My Wick Supplier Has a Four-Week Lead Time — How Much Wick Inventory Should I Keep So Candle Production Never Stops?
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So do I keep four weeks of wicks sitting on a shelf? No. You hold the buffer plus whatever is left of the current cycle — an average of 750 pieces, ₹7,080.00 — and the four weeks sits in the pipeline as an order already placed. The reorder trigger is 1,250 pieces, not zero.
Does CSI publish a lead time I can plan on? No. CSI publishes no lead time, dispatch schedule or delivery date. What is published is three shipping services with their own transit wording — Standard Shipping says “Delivery in 10-12 Days” — and the shipping policy's request to “allow 1-2 business days for order processing”. Your four weeks is a figure you must measure.
Does ordering four weeks at a time cost more per wick? Not a paisa. Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 a piece at 10 pieces and at 1,000, and Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made is ₹12.00 throughout. Deeper cover costs cash, never a worse rate. Only Performance Wooden Wicks fall with volume.
Four weeks is your figure, not ours — and it governs everything below
If CSI is the supplier in your question, the first thing we owe you is the plain fact: we publish no lead time. Not for Thick (C2), not for Thin (C1), not for the braided or wooden families. There is no dispatch window, no delivery-date promise, no per-city estimate and no festive-season timetable anywhere in our published material, and this page is not going to invent one so the arithmetic looks tidier. What the store does publish is the shipping method names and their own transit wording — Standard Shipping is published as “Delivery in 10-12 Days”, and the shipping policy asks buyers to “allow 1-2 business days for order processing”. Those are quotations, not forecasts, and they are the whole of it.
So where does four weeks come from? In almost every case we have seen it is the maker's own order-to-shelf figure, and it is made of four parts, three of which belong to the buyer. There is the time between noticing you are low and actually placing the order. There is the time the order spends being processed and dispatched. There is transit to your pincode. And there is the time between the parcel arriving and the wicks being counted in, checked and available to the bench — which in a small workshop with one person doing everything is rarely zero. A four-week order-to-shelf time with a published 10-12 day transit wording usually means a fortnight of it is yours.
That matters because the two halves lead to different actions. The part that belongs to the supplier you cover with stock. The part that belongs to you, you fix — and fixing it is free, while covering it costs ₹2,360.00 a week at the rate used on this page. Before you commit to financing four weeks of wick, find out how much of the four weeks is actually a wait.
| Question | What CSI publishes | What you must supply |
|---|---|---|
| How long until a wick order reaches me? | Nothing. No lead time, dispatch schedule, delivery date or per-city estimate is published. | Your measured order-to-shelf time, from the last three orders |
| What do the shipping services say about transit? | Three services with their own wording. Standard Shipping is published as “Delivery in 10-12 Days”. | Which service you actually choose at checkout |
| How long before an order is dispatched? | The shipping policy asks buyers to “allow 1-2 business days for order processing”. | Your own approval and payment lag before the order is placed at all |
| What does a wick cost at bulk quantities? | ₹9.44 a piece for Thick (C2) at every pack size from 10 to 1,000. | The cycle quantity you want to commit to |
| How many wicks will I need? | Nothing — this is your production figure. | Candles a week × wicks a candle, from your approved rows |
| How long does a wick keep in store? | No shelf life is published for any wick in the range. | Your own storage conditions and stock rotation |
The cover arithmetic: four quantities, all in pieces
Everything on this page reduces to four quantities. Write them at the top of a sheet before you price anything, because three of the four are yours and the fourth is a pack size.
1. Weekly usage, in pieces
Candles a week multiplied by wicks a candle, summed over every approved row that uses the same wick. One wick per candle is the simple case. A double-wick row doubles its own contribution, and a row that uses Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made instead of cotton Thick (C2) belongs in a separate line with its own cover, because the two are different purchases. Add a wastage allowance if your process really loses wicks — a tab that will not sit flat, a piece pulled out of a repoured candle — and state it as your own percentage rather than borrowing one.
2. The lead time, in weeks
Your measured order-to-shelf figure. The question gives four weeks, so four weeks is what this page computes with, labelled throughout as the reader's figure.
3. The buffer, in weeks
Cover for the weeks when the lead time is longer than usual or demand is higher than usual. This is a judgement, not a formula, and it is yours: a maker with steady wholesale orders and one courier route might sit at half a week, while a maker whose Instagram drops sell out in an afternoon might want two. The worked example below uses one week and says so every time. Set yours in writing before you need it, because a buffer decided during a shortage is not a buffer, it is panic buying.
4. The cycle, in pieces
How much you order each time, which on this range is decided by pack size rather than by price: 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 pieces, all at the same ₹9.44 for Thick (C2). The cycle sets how often you place an order and how much of the cover sits in your cupboard rather than in the pipeline.
What to do when the four quantities are not steady
Three complications come up often enough to name. The first is several rows sharing one wick line. If four approved combinations all burn a Thick (C2), they are one cover calculation, not four: add the weekly pieces and hold a single pool. The pool is more robust than four separate piles of the same part, and it is the reason a two-size cotton range is easier to stock than a six-size one. The second is wastage. If your process genuinely loses pieces — a tab that will not sit flat on a sticker, pieces pulled from a candle that got repoured, a handful trimmed too short — add your own percentage to weekly usage and label it as an assumption. At ₹9.44 a piece a 5% allowance on 250 candles a week is ₹113.28 a week, which is not a figure worth arguing about and is worth being honest about. The third is uneven demand, which is the normal Indian case rather than the exception.
Most candle businesses here do not pour 250 candles a week for fifty-two weeks. They pour eighty in February and four hundred in the five weeks before Diwali, with a wedding order landing somewhere in between. Cover built on an annual average will be comfortable in the quiet months and short in exactly the weeks that matter. The practical fix is to size the buffer and the reorder point on your peak weekly rate rather than the average, and to accept that the quiet months carry more stock than they need: at ₹9.44 a piece, carrying a festive-season reorder point through a slow February costs you cash and nothing else. Do the same arithmetic twice, once at your quiet rate and once at your peak, and keep the trigger from the peak. Then recalculate when the pattern changes, which for a growing business is roughly every quarter.
| Quantity | How it is built | Worked value at 250 a week | Whose figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly usage | Candles a week × wicks a candle | 250 pieces | Yours |
| Pipeline cover | Weekly usage × lead time | 1,000 pieces · ₹9,440.00 | Lead time yours, rate ours |
| Buffer | Weekly usage × buffer weeks | 250 pieces · ₹2,360.00 | Yours |
| Reorder point | Pipeline + buffer | 1,250 pieces · ₹11,800.00 | Both |
| Cycle quantity | A pack size that covers one review period | 1,000 pieces · ₹9,440.00 | Pack sizes ours |
| Order-up-to level | (Lead time + cycle + buffer) × usage | 2,250 pieces · ₹21,240.00 | Both |
| Average on hand | Buffer + half a cycle | 750 pieces · ₹7,080.00 | Both |
| Cash committed | Average on hand + pipeline | 1,750 pieces · ₹16,520.00 | Both |
Look again at the last two rows of that table, because they are the answer to the question in the title and they are not the answer most people expect. Average stock on hand is 750 pieces, ₹7,080.00 — the buffer plus half a cycle, because the cycle is being consumed from the day it lands. You never hold four weeks of wick. You hold a declining pile and a standing order. The four weeks shows up instead as ₹9,440.00 of pipeline: stock you have paid for and cannot touch. Add the two and a four-week lead time at this rate ties up ₹16,520.00, of which more than half is in transit. That is the real cost of a long lead time, and no amount of shelf discipline reduces it. Only a shorter lead time does.
Four weeks of cover, priced at three rates of production
Three illustrative weekly rates, one wick per candle, all priced on Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 a piece. These three rates are illustrations chosen to bracket a small studio, a steady small business and a maker supplying shops — they are not our figures and they are not a forecast of yours. Put your own weekly rate in the left column and the rest of the row follows by multiplication.
| Candles a week | One week of cover | Four-week pipeline | Reorder point, with a one-week buffer | Pack combination that covers it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 100 pieces · ₹944.00 | 400 pieces · ₹3,776.00 | 500 pieces · ₹4,720.00 | One 500-pack, ₹4,720.00 — five weeks of cover |
| 250 | 250 pieces · ₹2,360.00 | 1,000 pieces · ₹9,440.00 | 1,250 pieces · ₹11,800.00 | One 1000-pack plus one 500-pack, ₹14,160.00 |
| 500 | 500 pieces · ₹4,720.00 | 2,000 pieces · ₹18,880.00 | 2,500 pieces · ₹23,600.00 | Two 1000-packs plus one 500-pack, ₹23,600.00 |
Two things fall out of that table. The first is that at 250 candles a week the 1000-pack is exactly four weeks of cover — one pack per cycle, one pack in flight, and a calendar that needs no arithmetic once it is running. If your weekly rate is anywhere near 250, build the cycle around that pack and your purchasing becomes a date rather than a decision. The second is that the rupee figures are smaller than the anxiety: the whole four-week pipeline at 100 candles a week is ₹3,776.00, which is less than one 10 kg pack of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999.00. Wick is the component where a long lead time is cheapest to cover, which is exactly why it is the least defensible component to run out of.
It is worth being precise about what the stock-out actually costs, because it is not the wick. One candle on this page's costing is ₹276.97 of material: 180 g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599.90 a kilogram, 14.4 g of Raat Ki Rani Fragrance Oil at ₹6.77 a gram, a glass jar at ₹62.00 a piece, and ₹9.44 of wick. The wick is 3.41% of it. Lose a week of production at 250 candles and you have idled ₹66,881.90 of wax, fragrance and glass that is already bought, already in the building and already losing you the week. The fill reading carried through every figure on this page is 180 g of wax at 8% of wax weight — 14.4 g of oil, 194.4 g poured — and the jar is the 200ml Salsa Light Pink Glass Jar priced per piece from the Pack of 50, with no claim that this fill suits it: its page publishes a 200 ml capacity and a 63 mm lug cap, and no fill weight.
The order calendar: one cycle in flight, nothing idle for a month
Here is the twelve-week calendar the diagram at the top of this page draws, written out. The rate is the illustrative 250 candles a week, the cycle is 1,000 pieces, the buffer is one week and the lead time is the four weeks from your question. The elegant part is in the first column: because the cycle length and the lead time are both four weeks, the day a delivery lands is the day you place the next order. One action, every four weeks, on a date you can put in a calendar and hand to somebody else.
| Week | Action | Received | Consumed | On hand at week end | In flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Receive 1,000 · place the next 1,000 | 1,000 | 250 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 2 | — | — | 250 | 750 | 1,000 |
| 3 | — | — | 250 | 500 | 1,000 |
| 4 | — | — | 250 | 250 | 1,000 |
| 5 | Receive 1,000 · place the next 1,000 | 1,000 | 250 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 6 | — | — | 250 | 750 | 1,000 |
| 7 | — | — | 250 | 500 | 1,000 |
| 8 | — | — | 250 | 250 | 1,000 |
| 9 | Receive 1,000 · place the next 1,000 | 1,000 | 250 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | — | — | 250 | 750 | 1,000 |
| 11 | — | — | 250 | 500 | 1,000 |
| 12 | — | — | 250 | 250 | 1,000 |
Read down the fifth column and the shape of the answer is obvious. Stock peaks at 1,250 pieces on a delivery day and bottoms at 250 — the buffer — four weeks later. It never touches zero and it never sits on a month of untouched stock either. The average of that column is 750 pieces, ₹7,080.00, which is the number to quote if somebody asks how much wick inventory you keep. The last column is the part that never appears in a stock count and matters just as much: 1,000 pieces, ₹9,440.00, is in flight at every moment. A four-week lead time means you are permanently financing one cycle you cannot see.
Two variations are worth knowing. If you shorten the cycle to two weeks — 500 pieces every fortnight instead of 1,000 every month — the pipeline is unchanged at 1,000 pieces, but the average on hand falls to 500 pieces, ₹4,720.00, because half a cycle is now smaller. You have released ₹2,360.00 of shelf stock and bought yourself twice as many orders to place and twice as much freight to pay. If you lengthen the cycle to eight weeks, the average on hand rises to 1,250 pieces, ₹11,800.00, and you place six orders a year instead of thirteen. Neither is wrong. Both are a trade between cash on the shelf and effort at the keyboard, and the per-piece rate takes no side: it is ₹9.44 however you cut it.
When the cycle is shorter than the lead time: two orders in flight
The calendar above is tidy because the cycle and the lead time are both four weeks, so exactly one order is in flight at any moment. Shorten the cycle to a fortnight and something that confuses people happens: you now have two orders in flight at all times, four weeks of pipeline arriving in two instalments. That is not a problem, but it changes what a stock count means. The shelf shows 500 pieces and the plan is sound, because 1,000 more are on their way in two parcels — and a maker who forgets the second parcel exists will panic-order a third. Write the open orders on the same sheet as the count, with the date each was placed, and read the two columns together. The rule is simple: the number that must never fall below the buffer is stock on hand plus everything already ordered, and the number that triggers an order is stock on hand alone against the trigger for one cycle's worth of time.
When the lead time itself moves
Lead times are not constant, which is the entire reason the buffer exists. If your log shows three orders at nineteen, twenty-four and thirty-one days, the planning figure is the thirty-one — not the twenty-four-day average — and the buffer covers the chance that the next one is worse than any of them. What you should not do is re-size cover after every delivery; a figure that moves every month is not a plan, it is a reaction. Review it on a date, quarterly, with the log in front of you, and change it only when the pattern has changed rather than when one parcel was slow. The one case for acting immediately is a structural change: you have moved city, changed shipping service, or your output has stepped up. Then recalculate the same day, because every figure on this page is weekly usage multiplied by a number of weeks, and both halves have just moved.
The opening two orders: getting from nothing to a full pipeline
The calendar above assumes you already hold 1,250 pieces on the morning of week one. If you are reading this because you have just run out, you do not — and you cannot order your way out of a four-week lead time in less than four weeks. What you can do is make the entry deliberate instead of accidental. The opening purchase has to cover the lead time plus the buffer in one go — 1,250 pieces, ₹11,800.00 at this rate — which on real pack sizes means one 1000-pack and one 500-pack, 1,500 pieces for ₹14,160.00. From then on you are on a single cycle pack every four weeks.
Notice what the opening order is not: it is not a year of wicks. The temptation at the start of a cover programme is to buy once and never think about it, and on a component priced flat per piece that feels harmless. It is harmless to the unit cost and expensive to your working capital: 1,000 pieces is ₹9,440.00, and 5,000 pieces is ₹47,200.00 of cash sitting in a cupboard on a specification you may revise. Buy cover, not comfort.
One more detail about pack boundaries, because it is the opposite of the usual advice about part packs. On most raw materials a part pack is a nuisance: a half-used 500 g bag of fragrance oil is an open container with a clock on it. A part pack of wicks is not. Pieces left in a 1000-pack are the same pieces at the same ₹9.44, they do not thicken or lose top notes, and they roll straight into the next cycle, so the pack boundary costs you nothing but the cash sitting in it. That is why the opening order rounds up without apology and why a 1,500-piece entry against a 1,250-piece requirement is a sensible purchase rather than an overbuy. The thing to avoid is not a part pack; it is a part pack you have forgotten about, which is the argument for one wick box, one count sheet and one person who owns it.
The lead-time log: four dates, three orders, one real number
This is the only sheet on this page, and it has no figures from us in it at all — because the figure it produces is the one CSI does not publish. Copy the five columns, fill a row per order from here on, and after three orders you will have replaced the four weeks in your question with something you can defend. Keep the longest figure, not the kindest.
| Column | What goes in it | Why it is separate |
|---|---|---|
| Date you decided to reorder | The day the count crossed your trigger | The gap to the next column is yours to fix, and it is free to fix |
| Date the order was placed | The day it went through checkout | Approval and payment delays hide here and belong to you, not to any supplier |
| Service chosen | The shipping method you selected at checkout | The three services publish different transit wording; the choice is yours |
| Date the parcel arrived | Delivery date on your own receipt | The only stretch that is genuinely outside the building |
| Date pieces reached the bench | When counted, checked and available | Goods-in time is real and routinely forgotten in planning |
| Total days | Decision date to bench date | This is your lead time. Divide by seven for weeks. |
| Pieces received, and the lot or invoice | Count in, and write where they came from | Lets you trace a later problem to a specific delivery |
| Notes | Anything unusual — festival week, strike, monsoon, wrong variant | Three rows of notes tell you whether your spread is seasonal |
The Indian calendar is the reason that last row earns its place. The weeks before Diwali — 8 November 2026 — are the worst time in the year to discover your lead time is longer than you assumed, because every maker in the country is ordering at once and the courier network is carrying everybody's festive stock. Work the deadline backwards with your own figures: a 14-21 day cure, which is standard practice for soy container candles and sits inside the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page's own “minimum 48 hours, ideally 1-2 weeks”, puts the last festive pour in the middle of October. Four weeks of lead time in front of that pour puts the wick order in the middle of September. A monsoon week in a coastal city, or a long weekend, is enough to move it. Order the wicks for a festive run before you have finalised the fragrance, because at ₹9.44 a piece the wick is the cheapest thing in the plan to be early about.
Shortening the lead time beats financing it
Cover is a tax on waiting. At the rate used on this page every week of lead time costs ₹2,360.00 of committed stock, so the four weeks in your question is ₹9,440.00 of your money standing still — and if you halve it, ₹4,720.00 comes back. Before you place a deeper order, spend an hour on the parts of the four weeks that are yours.
The decision lag. Most four-week lead times contain a week of “I noticed we were low”. A weekly count and a fixed order date removes it at no cost. The approval lag. If a wick order needs somebody's sign-off, pre-approve the standing cycle quantity once a quarter instead of every month. The goods-in lag. Pieces in an unopened box are not stock; make counting in a same-day job. The service choice. The store publishes three shipping services with different transit wording, and the faster ones cost more per parcel — on a component this cheap, paying for the quicker service on an urgent top-up is usually better value than carrying an extra week of stock all year.
And the honest word about us. Two of the Eco Candle Wicks reviews shown at the top of this page are four-star, and both ask us to improve delivery timelines; one also asks us to work on pricing. They are published as written, because a page about planning around a supplier's lead time has no business hiding what buyers said about that supplier's deliveries. On pricing, the fact we can state plainly is that nothing in our rate card rewards you for ordering early or deep: Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 a piece at 10 pieces and at 1,000. On timing, there is nothing published we can promise you beyond the service names and their own transit wording, which is exactly why this page tells you to measure your own figure and to hold a buffer you chose rather than one we suggested. Ask on WhatsApp if a date genuinely matters for a festive or corporate run — that is a conversation, not a published promise.
The bridging pack is the other honest answer. If your cover is genuinely thin and a cycle is four weeks away, the move is not to re-engineer the plan — it is to buy a small pack now and the cycle pack on schedule. A Thick (C2) 50-pack at ₹472.00 or a 20-pack at ₹188.80 carries the identical ₹9.44 a piece, so a bridge costs nothing in rate terms and buys you the days between now and the plan working properly. Makers resist this because a small pack feels like a step backwards after committing to a cover programme. It is not: on a range priced flat per piece, the small pack is a timing instrument rather than a price concession. The same logic says a second source is worth having identified before you need it — though a wick from anybody else is a different wick until you have burned it, whatever the label says, and swapping one in mid-run is a change to an approved specification rather than a substitution.
What this page deliberately does not tell you
No lead time. CSI publishes none, and this page has not implied one. The four weeks throughout is the figure from your question, used as your figure. The only published timing statements we have quoted are the shipping services' own transit wording and the policy's request to allow 1-2 business days for order processing. No dispatch date, delivery guarantee, courier claim or per-city estimate appears anywhere above, because none is published.
No shelf life for a wick. No CSI wick page publishes a storage life, and we are not going to tell you that a wick keeps for two years or for ten so that deep cover sounds safer. Store pieces dry, sealed and out of sunlight — ordinary good practice for a cotton and paper product in a monsoon climate — rotate oldest first, and judge an old lot the way you would judge a new one.
No weekly rate of yours. The 100, 250 and 500 candles a week on this page are illustrations, picked to bracket the range of makers who ask this question. Your figure comes from your own order book, and a rate that is climbing month on month needs the cover recalculated when it climbs, not once a year.
No burn figure, as everywhere in this series. CSI publishes no burn times, melt-pool diameters, flame heights, consumption rates or soot measurements for any wick in the range, none exists in our figures, and none is quoted or implied above. This page assumes you have already approved a configuration by your own burn test; it is about keeping that approved configuration in stock, not about choosing it.
What is left is a small, durable piece of arithmetic. Weekly usage times lead time, plus a buffer you wrote down, equals a trigger. A pack size equals a cycle. At 250 candles a week the trigger is 1,250 pieces, the cycle is a 1,000-piece pack at ₹9,440.00, average stock on the shelf is ₹7,080.00, and the bench does not stop. Then go and measure the four weeks, because every figure above moves with it.
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, and sells every wick on this page — which is why this page says plainly that we publish no lead time for any of them, that the four weeks in the question is therefore the reader's own measurement rather than ours, that most of a four-week order-to-shelf time usually belongs to the buyer and is free to fix, and that shortening a lead time releases more cash than any order we could sell you: ₹4,720.00 at the rate used here. We also state that nothing in our pricing rewards a deeper wick order, because Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 a piece at every pack size from 10 to 1,000.
Every price comes from live CSI stock, September 2026 pricing, taxes included; the linked product pages are authoritative if anything changes. The weekly output rates, the lead time and the buffer used in the worked examples are the reader's own inputs or labelled illustrations, never CSI figures. Shipping figures are the published September 2026 flat rates for the stored packed weight of the named pack, and the only timing statements quoted are the shipping services' own published transit wording and the policy's request to allow 1-2 business days for order processing. No lead time, dispatch date, delivery promise, courier claim, per-city estimate or wick shelf life appears on this page, because CSI publishes none. CSI publishes no burn times, melt-pool diameters, flame heights, consumption rates or soot measurements for any wick in the range, none exists in our figures, and none is quoted or implied here. Vessels are priced per piece with no claim that a given fill suits them.
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Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing). Wick prices (taxes included): Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) ₹9.44 a piece at every pack size, with the 500-pack at ₹4,720.00 and the 1000-pack at ₹9,440.00; Thin (C1) ₹5.90 a piece; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made ₹12.00 a piece, Pack of 1000 ₹12,000.00; Performance Wooden Wicks ₹59.00 a wick at 10 and ₹41.30 at 100, the only wick family with a volume ladder. Cover arithmetic, at the illustrative rate of 250 candles a week with one wick each and the four-week lead time from the question: one week of cover 250 pieces ₹2,360.00; four-week pipeline 1,000 pieces ₹9,440.00; one-week buffer 250 pieces ₹2,360.00; reorder point 1,250 pieces ₹11,800.00; order-up-to level 2,250 pieces ₹21,240.00; average on hand 750 pieces ₹7,080.00; cash committed including the pipeline 1,750 pieces ₹16,520.00; a two-week cycle instead of four reduces average on hand to 500 pieces ₹4,720.00, an eight-week cycle raises it to 1,250 pieces ₹11,800.00. At 100 candles a week: one week ₹944.00, four weeks ₹3,776.00, reorder point 500 pieces ₹4,720.00. At 500 candles a week: one week ₹4,720.00, four weeks ₹18,880.00, reorder point 2,500 pieces ₹23,600.00. Cover against lead time at 250 a week: one week ₹2,360.00, two weeks ₹4,720.00, four weeks ₹9,440.00, eight weeks ₹18,880.00; halving four weeks to two releases ₹4,720.00. Opening purchase 1,500 pieces ₹14,160.00 against a requirement of 1,250 pieces ₹11,800.00; 150 spare pieces ₹1,416.00; ten retained pieces ₹94.40; 5,000 pieces ₹47,200.00. Costing unit and fill reading used throughout: 180 g of wax at 8% of wax weight = 14.4 g of oil, 194.4 g poured. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 10 kg ₹5,999.00 (₹599.90 per kg, so ₹107.98 per 180 g); Raat Ki Rani Fragrance Oil 500 gm ₹3,387.00 (₹6.77 a gram, so ₹97.55 per 14.4 g) — two 500 gm packs are ₹6,774.00, the same rate per gram as the 1 kg pack; 200ml Salsa Light Pink Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap Pack of 50 ₹3,100.00 (₹62.00 each) and Pack of 5 ₹310.00, priced per piece only, with no claim that a 194.4 g fill suits the vessel, since its page publishes a 200 ml capacity and a 63 mm lug cap and no fill weight. One candle ₹276.97, of which the wick is 3.41% and everything else is ₹267.53; a week of stopped production at 250 candles idles ₹66,881.90 of wax, fragrance and glass. One 10 kg wax pack pours 55 candles at this fill and needs 792 g of oil. Specs from product pages: Eco Candle Wicks are cotton and paper fibres for natural waxes, with no dimension, lead time or shelf life published; Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made is stated as engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm with a wick height of 10.16 cm; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks publishes a cure of minimum 48 hours, ideally 1-2 weeks, fragrance added at 80-90°C with two minutes of slow stirring, and a fragrance maximum of up to 13% of total wax weight; Raat Ki Rani publishes a recommended candle load of 6-10% of wax weight, so the lower of the two published figures is 10% and the 8% used here sits inside both. Shipping: the published September 2026 flat rates for the stored packed weight of a Thick (C2) 500-pack, 1 kg at ₹110.00 on Standard Shipping and 2 kg at ₹180.00; four such parcels ₹440.00 against two heavier parcels ₹360.00, a difference of ₹80.00. Standard Shipping is published as “Delivery in 10-12 Days” and the store asks buyers to allow 1-2 business days for order processing; no other timing, courier, lead-time or per-city claim is made. The weekly output rates of 100, 250 and 500 candles, and the one-week buffer, are illustrative; the four-week lead time is the reader's own figure. No burn figure appears anywhere on this page. Diwali 2026 is 8 November 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.