I Have 50 Kg of Candle Wax — How Many 200 g Finished Candles Can I Realistically Produce When Fragrance and 5% Wastage Are Included?

The funnel, one step at a time

The straight division, 50,000 ÷ 200 = 250, happens to land close to the sellable figure, which is why people trust it. It gets there by accident: it ignores the oil (which adds 21 candles) and ignores wastage and tests (which take most of them away again). Change the load, the loss or the candle size and the accident stops working. Do each step on its own.

Step 2 is where most of the realism sits. At 5% wastage on 50 kg, about 2.38 kg of wax never reaches a finished candle: heels in the melter and jug, spills, unrecoverable rejects. That is 13 candles' worth. Tests take 8 more. If your real wastage is lower, the count rises by about 2.5 candles per point; the 25 kg guide shows how to measure your own figure from one batch, and the 500 × 200 g guide with 3% wastage runs the forward version of this candle.

Applying 5% the right way

"5% wastage" can be applied two ways when you start from wax, and they give slightly different answers. Neither is wrong, but you should use the one that matches how you add wastage when you buy.

CSI's forward calculations add wastage by multiplying the need by 1 + wastage (for example, 1,000 candles × 1.05). Running that backwards means dividing the wax by the same 1.05, so the two directions agree: buy for 258 candles at 5% and the sack you buy makes 258. At 5% the two methods land on the same whole number here; at 10% or more they drift apart by a candle or two per 50 kg. Pick one, write it on the sheet, and use it both ways.

Loads and wastage side by side

The title fixes the wastage but not the load. The grid shows the poured count (before tests) at three loads and three wastage levels, so you can read off your own combination. A higher load puts less wax into each candle, so the same sack makes more candles; it also costs more in oil.

From 8% to 10% adds about six candles from the sack; from 5% to 3% wastage adds five. The second costs nothing but attention; the first costs about 4 g more oil per candle. For Natural Soy Pearl, no fragrance ceiling is quoted in this series, so treat 6–10% as a labelled test range and confirm on the product page or on WhatsApp. For waxes with published ceilings, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks allow up to 13% and CSI 464 up to 10%. The 10% guide works through what a higher load costs per extra candle.

What "50 kg of candle wax" means at CSI

The title says candle wax, not soy wax. The count above does not depend on which wax it is; the price, the bag sizes and the load ceiling do. Here is what 50 kg costs across CSI's container waxes, with each wax's published fragrance ceiling where one exists.

Natural Soy Pearl is the only one that comes as a single 50 kg bag, and the only one of the soy waxes under ₹450.00 a kilo. Paraffin pellets are listed only to 1 kg, so 50 kg is fifty bags; beeswax is the premium at ₹800.00 a kilo. Price is not performance: each wax needs its own wick and burn tests, and a ceiling is a maximum, not a recommendation. For 50 kg or more of any wax, send the quantity on WhatsApp for a quote; no volume discount is published.

The order that turns the sack into candles

To pour 258 candles at 8% with 5% wastage, you need 4,334.4 g of fragrance oil, 258 wicks and 258 jars, each with a small spare.

Apple Cinnamon is priced flat at ₹4.74 a gram from 50 g to 1 kg, so the cheapest cover is simply the fewest grams: four kilos and four 100 g bottles. Raw materials per candle come to ₹236.86: 184 g of Natural Soy Pearl, 16 g of Apple Cinnamon, one Cotton Braided wick (₹12.00 at every pack size) and one White Matte jar (₹70.80), excluding labour, labels, lids, freight and GST. The White Matte jar's fill weight is not published; weigh one test pour to confirm 200 g sits at the line you want. Wick sizes per jar are not published either; the Cotton Braided wick is illustrative until your burn test says otherwise.

For a promise that also has to respect oil stock, jar deliveries and production days, see the 100 kg commercial-run guide. The smaller-bag versions are 10 kg into 100 g candles and 10 kg at 10% into 200 g candles. For when to reorder once the sack starts emptying, My Wax Supplier Takes 10 Days to Deliver — At What Stock Level Should I Reorder if I Produce 50 Candles Every Day? sets a reorder level from daily production.

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