I Want to Buy My First Candle-Making Raw Materials Separately Instead of a Kit — What Specifications Should I Check for Each Ingredient?
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13 specifications to check · 4 of 5 published on the best-documented wax A costed first order from ₹2,492 Stocked in India · ships nationwide
CSI beginner guides · buying separately
A product page that states its numbers is worth more than a cheaper one that does not. That is the whole skill of buying separately.
★★★★★
"All the products are so good"
Jinal PatelVerified buyer · May 2025
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
★★★★★
"The jars were of good quality"
Soumili GopeVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
★★★★★
"One of the best fragrance oils"
AnonymousVerified buyer · Jul 2025
Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"It mixes very well and give you various shades like light to dark depending upon the amount of dye you add."
AshwiniSep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid · Brown
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★☆
"Fragrance is awesome. Hot throw is also very good after burn candle."
AkanshaVerified buyer · Dec 2025
Lavender Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"All the products are so good"
Jinal PatelVerified buyer · May 2025
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks
★★★★★
"The jars were of good quality"
Soumili GopeVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
★★★★★
"One of the best fragrance oils"
AnonymousVerified buyer · Jul 2025
Dark Vanilla Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"It mixes very well and give you various shades like light to dark depending upon the amount of dye you add."
AshwiniSep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid · Brown
★★★★★
"Soy wax quality is the best, which ever products ordered were properly packed and delivered as early as possible, timely response to the inquiries. Good service"
Jaya SawlaniVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★☆
"Fragrance is awesome. Hot throw is also very good after burn candle."
AkanshaVerified buyer · Dec 2025
Lavender Fragrance Oil
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. Wording is unedited.
✓ Specifications quoted only where the product page states them ✓ 15 waxes, 92 fragrance oils, 80 containers listed ✓ Bulk pricing & GST invoicing on WhatsApp
Candle Business Guides · Materials as a System
Thirteen numbers decide whether five separately bought materials behave as one candle: five on the wax, three on the fragrance oil, three on the container, one on the wick and one on the dye. Buying separately is not about finding cheaper items. It is about buying the items whose pages publish those numbers.
13 fields
the published specifications to check across wax, fragrance oil, wick, jar and dye · the best-documented wax in CSI's range publishes 4 of 5, the best-documented jar 3 of 3, and no dye page publishes a dosage · a costed first order works out at ₹2,492 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What do I check on the wax? Five things: maximum fragrance load, melting point, fragrance-add temperature, pour temperature and cure guidance. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks publish four of the five — 8–13% load with 10% recommended, add at 80–90°C, pour at 70–80°C, cure a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks. Soy Pillar Wax publishes none of them.What do I check on the fragrance oil? Three: the candle load percentage, the flash point and the vanillin or discolouration note. Across CSI's 107 fragrance-oil pages, 81 state a load percentage, 51 mention a flash point but only 18 give a measured value, and 62 say something about discolouration.
And the jar, wick and dye? Jar: fill capacity in grams, a diameter, and a hot-pour limit. Wick: a stated diameter — only two CSI wick pages have one. Dye: a dosage — no CSI dye page states one, so dye is dosed by test, from a drop upwards.
Is buying separately cheaper than a kit? Not like for like. A ₹2,492 separate order buys seven repeatable 150 g candles plus three spare jars; the ₹4,130 Candle Making Kit for Beginners buys a wider set of experiments — two waxes, four 15 g oils, two dyes, a mould, a thermometer and a scale — and one jar. Different purchases, not better and worse.
The short answer
Buy the documented item, not the cheap one: between two waxes ₹100 apart, the one that publishes its load and its pour window will cost you fewer wasted jars than the one that publishes nothing. The specification is part of the product.
A blank is information, not an obstacle: when a page states no load, you hold at 8% and test. When it states no diameter, you bracket three wicks. When it states no dosage, you start from a drop. Write the blank down, don't fill it from another product.
Two specifications exist nowhere in the category: no CSI fragrance-oil page states a shelf life or a storage instruction — zero of 107. That is a reason to buy oil in 50 g and 100 g bottles while you are learning, not in kilos.
In this guide
- The straight answer
- The thirteen fields, and who publishes them
- Wax: the five fields that set your whole process
- Fragrance oil: three fields, and the one that is usually a threshold
- Jar and wick: the four fields that are mostly blank
- What no page states — and what to do instead
- The costed first order, and how it compares with a kit
- FAQ
The gradient is the real lesson. Wax is the best-documented material you will buy and the dye is the least — which is exactly the reverse of how much beginners worry about each. Plan your first order so the undocumented items are the small, cheap, easily replaced ones.
4 of 5 wax fields published
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks · 1 kg ₹599
3 of 3 jar fields published
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid · ₹94.40 each
Page silent on a number?
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Straight answer
What specifications should I actually check before buying wax, fragrance oil, wicks, jars and dye separately?
Check thirteen fields, and treat a missing one as a testing instruction rather than a dealbreaker. On the wax: maximum fragrance load, melting point, fragrance-add temperature, pour temperature and cure guidance. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599/kg state four of those five; CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg states three; Soy Pillar Wax at ₹600/kg states none. On the fragrance oil: the candle load percentage, the flash point and the vanillin or discolouration note. Vanilla Bean states all three, including the inconvenient one — "Vanillin Content: 2.5% (Potential discoloration…)". On the jar: fill capacity in grams rather than millilitres, a diameter, and a hot-pour limit — the Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid at ₹94.40 states a 150 g fill, a 7 cm outer diameter with a 6.5 cm base, and "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C". On the wick: a stated diameter, which only two CSI wick pages give. On the dye: a dosage, which none gives. Add it up and a first order of wicks, wax, a 100 g oil, ten jars and stickers comes to ₹2,492 and produces seven 150 g candles at 8% — about ₹277.76 of materials each. That is not cheaper than a kit; it is narrower and repeatable, which at this stage is worth more.
One line: check five fields on the wax, three on the oil, three on the jar, one on the wick and one on the dye — and buy the item that publishes them, not the item that is ₹50 less.
The documented starting set: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599 with a stated 8–13% load, Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid ₹944 for 10 with a stated 150 g fill and 85°C hot-pour limit, and Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10.
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The thirteen fields, and who publishes them
A kit hides the specifications. Buying separately exposes them — which is the reason to do it.
When you buy a kit, someone else has already resolved the compatibility questions and you inherit the result without seeing the reasoning. When you buy separately, every compatibility question is yours, and each one is answered by a specific published number. There are thirteen of them. Learn the list once and every product page in the category becomes readable in about four minutes.
The specification checklist · what each field is for
Thirteen fields, what each one decides, and how often CSI's pages state it
| # | Material | Field | What it decides for you | Published on CSI pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wax | Maximum fragrance load | The ceiling of your recipe, in grams of oil per candle | 3 candle waxes state one: 13%, 10%, 13% |
| 2 | Wax | Melting point | Whether your melting method and thermometer range are adequate | Stated on CSI 464, CSI 468, Eco Soy 400, both paraffins |
| 3 | Wax | Fragrance-add temperature | When the oil goes in — the single biggest process variable | Stated on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and Eco Soy CSI 400 |
| 4 | Wax | Pour temperature | Surface finish, adhesion to glass, wet spots | Stated on Chunks, CSI 464, CSI 468 |
| 5 | Wax | Cure guidance | When you are allowed to judge the candle | Stated on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (min 48 h, ideally 1–2 weeks) |
| 6 | Fragrance oil | Candle load percentage | Your starting dose, and whether soy and paraffin differ | 81 of 107 pages state at least one percentage |
| 7 | Fragrance oil | Flash point | How hot the wax may be when the oil goes in | 51 pages mention one; only 18 give a measured value |
| 8 | Fragrance oil | Vanillin / discolouration | Whether a white candle will stay white | 62 of 107 pages say something; 18 give a number |
| 9 | Jar | Fill capacity in grams | Every gram of wax and oil in the recipe | Many state grams; many state only millilitres |
| 10 | Jar | Diameter | The wick bracket you will test | Stated as a width, outer rim or base on many jars; absent on votives |
| 11 | Jar | Hot-pour limit | Whether your pour temperature is safe for that glass | Stated as "up to 85°C" on the 150 g and apothecary jars |
| 12 | Wick | Stated diameter or jar-size wording | Where to start the bracket | 2 of 7 wick pages state a diameter |
| 13 | Dye | Dosage | How much colour per 100 g of wax | 0 of 15 dye pages state a number; 6 mica pages say "Just a sprinkle is all you need!" |
Read the right-hand column as a map of where your own testing has to happen. Fields 1 to 5 are mostly answerable by reading. Fields 6 to 8 are usually answerable by reading. Fields 9 to 11 are partly answerable by reading and partly by weighing. Fields 12 and 13 are almost never answerable by reading, which is why the wick and the dye are the two things you should buy in the smallest pack available on a first order.
The mistake: choosing between two products on price when only one publishes its numbers. The ₹91.60 gap between CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599/kg is ₹12.64 inside a single 150 g candle — and the Chunks page gives you a load range, an add temperature, a pour temperature and cure guidance, while CSI 464 gives you a load ceiling and a temperature band that its own page states as both the melting point and the pour temperature. Buy the documentation. On a first order you are not optimising cost per candle; you are buying the shortest route to a candle that works twice.
Wax: the five fields that set your whole process
Wax is the material to be fussiest about, because its published numbers propagate into everything else. The load ceiling fixes how much oil you may buy. The add temperature fixes whether you need a thermometer at all — you do. The pour temperature interacts with the jar's hot-pour limit. And the cure guidance decides when you are allowed to have an opinion about your own candle.
Six container and pillar waxes · stated fields only, September 2026
Score each wax out of five before you compare prices
| Wax | 1 kg price | Load | Melt point | Add temp | Pour temp | Cure | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | ₹599 | 8–13%, 10% recommended | Not stated | 80–90°C | 70–80°C | Min 48 h, ideally 1–2 weeks | 4 / 5 |
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | ₹650 | Up to 13% | 50–53°C | Not stated | 58–60°C | Not stated | 3 / 5 |
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | ₹507.40 | Up to 10% | 80–90°C | Not stated | 80–90°C | Not stated | 3 / 5 |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | ₹399 | Not stated | 37.8°C (100°F) | 85°C, stir 2 minutes | Not stated | Not stated | 2 / 5 |
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax | ₹450 | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | 0 / 5 |
| Soy Pillar Wax | ₹600 | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | 0 / 5 |
Worth knowing about two of those rows. The CSI 464 page states its melting point and its pour temperature as the same 80–90°C band, which is unusually high for a soy wax — if you follow it, follow it from the page and log the temperature you actually used. And a 0 / 5 score is not a verdict on quality: Soy Pillar Wax has five published customer reviews and one CSI customer, Lalitha Jagan, writes that it "is really good to make pillar candles and for moulds". A blank score means your first batch on that wax has to establish the numbers yourself, at 8% load, with every reading written down.
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Wax · the best-documented container wax in the range
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks for Jar / Container Candles
Four of the five wax fields, published: a fragrance load stated as "up to 13% fragrance load capacity" with a recommended range of "8% to 13% of total wax weight" and "10% Recommended"; a fragrance-add temperature of 80–90°C; a pour temperature given as 75–80°C in the specification table and 70–80°C in the how-to steps on the same page; and cure guidance of "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests". No melting point is stated. That is the profile to look for when you are buying separately, because it lets your first pour reproduce a documented process instead of inventing one. Listed per-kilo pricing is flat from 1 kg to 5 kg and effectively flat at 10 kg, so there is no penalty for starting with one kilo.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 150g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹299 | ₹598 | ≈3 |
| 1 kg | ₹599 | ₹599 | ≈7 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,995 | ₹599 | ≈36 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,999 | ₹599.90 | ≈72 |
₹82.66 of wax inside a 150 g candle at 8% (138 g × ₹0.599/g) Buy Luxury Soy Chunks
Fragrance oil: three fields, and the one that is usually a threshold
Half the flash points published in this category are not measurements. Learn to tell which half you are reading.
Fragrance oil is where a beginner's money disappears fastest, so read three fields and ignore the adjectives. The candle load percentage tells you the dose. The flash point tells you how hot the wax may be when the oil goes in. The vanillin or discolouration note tells you whether a white candle stays white — and it is the field most often left out of tutorials.
The flash point needs care. Of CSI's 107 fragrance-oil pages, 51 mention one, but 32 of those give only the template line "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)". That is a threshold, not a measured value, and turning it into a number would be an invention. Only 18 pages state a measured figure, and one — Zesty Lemon — explicitly says "Flashpoint: Available on request / SDS". Documentation is available on request via WhatsApp; no certificate is published on the page.
Six fragrance oils · all three fields stated, verbatim
What a fully documented oil page looks like, and what it costs per 150 g candle
| Oil | Stated candle load | Stated flash point | Stated vanillin / discolouration | 50 g price | Oil per 150 g candle at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanilla Bean | Up to 10% soy · up to 6% paraffin | 203°C | "Vanillin Content: 2.5% (Potential discoloration…)" | ₹410 | ₹98.40 |
| Sandalwood | Up to 10% soy · up to 6% paraffin | 203°C | "0% vanillin - no discolouration" | ₹271.40 | ₹65.14 |
| British Rose | Up to 10% soy · up to 6% paraffin | 192°C | "0% vanillin - no discolouration" | ₹212.40 | ₹50.98 |
| Eucalyptus Spearmint | Up to 10% soy · up to 6% paraffin | 199°C | "0% vanillin - no discolouration" | ₹212.40 | ₹50.98 |
| Jasmine | Up to 10% soy · up to 6% paraffin | 185°C | "0% vanillin - no discolouration" | ₹230 | ₹55.20 |
| Gardenia | Up to 10% soy · up to 6% paraffin | 98°C — with a working warning | Page addresses discolouration in its own FAQ | ₹223.02 | ₹53.52 |
The Gardenia row is the one to study. Its page states a flash point of 98°C and tells you to add the oil to wax "at a temperature below 98°C". Set that against a wax whose page asks for fragrance at 80–90°C and the two numbers are compatible but close — which is precisely the kind of interaction you can only see if you read both pages before you buy. An oil with a 203°C flash point gives you a wide working margin; one at 98°C gives you a narrow one and a thermometer becomes non-negotiable.
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Fragrance oil · all three fields stated, including the inconvenient one
Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil
Chosen here not because vanilla is the right first scent for everyone, but because its page is the model of what to look for. It states a recommended load of "Up to 10% for soy wax" and "Up to 6% for paraffin wax", a cure time of "48–72 hours for soy wax", a flash point of "Flashpoint: 203°C", a wick note — "Cotton or wooden wicks for a steady and even burn. Wick testing is recommended" — and, unusually, a warning against its own interest: "Vanillin Content: 2.5% (Potential discoloration; test with lighter waxes or consider adding color stabilizers)". A page that tells you its oil may yellow your white wax is a page you can plan around. Buy the 50 g bottle to shortlist and the 100 g bottle to pour a real batch; the per-gram price falls from ₹8.20 to ₹7.90 between them.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 150g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹130 | ₹866.67 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹410 | ₹820 | ≈4 |
| 100 gm | ₹790 | ₹790 | ≈8 |
| 500 gm | ₹3,840 | ₹768 | ≈41 |
| 1 kg | ₹7,646 | ₹764.60 | ≈83 |
₹94.80 of oil inside a 150 g candle at 8%, buying the 100 g bottle Buy Vanilla Bean oil
Do not assume 10% because a tutorial said 10%. The load you may use is the lower of two numbers: what your wax is formulated to hold, and what the oil's page recommends. A wax stated at "up to 10%" and an oil stated at "up to 10% for soy" agree at 10% — but CSI 464's ceiling of 10% does not rise because you bought an oil that some other wax can carry at 13%. And where the wax states nothing — Natural Soy Pearl, Soy Pillar — you hold at 8% until a cured jar has burned. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits, and exceeding one does not make a stronger candle. The mechanism is in can too much fragrance oil make a candle smell weaker.
Jar and wick: the four fields that are mostly blank
Containers and wicks are where the published record thins out, and where a scale and a ruler start earning their keep. Three fields matter on a jar. Fill capacity in grams is the one your recipe uses — and a large number of listings, CSI's included, give capacity in millilitres instead, which is a volume and not a mass. Diameter sets your wick bracket, and is published inconsistently: some pages give a width, some an outer rim plus a base figure, some nothing. Hot-pour limit is the field most beginners have never heard of, and it is the one that protects the glass.
Jar specification coverage · CSI live listings, September 2026
Three fields, six containers, and what each one leaves you to measure
| Container | Fill capacity | Diameter | Hot-pour limit | Price | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) | "150g fill capacity" | "outer diameter 7cm"; base ≈6.5 cm | "up to 85°C" | ₹944 / 10 | 3 / 3 |
| Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid | "~500 g - 700 g (2 sizes)" | Outer rim ≈10 cm | "up to 85°C" | ₹212.40 / ₹250 | 3 / 3 |
| Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid | "Capacity: 120 gm" | "6 cm diameter" | Not stated | ₹47.20 each | 2 / 3 |
| White Matte Glass Jar | "fill weight of 200 ml" — a volume | "width 7 cm" | Not stated | ₹354 / 5 | 1 / 3 |
| Ceramic Jar for Candle Making | "Fill Weight: 180 grams" | Not stated | Not stated | ₹129.80 | 1 / 3 |
| White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram | "Capacity: ~70g wax fill" | Not stated | Not stated | ₹159.30 / 5 | 1 / 3 |
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Container · all three jar fields stated
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
The container to buy first when you are assembling your own list, because nothing is left for you to guess. Its page states "150g fill capacity", "Height 8cm, outer diameter 7cm" with a base diameter of approximately 6.5 cm, and "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C" — which you can check directly against your wax's stated pour temperature before you order. A wax that asks to be poured at 70–80°C fits inside that limit; one whose page states a pour of 80–90°C does not, and that is a conflict worth catching before you own ten jars. One CSI customer, Soumili Gope, writes simply that "the jars were of good quality". Sold in packs of 10 and 20 at ₹94.40 per jar either way.
| Size | Price | Per piece | Single-wick candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹944 | ₹94.40 | ≈10 |
| Pack of 20 | ₹1,888 | ₹94.40 | ≈20 |
₹94.40 per jar at both listed pack sizes · the largest single line in the basket below Buy the 150 g jar
Check the pour temperature against the glass, not against the internet
This is the one conflict that a separate-buy order can create and a kit cannot. Two CSI jar families state a hot-pour limit of 85°C. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ask for a pour at 70–80°C, comfortably inside it. CSI 464's page states a pour temperature of 80–90°C, which straddles it. When two pages disagree like that, pour at the cooler end, warm the jars gently first, and ask on WhatsApp before you commit to a pack of twenty.What no page states — and what to do instead
Buying separately means meeting the edge of the published record, so it is worth knowing exactly where that edge is. The list below is not a criticism of any supplier; it is the state of the category. Everything in the left column was checked against the product pages and is genuinely absent, and everything in the right column is what a careful maker does instead.
The blanks · checked across CSI product pages, September 2026
What you will not find published, and the substitute that actually works
| Not stated anywhere | How common | What to do instead |
|---|---|---|
| Fragrance-oil shelf life | 0 of 107 pages | Buy 50 g and 100 g bottles while learning; a 1 kg bottle of an unproven oil is a commitment, not a saving |
| Fragrance-oil storage instructions | 0 of 107 pages | Keep bottles closed, out of sunlight and away from heat as ordinary practice — not as a quoted specification |
| Dye dosage in grams or drops | 0 of 15 dye pages | Start with a single drop or shaving per 100 g of wax and step up; one CSI customer notes it is "concentrated" and a little gives a pastel shade |
| Wick diameter, on most wick pages | 5 of 7 pages silent | Bracket three sizes in identical jars and burn-test — the method is in the kit-wick guide |
| Lab, GC-MS or third-party test data | 0 of 107 pages | Judge with your own cured burn test; request documentation on WhatsApp if you need it for a buyer |
| A certificate number for an IFRA claim | No page gives one | Read the page's own wording, and ask for documentation rather than assuming a certificate is attached |
| Fill weight in grams on the millilitre-rated jars | Many listings | Weigh one filled jar once per jar model, and write the number on the shelf |
| Burn time or throw distance in square feet | 0 of 107 pages | Measure your own: minutes to a full melt pool, and throw scored at 30 and 120 minutes |
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Open the wax page and copy five numbers into one lineLoad, melt point, add temperature, pour temperature, cure. Write "not stated" where it is not stated — do not leave the cell empty, because an empty cell looks like an oversight and "not stated" looks like a decision you have to make. This single line becomes the header of your batch log.
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Open the oil page and take the lower of the two loadsYour working load is the smaller of the wax's ceiling and the oil's recommendation. If either is missing, your working load is 8%. Note the flash point and check it is comfortably above your wax's add temperature; if the page gives only "> 93°C", treat it as a threshold and keep your add temperature below 90°C.
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Open the jar page and resolve grams, diameter and heatIf the capacity is in millilitres, plan to weigh. If the diameter is given as an outer rim, expect the internal figure to be a few millimetres less. If a hot-pour limit is stated, compare it with the wax's pour window now, while changing your mind is free.
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Buy the wick and the dye in the smallest listed packThese are the two undocumented fields, so they are the two you should be able to abandon cheaply. Eco Candle Wicks start at ₹59 for ten at ₹5.90 each — the same per-wick price as the 1,000-pack — and liquid dye starts at ₹236 for 15 ml.
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Buy the two instruments onceA Pen Thermometer at ₹354 and a Candle Making Weighing Scale at ₹354 are what turn the numbers you copied down into a process you can repeat. Fragrance load is a weight percentage; without a scale you are guessing, and every one of the thirteen fields above becomes unusable.
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Pour, cure, burn, and only then reorderFollow the numbers you copied. Cure as the wax page asks — a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, with 14 to 21 days a common working judgement for soy containers. Trim to about 5 mm, burn two to three hours, never leave a candle unattended, and write down what happened next to what you predicted.
The costed first order, and how it compares with a kit
Here is the separate-buy order the thirteen fields produce. It is built around the two best-documented products above, aimed at seven 150 g candles at an 8% load, and deliberately narrow: one wax, one scent, one jar, one wick size.
Separate-buy first order · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Seven 150 g candles, one scent, every specification published
| Item | Pack | Price | Why this pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | 1 kg | ₹599 | Seven candles need 966 g; ₹599 is the whole kilo |
| Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil | 100 gm | ₹790 | Seven candles need 84 g; the 50 g bottle would cover four |
| Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid | Pack of 10 | ₹944 | Seven to pour, three spare — ₹94.40 each |
| Eco Candle Wicks · Thin (C1) | 10 wicks | ₹59 | The undocumented field, bought in the smallest pack |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 1 sheet · 40 | ₹100 | ₹2.50 each; keeps the wick still while the wax sets |
| Materials subtotal | ₹2,492 | What the seven candles consume | |
| Pen Thermometer | 1 | ₹354 | Add and pour temperatures are specifications, not suggestions |
| Candle Making Weighing Scale | 1 | ₹354 | Load is a weight percentage — weigh, never measure by eye |
| First-order total | ₹3,200 | The two instruments are bought once and reused forever |
Now the honest comparison. The Candle Making Kit for Beginners at ₹4,130 lists Luxury Soy Wax 500 g, Pillar Soy Wax 500 g, four 15 g fragrance oils, two liquid dyes, a pillar mould, a silicone spatula, wick stickers, a wick straw and centering device, a thermometer and a weighing scale — and one jar. The separate order at ₹3,200 buys fewer kinds of thing and ten of the same jar. Neither is the better purchase in general; they answer different questions. The kit answers "what do I enjoy making?" The separate order answers "can I make the same candle twice?" At the stage where you are worried about wasting money, the second question is the one that pays.
Worked out above: a 150 g candle at an 8% load is 138 g of wax and 12 g of oil. Wax for seven: 7 × 138 g = 966 g at ₹0.599/g = ₹578.63 of the ₹599 kilo. Oil for seven: 7 × 12 g = 84 g at ₹7.90/g (₹790 ÷ 100 g) = ₹663.60. Per-candle materials: ₹82.66 wax + ₹94.80 oil + ₹94.40 jar + ₹5.90 wick = ₹277.76, or ₹2.50 more with a wick sticker. Comparative oil cost at the 50 g price of ₹8.20/g would be ₹98.40 per candle. Load is calculated as a percentage of the finished candle; the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page phrases its 8–13% as a share of total wax weight, a slightly different basis that shifts the oil by under a gram at this size. Allow a further 3–5% of wax for spills and top-ups when planning a real batch — a planning allowance, not a specification.
Recipe proven? Scale the documented items and leave the rest alone: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 5 kg ₹2,995 and 10 kg ₹5,999, Vanilla Bean 500 gm ₹3,840, Clear Glass Jar pack of 20 ₹1,888. Above the listed packs, message the bulk line for a quote and GST invoicing.
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The CSI principle
When you buy separately, you are not buying five products. You are buying thirteen numbers and hoping they agree.
Kits resolve the disagreements invisibly. Buying separately makes you the integrator, and the integrator's tool is the specification line on the product page. Read it before the price, write down the blanks, and let the blanks tell you where your testing has to go.
A page that publishes an inconvenient number is telling you the truth about the rest of them.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles — and also sells the kit this page compares itself with. It would be simpler to tell you the kit is always right, or that buying separately is always cheaper. Neither is true. What is true is that a maker who can reproduce one candle buys materials for years, and a maker who cannot stops after the first disappointing jar.
Every price, pack size and specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Wax loads, temperatures and cure guidance are quoted only where the page states them, and the scores out of five are counts of those statements — not judgements of quality. Fragrance flash points are quoted only from the 18 pages that give a measured value; the template line "Flash point > 93°C" is reported as a threshold and never converted into a number. Where a page mentions IFRA, this guide says it mentions it; no certificate, amendment or category number is published on any page, and documentation is supplied on request. No page in the range states a shelf life, a storage instruction or a dye dosage, and this guide says so rather than supplying one.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the most important specification to check on candle wax?
The maximum fragrance load, because it caps your recipe and therefore your oil purchase. Three CSI candle waxes state one: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13% (8–13%, 10% recommended), CSI 464 up to 10% and Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 up to 13%. Those are wax formulation limits — how much oil the wax is made to hold — not regulatory limits and not targets. Where a wax states nothing, hold at 8% and prove it with a cured burn before going higher.
Does a fragrance oil's flash point matter for candles?
It matters as a working temperature margin: you want the wax cooler than the oil's flash point when the oil goes in. That is easy with a 203°C oil and tight with a 98°C one — the Gardenia page states 98°C and tells you to add the oil below that temperature. Be careful reading it: 32 CSI pages give only "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)", which is a threshold rather than a measurement, and 56 pages state nothing at all. Do not borrow a figure from a similar scent.
How much dye should I add to candle wax?
No CSI dye page states a dosage, so there is no published number to quote and any specific figure you see is somebody's habit rather than a specification. Start from one drop of liquid dye or one shaving of a dye chip per 100 g of wax, stir until the colour is even, and step up in single increments across a row of small test pours. Liquid dye starts at ₹236 for 15 ml, and one CSI customer describes it as concentrated enough that a little gives a pastel shade. Mica pages say only "Just a sprinkle is all you need!".
Is a 200 ml jar the same as 200 g of wax?
No, and the difference will break your fragrance maths. Millilitres measure volume; your recipe is in grams. Several CSI jars state a "fill weight of 200 ml" alongside a height of 8 cm and width of 7 cm, which is a volume figure — while others state grams directly, such as "150g fill capacity" or "Capacity: 120 gm". Weigh one filled jar per jar model and use that number forever. If it reads 172 g, your 8% recipe is 158.24 g of wax and 13.76 g of oil.
What is a hot-pour limit and which jars state one?
It is the highest wax temperature the page says the glass is safe for. Two CSI jar families state "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C": the 150 g golden-lid and black-lid jars, and the Apothecary Glass Candle Jar. Compare it with your wax's stated pour temperature before you buy: 70–80°C on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks sits inside 85°C, while CSI 464's stated 80–90°C pour straddles it. Where no limit is stated, pour at the cooler end of your wax's range and warm the jars gently first.
How long do fragrance oils last, and how should I store them?
No CSI fragrance-oil page states a shelf life, an expiry date or a storage instruction — zero of 107 — so this guide will not invent one. The practical answer is a purchasing one: while you are learning, buy 15 g to 100 g bottles and finish them. Vanilla Bean is ₹130 at 15 g, ₹410 at 50 g and ₹790 at 100 g against ₹7,646 for a kilo. Keep bottles closed and away from heat and sunlight as ordinary good practice, not as a quoted specification, and ask on WhatsApp if you need documentation for a buyer.
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Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599 with a stated 8–13% load, 80–90°C add and 70–80°C pour; Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil 100 gm ₹790 with a stated 203°C flash point and a 2.5% vanillin warning; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid ₹944 for 10 with a stated 150 g fill and 85°C hot-pour limit; Eco Candle Wicks ₹59 for 10; Pen Thermometer and Weighing Scale ₹354 each. Message us for any specification a page does not state.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product references reflect the CSI range; the thirteen-field checklist, the four-minute page-reading method and the separate-buy arithmetic 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; wording is unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Waxes, 1 kg — Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 (melt point stated "100°F (37.8°C)", fragrance added at 85°C with a 2-minute stir, "Fragrance Add Temperature 80 to 90 degrees", "Recommended Wick Eco Wicks"), Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹450 (nothing stated), Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹507.40 ("Fragrance Load Up to 10%", "Melting Point 80°C – 90°C", "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C"), Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599 ("up to 13% fragrance load capacity", "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "10% Recommended", "Recommended fragrance add temp 80-90°C", "Recommended pour temp 75-80°C" and "Pour at 70-80°C", "cure for a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests"; no melting point stated), Soy Pillar Wax ₹600 (nothing stated), Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹650 ("Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C"); also Chunks 5 kg ₹2,995 and 10 kg ₹5,999. Fragrance oils — Vanilla Bean 15 gm ₹130, 50 gm ₹410, 100 gm ₹790, 500 gm ₹3,840, 1 kg ₹7,646, stated "Recommended Fragrance Load: Up to 10% for soy wax Up to 6% for paraffin wax", "Cure Time: 48–72 hours for soy wax", "Flashpoint: 203°C", "Vanillin Content: 2.5% (Potential discoloration; test with lighter waxes or consider adding color stabilizers)", "Wick Recommendations: Cotton or wooden wicks for a steady and even burn. Wick testing is recommended"; Sandalwood 50 gm ₹271.40 ("Flashpoint 203°C", "0% vanillin - no discolouration"); British Rose 50 gm ₹212.40 ("Flashpoint 192°C"); Eucalyptus Spearmint 50 gm ₹212.40 ("Flashpoint 199°C"); Jasmine 50 gm ₹230 ("Flashpoint 185°C"); Gardenia 50 gm ₹223.02 ("Flashpoint 98°C", with the page's own instruction to add below that temperature). Coverage counts across 107 fragrance-oil pages: 81 state a usage percentage, 51 mention a flash point, 18 give a measured value, 32 give only the threshold "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)", 62 mention vanillin or discolouration, 0 state a shelf life, 0 state storage instructions, 0 publish lab or GC-MS data, and no page gives an IFRA certificate, amendment or category number. Containers — Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) ₹944 / 10 and ₹1,888 / 20, stated "150g fill capacity", "Height 8cm, outer diameter 7cm", base diameter approximately 6.5 cm, "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C"; Apothecary Glass Candle Jar ₹212.40 (500 g) and ₹250 (700 g), stated fill "~500 g - 700 g", outer rim approximately 10 cm, hot pour up to 85°C; Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹47.20 each, "Capacity: 120 gm", "6 cm diameter, 6.5 cm height"; White Matte Glass Jar ₹354 / 5, "fill weight of 200 ml", "Height 8 cm width 7 cm"; Ceramic Jar for Candle Making ₹129.80, "Fill Weight: 180 grams"; White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram ₹159.30 / 5, "Capacity: ~70g wax fill". Wicks — Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 / 10 at ₹5.90 each flat to 1,000 pieces; 2 of 7 wick pages state a diameter ("designed specifically for 2 inch diameters"; "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm"). Dyes — liquid dye from ₹236 / 15 ml; 0 of 15 dye pages state a dosage; 6 mica pages state only "Just a sprinkle is all you need!". Tools — Pen Thermometer ₹354, Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354, Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 / 40. Kit compared: Candle Making Kit for Beginners ₹4,130, contents as published. Assumptions, labelled as such: the 8% default load is this guide's conservative starting point, not a page specification; load is calculated as a percentage of finished candle weight (150 g at 8% = 138 g wax + 12 g oil), while the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page expresses its 8–13% as a share of total wax weight; the 3–5% wastage figure is a planning allowance; the 14–21 day cure is a working judgement and the only published cure guidance quoted is the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks minimum of 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks; the ~5 mm trim and the 2–3 hour melt-pool target are standard practice rather than published specifications. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.