Should My Raw-Material Inventory Target Be Measured in Kilograms, Units, Rupees or Weeks of Production Coverage?
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Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹424.80 / kg at 5kg and above · 150g black jars ₹107 each 1kg to 50kg wax packs listed Stocked in India · ships nationwide
CSI inventory guides · units of measurement
Kilograms cannot be compared. Rupees hide the problem. Weeks of production cover is the only unit that lines up.
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"the quality of luxury soy wax and pillar candle wax is very good, and the packaging is also nice and clean…"
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Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"Good product"
Biny AbrahamVerified buyer · Feb 2026
Black Glass Jar with Black Lid
★★★★★
"Quality is good with good fragrance"
Avanthi CheeliVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Candles dyes are very good quality and I loved the way they work with all kinds of waxes. Very good"
Antara Srinivas IyerVerified buyer · May 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Yellow
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"all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468
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"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"the quality of luxury soy wax and pillar candle wax is very good, and the packaging is also nice and clean…"
Mahak agarwalSep 2024
Soy Pillar Wax
★★★★★
"Good product"
Biny AbrahamVerified buyer · Feb 2026
Black Glass Jar with Black Lid
★★★★★
"Quality is good with good fragrance"
Avanthi CheeliVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Candles dyes are very good quality and I loved the way they work with all kinds of waxes. Very good"
Antara Srinivas IyerVerified buyer · May 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Yellow
★★★★★
"all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468
★★★★★
"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
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Candle Business Guides · Inventory Units
Weeks of production cover, because it is the only one of the four that means the same thing on every shelf. Fifty kilograms is three weeks of wax and nine months of fragrance oil. Ten thousand rupees is three-quarters of a week of jars and thirty-two weeks of wick stickers.
0.75–32 wk
what the same ₹10,000 buys in cover across five lines on a 500-candle month — a 42-fold spread, which is why rupees cannot be your planning unit · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Which unit should the target be written in? Weeks of production cover — stock on hand ÷ weekly consumption. It is the only unit that compares a kilogram of wax with a glass jar, and the only one that tells you whether you are about to stop.Why not kilograms? Because a kilogram is not a quantity of anything comparable. On this 500-candle range, 50 kg of Natural Soy Pearl Wax is 2.9 weeks and 50 kg of fragrance oil is 36 weeks — the same weight, nine months apart in meaning.
Why not rupees? Because price has nothing to do with how fast you consume something. ₹10,000 buys 93.5 black 150 g jars — 0.75 weeks — or 4,000 wick stickers, which is 32 weeks. Rupees let a cheap item stop your line unnoticed.
So what are the other three units for? Kilograms and pieces are what you order in. Rupees are the budget constraint. Weeks are what you plan and compare in. Three jobs, three units — and only one of them belongs on the target.
The short answer
Write every target in weeks: "three weeks of wax, 2.5 weeks of jars, ten weeks of wicks". One scale, every material, instantly comparable — and it answers the only question that matters, which is how long until you stop.
Convert to kilograms and pieces only at the order line: three weeks of wax on a 500-candle month is 52.1 kg, which becomes five 10 kg packs and one 5 kg. The conversion happens in the cart, not on the plan.
Keep rupees as a ceiling, never as a target: a storeroom budget is a legitimate constraint. "₹30,000 of fragrance" is not a legitimate inventory level, because it says nothing about how many weeks it buys.
In this guide
Bar length is weeks of cover, not money — every bar represents the same ₹10,000. The jar line is almost invisible and the sticker line runs off into next summer. Any target expressed in rupees treats those two positions as equivalent, which is how a ₹2.50 consumable ends up stopping a 500-candle month.
1.35 weeks per ₹10,000 · 17.375 kg a week
Natural Soy Pearl Wax · 10 kg ₹4,248
0.75 weeks per ₹10,000 · 125 a week
Black Glass Jar 150 gram · ₹107 each
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Straight answer
Should my raw-material inventory target be in kilograms, units, rupees or weeks of cover?
Weeks of production cover — and the reason is comparability. Kilograms, pieces and rupees all describe the stock; only weeks describe how long you can keep making candles, which is the question an inventory target exists to answer. The proof is arithmetic. On a 500-candle month pouring 139 g of wax and 11.1 g of oil into the Black Glass Jar with Black Lid (150 gram), weekly consumption is 17.375 kg of wax, 1,387.5 g of fragrance, 125 jars, 125 wicks and 125 stickers. Measured in kilograms, 50 kg is 2.9 weeks of Natural Soy Pearl Wax and 36 weeks of fragrance oil — the same number on the label, nine months apart in meaning. Measured in rupees, ₹10,000 is 0.75 weeks of jars and 32 weeks of wick stickers: a 42-fold spread for identical money. Measured in pieces, 500 wicks and 500 jars genuinely are both four weeks — but only because both are consumed one per candle, and that coincidence breaks the moment wax or oil joins the comparison. Weeks fix all three failures at once, because the unit already contains your own consumption rate. Keep the other three for their real jobs: kilograms and pieces are the order unit, rupees are the budget ceiling, and weeks are the planning and comparison unit. Write the target in weeks, convert to packs at the checkout, and check the rupee total afterwards.
One line: plan in weeks of cover because it is the only unit that compares a kilo of wax with a glass jar, order in kilograms and pieces because that is how packs are sold, and treat rupees as a ceiling rather than a target.
Three weeks of cover on a 500-candle month: 52.1 kg of Natural Soy Pearl Wax — five 10 kg packs and one 5 kg at ₹23,364, plus 375 Black Glass Jars at ₹107 each. Wax is listed from 1 kg to 50 kg.
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Four candidate units, four different jobs
The four units are not rivals. Three of them have a job, and only one of them has the job you are hiring for.
Ask ten candle businesses what their wax target is and you will get four kinds of answer: "about 50 kilos", "a thousand jars", "roughly thirty thousand rupees of stock", and "about a month". Each of those is doing something different, and the confusion is why so many storerooms are simultaneously overstocked and about to run out.
The four units, assessed
What each is good at, where it fails, and what it is really for
| Unit | What it is good at | Where it fails | Its real job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kilograms | Wax and fragrance, where packs are sold by weight | Cannot compare across materials — 50 kg is 2.9 weeks of wax and 36 weeks of oil; meaningless for jars and wicks | The order unit for wax and oil |
| Pieces | Jars, wicks, stickers, lids — anything consumed one per candle | Cannot express wax or oil at all; coincidentally comparable only when two items share the same per-candle rate | The order unit for components |
| Rupees | Totalling the storeroom, setting a cash ceiling, comparing against revenue | Price and consumption rate are unrelated, so the same money is 0.75 weeks on one shelf and 32 on another | The budget constraint |
| Weeks of cover | Every material, on one scale, measured against the only thing that matters — time to stoppage | Needs a current weekly consumption figure, so it must be recomputed as the business grows | The planning and comparison unit |
Weeks of cover is simply stock on hand ÷ average weekly consumption. That single division is what makes it portable: the material's own consumption rate is already inside the number, so a week of wax and a week of jars are genuinely the same amount of protection. Nothing else on that list has the property.
A note on the example range, because the wax matters for honesty as well as arithmetic. The Natural Soy Pearl Wax page states that it is suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs, and states no maximum fragrance load and no temperatures. So the 8%-of-wax-weight figure used throughout this guide is a conservative working choice for the example, not a published ceiling — whereas Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 does state up to 13%, with a 50–53°C melting point and a 58–60°C pour. Where a page states nothing, burn test before you build a year's purchasing on an assumed load.
The commonest target in candle making is a rupee figure, and it is the one unit that cannot protect you. "Keep about ₹1,00,000 of raw material" sounds disciplined and is unmanageable, because the same ₹1,00,000 can be 7.5 weeks of jars and nothing else, or 2.9 weeks of everything, or 320 weeks of wick stickers and an empty wax shelf. Worse, it drifts silently: when a price rises, a rupee target buys fewer weeks without anybody noticing, and when units grow, it buys fewer weeks again. A target in weeks is immune to the first and tells you about the second.
The ₹10,000 test
This is the quickest way to see the problem with money as a planning unit, and it takes two minutes with your own prices. Pick a round sum. Divide it by each material's listed unit price to get a quantity. Divide that quantity by your weekly consumption. Read the five answers.
₹10,000 of each line · 500 candles a month · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Same money, five wildly different amounts of protection
| Line | Listed unit price | ₹10,000 buys | Weekly consumption | Weeks of cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Glass Jar with Black Lid 150 gram | ₹107 each | 93.5 jars | 125 jars | 0.75 |
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax | ₹424.80 per kg at 5 kg and above | 23.5 kg | 17.375 kg | 1.35 |
| Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil | ₹2.832 per gram at 1 kg | 3,531 g | 1,387.5 g (all scents) | 2.54 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) | ₹9.44 each at every pack | 1,059 wicks | 125 wicks | 8.47 |
| Candle Wick Stickers | ₹2.50 each (40 per sheet ₹100) | 4,000 stickers | 125 stickers | 32.00 |
Worked out above: 500 candles ÷ 4 weeks = 125 a week. Wax = 125 × 139 g = 17.375 kg a week; oil = 125 × 11.1 g = 1,387.5 g a week across five scents; jars, wicks and stickers = one each per single-wick candle. Weeks of cover = (₹10,000 ÷ listed unit price) ÷ weekly consumption. The Citrus Lemon row deliberately divides one scent's purchase by the whole fragrance consumption, because cover on a single scent is a per-scent calculation — treating a kilo of one oil as general fragrance cover is its own error. A 3–5% planning allowance on wax sits on top of the 17.375 kg.
The spread between the extremes is 42.8 times. Double the money and nothing improves: ₹20,000 gives 1.5 weeks of jars and 64 weeks of stickers. The ratio is a property of the prices and your consumption rates, not of the budget, so no amount of money fixes a rupee-denominated target — it only moves the whole distribution.
Run the test at the price you actually pay, pack by pack
Weeks of cover is sensitive to the unit price you feed it, so take that price from the pack you genuinely buy. Natural Soy Pearl Wax is ₹450 a kilo at 1 kg but ₹424.80 at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg — a real step down, and one of the few on the CSI range. The black 150 g jar is ₹107 at both pack sizes, and Eco wicks are flat at every pack to 1,000. Three lines, three different ladder behaviours — check each one rather than assuming the big pack is cheaper, because on most of these it is not.Why kilograms cannot be compared
Kilograms feel like the natural unit because wax and fragrance are both sold by weight, and because a storeroom full of sacks invites a weight count. But weight is a property of the material, not of your production, and the two consumption rates are an order of magnitude apart on exactly the two materials that share the unit.
The 50-kilogram test
What the same stated weight means on two shelves, and what the same piece count means on three
| Stated quantity | Line | Weekly consumption | Weeks of cover | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 kg | Natural Soy Pearl Wax | 17.375 kg | 2.88 weeks | A sensible working level |
| 50 kg | Fragrance oil, all scents | 1.3875 kg | 36.04 weeks | Nine months of oil — and the largest listed pack is 1 kg, so this is 50 bottles |
| 500 pieces | Black 150 g jar | 125 | 4.00 weeks | Comparable — one per candle |
| 500 pieces | Eco C2 wick | 125 | 4.00 weeks | Comparable — one per candle |
| 500 pieces | Wick sticker | 125 | 4.00 weeks | Comparable — one per candle |
Those last three rows are the honest counter-case, and they are worth understanding rather than dismissing. Pieces work as a comparison unit for any set of materials consumed at the same rate per candle — on a single-wick range, jars, wicks, stickers and lids are all one-per-candle, so a piece count is a perfectly good shorthand among them. It stops working the instant wax, oil or dye enters the comparison, and it stops working inside the component group too as soon as you pour a double-wick candle or a two-part lid. Weeks never stop working, which is why the board should be in weeks even when a piece count would have done.
Fifty kilograms of fragrance oil is not a bulk purchase, it is fifty bottles. A kilogram is the largest fragrance pack listed across the CSI range, so a weight-denominated oil target quietly turns into a pack-count problem: 50 kg means fifty separate 1 kg bottles, opened at different times, ageing at different rates, across five scents that sell at different speeds. Nine months of cover on a fast scent is bad planning; nine months on a slow one is dead stock with a bow on it. Set fragrance targets per scent, in weeks of that scent's own consumption — the method is in how much fragrance oil a candle business needs. Above 1 kg per scent is a WhatsApp quote, never a guessed price.
Five lines, one scale
Four cards showing the same range from the four extremes of the ₹10,000 test. Each table gives every listed pack, the per-unit price and how many of this range's 150 g candles the pack covers — the conversion from a weeks target to a cart.
1
1.35 weeks per ₹10,000 · 69.5 kg a month
Natural Soy Pearl Wax
The line with the widest listed pack ladder in the CSI wax range, and the one place where a weeks target genuinely changes what you put in the cart. Listed at ₹450 a kilo in the 1 kg pack and ₹424.80 a kilo at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg — a real ₹25.20 step down, worth ₹1,751.40 a month at this range's 69.5 kg. Its page describes it as suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs and states no fragrance load, no melting point and no temperatures, so the 8%-of-wax-weight load used throughout this guide is the example's working choice rather than a published figure — burn test before you commit to a pack ladder. Three weeks of cover here is 52.1 kg; the 50 kg pack is nearly exactly that, which is a coincidence worth noticing rather than a reason to buy it.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 150 g candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹450 | ₹450 | ≈7 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,124 | ₹424.80 | ≈35 |
| 10 kg | ₹4,248 | ₹424.80 | ≈71 |
| 50 kg | ₹21,240 | ₹424.80 | ≈359 |
₹59.05 of wax per candle at ₹424.80 a kilo Buy Natural Soy Pearl Wax
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0.75 weeks per ₹10,000 · the thinnest cover per rupee
Black Glass Jar with Black Lid (150 gram)
The line that makes the case against rupee targets on its own: at ₹107 a jar, ten thousand rupees does not even buy one week. Listed at ₹1,070 for ten and ₹2,140 for twenty — ₹107 either way, with no volume step and no larger pack. At 125 jars a week, a four-week target is 500 jars and ₹53,500, which on most candle ranges is the single biggest number in the storeroom. That is exactly why it needs to be expressed in weeks: ₹53,500 sounds like a lot and four weeks sounds like a little, and only one of those two descriptions tells you whether you are about to stop. Biny Abraham's review of this jar reads simply: "Good product".
| Size | Price | Per piece | Candles covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹1,070 | ₹107 | ≈10 |
| Pack of 20 | ₹2,140 | ₹107 | ≈20 |
₹107 per candle · one week of cover is ₹13,375 Buy the black 150 g jar
3
2.54 weeks per ₹10,000 · 30% of this range's units
Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil
The cheapest per gram of this range's five scents and the clearest illustration that fragrance cover has to be measured per scent. At 30% of 500 units this SKU consumes 1,665 g a month — so a 1 kg bottle is about three weeks of its own cover, not three weeks of your fragrance cover. The ladder steps down steadily: ₹1,420 at 500 gm is ₹2.84 a gram against ₹2,832 at 1 kg, which is ₹2.832 — a difference of eight paise a gram, or ₹8 on a kilo. Buy the kilo because it is three weeks of a fast scent, not because of the saving. Avanthi Cheeli's review: "Quality is good with good fragrance". A kilogram is the largest listed pack.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 150 g candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹81.42 | ₹542.80 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹170 | ₹340 | ≈4 |
| 100 gm | ₹300 | ₹300 | ≈9 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,420 | ₹284 | ≈45 |
| 1 kg | ₹2,832 | ₹283.20 | ≈90 |
₹31.44 of Citrus Lemon per candle at the 1 kg rate Buy Citrus Lemon oil
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32 weeks per ₹10,000 · the far end of the scale
Candle Wick Stickers
The line that proves the point from the opposite direction. At ₹2.50 a sticker on the 40-sticker sheet — the page states a 10 mm diameter for a secure fit — ten thousand rupees is eight months of cover, which is far more than anybody needs and the reason nobody should set this target in rupees. In weeks the sensible answer is obvious and small: twelve weeks is 1,500 stickers, 38 sheets, ₹3,750. Note the 100-sticker sheet is listed but currently sold out, so plan on sheets of 40; the Large Candle Wick Stickers at ₹249 for 40 are the alternative for a wider wick base.
| Size | Price | Per piece | Candles covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 sheet - 40 stickers | ₹100 | ₹2.50 | ≈40 |
| 1 sheet - 100 stickers (sold out) | ₹236 | ₹2.36 | ≈100 |
₹312.50 per week · twelve weeks for ₹3,750 Buy wick stickers
Priced above: Natural Soy Pearl Wax 1 kg ₹450, 5 kg ₹2,124, 10 kg ₹4,248, 50 kg ₹21,240 (₹450 and ₹424.80 per kg) · Black Glass Jar with Black Lid (150 gram) pack of 10 ₹1,070, pack of 20 ₹2,140 (₹107 each) · Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹81.42, 50 gm ₹170, 100 gm ₹300, 500 gm ₹1,420, 1 kg ₹2,832 · Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹100 (₹2.50 each), Large Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹249 · Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) 100 ₹944 (₹9.44 each) · Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 1 kg ₹650, 5 kg ₹3,185, 10 kg ₹6,370.
What rupees are genuinely good for
None of this makes money the wrong unit for everything. Rupees are the right unit for three jobs, and keeping them in those three jobs is what stops them leaking into the target.
First, the ceiling. You are allowed to say "I will not have more than ₹1,20,000 of raw material standing still". That is a cash statement and money is the correct unit for it. The weeks targets then get shaped to fit inside it, line by line. On this range one week of all five lines is ₹27,659.15 — wax ₹7,380.90, jars ₹13,375, fragrance ₹5,410.75, wicks ₹1,180, stickers ₹312.50 — so ₹1,20,000 buys about 4.3 weeks of everything, or a smarter shape with deeper cover on the cheap lines.
Second, the comparison with sales. Inventory value against monthly revenue, or inventory value growth against unit growth, is a diagnostic that only works in rupees. If stock value is rising faster than units sold, your cover weeks have crept up without a decision being made. Third, the pack choice. Once the weeks target is fixed, rupees decide which combination of packs delivers it most cheaply — and that is where the ladder differences actually pay, for instance the ₹25.20 a kilo between Natural Soy Pearl Wax at 1 kg and at 5 kg.
The CSI principle
Weeks of cover is the only inventory unit that already knows how fast you work.
Kilograms describe the sack. Rupees describe the invoice. Pieces describe the box. Weeks describe your production — which is the thing the stock exists to protect, and the only thing a target should be measured against.
Converting your targets into weeks
If your current targets are in kilograms, pieces or rupees, you do not need to start again. Five steps convert what you already have, and the conversion itself usually surfaces one line that is badly out.
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Write last month's units and divide by fourActual units, not a forecast. Five hundred candles a month is 125 a week on this range. If your month was unusual, use the average of the last three. This single number is the denominator for every row that follows, which is why it is worth getting from records rather than memory.
2
Turn weekly units into weekly consumption, in each material's own unitMultiply by the per-candle quantity: 125 × 139 g = 17.375 kg of wax, 125 × 11.1 g = 1,387.5 g of oil, 125 × 1 = 125 jars, wicks and stickers. For fragrance, do it per scent as well as in total — the total is for budgeting, the per-scent figures are for ordering. Add your planning allowance for wax losses here if you prefer it in the consumption figure rather than on top.
3
Divide today's stock by weekly consumption and write the answer in weeksCount what is actually on the shelf — weigh the part-used wax bag, weigh the open fragrance bottles — then divide. You now have one number per line on one scale. Line them up and the ranking is usually a surprise: the line you worry about is rarely the thinnest, and the sticker drawer is often holding half a year.
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Set the target in weeks, then multiply back into packsThree weeks of wax is 52.1 kg, which is five 10 kg packs and one 5 kg — ₹23,364 at ₹424.80 a kilo. Four weeks of jars is 500, or 25 packs of twenty. Twelve weeks of stickers is 1,500, or 38 sheets. The conversion to packs happens here, at the end, where pack granularity is a rounding decision rather than a planning distortion.
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Total it in rupees and check it against your ceilingOnly now does money enter. If the total exceeds what you are willing to have standing still, cut weeks from the lines where a week is expensive — jars at ₹13,375 and wax at ₹7,380.90 here — not from the lines where a week is ₹312.50. The balance arithmetic behind that choice is set out in the stock-out versus cash guide.
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Recompute step one every month, and the whole sheet quarterlyWeeks of cover is the best unit precisely because it contains your consumption rate — which means it goes stale when that rate changes. If units grow 10%, every stated week of cover silently became 0.91 weeks. Re-divide last month's units by four on the first working day of the month; a growing business should treat this as the one piece of inventory maintenance it never skips.
Converting a four-week target into packs: 69.5 kg of Natural Soy Pearl Wax — ₹29,736 as six 10 kg packs and two 5 kg, 500 Black Glass Jars at ₹53,500, 500 Eco C2 wicks at ₹4,720. For recurring volumes, bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.
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The one-page board, in weeks
The payoff for standardising on weeks is that your whole storeroom fits on one sheet of paper that anybody can read in ten seconds. Five lines, one column of targets, one column of counts, one column of the difference. No software, no conversion, no arguing about whether ₹40,000 of oil is a lot.
The board · 500 candles a month · targets are this example's choices
Weekly consumption, the target in weeks, and what the target costs in packs and rupees
| Line | Weekly consumption | Target | That is | ₹ held at target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax | 17.375 kg | 3 weeks | 52.1 kg · five 10 kg + one 5 kg | ₹22,142.70 |
| Black Glass Jar 150 gram | 125 jars | 2.5 weeks | 320 jars · 16 packs of 20 | ₹34,240 |
| Fragrance, five scents | 1,387.5 g | 3 weeks, per scent | 4,162.5 g split 30/25/20/15/10 | ₹16,232.25 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) | 125 wicks | 10 weeks | 1,250 wicks · one 1,000 + five 50 | ₹11,800 |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 125 stickers | 12 weeks | 1,500 stickers · 38 sheets of 40 | ₹3,750 |
| Whole board | ₹27,659.15 a week | — | — | ₹88,164.95 |
Notice what the weeks column does that a rupee column never could: it shows at a glance that the sticker line has nearly five times the protection of the jar line, and that this is deliberate rather than accidental. Expressed in money the same policy reads ₹3,750 against ₹34,240, and looks like neglect. One of those two presentations will cause someone to make a bad decision.
A weeks target with a stale consumption figure is worse than no target. Weeks of cover is the best unit because the division already contains your production rate — and that is also its only weakness. A business growing 10% a month that recomputes once a year will find its "four weeks" has quietly become about 1.3 weeks by month twelve, and every count will have looked fine along the way, because the number on the board never changed. Put the recalculation on the same day as your monthly accounts and it never slips. The full method, including how to derive the right week count from your own lead time and demand spread, is in the weeks-of-cover calculation guide.
A kilogram tells you what you bought. A week tells you how long you can keep going.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. A rupee-denominated target suits a supplier very well — it grows quietly with every price change and it never tells the buyer that the sticker drawer holds eight months of stock. Weeks of cover is the unit that lets you see that, and it will sometimes tell you to order less from us. It will also tell you, correctly, that your jar shelf is three-quarters of a week deep.
Every price, pack size and stated specification comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing is always authoritative. Specifications are quoted only where the page states them — and the Natural Soy Pearl Wax page states no fragrance load, no melting point and no pour temperature, which is why the 8%-of-wax-weight figure here is identified as the example's working choice. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468's stated up to 13% load, 50–53°C melting point and 58–60°C pour temperature are published figures. The Black Glass Jar's listing title carries a stale delivery note; the capacity and pack prices are the fields to plan from.
Unit volumes, scent shares, working weeks and cover targets on this page are the example business's own figures, not CSI recommendations, and no industry-standard number of weeks is asserted anywhere. CSI publishes no delivery times, so the lead time behind any reorder point must be the one you have measured. For recurring-order pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documentation, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
What does "weeks of production cover" actually mean?
Stock on hand divided by average weekly consumption. If you hold 52 kg of wax and pour 17.375 kg a week, you have about three weeks of cover — three weeks before that line stops you, assuming output stays flat. The division is what makes the unit portable: the material's own consumption rate is inside the answer, so three weeks of wax and three weeks of jars really are the same amount of protection.
Why can't I just set a rupee budget for raw materials?
You can, and you should — as a ceiling, not a target. The trouble with rupees as a target is that price and consumption rate are unrelated. On a 500-candle month, ₹10,000 is 0.75 weeks of ₹107 jars and 32 weeks of ₹2.50 wick stickers. A rupee target treats those two positions as identical, and it drifts every time a price moves or your output grows, without the number on the board ever changing.
Is it ever right to set targets in kilograms?
For ordering, always — packs are sold by weight, so the cart is denominated in kilograms. For the target itself, no, because the unit cannot be compared across materials. 50 kg is 2.88 weeks of wax and 36.04 weeks of fragrance oil on this range. Worse, fifty kilograms of oil is fifty separate 1 kg bottles, since a kilogram is the largest listed fragrance pack — a weight target hides a pack-count problem.
How many weeks of cover should each material have?
There is no standard number and nobody can give you one honestly. The week count comes from your own observed replacement time, your ordering cadence and your own demand spread — the gap between a typical and a worst-case wait, plus the extra you would consume in a peak week. The targets on this page (three weeks of wax, 2.5 of jars, ten of wicks, twelve of stickers) are this example's choices, shaped by what a week of each line costs.
Should fragrance cover be measured per scent or in total?
Per scent for ordering, in total for budgeting. A kilogram of your fastest oil might be three weeks of cover; the same kilogram of your slowest might be nine months. On this range Citrus Lemon at 30% of units consumes 1,665 g a month and the smallest scent 555 g, so a single kilo means very different things on the two shelves. Total fragrance weeks is still useful — it is what you check against your cash ceiling.
How often do I need to recalculate my weeks of cover?
Recompute weekly consumption monthly, and rebuild the whole board quarterly. Weeks of cover contains your production rate, so it goes stale as output changes — a business growing 10% a month that recalculates annually will find its stated four weeks has become roughly 1.3 weeks by month twelve while the board still reads four. Do it on the same day as your monthly accounts and it takes five minutes.
Plan in weeks, order in packs, budget in rupees
One scale for five shelves — and the only unit that tells you how long you can keep pouring.
Natural Soy Pearl Wax ₹450 at 1 kg, ₹424.80 a kilo from 5 kg to 50 kg · Black Glass Jar with Black Lid 150 gram ₹107 a jar · Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil 500 gm ₹1,420, 1 kg ₹2,832 · Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) ₹9.44 each at every pack · Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 for 40. Message us for recurring-order pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the ₹10,000 test, the 50-kilogram comparison and the weeks-of-cover conversion 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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Natural Soy Pearl Wax 1 kg ₹450, 5 kg ₹2,124, 10 kg ₹4,248, 50 kg ₹21,240 — ₹450 per kg at 1 kg and ₹424.80 at 5 kg, 10 kg and 50 kg; the page states it is suitable for a variety of container types and candle designs and states no fragrance load, no melting point and no pour temperature. Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 1 kg ₹650, 5 kg ₹3,185, 10 kg ₹6,370 (₹650 and ₹637 per kg); stated fragrance load up to 13%, melting point 50°C–53°C, pour temperature 58°C–60°C. Black Glass Jar with Black Lid (150 gram) pack of 10 ₹1,070, pack of 20 ₹2,140 — ₹107 each; the listing title carries a stale delivery note. Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹81.42, 50 gm ₹170, 100 gm ₹300, 500 gm ₹1,420, 1 kg ₹2,832 (₹2.84 and ₹2.832 per gram at the two largest packs). Sandalwood Fragrance Oil 1 kg ₹5,026.80 (₹5.0268/g); Fresh Strawberries 1 kg ₹3,540 (₹3.54/g); Apple Cinnamon 1 kg ₹4,743.60 (₹4.7436/g); Roasted Coffee 1 kg ₹3,738 (₹3.738/g). Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) 20 ₹188.80, 50 ₹472, 100 ₹944, 500 ₹4,720, 1,000 ₹9,440 — ₹9.44 each at every pack, with the 10-wick C2 pack currently sold out; Thin (C1) ₹5.90 each. Candle Wick Stickers 1 sheet of 40 ₹100 (₹2.50 each), stated 10 mm diameter, with the 100-sticker sheet listed at ₹236 but currently sold out; Large Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹249. Example assumptions, not CSI claims: 500 candles a month in the 150 g black jar, five scents, four weeks to a month, so 125 candles a week; each candle 139 g of wax and 11.1 g of fragrance oil — a load of 8% of total wax weight and 7.4% of the 150.1 g finished candle, chosen as a conservative working figure because this wax's page states no ceiling; one jar, one wick and one sticker per single-wick candle; scent shares 30/25/20/15/10 per cent (Citrus Lemon, Sandalwood, Fresh Strawberries, Apple Cinnamon, Roasted Coffee); a 3–5% planning allowance on wax for spills and top-ups sits on top of the 17.375 kg a week. Weekly consumption and cost: wax 17.375 kg = ₹7,380.90, jars 125 = ₹13,375, fragrance 1,387.5 g = ₹5,410.75 at a blended ₹3.90 a gram, wicks 125 = ₹1,180, stickers 125 = ₹312.50; one week of all five = ₹27,659.15. Monthly material bill ₹1,10,899 (wax 70 kg ₹29,736, jars 500 ₹53,500, fragrance ₹21,643, wicks ₹4,720, stickers 13 sheets ₹1,300). ₹10,000 test: 93.5 jars = 0.75 weeks, 23.5 kg of wax = 1.35 weeks, 3,531 g of Citrus Lemon = 2.54 weeks against total fragrance consumption, 1,059 C2 wicks = 8.47 weeks, 4,000 stickers = 32 weeks — a spread of 42.8 times. Fifty-kilogram test: 50 ÷ 17.375 = 2.88 weeks of wax; 50,000 g ÷ 1,387.5 g = 36.04 weeks of fragrance. Board totals: ₹22,142.70 + ₹34,240 + ₹16,232.25 + ₹11,800 + ₹3,750 = ₹88,164.95. Replacement times and cover targets are the reader's own figures — CSI publishes no delivery times. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.