My Wax Price Increased by ₹50 Per Kg — How Much Does That Affect the Manufacturing Cost of a 200 g Candle and Should I Change My Selling Price?

What ₹50.00 a kilogram is, per candle

The increase is yours and this page uses it exactly as given: ₹50.00 a kilogram. A kilogram is 1,000 g, so that is ₹0.05 a gram, and a candle holding 200 g of wax costs ₹10.00 more to make. Nothing else in the candle changes — the fragrance, the vessel and the wick are all exactly where they were.

The fill reading this page carries: 200 g of wax plus 16 g of oil at 8% of wax weight, 216 g poured. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight, which is how CSI product pages state it, so a candle built on 200 g of wax receives 216 g of scented wax. On that reading the wax increase costs ₹10.00. If your 200 g is the finished fill instead, the candle holds 185.19 g of wax and the increase costs ₹9.26 — a gap of ₹0.74. Write which reading you use at the top of your cost sheet and leave it there.

Two things are worth noticing before any decision. First, the increase on the rate is large and the increase on the candle is small: against Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40 a kilogram, ₹50.00 is 9.85% on the rate but 4.69% on a full candle of materials. Second, that second percentage is the one your price has to answer, and it is the number almost nobody works out before reacting.

Your margin before and after, at an unchanged price

To show a margin you need a selling price, and your price is yours — this page will not tell you what to charge. So the figures below use an illustrative retail price of ₹450.00, chosen only to make the arithmetic visible. Substitute your own price and every row recalculates the same way. The cost side is real: it is the CSI candle costed in full further down, at ₹213.25 of materials in September 2026.

Read the margin row rather than the profit row, because the margin row is the one that compounds. The candle still makes ₹226.75 of gross profit, which is not a crisis. But the margin has gone from 52.61% to 50.39%, and margin is the thing every later decision is taken against: what you can spend on a marketplace fee, what a festive discount costs you, whether a wholesale price still works. Losing 2.22 points quietly is how a business that was fine in April finds itself thin by Diwali.

The rise that restores it, in rupees and per cent

"Restore my margin" means one of two things and they differ by more than twice. Restoring the rupees means earning the same ₹236.75 of gross profit per candle, which needs a rise of exactly ₹10.00 — the increase, passed straight through. On an illustrative ₹450.00 price that is a rise of 2.22%. Restoring the margin percentage means getting back to 52.61%, and that needs more, because a percentage margin has to stretch over the larger cost as well.

The rule behind it is short and worth memorising: to hold a margin percentage, the price must rise by the same percentage as the cost did. Your cost rose 4.69%, so the price rises 4.69% — on an illustrative ₹450.00 candle that is ₹21.10, taking it to ₹471.10. Passing the rupees through leaves you at ₹460.00 and a margin of 51.47%, which is better than doing nothing and still short of where you started.

Which of the two you use is a business judgement, not an arithmetic one, and this page will not make it for you. What the arithmetic can tell you is that at a lower price point the rupee pass-through is a bigger percentage of your price — 2.86% on an illustrative ₹350.00 candle against 1.18% on an illustrative ₹850.00 one. Small candles feel input shocks harder, which is the opposite of most people's instinct.

Absorb, trim, or raise — each one costed

The honest reading of that table, from a supplier that would rather sell you more: only the first two rows are cost reductions. The other three are product changes wearing a cost reduction's clothes. Changing the scent changes what the customer buys. Changing the vessel changes the candle's size, and Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid and Mini Glass Jars are different formats — CSI publishes no fill weight for either, so they cannot be compared gram for gram. Dropping the load changes the throw, which is the thing people actually pay for. If you make one of those changes, make it because you want the new product, not because the wax went up ₹10.00.

The same increase on Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464

Here is the identical shock applied to a wax you can order. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 is ₹507.40 for the 1 kg pack in September 2026, which is ₹507.40 a kilogram. Add your ₹50.00 and the rate becomes ₹557.40 a kilogram — a rise of 9.85% on the wax. The candle below is 200 g of that wax, 16 g of Royal Apricot at 8% of wax weight, one Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid priced per piece and one Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1).

The share column is the part to keep. On this specification the wax is 47.59% of the candle's materials — the largest single line, but well under half. That is why a 9.85% move in the wax rate lands as a 4.69% move in the candle. Work out your own share once: if your vessel is dearer than this one, wax matters less to you than it does here and a wax increase is easier to absorb. If you pour into a tin and buy a premium fragrance, the shares move again. The share is what tells you how exposed you are before the next letter arrives.

The Royal Apricot page states a recommended load of 7–10% and lists candles in soy, paraffin and blends at up to 10%; the Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 page states a maximum of 10% of total wax weight. Where the two differ, the lower one governs — here both are 10%, so the 8% used throughout this page sits comfortably inside both. The oil page also states IFRA certification and notes that the oil contains vanilla, which can cause low-to-moderate discolouration in white wax. That is cosmetic, and it has nothing to do with the increase; it is here because a re-costing is a good moment to re-read the page you are buying from.

₹50.00 a kilogram next to what CSI's grades actually differ by

The instinct after a wax increase is to shop for a cheaper wax. It is worth seeing the size of that lever honestly, because it is larger than the increase and it carries a cost the increase does not. Here are five CSI container waxes at their 1 kg published rates and what 200 g of each costs in a candle.

The spread from the cheapest to the dearest of those five is ₹251.00 a kilogram, or ₹50.20 on 200 g — about five times the ₹10.00 you are dealing with. So yes, a grade change is a far bigger lever than the increase. It is also a far bigger risk: these waxes have different stated working figures, different stated maximum loads and different finishes, and a wax change means re-testing wick size, pour temperature, cure and throw before a single candle is sold. A repoured batch and a month of testing cost more than ₹10.00 a candle. Change wax when you want a different candle; do not change wax to recover ₹10.00.

What this page leaves blank

The ₹213.25 above is a materials cost, not a product cost, and the difference matters most at exactly the moment you are deciding a price. CSI supplies wax, fragrance, vessels and wicks, so those four lines can be priced from a live store. Nothing below is a CSI product, so no honest figure for it exists on this page. Copy the rows, fill in your own, and total the sheet as materials from CSI plus your own costs.

Two of those rows deserve a sentence. Wastage scales with the wax rate, so an increase makes it slightly more expensive to be sloppy: if you leave 5% of your wax in the jug — an assumption, not a measurement, and one you should replace with your own weighed figure — the ₹10.00 becomes ₹10.50. A gateway or marketplace fee is usually a percentage of the price, which means it is the one blank that a price rise makes bigger: raising an illustrative ₹450.00 candle by ₹21.10 raises the fee on it too, so a rise calculated to restore your margin exactly will fall a little short once the fee is taken. Work your own fee into the rise rather than discovering it afterwards.

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