Moulds from ₹153.40 · most silicone designs ₹177–₹94367 mould-titled products · 62 in the Candle Moulds collectionMade & stocked in India · ships nationwide
CSI commercial guides
A mould is not an ingredient. It is a machine you buy once and run for years — and most candle brands own far more of them than their output justifies.
★★★★★
"Very good"
Radhaa SVerified buyer · Apr 2026
40 Cavity Square Moulds
★★★★★
"The product quality is consistently outstanding, exceeding my expectations every time."
Heena QureshiSep 2024
Rose Bud Mould
★★★★★
"Good"
Delcy FernandesVerified buyer · Jul 2024
Ribbed Pillar Mould
★★★★★
"Quality is good. Packaging was done right. Hope to get some discount in future for bulk buys"
Dipali SableVerified buyer · Aug 2024
Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"This wax is really good to make pillar candles and for moulds …"
Lalitha JaganAug 2024
Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"Soy pillar wax is really so good"
Jinal PatelVerified buyer · Sep 2025
Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"Very good"
Radhaa SVerified buyer · Apr 2026
40 Cavity Square Moulds
★★★★★
"The product quality is consistently outstanding, exceeding my expectations every time."
Heena QureshiSep 2024
Rose Bud Mould
★★★★★
"Good"
Delcy FernandesVerified buyer · Jul 2024
Ribbed Pillar Mould
★★★★★
"Quality is good. Packaging was done right. Hope to get some discount in future for bulk buys"
Dipali SableVerified buyer · Aug 2024
Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"This wax is really good to make pillar candles and for moulds …"
Lalitha JaganAug 2024
Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"Soy pillar wax is really so good"
Jinal PatelVerified buyer · Sep 2025
Soy Pillar Wax
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. One longer review is shortened with an ellipsis; wording is otherwise unedited.
✓ 67 mould-titled products live✓ GST invoicing on every order✓ Bulk pricing on WhatsApp
Candle Business Guides · Equipment
Buying moulds wholesale is a capital decision, not a shopping trip. This page does the arithmetic nobody publishes: what a mould actually costs per candle once you divide it across its working life, and how many moulds you need to hit 100, 300 or 1,000 moulded candles a month.
₹2.94
what a ₹588.82 mould contributes to one candle across 200 pours — against ₹149.02 of wax, fragrance and wick in that same candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What does a candle mould cost in India? Moulds on CSI start at ₹153.40 and run up to ₹3,540, with most silicone designs falling between ₹177 and ₹943. Polycarbonate pillar moulds sit at ₹942.82 to ₹1,121.
So what does a mould cost per candle? Divide, do not add. A ₹588.82 mould across 200 pours is ₹2.94 a candle; across 500 pours it is ₹1.18. The wax, fragrance and wick in that candle cost ₹149.02. The mould is rounding error.
How many moulds do I need? At one pour cycle per mould per working day and 24 working days a month, a single-cavity mould makes 24 candles a month. So: 5 moulds for 100 candles, 13 for 300, 42 for 1,000.
How many shapes should I sell? Fewer than you want to. Three shapes bought deep beat twelve bought thin, because twelve shapes split your mould budget until no single shape can reach volume.
The short answer
Price the mould per candle, not per unit: a mould is bought once and divided across every candle it releases. Even the most expensive mould in the CSI range, at ₹3,540, is ₹7.08 a candle across 500 pours.
Buy for throughput, not for price: one single-cavity mould is one candle per pour cycle. Your mould count, not your mould budget, is what caps monthly output.
Multi-cavity for small repeated forms, singles for large detailed ones: a 15-cavity mould at ₹153.40 is ₹10.23 per cavity. A single detailed pillar mould is the whole price for one cavity — and it should be, because that is the candle you sell at a premium.
The cycle assumption is stated openly because every number on this page hangs off it: one pour per mould per working day — pour in the morning, leave the candle to set and firm in the mould, release the next morning and pour again. That is conservative for a small silicone shape and realistic for a 150 g pillar in an Indian summer. If your shape genuinely releases cleanly in four hours you can run two or three cycles a day and cut the mould count proportionally: 42 moulds becomes 21, then 14. Work out your own cycle before you work out your own mould count. One 15-cavity mould, for contrast, sits outside this chart entirely — at the same one-cycle-a-day assumption it produces 360 small candles a month on its own.
How should a candle business buy moulds wholesale in India?
Treat the mould as capital equipment you amortise, not stock you consume. CSI candle moulds start at ₹153.40 and reach ₹3,540, with most silicone designs between ₹177 and ₹943 — but the number that matters is the mould price divided by the candles it will release over its life. At 200 pours a ₹588.82 mould adds ₹2.94 to a candle whose Soy Pillar Wax, fragrance and wick already cost ₹149.02. That means price is almost never the binding constraint — throughput is. One single-cavity mould produces one candle per pour cycle, so at one cycle a day across 24 working days you need 5 moulds for 100 candles a month, 13 for 300, and 42 for 1,000. Buy depth in the two or three shapes you actually sell, add a mould sealer and a wick setting tool, and stop there. For choosing between designs see buying moulds online; for material and supplier questions see the silicone mould supplier guide.
One line: divide the mould across its pours and it disappears from your costing — what it never disappears from is your production capacity, which is why you count moulds, not rupees.
Moulded candles need a pillar-grade wax, not a container wax. Soy Pillar Wax is ₹300/500g, ₹600/1kg, ₹3,000/5kg and ₹6,000/10kg — a flat ₹600 per kilogram at every size, so buy the quantity your cure schedule needs rather than the biggest bag.
You buy wax every month. You buy a mould once, and then you stop buying it — which is why putting its full price into one candle's costing is the wrong arithmetic.
Most candle makers cost a mould the way they cost a bottle of fragrance oil: money out, subtract from margin, feel the sting. That is the wrong mental model and it produces two predictable errors. The first is refusing a ₹942.82 polycarbonate pillar mould because ₹942.82 "feels like a lot", and staying with a shape that sells less. The second is the opposite — buying eleven pretty moulds in an afternoon because each one is only ₹295, and discovering six months later that nine of them have been poured twice. Both errors come from treating a machine as an ingredient.
The correct arithmetic is division. A mould has a working life measured in pours, and its cost per candle is the purchase price divided by that number. Nobody can tell you the exact figure for your shape, your wax and your handling — so do not accept one from anybody, including us. Pick a number you are willing to defend, run it, and revisit it. The table below runs the CSI price range against four honest scenarios.
Mould cost per candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Purchase price divided by pours over the mould's working life
Now put that next to what the candle itself costs. Take a 150 g moulded pillar at an 8% fragrance load: 138 g of wax and 12 g of oil. Soy Pillar Wax is ₹6,000 per 10 kg, which is ₹0.60 a gram, so the wax is ₹82.80. Sandalwood Fragrance Oil at 1 kg pricing is ₹5,026.80, or ₹5.03 a gram, so 12 g is ₹60.32. One Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) is ₹5.90. Total consumables: ₹149.02 per candle, every single candle, for as long as you make it.
The comparison that reframes the purchase. A ₹588.82 mould costs less than the wax, fragrance and wick in four of the candles it will make. The ₹3,540 David mould — the most expensive in the entire CSI range — costs what 24 candles' worth of consumables costs. If a mould shape is going to sell, it pays for its own purchase price inside the first month of ordinary production and then contributes under ₹4 a candle for the rest of its life. If it is not going to sell, the ₹588.82 is not your problem; the ₹149.02 you will spend filling it is.
Scale that up and the point becomes structural. A brand producing 1,000 moulded candles a month spends ₹1,49,020 a month on consumables at the figures above. The 42 single-cavity moulds it needs to reach that output, at ₹588.82 each, cost ₹24,730.44 once — about 16.6% of a single month's wax, fragrance and wicks, and roughly 1.4% of a year's. The moulds are not where the money in this business goes. They are where the capacity in this business comes from, and those are different questions that deserve different answers. The full cost-of-entry breakdown sits in what it actually costs to start a candle business in India, and the margin side in how to price candles in India.
Where amortisation stops being valid
Division only works while the mould works. Silicone loses detail definition after enough thermal cycles and eventually tears at the seam; polycarbonate scratches, and a scratched pillar mould transfers that scratch to every candle it makes from then on. Neither failure announces itself — you notice it in the finished candle. So inspect the inside of a mould when the release quality drops, not when the mould looks old, and replace it as a production cost rather than nursing it. A mould that has already made 400 clean candles has done its job; the 401st candle is not worth a ₹588.82 argument.
Throughput is the real constraint, not price
A mould does not make candles. A mould-plus-a-pour-cycle makes candles, and the cycle is the part nobody counts.
Here is the calculation that almost nobody publishes, probably because it makes moulds look less exciting than they do in a photograph. A single-cavity mould produces exactly one candle per pour cycle. Not one candle per day, not one candle per order — one per cycle. Your monthly moulded output is therefore your mould count multiplied by your cycles per day multiplied by your working days. Everything else is detail.
The assumption, stated openly so you can disagree with it. This page assumes one pour cycle per mould per working day and 24 working days a month — pour in the morning, let the candle set and firm fully in the mould through the day and overnight, release the next morning, clean, re-wick, pour again. That gives 24 candles per single-cavity mould per month. It is deliberately conservative. Small silicone shapes in a cool room can often be released the same afternoon; a 150 g pillar in a Chennai June cannot. Measure your own release time before you buy against these numbers, because a two-cycle day halves every mould count on this page and a 48-hour cycle doubles it.
Mould count by target output · one cycle per mould per working day
Single-cavity moulds required, and what that costs as capital
Target / month
Moulds at 1 cycle/day
At 2 cycles/day
Capital at ₹588.82 each
Capital at ₹942.82 each
100 moulded candles
5
3
₹2,944.10
₹4,714.10
300 moulded candles
13
7
₹7,654.66
₹12,256.66
1,000 moulded candles
42
21
₹24,730.44
₹39,598.44
Read the first column again, because it is the whole argument. Five moulds is a hundred candles a month. Most makers who tell us they are "stocking up on moulds" already own eleven or fifteen and are producing well under a hundred moulded units. They do not have a mould shortage. They have a shape spread — and the two look identical on a shelf and behave completely differently in a costing.
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Time one real cycle before you buy anythingPour one candle in the shape you intend to sell, in your actual workspace, in this month's weather. Note the hour you poured. Attempt release every two hours until it comes out clean with sharp detail and no drag on the surface. That number, not a supplier's number, is your cycle. Do it again in a different season — an Indian workshop in January and the same workshop in May are two different factories.
2
Work backwards from a real order, not from an ambitionTake your largest realistic month — a Diwali run, a corporate gifting order, a market season. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November, and a moulded pillar needs pouring, releasing, curing and packing before it ships, so the production window closes weeks before the festival does. Divide that order quantity by 24 candles per mould per month and you have your mould count. If the answer is larger than your budget, the fix is usually a multi-cavity mould or a shorter cycle, not a bigger cheque.
3
Check the constraint is actually the mouldForty-two moulds means forty-two pours a day, which is a real labour load and a real wax volume — 42 pillars at 138 g is 5.8 kg of Soy Pillar Wax a day, so a 10 kg bag lasts under two days of production. If your melter, your bench space or your pair of hands caps out before your moulds do, buying more moulds changes nothing. Scaling to 1,000 orders a month works through the rest of that chain.
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Buy moulds in one shape, in a batch, from one supplierFourteen copies of the same mould bought together release identically, take the same wick, take the same wax weight and let one person run the whole bench without re-learning anything. Fourteen different moulds bought over a year do none of that. This is the single largest efficiency available to a small moulded-candle line and it costs nothing extra — message us on WhatsApp for multi-unit pricing on a single design.
The CSI principle
Count moulds the way a factory counts machines: how many units an hour, not how much each one cost.
Nobody buying a lathe asks what it adds to one component. They ask how many components an hour it turns and whether that clears the order book. A mould is a very cheap, very slow machine, and the only interesting question about it is how many candles a month it releases.
Multi-cavity against single-cavity: the cost per cavity
Once you accept that a mould is a machine, the multi-cavity mould stops looking like a bargain version of a real mould and starts looking like what it is: a machine with fifteen, forty or fifty-five spindles instead of one. The correct comparison is not price against price. It is price per cavity, because a cavity is a unit of production capacity.
Cost per cavity and monthly capacity · one cycle per mould per working day
Why a multi-cavity mould is not competing with a single-cavity mould at all
The right-hand column is startling the first time you see it. One 15-cavity mould at ₹153.40 out-produces fifteen single-cavity moulds costing ₹8,832, and one 55-cavity mould out-produces the entire 42-mould park in the diagram above. If units per month were the only thing that mattered, nobody would ever buy a single-cavity mould again.
But units per month is not the thing that matters — rupees per month is. Multi-cavity moulds make small forms. That is not a defect, it is the entire design logic: cavities that share one silicone sheet have to be small enough to pour, set and release together. Those forms sell as wax melts, tealights, bud shapes and embeds, at small-form prices. A 14.5 cm sculptural pillar sells at a sculptural pillar price. Comparing 1,320 small shapes a month with 24 large ones is a category error, and a brand that chases the cavity count ends up with enormous production capacity in the lowest-margin thing it makes. Work the arithmetic in units and in rupees before you decide which mould you are short of.
Which format for which job
The trade-off, stated plainly
Buy multi-cavity when
Buy single-cavity when
The form is small and repeated — melts, tealights, buds, embeds, hamper fillers
The form is large, tall or sculptural, and is the reason someone buys the candle
You sell by the pack, the box or the weight
You sell by the piece, photographed alone
Detail is simple enough to release from a flexible sheet without distortion
Detail is fine enough that a single, thicker, better-supported wall is required to hold it
You want maximum units per pour and per hour of labour
You want maximum margin per unit and are happy at 24 units a month per mould
Wax volume per cavity is small, so one melt fills the whole sheet
Wax volume per pour is large and the candle carries the fragrance cost of a real pillar
One practical warning about multi-cavity in production. A 40- or 55-cavity sheet is a single point of failure. If it warps, tears or picks up a defect, you do not lose one candle — you lose forty. And it is a single point of scheduling too: the whole sheet is occupied until the slowest cavity releases, so one thick cavity sets the cycle for all of them. If a multi-cavity format becomes central to your line, own two of them before you need the second one. The silicone mould supplier guide covers material and construction differences in detail.
Cavities buy you units. Shapes buy you margin. Almost every mould-buying mistake is confusing the two.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Buying a mould range: three strong shapes beat twelve weak ones
Twelve shapes is not a product line. It is twelve experiments running at once with no budget to finish any of them.
This is where the capital framing earns its keep, because it turns a taste question into an arithmetic one. Take the ₹24,730 mould budget from the 1,000-a-month scenario and spend it three different ways. The rupees are identical in all three. The businesses are not.
The same ₹24,730 mould budget, spent three ways
42 single-cavity moulds at ₹588.82 · 24 candles per mould per month
Strategy
Moulds per shape
Output per shape / month
SKUs at 4 scents
What it can actually do
One shape, bought deep
42
1,008
4
Fills a 1,000-unit corporate or festive order on its own
Three shapes
14 each
336 each
12
A coherent range; any one shape can carry a serious order
Twelve shapes
3–4 each
84 each
48
Looks like a catalogue, cannot fulfil a 200-unit order in any single shape
The bottom row is the one most small Indian candle brands are actually living in, and the damage is not on the mould invoice. It is in the 48 SKUs. Forty-eight SKUs means forty-eight photographs, forty-eight listings, forty-eight descriptions, forty-eight packaging decisions and forty-eight stock positions to hold — against twelve for the three-shape range that has more than triple the capacity per shape. Every one of those is either your time or your money, and none of them are the mould's fault.
A working rule for a small brand: carry one hero shape that is the reason people find you, one easy shape that multi-cavity moulds can produce at volume for gifting and hampers, and one seasonal shape you rotate — Diwali, wedding season, Christmas — and retire without guilt. Three shapes, deep. Add the fourth only when one of the three is genuinely capacity-constrained and you have the order book to prove it. How to start a candle business in India and is candle making actually profitable in 2026 both come at this from the revenue side.
Against our own interest, plainly
CSI carries 67 mould-titled products and 62 in the Candle Moulds collection, and we would like to sell you more of them than you need. We are telling you anyway: most makers own more mould designs than their monthly output justifies, and fewer copies of the one design that sells. If you are about to add a twelfth shape, the higher-return purchase is almost always a second, third and fourth copy of your best-selling first one. A shape that sells and cannot be supplied costs far more than a shape you never bought.
Placing a wholesale mould order? Tell us the design and the number of copies rather than a list of twelve one-offs — multiple units of one mould is the order that actually changes a production line. GST invoicing on every order, and bulk pricing handled directly.
What to buy alongside at volume, and how to store the library
Moulded candles have no vessel, which changes the supporting kit completely. There is no jar to hold the wax while it sets, no jar to hide a rough surface and no jar to hold the wick straight. Four purchases do that work instead, and at volume they matter more than the mould you agonised over.
The moulded-candle kit · CSI live pricing, September 2026
What each item is for, and why it earns its place at volume
Seals the wick hole at the base of a rigid pillar mould so molten wax does not leak out during setting. Without it a polycarbonate pillar mould is not usable — this is not an accessory, it is part of the mould
Holds the wick centred and under tension while the candle sets. In a mould there is no jar wall to steady it, and an off-centre wick in a pillar burns through the side
Threads the wick through the mould before pouring without tearing the cavity or opening the base hole wider than the wick — which is what stops wax leaking past the seal while the candle sets
Pour temperature drives surface finish and release quality in a mould far more visibly than it does in a jar
Bought together, the three mould-specific items — sealer ₹472 + wick setting tool ₹399 + wicking needle ₹472 = ₹1,343 — cost less than three mid-band moulds, and they are bought once for the whole bench rather than once per mould. Add the 600 ml pitcher and you are at ₹2,051 for the complete moulded-candle support kit. Against ₹24,730 of moulds and ₹1,49,020 a month of consumables, this is the cheapest quality decision on the page.
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The consumable that actually scales
Soy Pillar Wax (for Pillar & Designer Candles)
A container wax will slump, stick and refuse to release from a mould; a pillar-grade wax is formulated to shrink slightly on cooling, which is exactly the property that lets the candle come out cleanly. Per-candle figures below assume a 150 g pillar at 8% fragrance, so 138 g of wax. Note the pricing: ₹600 per kilogram at every single size.
Do not buy the 10 kg bag for the discount. There isn't one. Soy Pillar Wax is ₹600 a kilogram at 500 g, 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg alike — the large bag saves you shipping trips and nothing else. One of our own reviewers, Dipali Sable, wrote exactly this on the product page: "Quality is good. Packaging was done right. Hope to get some discount in future for bulk buys". That is a fair request and we are not going to pretend the discount exists in the meantime. Buy the size your pour schedule and your storage can absorb, because soy wax sitting open in a humid Indian workshop is not improving. Bulk terms on a large committed order are a separate conversation on WhatsApp.
2
Priced flat, so buy to schedule
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1)
A moulded pillar has no glass to moderate the burn, so wick choice shows up in the shape of the candle as it burns down rather than just in the throw. Test by diameter, not by guess — the diameter guide is here. Like the pillar wax, these are ₹5.90 a wick at every pack size, so there is no volume incentive to over-order.
Pack
Price
Per wick
Months at 100/mo
10 wicks
₹59
₹5.90
≈0.1
100 wicks
₹590
₹5.90
1
500 wicks
₹2,950
₹5.90
5
1,000 wicks
₹5,900
₹5.90
10
₹5.90 per candle · Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 for wider pillarsShop candle wicks
Storing a mould library so it is still worth what you paid
Amortisation assumes the mould survives to be used. Storage is where that assumption quietly fails, and it fails for boring reasons rather than dramatic ones. Four rules, and they are short because they are not complicated.
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Flat, never stacked under weightSilicone takes a set. A flexible mould left under a stack of other moulds, a wax carton or a box of jars for three months will hold that distortion, and it will hand the distortion to every candle it makes afterwards. Store flat on a shelf in a single layer, or standing in a divided tray. Rigid polycarbonate moulds do not deform but they do scratch, and a scratch inside a pillar mould is permanent and shows on every candle.
2
Dust-free, because silicone attracts itSilicone is electrostatic and a workshop generates wax dust, fragrance residue and ordinary household dust all day. Dust in the cavity becomes texture on the finished candle. Keep moulds in closed boxes or lidded trays rather than open on a bench, and wipe the cavity before a pour rather than after — the surface you poured onto yesterday is not the surface you have today.
3
Labelled with the numbers, not just the nameWrite the shape, the cavity count and — the one people skip — the wax weight that fills one cavity, measured once and recorded. That single number lets anyone on the bench scale a melt for a given mould without weighing a trial pour, and it is the difference between a production line and a craft session. Add the date you bought it and you have the pour count you need for your own amortisation figure.
4
Clean and fully dry before it goes awayWax residue left in a cavity hardens into the detail and takes the detail with it when you eventually pick it out. Water left in a silicone cavity in a stored box is a mould problem of the other kind. Clean, dry completely, then store — and keep the retired moulds physically separate from the working ones so nobody pours into a mould you have already written off.
A mould library treated this way stays a balance-sheet item. Treated badly it becomes a drawer of shapes you own but will not use, which is the most expensive outcome available — you paid the capital cost and get none of the amortisation. If you are still assembling the wider raw-material list around all of this, the complete candle making raw material list and wholesale raw materials across India cover what else belongs on the order.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA sells moulds, and this page argues that you should buy fewer of them. That is not modesty, it is the arithmetic. A brand with 42 copies of one selling shape buys wax, fragrance and wicks from us every month for years. A brand with 42 different shapes buys once, produces under a hundred moulded units a month and stops. The second customer is worse for us than the first, so we would rather help you become the first.
Every price on this page is taken from live CSI stock on 10 September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. Moulds are quoted as a range and by named price point rather than as a full catalogue, because the range moves: 67 mould-titled products are live, 62 sit in the curated Candle Moulds collection, the lowest is ₹153.40 and the highest is ₹3,540. The throughput and amortisation figures are arithmetic built on a stated assumption — one pour cycle per mould per working day, 24 working days a month — not measurements of any particular mould, and you should substitute your own cycle time and your own pour-life estimate.
For wholesale mould pricing, multiple units of one design, GST invoicing, or MSDS and IFRA documentation on waxes and fragrance oils, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How much do candle moulds cost wholesale in India?
On CSI, moulds start at ₹153.40 and run up to ₹3,540, with most silicone designs falling between ₹177 and ₹943. Polycarbonate pillar moulds sit at ₹942.82, rising to ₹1,121 for a twisted 18 cm pillar. There are 67 mould-titled products live on the store and 62 in the Candle Moulds collection. For multiple units of one design, message us for wholesale pricing rather than ordering them one at a time.
How many candle moulds do I need for 1,000 candles a month?
42 single-cavity moulds, assuming one pour cycle per mould per working day and 24 working days a month — that is 24 candles per mould per month. For 300 candles a month you need 13, and for 100 you need 5. If your shape reliably releases twice a day those numbers halve to 21, 7 and 3. Multi-cavity moulds change the picture entirely: at the same assumption, one 15-cavity mould produces 360 small candles a month on its own.
Are multi-cavity moulds better value than single-cavity moulds?
Per cavity, overwhelmingly — a 15 Cavity Rose Moulds mould at ₹153.40 is ₹10.23 a cavity, against ₹588.82 for a mid-band single-cavity mould. But they are not competing for the same job. Multi-cavity moulds make small repeated forms — melts, tealights, buds, embeds — which sell at small-form prices. Single-cavity moulds make the large, detailed shapes that carry a premium. Buy multi-cavity for units, single-cavity for margin, and do the sum in rupees rather than in units before deciding which you are short of.
How many candle shapes should a small brand sell?
Three, bought deep. Spread a ₹24,730 mould budget across twelve shapes and you get three or four moulds each — about 84 candles a month per shape, and 48 SKUs once you multiply by four scents. Spend the same money on three shapes and you get fourteen moulds each, 336 candles a month per shape and 12 SKUs. A shape that sells and cannot be supplied costs far more than a shape you never launched.
What wax should I use for moulded and pillar candles?
A pillar-grade wax, not a container wax. Soy Pillar Wax is formulated for pillars, moulds and designer shapes that need to release cleanly, and it is priced at ₹300/500g, ₹600/1kg, ₹3,000/5kg and ₹6,000/10kg — a flat ₹600 per kilogram at every size, so there is no saving in buying the largest bag. A 150 g pillar at an 8% fragrance load uses 138 g of wax, which is ₹82.80.
What else do I need to buy for moulded candles?
Three mould-specific items and they are bought once for the bench, not once per mould: Candle Mold Sealer at ₹472 to stop wax leaking from the wick hole of a rigid pillar mould, a Wick Setting Tool at ₹399 to hold the wick centred with no jar wall to help, and a Premium Candle Wicking Needle at ₹472 to thread the wick. That is ₹1,343 together, or ₹2,051 with a 600 ml Steel Pouring Pitcher at ₹708.
How should I store candle moulds?
Flat, dust-free, labelled and never stacked under weight. Silicone takes a set under load and will pass that distortion to every candle it makes afterwards; polycarbonate scratches permanently. Store in a single layer or a divided tray, in closed boxes rather than open on the bench, cleaned and completely dry. Label each mould with the shape, the cavity count, the purchase date and the wax weight that fills one cavity — that last number lets anyone scale a melt without a trial pour.
Buy for capacity, not for the catalogue
Five moulds is a hundred candles a month. Forty-two is a thousand. Count machines, not rupees.
62 moulds in the Candle Moulds collection, from ₹153.40 to ₹3,540, with most silicone designs between ₹177 and ₹943. Soy Pillar Wax at a flat ₹600/kg, Candle Mold Sealer ₹472, Wick Setting Tool ₹399, Premium Candle Wicking Needle ₹472, and Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59. Message us for wholesale pricing on multiple units of one design, and for GST invoicing.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the amortisation method, the throughput arithmetic and the range-depth argument 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; "Verified buyer" is shown only where Judge.me recorded the review as verified. One longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and is otherwise unedited. No locations are shown because Judge.me does not record them.
Figures verified 10 September 2026: Mould range — 67 mould-titled products live, 62 in the Candle Moulds collection; lowest ₹153.40 (Mini Heart Mould and 15 Cavity Rose Moulds); highest ₹3,540.00 (David Candle Mould 14.5 cm); typical silicone band ₹177.00–₹942.82; polycarbonate pillar moulds ₹942.82 (Polycarbonate Pillar Mould, Ribbed Polycarbonate Pillar Mould, Twisted Taper Candle Pillar Mould) to ₹1,121.00 (Polycarbonate Twisted Pillar 18 cm × 2 cm); Ribbed Pillar Mould in 3 sizes ₹706.82–₹1,414.82. Soy Pillar Wax ₹300/500g, ₹600/1kg, ₹3,000/5kg, ₹6,000/10kg (₹600/kg at every size). Sandalwood Fragrance Oil ₹5,026.80/1kg (₹5.03/g). Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59/10, ₹590/100, ₹2,950/500, ₹5,900/1,000 (₹5.90 each); Thick (C2) ₹9.44 each. Candle Mold Sealer ₹472.00; Wick Setting Tool ₹399.00; Premium Candle Wicking Needle ₹472.00; Wick Inserter Steel Straw ₹59.00; Steel Pouring Pitcher 600 ml ₹708.00; Pen Thermometer ₹354.00. Calculated figures: per-candle consumables of ₹149.02 assume a 150 g moulded pillar at an 8% fragrance load — 138 g wax at ₹0.60/g (₹82.80), 12 g Sandalwood at ₹5.0268/g (₹60.32) and one Eco C1 wick (₹5.90). Mould cost per candle is purchase price divided by the stated number of pours; pour-life figures of 100, 200, 500 and 1,000 are illustrative scenarios, not manufacturer specifications. Mould counts assume one pour cycle per mould per working day and 24 working days a month (24 candles per single-cavity mould per month), giving 5 moulds at 100/month, 13 at 300 and 42 at 1,000. Cavity capacities of 360, 960 and 1,320 a month apply the same assumption to 15-, 40- and 55-cavity moulds. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
