I Need 100 × 180 g Jasmine Candles — Should I Buy Exactly the Calculated Raw Materials or Keep Extra Wax, Fragrance, Wicks and Jars?

Exact or extra: the short version

There are two different kinds of "extra" in a candle order, and the question only makes sense once they are separated. The first kind is process allowance: test candles, rejects, pour loss and breakage. That is not extra at all — the run consumes it, and leaving it out guarantees you finish short. The second kind is safety stock: material bought beyond what this run will consume, held on the shelf against a remake, a late reorder or the next order. That one is a choice, and the right answer is different for each material.

For this run — 100 candles of 180 g at an 8% working load, so 14 g of jasmine and 166 g of wax per candle — the calculated quantities already include two test candles, 3% rejects, 4% pour loss and 2% jar breakage (labelled working assumptions). Pack rounding then adds a natural cushion: 2.4 candles' worth of wax, 1.8 of jasmine, 0 jars and 4 wicks left over. Beyond that, this page's working rule is: keep about ten candles' worth of wax, five jars and ten wicks; keep no extra jasmine beyond the bottle leftover unless a second run is already planned.

Plan A is the floor: it finishes the run with only pack leftovers. Plan C costs ₹1,384.00 more than A and leaves ₹1,860.28 of material on the shelf — mostly wax with a published 60-month shelf life, a few jars and wicks. Plan B adds ten candles' worth of jasmine and five more jars, for ₹990.00 more than C. Plan D, a second run's worth of everything, ties up ₹25,091.41 before anyone has asked for those candles. The 105-or-110-pieces post is the place to decide how much process allowance to plan; this page is about what you hold beyond it.

The calculated quantities

That is ₹271.97 of CSI materials per saleable candle. Two pack details shape it. Jasmine is one of CSI's oils with a real per-gram step: ₹6.87 a gram at 15 g, ₹4.30 at 100 g, ₹3.92 at 500 g and ₹3.92 at 1 kg — the 500 g and 1 kg are the same rate, so three 500 g bottles plus a 100 g are the cheapest cover and are easier to keep sealed than an opened kilo. CSI 468 is ₹650.00 a kilo at 500 g and 1 kg and ₹637.00 at 5 and 10 kg, so the bulk of the wax comes in the big bags. The jar is the White Matte, a candidate for a 180 g fill whose capacity CSI does not publish; the 200 ml Salsa jar is ruled out here because 200 ml of wax is only about 172 g–180 g to the brim.

Material by material: what is worth holding

Safety stock is worth holding when running out would stop production and holding it costs little. Those two things differ sharply between the four lines on this order.

Wax is the easiest call. It is shared by every fragrance you make, it is the cheapest material per gram on the order (about ₹0.64 against jasmine's ₹3.95), and CSI's pages state a 60-month shelf life in cool, dry storage for CSI 468 (and for CSI 464). Ten candles' worth is under 2 kg and covers a remake or a small extra order without a reorder. Jars are bulky but cannot spoil; the breakage allowance covers arrivals, and five more cover the jar that cracks on the bench a week later. Wicks and stickers cost almost nothing to hold and stop the whole run if they are short.

Fragrance is the opposite case. Jasmine is the dearest material per gram on the order — ₹3.95 a gram, ₹56.82 per candle — it is specific to one product, and CSI publishes no shelf life per oil in this data — ask CSI on WhatsApp for the oil's documentation and store it closed, cool and dark. The bottles already leave 25.2 g after the run. Holding a further 10 candles' worth costs ₹636.00 today for a candle nobody has ordered yet. If a second jasmine run is already confirmed, buy for it then — CSI's 500 g and 1 kg jasmine are the same price per gram, so waiting costs nothing in rate.

What running short actually costs

Short by one candle's worth of wax is never a ₹100 problem; it is a reorder, a delivery wait and a batch poured on a different day, possibly from a different lot. That is the real case for a small reserve of the shared materials. CSI publishes no lot numbers or batch-consistency data, so if a remake must match the original exactly, it is better poured from the same bags and bottles — another reason to keep a little wax from this order rather than buying fresh for one candle.

The recommended order

Plan C, line by line. The wick is assumed already chosen and confirmed by two test candles in your jar — CSI publishes no wick-per-diameter chart, so if it is not, test first using the wick-sample post. Cotton Braided Ready Made wicks are ₹12.00 each at every pack size, so the extra ten cost the same per wick as the first hundred.

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The 100-candle Lavender hub sets out the full calculation. Your first 100 candles separates bulk buys from small test quantities, the minimum-leftover post chooses packs to leave as little as possible, and the 150 g coffee post compares a named buffer with a flat 10%. For a jasmine candle still in development, the 150 g jasmine trials post sizes formulation trials plus 50 finished units. And when reserves become a policy across many products, the safety-stock post for shared wax takes it from there.

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