I Want to Make ₹1 Lakh Gross Profit a Month From Candles — How Many Units Do I Need to Sell if Each Candle Contributes ₹250?

The division, and what 400 candles a month actually asks of you

Your question contains both of its own inputs, so the arithmetic is short: ₹1,00,000.00 of gross profit divided by ₹250.00 of contribution per candle is 400 candles a month. Both of those figures are yours and this page uses them exactly as you wrote them, unrounded, and never treats them as CSI prices. There is no remainder, which is convenient but slightly misleading — a target that divides cleanly can feel like a plan when it is still only a number.

So the first useful thing to do with 400 is to spread it across time. Over a 30-day month it is 13.33 candles a day. If you keep a six-day week, roughly 26 working days, it is 15.38 a day. If you pour in weekly batches it is 100 a week. Those are the same number wearing different clothes, and the third version is the one most small makers actually work to, because pouring, cooling, curing and labelling are batch activities rather than daily ones.

Then spread it across the calendar rather than the month. Soy candles keep developing their throw for 14–21 days by ordinary practice, and the Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 page itself asks for a minimum cure before burn testing. A candle you pour on the 25th is not a candle you can confidently ship on the 26th. In practice a 400-unit month means pouring the first week's batch of 100 while the previous month's stock is still selling, which is why makers who scale to this volume start holding two to three weeks of finished stock and stop pouring to order.

Turning 400 candles into kilograms, pieces and one rupee figure

Before any multiplication, fix the fill convention, because it changes every quantity on this page. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight, which is how CSI product pages state it. This page uses 200 g of wax at 8%, so 16 g of oil and 216 g into the jar. If you instead mean a finished candle that weighs 200 g, the wax falls to 185.19 g and the oil to 14.81 g, and every kilogram figure below drops by about 7.4%. Pick one, write it at the top of your sheet, and never change it mid-sheet.

On the wax-weight reading, 400 candles need 400 × 200 g = 80.0 kg of wax, 400 × 16 g = 6.40 kg of fragrance oil, 400 vessels and 400 wicks. Priced on live CSI stock, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at 1 kg is ₹507.40 a kilogram, so the wax line is ₹40,592.00 for the month. Citronella Fragrance Oil at 1 kg is ₹2.89 a gram, so 6.40 kg is ₹18,502.40 at that rate. The vessel is 200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap at ₹29.50 a piece in the 100 Pcs pack, and the wick is Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90.

That gives one candle of ₹183.14 in materials and a month of ₹73,254.40 consumed. Note the shape of the unit cost before you go further: the wax is ₹101.48, the fragrance ₹46.26, the vessel ₹29.50 and the wick ₹5.90. Wax and fragrance together are ₹147.74, which is 80.7% of the candle. That ratio is worth keeping, because it tells you which line to negotiate and which to leave alone.

From kilograms to pack counts — what you can actually put in a basket

Eighty kilograms of wax is a quantity; 8 × 10 kg is an order. The wax is the easy one, because 80.0 kg divides exactly into eight 10 kg packs at ₹5,074.00 each, which is ₹40,592.00. Run the ladder on that product before you assume the big pack is the clever buy: on Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 the 500 g pack works out at ₹520.00 a kilogram and the 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg packs are all ₹507.40 a kilogram. From 1 kg upwards the rate is identical, so buying the 10 kg pack saves you handling and nothing else. CSI publishes no quantity-discount ladder, and this page will not pretend one exists.

The fragrance is where pack granularity bites. You need 6.40 kg. Citronella Fragrance Oil is sold in 15 gm, 50 gm, 100 gm, 500 gm and 1 kg packs, and the rates those work out at are ₹7.67 a gram at 100 gm, ₹2.95 a gram at 500 gm and ₹2.89 a gram at 1 kg — this oil's own ladder, not a general rule. Six 1 kg packs plus one 500 g pack is 6.5 kg for ₹18,821.00, leaving 100 g spare. Seven 1 kg packs is ₹20,237.00 and leaves 600 g spare. Exactly 6.40 kg at the 1 kg rate would be ₹18,502.40, so the cheapest real basket costs ₹318.60 more than the theoretical figure — and that premium buys you 100 g of oil you will use next month.

The vessels divide cleanly: 4 × 100 Pcs is 400 pieces for ₹11,800.00. The wicks do not: the smallest pack that covers 400 is the 500-wick pack of Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹2,950.00, of which you use ₹2,360.00 and leave 100 wicks on the shelf. Every pack of that grade works out at the same ₹5.90 a wick, so the pack you pick changes your outlay this month and not your cost per candle.

400 candles as production days, not as a spreadsheet row

A monthly target only becomes a plan when it has a rhythm. Here is one built from a published capacity rather than an assumption: the Electric Wax Melter (Imported) is sold in a 10 kgs capacity size at ₹21,240.00, and 10 kg of wax at 200 g a candle is 50 candles. Your 80.0 kg is therefore 8 loads, which at two loads a week is a Tuesday and a Friday. If you are working from a 1 L Mini Electric Wax Melter or a double boiler instead, the same 400 candles simply take more sessions; the wax and oil quantities do not change.

One thing that rhythm exposes: 400 candles a month is not a hobby volume, and it is not a full-time factory either. It is the awkward middle where a single person can just about do it and will spend most evenings doing it. Before you commit, cost the bench time honestly. If a pour session of 50 candles takes four hours including clean-down, 8 sessions is 32 hours a month before a single label goes on, an order is packed or a message is answered.

Getting 80 kg of wax to your door

This is the line most monthly plans forget. The 10 kg pack of Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 carries a stored packed weight of 11.0 kg, so 8 of them is 88 kg of billable weight. The store's published flat-rate bands stop at 50 kg, so there is no published rate for a single 88 kg consignment. That is a fact about the rate card, not a refusal: a consignment of that size is a WhatsApp conversation, not a checkout button.

Within the published bands, how you split the month matters and not always in the direction you expect. Eight separate 11.0 kg parcels bill at the ₹1,200.00 band each. Four parcels of two packs — 22 kg each — bill at ₹2,000.00 each. Two parcels of four packs — 44 kg each — bill at ₹4,000.00 each. The last two options come to the same total, and both beat eight singles by ₹1,600.00. Every band quoted here is the published flat rate for that weight in September 2026, and a merchant-set rate can change.

What ₹1 lakh of gross profit is not

Your ₹250.00 is a contribution figure: selling price less the variable costs you have counted. Gross profit of ₹1,00,000.00 a month is what those 400 candles hand to the business before it pays for anything that does not vary with the candle. None of the following is a CSI product, so no figure for any of it exists on this page — copy the table, put your own numbers in the blanks, and total the sheet as materials from CSI plus your own costs.

There is also a rebuild worth doing before you trust the 400. Take your selling price, subtract the ₹183.14 of materials this page has costed, subtract your label, your box, your outbound courier and your gateway fee, and see whether what is left is really ₹250.00. If it turns out to be ₹230.00, your target needs ₹1,00,000.00 ÷ ₹230.00 = 434.78, which rounds up to 435 candles — 35 more than you planned, and another 7.0 kg of wax to buy and pour. The division is only ever as good as the number you divide by.

And be honest about the shape of the demand, not just the supply. This page can tell you that 400 candles need 80.0 kg of wax and 8 melter loads. It cannot tell you that 400 people a month will buy one. Indian candle demand is strongly seasonal — Diwali, weddings, Rakhi and corporate gifting pull volume into a few weeks and leave the monsoon months quiet — so a flat 400 a month is an average, not a rhythm. Plan the materials monthly and the sales seasonally, and hold the spare oil and wicks this basket leaves you rather than treating them as waste.

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