I Sell Around 500 × 200 g Candles Every Month — How Many Kilograms of Soy Wax Should I Normally Keep in Stock?
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CSI inventory guides · kilograms of wax to keep
Five hundred candles a month is 92.5 kg of wax. The number you keep on the shelf is not 92.5, and it is not a guess either.
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed…"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Soy CSI 400
★★★★★
"All the products are so good"
Jinal PatelVerified buyer · May 2025
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
★★★★★
"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Fragrance is awesome. Hot throw is also very good after burn candle."
AkanshaVerified buyer · Dec 2025
Lavender Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Nice glass jars, they look cute. I like the packaging as well."
AshwiniSep 2025
White Matte Glass Jar
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed…"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Soy CSI 400
★★★★★
"All the products are so good"
Jinal PatelVerified buyer · May 2025
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
★★★★★
"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Fragrance is awesome. Hot throw is also very good after burn candle."
AkanshaVerified buyer · Dec 2025
Lavender Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Nice glass jars, they look cute. I like the packaging as well."
AshwiniSep 2025
White Matte Glass Jar
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. One longer review is shortened with an ellipsis; wording is otherwise unedited.
✓ Stated fragrance loads published per wax✓ 15 waxes in the wax collection✓ Bulk pricing & GST invoicing on WhatsApp
Candle Business Guides · Inventory × Kilograms of Wax
Five hundred 200 g-class candles on a 185 g fill consume 92.5 kg of soy wax a month, which is 3.7 kg on every working day. The figure to keep on the shelf is your reorder point — 44.4 kg on a seven-day lead time — and the figure that decides your cash is how often you place the order.
44.4 kg
of soy wax at the reorder point — exactly 2.0 weeks of cover at 500 candles/month, 185 g fill, a 7-day lead time and a 5-day buffer · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
How much soy wax does 500 × 200 g candles a month use? On a 185 g wax fill, exactly 92.5 kg a month — 3.7 kg on each of 25 working days, or 22.2 kg a six-day week. The remaining 14.8 g of each candle is fragrance oil at 8% of wax weight.
So how many kilograms should I keep? Keep your reorder point: daily consumption × lead-time days + safety stock. At 3.7 kg a day with a seven-day lead time and a five-day buffer that is 44.4 kg — 2.0 weeks of cover, or 240 candles' worth. That is the floor, not the average.
What will I actually be holding on average? It depends entirely on order size. Reorder monthly and you average 90.7 kg (4.1 weeks) and peak at 136.9 kg. Reorder fortnightly and you average 67.5 kg; weekly, 55.5 kg. The reorder point never changes — only the cash does.
Which wax makes 92.5 kg cheapest? On listed prices, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399.20/kg in 5 kg packs (19 bags a month), then Natural Soy Pearl Wax at ₹424.80/kg — the only wax with a listed 50 kg pack — then CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg flat.
The short answer
The consumption figure is 92.5 kg a month. 500 × 185 g. Everything else on this page is derived from it, so if your jar takes 165 g or 210 g, redo this line first and the rest follows.
The stock figure is 44.4 kg. That is 3.7 kg a day × (7 lead-time days + 5 buffer days) — two weeks of cover, about 240 candles. Count the shelf weekly and order when it crosses that line, not when the bag looks low.
Order size, not the reorder point, is where the money goes. Monthly ordering ties up an average of 90.7 kg; weekly ordering ties up 55.5 kg and turns the wax line about 20 times a year instead of 12. Pick the one that matches your cash, then stop changing it.
Average inventory = reorder point + half the order quantity. The trigger protects production; the order size decides how much of your working capital is wax. Quarterly buying holds ₹64,769 more wax than weekly buying for exactly the same 500 candles a month.
How many kilograms of soy wax should I keep in stock if I sell about 500 × 200 g candles a month?
Keep 44.4 kg as your trigger and let the shelf swing above it. The arithmetic is short: a 200 g-class candle on a 185 g wax fill with fragrance at 8% of wax weight uses 185 g of wax and 14.8 g of oil, so 500 candles is 92.5 kg of wax a month, 3.7 kg a working day and 22.2 kg a six-day week. Your reorder point is daily consumption × lead time + safety stock; on a seven-day lead time with a five-day buffer that is 3.7 × 12 = 44.4 kg, exactly 2.0 weeks of cover or about 240 candles. Valued at CSI 464's flat ₹507.40/kg that floor is ≈₹22,529. What changes your cash is the order size: buy a month at a time and you average 90.7 kg (4.1 weeks, ≈₹45,996) and peak at 136.9 kg; buy fortnightly and you average 67.5 kg; buy weekly and you average 55.5 kg and turn the wax line about 20 times a year instead of 12. On listed packs, 92.5 kg costs ₹36,926 in Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399.20/kg, ₹39,294 in Natural Soy Pearl Wax at ₹424.80/kg, ₹46,934.50 in CSI 464 and ₹55,407.50 in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — a spread of ₹18,481.50 a month on the same 500 candles.
One line: 92.5 kg is what you consume, 44.4 kg is what you keep, and how often you reorder is what decides whether 55 kg or 183 kg of your money is sitting in bags.
A month of wax in listed packs: Natural Soy Pearl Wax 50 kg at ₹21,240 plus 10 kg at ₹4,248, Eco Soy CSI 400 5 kg at ₹1,996, CSI 464 10 kg at ₹5,074, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 10 kg at ₹6,370.
Nobody runs out of wax at the end of a month. They run out on a Tuesday, halfway through a pour.
Monthly figures are useful for ordering and useless for stock levels, because production does not stop in months. It stops on the day a bag runs empty. So the first move is to convert the sales number into a daily draw, and the second is to convert the daily draw into days of cover. Everything in this guide is built from one line: 185 g of wax per candle.
A 200 g-class candle poured in a 200 ml-class jar at a 185 g fill with fragrance dosed at 8% of wax weight takes 185 g of wax and 14.8 g of oil, for 199.8 g in the jar. Expressed the other way round, the same dose is 7.41% of the finished candle — both conventions are in use, and the only thing that matters is that you state which one you mean. Weigh one filled jar before you trust any of it: a jar page quoting 200 ml is telling you volume, and wax is bought by weight.
500 candles a month, converted · 185 g fill · 8% of wax weight
The four consumption figures every stock decision below is built from
Period
Candles
Soy wax
Fragrance oil
Wax cost at ₹507.40/kg
Per candle
1
185 g
14.8 g
₹93.87
Per working day
20
3.7 kg
296 g
₹1,877.38
Per six-day week
120
22.2 kg
1.776 kg
₹11,264.28
Per month (25 working days)
500
92.5 kg
7.4 kg
₹46,934.50
Per year
6,000
1,110 kg
88.8 kg
₹5,63,214
Worked out above: 500 ÷ 25 working days = 20 candles/day × 185 g = 3.7 kg/day; × 6 days = 22.2 kg/week; × 25 days = 92.5 kg/month; × 12 = 1,110 kg/year. Oil = 185 g × 8% = 14.8 g per candle, so 296 g/day and 7.4 kg/month. Wax cost uses the CSI 464 listed rate of ₹507.40/kg, which is flat at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg. Working days are the reader's figure — a 22-day month lifts the daily draw to 4.2 kg and every cover figure falls with it.
The mistake: counting wax by bags instead of by kilograms. "I have four bags left" means nothing until you know which bags. A 10 kg bag is 2.7 working days of cover at this volume — about 54 candles. A 5 kg bag is 1.35 days. A 50 kg sack is 13.5 days. A shelf holding "four bags" could be 20 kg or 200 kg, and a business that counts in bags will discover the difference on the morning of a 120-candle pour. The fix: write a kilogram figure on every bag as it arrives, and keep one running total in kilograms. It takes ten seconds per delivery and it is the difference between a reorder point that works and one that is decorative.
The 44.4 kg reorder point, and why it is exactly two weeks
The reorder point answers a precise question: at what level of stock must I order so that the next delivery arrives before the shelf hits zero? The formula is average daily consumption × lead-time days + safety stock. Two of those three inputs are yours alone. Your daily consumption is 3.7 kg. Your lead time is whatever you have genuinely observed between placing an order and having material you can pour — this guide uses seven days because that is the figure in the question. Your safety stock is a decision about how much production you are willing to pay to protect; five days is used here, and it is a choice, not a benchmark.
Put them together: 3.7 × 7 = 25.9 kg to cover the lead time, plus 3.7 × 5 = 18.5 kg of buffer, giving 44.4 kg. Divide by the weekly draw of 22.2 kg and it is exactly 2.0 weeks of cover — a pleasing coincidence of a seven-day lead time and a six-day week, and a number you can hold in your head. In candles it is 240 units: if you can look at the shelf and say "that is two hundred and forty candles", you have the right instinct.
1
Weigh the wax on one fixed day each weekPick a day — Saturday morning works for most small producers — and record one number in kilograms. Not an estimate from the number of bags; an actual total. Consistency matters more than precision here, because the trend between two readings is what tells you whether your 3.7 kg daily figure is real.
2
Subtract anything already promisedIf you have accepted a 200-candle order for next week, 37 kg of that wax is committed, not available. Available stock = on hand − committed. Compare the available figure against 44.4 kg, never the gross figure, or you will reorder a week late every time you take a bulk order.
3
Order when available stock crosses 44.4 kg, not when it looks lowThe whole value of a trigger is that it removes judgement from a decision you make while busy. Crossing the line is the signal. If you find yourself overriding it twice in a quarter, your 3.7 kg daily figure is wrong — recompute it from actual candles poured, not from candles sold.
4
Re-measure your lead time on every deliveryWrite the order date and the usable date on the bag. After six orders you will have a range rather than a guess, and the top of that range — not the average — is the figure to put in the formula. A lead time that varies between 5 and 12 days needs a bigger buffer than one that is reliably 7.
5
Recalculate the trigger when volume moves by more than a tenthAt 550 candles a month the daily draw is 4.07 kg and the trigger becomes 48.8 kg. At 600 it is 4.44 kg and 53.3 kg. A reorder point left alone while sales grow is a stock-out with a date on it — put a reminder in the calendar every quarter.
6
Separate seasonal blocks from the trigger entirelyA festive peak is not a reason to raise 44.4 kg to 90 kg; that would raise the wax you carry in every quiet month too. Buy a peak as a dated, capped, one-off order and leave the trigger alone. The reasoning is set out in the 300-to-1,000 December case.
Reorder point at 500 candles/month by lead time · 3.7 kg a day
Your own lead time is the single biggest lever on the kilograms you must hold
Observed lead time
+ 5-day buffer
Reorder point
Cover at the trigger
In candles
Value at ₹507.40/kg
5 days
10 days
37.0 kg
1.7 weeks
200
≈₹18,774
7 days
12 days
44.4 kg
2.0 weeks
240
≈₹22,529
10 days
15 days
55.5 kg
2.5 weeks
300
≈₹28,161
14 days
19 days
70.3 kg
3.2 weeks
380
≈₹35,670
21 days
26 days
96.2 kg
4.3 weeks
520
≈₹48,812
A shorter lead time is cheaper than a bigger shelf
Look at the gap between the first and last rows: a 21-day lead time forces you to hold 59.2 kg more wax than a 5-day one, worth roughly ₹30,038 permanently. Anything that genuinely shortens or stabilises your own ordering cycle — placing orders on a fixed day, consolidating wax, wick and jar lines into one order, keeping your quantities and specifications ready so nothing waits on a conversation — reduces the kilograms you must carry forever. That is a better return than any pack discount on this page.
How often you order decides what you hold
Here is the part most stock advice skips. The reorder point is a floor; it tells you when to buy. What you actually carry on average is the floor plus half of whatever you buy, because stock arrives in a lump and is consumed steadily. So two businesses with identical 500-candle months and identical 44.4 kg triggers can have completely different amounts of money in wax, purely because one orders quarterly and the other orders weekly.
Inventory turns make the same point in one figure: annual consumption ÷ average inventory held. At 1,110 kg a year, weekly ordering turns the wax line 20 times, monthly ordering 12 times and quarterly ordering 6 times. Nothing about the candles changed. The only thing that changed is how long each kilogram sat waiting.
Order frequency against cash locked up · trigger fixed at 44.4 kg
Average inventory = reorder point + half the order quantity
Order rhythm
Order quantity
Shelf peak
Average held
Average in weeks
Cash in wax at ₹507.40/kg
Wax turns a year
Weekly
22.2 kg
66.6 kg
55.5 kg
2.5 weeks
≈₹28,161
20
Fortnightly
46.25 kg
90.7 kg
67.5 kg
3.0 weeks
≈₹34,262
16
Monthly
92.5 kg
136.9 kg
90.7 kg
4.1 weeks
≈₹45,996
12
Quarterly
277.5 kg
321.9 kg
183.2 kg
8.3 weeks
≈₹92,930
6
The honest conclusion is that there is usually no pack discount large enough to pay for quarterly buying at this volume, and on several CSI lines there is no discount at all. CSI 464 lists at ₹507.40 a kilo at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg — identical. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks list at ₹599 a kilo at 1 kg and 5 kg and ₹599.90 at 10 kg, so the biggest bag is marginally dearer. The step-downs that do exist are real but modest: Natural Soy Pearl Wax falls from ₹450 to ₹424.80 a kilo at 5 kg and stays there to 50 kg, and Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 falls from ₹650 to ₹637 at 5 kg. Both are worth taking, and neither is a reason to buy three months at once.
Don't buy a quarter of wax to "lock in" a price step you have already reached. On Natural Soy Pearl Wax the per-kilo rate is the same at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg — ₹424.80. A business consuming 92.5 kg a month reaches that rate with a single 10 kg bag, so buying 277.5 kg at once gains nothing on price and adds roughly ₹47,000 of permanently idle wax plus a storage problem. The fix: buy the smallest pack that reaches the best listed rate, as often as your ordering effort allows. If a quantity above the listed packs genuinely suits your volume, ask for a quote with your real monthly figure rather than assuming the saving exists.
Which wax to hold 92.5 kg of
Three container waxes cover almost every 200 g-class jar programme at this volume, and they sit at genuinely different places on price, pack ladder and published specification. Each table lists every pack with its price, the per-kilo rate and how many 200 g-class candles the pack covers at a 185 g fill.
1
The only wax with a listed 50 kg pack
Natural Soy Pearl Wax
At 92.5 kg a month this is the ladder that fits the volume best, because the 50 kg sack is listed — the only one in the CSI wax range — and one sack is 13.5 working days, about 270 candles, of cover in a single unit. The per-kilo rate steps down from ₹450 at 1 kg to ₹424.80 at 5 kg and holds there to 50 kg, so a month of wax costs ₹39,294 against ₹41,625 at the 1 kg rate — ₹2,331 a month, or ₹27,972 over a year of this volume. Be clear-eyed about the trade: its product page does not state a fragrance load or temperatures, describing it only for "a variety of container types and candle designs". At 500 candles a month that is a real cost, because you are carrying the testing yourself. Burn-test it in your own jar at 8% before you commit a sack.
The cheapest listed kilo in the range, and at this volume that matters: 95 kg bought as nineteen 5 kg packs is ₹37,924, a per-kilo rate of ₹399.20. Its page describes an all-natural container wax, specifies adding fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stirring for two minutes, and recommends Eco Wicks. It does not state a maximum fragrance load, so hold at 8% and prove it in a cured burn before you push higher. The practical catch is the pack ceiling: 5 kg is the largest listed pack, so a 92.5 kg month is nineteen bags — roughly five a week to open, store and track. For some producers that is a fair price for the cheapest wax in the range; for others the handling alone argues for a bigger pack elsewhere.
The choice when the 500 candles are priced as premium and the fragrance needs headroom. Its page states a fragrance load of up to 13%, a melting point of 50–53°C and a pour at 58–60°C — markedly lower than the soy waxes above, which changes your timing and your thermometer discipline. It is one of the two CSI waxes whose listed rate genuinely steps down, from ₹650 to ₹637 a kilo at 5 kg and 10 kg, putting a 92.5 kg month at ₹58,922.50 against ₹60,125 at the 1 kg rate. That is ₹117.85 per candle of wax against ₹93.87 on CSI 464 — a ₹23.98 difference per candle that only makes sense if your pricing reflects it. One CSI customer, Arminder Kaur, writes that "all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range".
Size
Price
Per kg
200g-class candles @ 8%
500 g
₹325
₹650
≈2
1 kg
₹650
₹650
≈5
5 kg
₹3,185
₹637
≈27
10 kg
₹6,370
₹637
≈54
₹117.85 of wax per candle at the ₹637/kg rateBuy CSI 468
Priced above: Natural Soy Pearl Wax 1 kg ₹450, 5 kg ₹2,124, 10 kg ₹4,248, 50 kg ₹21,240 (₹424.80/kg from 5 kg); Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399, 5 kg ₹1,996 (₹399.20/kg); Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 500 g ₹325, 1 kg ₹650, 5 kg ₹3,185, 10 kg ₹6,370 (₹637/kg from 5 kg); CSI 464 ₹507.40/kg flat. Monthly wax cost = 92.5 kg × the per-kilo rate. Wax per candle = 0.185 kg × the per-kilo rate: ₹78.60 on Pearl at ₹424.80, ₹73.85 on Eco Soy 400 at ₹399.20, ₹93.87 on CSI 464, ₹117.85 on CSI 468 at ₹637.
Above the listed packs — 50 kg is the largest wax pack listed anywhere in the range, and only on Natural Soy Pearl Wax — quantities are quoted individually. Send your monthly kilograms for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS or IFRA documentation.
A kilogram figure has to become a basket, and the basket is constrained by what is listed. No CSI wax is sold in 25 kg or 100 kg packs; 10 kg is the largest pack on every soy wax except Natural Soy Pearl Wax, which adds 50 kg. So a 92.5 kg month is assembled from packs, and you will usually round up slightly — which is fine, because a small surplus of a shared material is simply next week's production bought early.
Assembling a 92.5 kg month from listed packs · CSI live pricing, September 2026
What one month of wax costs, and how many units you have to handle
Two observations worth acting on. First, the spread between the cheapest and dearest route to the same 95 kg is ₹22,591 a month — far more than any ordering-frequency decision on this page — so the wax you choose matters more than the rhythm you buy it on. Second, the cheapest route is also the most work: nineteen 5 kg bags against five or six units on Natural Soy Pearl Wax. Price the handling honestly, because nineteen part-used bags is also nineteen chances for an unsealed bag to pick up moisture or odour.
Holding 90 kg of wax without damaging it
At this volume storage stops being a detail. Ninety kilograms of flakes or pearls occupies real space, and the inventory you have carefully sized is only worth its cost if it pours the way it did when it arrived. None of the CSI wax pages publishes a shelf life, so treat the following as ordinary materials handling rather than a specification: keep bags sealed, off the floor, out of direct sunlight and away from anything strongly scented, and use oldest first.
Storing a month of wax · practical handling, not published specifications
What to do with 90 kg, and why each rule protects the money you just spent
Practice
What it protects
At 92.5 kg a month
Reseal every opened bag the same day
Moisture pickup and contamination
Nineteen 5 kg bags means nineteen seals to manage; a 50 kg sack means one
Oldest bag first, always
Even ageing across the shelf
Write the arrival date on the bag; at 4.1 weeks average cover nothing should sit more than two months
Off the floor, off exterior walls
Damp and temperature swings
One pallet or shelf rated for 150 kg handles even the monthly-order peak of 136.9 kg
Away from fragrance oil storage
Scent transfer into unscented wax
Your 7.4 kg of monthly oil should not share a shelf with 90 kg of wax
One kilogram total, written down weekly
The reorder point itself
A trigger you cannot measure is not a trigger
The CSI principle
Consumption tells you what to buy. The reorder point tells you when. Order size tells you what it costs you to wait.
Most candle businesses only ever compute the first of those three and then wonder why their cash is tight in a good month. Ninety-two and a half kilograms is a consumption fact. Forty-four point four kilograms is a production decision. Fifty-five versus one hundred and eighty-three kilograms on the shelf is a financing decision — and it is the one you make by accident.
The right amount of wax to keep is two weeks of pouring, counted in kilograms, recorded on a Saturday.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient answer to "how many kilograms should I keep" is always "more", and this page argues for 44.4 kg and weekly or fortnightly ordering instead. That is because a producer whose wax turns twenty times a year has cash to order again next week, and a producer sitting on a quarter of stock does not.
Every price and pack size here is live CSI stock in September 2026, linked to the product page where current pricing is always authoritative. Fragrance loads and temperatures are quoted only where the page states them — up to 13% with a 50–53°C melt and a 58–60°C pour on CSI 468, up to 10% on CSI 464, 80–90°C with a two-minute stir on Eco Soy CSI 400 — and where a page states nothing, as on Natural Soy Pearl Wax, this guide says so. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. The 185 g fill, the 8% load, 25 working days, the seven-day lead time and the five-day buffer are the reader's inputs, used to show the method; CSI publishes no delivery time, no minimum order quantity and no shelf life for wax, and none is implied here.
For recurring monthly volumes, quantities above the listed packs, GST invoicing, or MSDS and IFRA documentation, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 with your kilograms per month.
Frequently asked questions
How much soy wax do 500 candles need?
At a 185 g fill, 500 × 200 g-class candles need 92.5 kg of soy wax plus 7.4 kg of fragrance oil at 8% of wax weight. Add a planning allowance of about 3–5% of the wax for spills, top-ups and rejects and you are buying 95 to 97 kg. In listed packs that is nineteen 5 kg bags of Eco Soy CSI 400, or a 50 kg sack of Natural Soy Pearl Wax with four 10 kg bags and a 5 kg.
Should I keep a full month of wax in stock?
No — you need enough to cover your lead time plus a buffer, which at 3.7 kg a day and a seven-day lead time is 44.4 kg, two weeks of cover. Keeping a full 92.5 kg permanently would double the cash in the wax line without protecting a single extra candle. A month is a sensible order quantity; it is not a sensible minimum. Order monthly and your shelf will swing between 44.4 kg and 136.9 kg, averaging 90.7 kg.
Is it cheaper to buy 50 kg of soy wax at once?
Only on Natural Soy Pearl Wax, which is the one wax listed at 50 kg (₹21,240), and even there the per-kilo rate is ₹424.80 at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg alike — so the sack saves handling, not money. On CSI 464 the rate is flat at ₹507.40 from 1 kg to 10 kg, and on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks the 10 kg bag is slightly dearer per kilo than the 1 kg. Always check the ladder rather than assuming.
How do I convert kilograms of wax into weeks of cover?
Divide the kilograms on hand by your weekly consumption. At 500 candles a month on a six-day week that is 22.2 kg a week, so 44.4 kg is 2.0 weeks, 66.6 kg is 3.0 weeks and 92.5 kg is 4.2 weeks. Weeks of cover is the right unit for a conversation and kilograms is the right unit for a count — keep both on the sheet. Remember to subtract wax committed to confirmed orders before you read the number.
What happens to my reorder point if sales grow to 600 candles a month?
It rises by the same proportion. At 600 candles the monthly draw is 111 kg, the daily draw is 4.44 kg, and a seven-day lead time with a five-day buffer puts the trigger at 53.3 kg instead of 44.4 kg. A reorder point left unchanged while volume climbs is a stock-out waiting for a date, so recompute it whenever volume moves by more than about a tenth, or on a fixed quarterly cadence.
Does soy wax go off if I hold 90 kg of it?
No CSI wax page publishes a shelf life, so this guide makes no claim about one. What is ordinary good practice: keep bags sealed, off the floor, out of direct sunlight and away from fragrance storage, and use oldest first. At 92.5 kg a month and 4.1 weeks of average cover, no bag should sit for more than about two months anyway — which is a far better protection than any storage rule, and another argument against buying a quarter at a time.
Two numbers on the wall
92.5 kg a month consumed. 44.4 kg on the shelf. Everything else is a financing choice.
Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹424.80/kg from 5 kg with a listed 50 kg sack at ₹21,240, Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹1,996 per 5 kg (₹399.20/kg), Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹5,074 per 10 kg flat at ₹507.40/kg with a stated 10% load, and Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹6,370 per 10 kg with a stated 13% load. Message us with your monthly kilograms for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the consumption, reorder-point, days-of-cover, average-inventory and inventory-turn arithmetic are standard inventory methods that 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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026.Reader's assumptions, stated in-text and used in every calculation: 185 g wax fill per 200 g-class candle; fragrance dosed at 8% of wax weight = 14.8 g per candle (equivalent to 7.41% of the 199.8 g finished candle); 500 candles a month; 25 working days a month and a six-day working week; observed supplier lead time of 7 days; a chosen safety-stock buffer of 5 days; a planning allowance of 3–5% of wax for spills, top-ups and rejects. These are the reader's inputs, not CSI figures — CSI publishes no delivery time, no minimum order quantity, no stock-availability promise and no wax shelf life. Derived figures: 92.5 kg wax and 7.4 kg oil a month; 3.7 kg wax and 296 g oil a working day; 22.2 kg wax a week; 1,110 kg wax and 88.8 kg oil a year; reorder point 3.7 × (7 + 5) = 44.4 kg = 2.0 weeks = 240 candles; reorder points at other lead times 37.0 kg (5 days), 55.5 kg (10), 70.3 kg (14), 96.2 kg (21); average inventory = reorder point + half the order quantity, giving 55.5 kg weekly, 67.5 kg fortnightly, 90.7 kg monthly and 183.2 kg quarterly, with shelf peaks of 66.6, 90.7, 136.9 and 321.9 kg; inventory turns = 1,110 kg ÷ average inventory = 20, 16, 12 and 6 a year; a 10 kg bag = 2.7 working days and 54 candles, a 50 kg sack = 13.5 days and 270 candles. Prices used in maths: Natural Soy Pearl Wax 1 kg ₹450, 5 kg ₹2,124, 10 kg ₹4,248, 50 kg ₹21,240 (₹424.80/kg from 5 kg); Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399, 5 kg ₹1,996 (₹399.20/kg); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 (₹507.40/kg flat); Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299, 1 kg ₹599, 5 kg ₹2,995, 10 kg ₹5,999 (₹599.90/kg at 10 kg); Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 500 g ₹325, 1 kg ₹650, 5 kg ₹3,185, 10 kg ₹6,370 (₹637/kg from 5 kg). Monthly wax cost = 92.5 kg × per-kilo rate: ₹36,926 at ₹399.20, ₹39,294 at ₹424.80, ₹46,934.50 at ₹507.40, ₹55,407.50 at ₹599, ₹58,922.50 at ₹637. Pack baskets: Pearl 1 × 50 kg + 4 × 10 kg = 90 kg ₹38,232, plus a 5 kg = 95 kg ₹40,356; Eco Soy 400 19 × 5 kg = 95 kg ₹37,924; CSI 464 9 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg = 95 kg ₹48,203; Chunks 9 × 10 kg = 90 kg ₹53,991; CSI 468 9 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg = 95 kg ₹60,515. Stated specifications as published on product pages: CSI 464 fragrance load up to 10%, melting point and pour both stated as 80–90°C; CSI 468 up to 13%, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 add fragrance at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir for 2 minutes, Eco Wicks recommended, no stated load; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 8–13% with 10% recommended; Natural Soy Pearl Wax states no fragrance load and no temperatures. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. No CSI wax is listed in a 25 kg or 100 kg pack; 50 kg is listed only on Natural Soy Pearl Wax. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
