk base | Blend — cranberry and sweet orange, French lavender heart, coconut milk, vanilla and white musk base |
| Candle load (page) | 6–10% of total wax weight | 8–10% in soy, cure 48–72 hours |
| Wax melts | 10–15% | 10–12% |
| Reed diffusers | 10–30% | 15–25% |
| Room sprays | 8–15% | 10–20% |
| Colour risk (page) | Not published | Vanilla may bring a soft cream or pale golden tone to white wax |
| IFRA (page) | States IFRA certification | States IFRA certification |
| Flash point | Not published | Not published |
| Smallest size | 15 gm ₹105.02 | 15g ₹133.00 |
| Rate at 1 kg | ₹5.22 a gram | ₹8.00 a gram |
| Oil in a 200 g candle | ₹83.54 at 8% | ₹127.98 at 8% |
The pack ladder on the single-note lavender is real: ₹7.00 a gram at the trial bottle falls to ₹5.22 at the kilo. Lavender Cranberry Coconut is close to flat across its sizes, so the kilo buys convenience and stock security rather than a lower unit cost. Plan accordingly — the straight lavender rewards committing to volume, the blend does not.
One bottle, several product lines
Lavender is the most cross-format oil in this guide, and for a brand running a candle line plus melts or diffusers that changes the purchasing maths more than the per-gram rate does.
A kilo of Lavender Fragrance Oil at ₹5,221.00 is ₹5,221.00 of oil. At the candle rate of 8% on 200 g candles it is 62 candles' worth. Move the same oil into a reed diffuser base at the page's 10–30% and the same kilo covers far fewer units, because a diffuser is asking two to three times as much oil per unit as a candle is. That is not a reason to avoid diffusers — margins there are usually better — but it is the reason your oil reorder cycle will be driven by whichever line has the highest load, not by whichever sells most.
| Format | Lavender page states | Lavender Cranberry Coconut states | Oil cost per unit at the lower figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soy container candle, 200 g | 6–10% of wax weight | 8–10% in soy | ₹62.65 straight · ₹127.98 blended |
| Soy container candle, 120 g | 6–10% of wax weight | 8–10% in soy | ₹50.12 straight at 8% |
| Wax melts | 10–15% of wax weight | 10–12% | Higher load than a candle of the same wax weight |
| Reed diffuser | 10–30% of base | 15–25% | Highest load of any format on either page |
| Room spray | 8–15% of base | 10–20% | Comparable to a candle by percentage, smaller by volume |
| Body products | Within IFRA rates — no figure given | 1–3% | Lowest by percentage; documentation matters most here |
| Cold-process soap | Accelerates trace — see the page's warning | Not stated | Not a beginner's format with this oil |
The other practical consequence of those bands is inventory. Fifteen grams is a trial. Fifty grams at ₹270.00 is a small batch. A hundred grams at ₹540.00 is a market run. Five hundred grams at ₹2,620.00 is the point at which the per-gram rate is close to the kilo rate, and for most small brands it is the sensible ceiling until a lavender product is genuinely repeat-selling.
What lavender costs, and the problem money cannot fix
The series unit is 200 g of wax with the oil priced at the 1 kg pack, plus an Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 and a real jar where a full candle is costed.
| Build | Wax | Oil | Wick | Jar | Materials total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 g jar · Lavender at 8% · 16 g | ₹101.48 | ₹83.54 | ₹5.90 | ₹70.80 frosted | ₹261.72 |
| 200 g jar · Lavender Cranberry Coconut at 8% · 16 g | ₹101.48 | ₹127.98 | ₹5.90 | ₹70.80 frosted | ₹306.16 |
| 120 g bedside jar · Lavender at 8% · 9.6 g | ₹60.89 | ₹50.12 | ₹5.90 | ₹50.00 lidded | ₹166.91 |
| 120 g capped jar · Lavender at 8% · 9.6 g | ₹60.89 | ₹50.12 | ₹5.90 | ₹47.20 capped | ₹164.11 |
| 70 g gift-set votive · Lavender at 8% · 5.6 g | ₹35.52 | ₹29.24 | ₹5.90 | ₹31.86 votive | ₹102.52 |
A fifty-candle run of the capped 120 g bedside jar is ₹8,205.48 in materials. Moving the whole range from the bottom of the stated band to the top — 6% to 10% — across a hundred 200 g candles is ₹4,176.80, which is the cheapest experiment on this page and the one most makers never run properly.
The commoditisation problem, said plainly
Lavender is the fragrance every Indian candle brand stocks. It is the first scent a new maker buys, the safest one to put in a corporate hamper, and the one a customer at a market can name blindfolded. All of that is why it sells. It is also why a plain lavender candle has almost no pricing power: the buyer has a reference price in their head from a dozen other stalls, and nothing about your jar tells them why yours costs more.
The arithmetic makes the point. Straight lavender at 8% is ₹83.54 of oil in a 200 g candle. Lavender with a quarter of the charge swapped for Eucalyptus Spearmint is ₹74.92 — actually ₹8.61 less, because eucalyptus spearmint at ₹3.07 a gram is cheaper than lavender. Lavender with Sage and Cedarwood is ₹90.12. Lavender Cranberry Coconut bought ready-blended is ₹127.98. Three of those four are a scent your competitor at the next stall does not have, and one of them costs less than plain lavender.
Blending lavender into something that is yours
The Lavender page lists its own suggested partners: rosemary, eucalyptus, chamomile, peppermint, cedar, vanilla, soft musk, lemon and bergamot. It also names three blends — lavender and chamomile for calm, lavender with eucalyptus and rosemary for a spa profile, and lavender with vanilla or soft musk for something cosy.
Four of those nine are not in CSI's fragrance catalogue as standalone oils: there is no single-note rosemary, chamomile, peppermint or soft musk on the list. That is worth knowing before you go looking. The stocked partners, and what each does to the arithmetic, are below. The ratio is general practice rather than a CSI figure: keep the accent at roughly a quarter of the total oil charge so the lavender stays the lead. On 200 g of wax at 8% that is 12 g of lavender and 4 g of partner — 16 g total, comfortably inside the governing 10%.
| Partner | What its page states | What it does to the lavender | Oil cost per 200 g candle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eucalyptus Spearmint · ₹3.07/g | Fresh / herbal / spa; soy up to 10%, paraffin up to 6%; 199°C; 0% vanillin; states IFRA certification | The spa profile the lavender page names — sharper, cleaner, reads as a treatment room | ₹74.92 |
| Sage and Cedarwood · ₹6.87/g | Up to 10% for soy, up to 6% for paraffin; 190°C; 0% vanillin | The cedar note from the page's partner list; dries the lavender out and makes it read unisex | ₹90.12 |
| Citrus Lemon · ₹2.83/g | Citrus / fresh / vibrant; soy 6–10%, paraffin 6–8%; approximately 0% vanillin | The lemon from the page's list; lifts a heavy lavender in a warm room and costs the least | ₹73.98 |
| Bergamot Amber · ₹5.44/g at 500 gm | Citrus / oriental / warm; soy 6–10%, paraffin 6–8% | Bergamot with warmth behind it; the closest stocked route to a cosy lavender | ₹84.40 |
| Vanilla Bean · ₹7.65/g | Up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin; 203°C; 2.5% vanillin, potential discolouration | The page's cosy blend; expect warm toning in white wax and plan the colour around it | ₹93.24 |
| Verbena · ₹4.72/g | Up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin; 200°C; 0% vanillin; no discolouration risk | Crisp lemony herb; a greener, less sweet lift than citrus lemon | ₹81.53 |
| Vetiver · ₹5.80/g at 500 gm | Earthy / woody / grounding; soy up to 10%, paraffin up to 6%; 206°C; 0% vanillin | Grounds the lavender into something adult and evening-weight; use lightly | ₹85.85 |
| British Rose · ₹3.07/g | Floral, soft, romantic, refined; soy up to 10%; 192°C; 0% vanillin | The romantic direction; the British Rose page recommends lavender for exactly this | ₹74.92 |
Three of those cost less than plain lavender, which is the part worth sitting with. Eucalyptus Spearmint at ₹3.07 a gram, Citrus Lemon at ₹2.83 and Verbena at ₹4.72 are all cheaper than lavender itself, so the spa, citrus and green-herb blends improve your differentiation and your margin at the same time. The vanilla and rose routes cost more and change the colour position — Vanilla Bean carries a stated 2.5% vanillin with potential discolouration, so plan a cream or lavender-toned candle rather than a white one.
Two process notes for blends. Weigh the oils together into one pot before they go into the wax, so you have a single charge to check against the governing load and a recipe you can reproduce. And write the ratio in grams — 12 and 4 — not in fractions, because next month you will be scaling to a different jar size and grams scale cleanly.
Pouring it: load, ceiling and cure
Two published numbers cap the load: the wax grade's stated maximum and the oil page's stated range. The lower governs. With lavender the arithmetic is unusually clean.
| Wax grade | Wax page states | With Lavender Fragrance Oil (6–10%) | With Lavender Cranberry Coconut (8–10%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSI 464 · ₹507.40/kg | Up to 10% | 10% — both agree | 10% — both agree |
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks · ₹599.00/kg | Up to 13% | 10% — the oil governs | 10% — the oil governs |
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 · ₹650.00/kg | Up to 13% | 10% — the oil governs | 10% — the oil governs |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 · ₹399.00/kg | Not published | 10% — the oil is the only published figure | 10% — the oil is the only published figure |
Colour, labelling and what you must not claim
The colour question belongs to one of the two oils
The Lavender Cranberry Coconut page is explicit that its vanilla content may bring a soft cream or pale golden tone into white or light wax over time, and suggests soft purple, lavender, cream, dusty rose or blush tones as colours that suit the fragrance anyway — or testing a small batch before a white run. That is good product advice: you cannot see a cream shift in a lavender-toned candle. CSI does not stock a UV stabiliser, so the practical route in this catalogue is colour rather than correction. The Lavender Fragrance Oil page publishes no vanillin figure at all, which means a stark white pour is something to test rather than assume either way.
Yellowing is cosmetic. A candle that has warmed in tone burns and smells exactly as it did on day one. The reason to care is commercial: it appears on a shelf, in a cupboard, and in the photograph a reseller takes six weeks after you shipped. Pour one undyed control votive per oil — ₹102.52 in materials — photograph it on day 0, day 21 and day 45 in the same light, and you have evidence instead of an argument.
What the pages claim, and what you may repeat
Both lavender pages state IFRA certification. The correct way to pass that on is exactly how it is written here: the product page states IFRA certification, and MSDS and IFRA documentation is available on request. Do not assert certification in your own voice, do not extend it into a claim that the oil is safe on skin, and do not imply it covers a use the page does not list.
The bigger trap with lavender is therapeutic language. It is sold everywhere on sleep, calm, anxiety and stress, and the pull to write that on a label is strong. A fragrance oil in a candle is a scent. Describing a candle as calming, relaxing or made for a bedtime routine is positioning; saying it treats insomnia, reduces anxiety or is therapeutic is a health claim, and it is not one this catalogue supports. The Lavender page itself is careful — it describes a fragrance associated with calm, sleep and wellbeing rather than one that produces them. Write in that register and you keep the marketing and stay honest.
Three things not published, and where to get them
Neither lavender page publishes a flash point or a vanillin percentage, and neither publishes any throw measurement — no supplier in this trade does. If a corporate buyer, a courier or a marketplace listing needs a flash point or an MSDS, WhatsApp +91 7397976926 is the route, and asking for it a fortnight before you need it is considerably less stressful than asking the morning a consignment is booked.
If you want one sentence to act on: buy the single-note Lavender Fragrance Oil at ₹105.02 and a 15 gm bottle of Eucalyptus Spearmint at ₹68.44, pour one jar of each and one of the two blended at 12 g and 4 g, and let a fourteen-day cure and a three-hour burn tell you which one your range is built on.
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials rather than finished candles, and there are two things this page should say against its own interest. The first is that lavender is the easiest fragrance in this catalogue to sell and the hardest to build a brand on. It is in every range in the country; a customer at a market recognises it in a second and has no reason to remember whose it was. If you are buying your first kilo of anything, a straight lavender is a safe purchase and a weak differentiator, and the blending section of this page matters more than the buying section. The second is about claims. Lavender is sold everywhere on the promise of sleep, calm and stress relief. A fragrance oil in a candle is a scent, and this guide makes no claim that it treats anything, helps anyone sleep, or is safe on skin. Describe the mood; do not promise the outcome.
Every price is live CSI stock in September 2026 and the linked product pages are authoritative. Usage rates, IFRA statements and the soap warning are quoted as statements on the CSI product pages: the Lavender Fragrance Oil page states candles 6–10%, wax melts 10–15%, reed diffusers 10–30%, room sprays 8–15%, body products within IFRA rates, IFRA certification, and that the oil accelerates trace in cold-process soap; the Lavender Cranberry Coconut page states soy candles 8–10% with a 48–72 hour cure, wax melts 10–12%, reed diffusers 15–25%, room sprays 10–20%, body products 1–3%, IFRA certification, and possible soft cream or pale golden toning in white wax from its vanilla content. Neither page publishes a flash point or a vanillin percentage — where a figure is not published this guide says so rather than estimating. The 10% ceilings quoted for the soy grades are the wax manufacturers' own stated formulation maximums as printed on the CSI pages, and nothing else. No throw measurement exists anywhere in this trade, so none is claimed here.
WhatsApp +91 7397976926 for bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation, or to ask which pack sizes are currently packed before you plan a wellness-range launch.
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Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing). Series unit: 200 g of wax with fragrance oil at the load stated, oil priced at the 1 kg pack, plus an Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 and a jar where a full candle is costed. Lavender Fragrance Oil — 15 gm ₹105.02 (₹7.00/g), 50 gm ₹270.00 (₹5.40/g), 100 gm ₹540.00 (₹5.40/g), 500 gm ₹2,620.00 (₹5.24/g), 1 kg ₹5,221.00 (₹5.22/g); page states candles 6–10% of total wax weight, wax melts 10–15%, reed diffusers 10–30% of base, room sprays 8–15% of base, body products within IFRA rates, IFRA certification, and that the oil accelerates trace in cold-process soap while being suitable for melt-and-pour; no flash point or vanillin figure published. Lavender Cranberry Coconut — 15g ₹133.00 (₹8.87/g), 50g ₹399.00, 100g ₹799.00, 500g ₹3,999.00, 1kg ₹7,999.00 (₹8.00/g); page states soy candles 8–10% with a 48–72 hour cure, wax melts 10–12%, reed diffusers 15–25%, room sprays 10–20%, body products 1–3%, EDP 18–22%, IFRA certification, and possible soft cream or pale golden toning in white or light wax from its vanilla content; no flash point or vanillin figure published. Blending partners at their largest in-stock pack rate: Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹3.07/g (soy up to 10%, paraffin up to 6%, 199°C, 0% vanillin, states IFRA certification), Sage and Cedarwood ₹6.87/g (soy up to 10%, 190°C, 0% vanillin), Citrus Lemon ₹2.83/g (soy 6–10%, paraffin 6–8%, approximately 0% vanillin), Bergamot Amber ₹5.44/g at 500 gm (soy 6–10%, paraffin 6–8%), Vanilla Bean ₹7.65/g (soy up to 10%, 203°C, 2.5% vanillin), Verbena ₹4.72/g (soy up to 10%, 200°C, 0% vanillin), Vetiver ₹5.80/g at 500 gm (soy up to 10%, 206°C, 0% vanillin), British Rose ₹3.07/g (soy up to 10%, 192°C, 0% vanillin). 15 gm bottles quoted: Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹68.44, Citrus Lemon ₹81.42, Verbena ₹106.20. Waxes: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260.00, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537.00, page states up to 10% fragrance load and gives 80–90°C as the working range for melting and pouring; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599.00, page states up to 13%, melt to approximately 80–85°C, add fragrance at 80–90°C with two minutes of slow stirring, pour at 75–80°C, cure a minimum of 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 1 kg ₹650.00, page states up to 13%; Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399.00, no published fragrance ceiling. Vessels and tools: Clear Frosted Glass Jar ₹708.00 for 10 (₹70.80 each), page gives 200 ml fill, 8 cm height and 7 cm width; Purple Shiny Glass Jar with Golden Lid ₹50.00, page gives 6 cm diameter, 6.5 cm height and 120 gm capacity; Yankee Glass Jar 130 ML with Clear Cap ₹47.20; White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram ₹318.60 for 10 (₹31.86 each), page gives approximately 70 g fill; Pen Thermometer ₹354.00; Candle Care Stickers ₹413.00 for a roll of 500. Computed: wax ₹101.48 per 200 g, ₹76.11 per 150 g, ₹60.89 per 120 g and ₹35.52 per 70 g of CSI 464. Oil per 200 g candle — Lavender ₹62.65 at 6%, ₹83.54 at 8%, ₹104.42 at 10%; Lavender Cranberry Coconut ₹127.98 at 8% and ₹159.98 at 10%, a gap of ₹44.45 at 8%. Finished candles: 200 g frosted jar ₹261.72 straight and ₹306.16 blended; 120 g bedside jar ₹166.91 lidded and ₹164.11 capped, with ₹50.12 of oil, ₹8,205.48 for fifty; 70 g gift-set votive ₹102.52 with ₹29.24 of oil. A kilo of lavender is ₹5,221.00 of oil, roughly 62 candles at 8% on 200 g of wax. Moving a hundred 200 g candles from 6% to 10% is ₹4,176.80. Trial rounds: the two lavenders ₹238.02, the five-bottle blending round ₹494.08. Blends of 12 g lavender plus 4 g partner on 200 g of wax: eucalyptus spearmint ₹74.92 (which is ₹8.61 below straight lavender at 8%), sage and cedarwood ₹90.12, citrus lemon ₹73.98, bergamot amber ₹84.40, vanilla bean ₹93.24, verbena ₹81.53, vetiver ₹85.85, British Rose ₹74.92. The 12 g plus 4 g blending ratio, the 14–21 day cure figure, the three-hour burn test and the control-votive colour test are general candle-making practice, not CSI measurements. Batch sizes, room examples and channel examples are illustrative. Diwali 2026 is 8 November 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.