Why Is Fragrance Oil Separating From My Candle Wax?
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CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 · states up to 10% Jasmine 100 gm ₹430 · states up to 10% in soy Stocked in India · ships nationwide
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A separated melt is not a bad batch of oil. It is a batch of oil that was never dissolved — and you can see it in the jug before you pour.
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✓ Stated fragrance loads published per wax ✓ Stated candle loads published per oil ✓ SDS & IFRA documentation on request via WhatsApp
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Separation is not the oil going off, and it is not a bad bottle. It is wax and oil failing to become one material — because the melt was too cool, the dose was above what the wax is stated to hold, the stir was too short, or something got in that should not have. Every one of those is visible in the jug, before the pour, for free.
111 g
the oil one kilo of Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 is stated to carry at its published 10% load · grams above that are the grams that separate · stated specs and CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why is my fragrance oil separating from the wax? Because it never dissolved, or it came back out as the wax set. Four causes, in the order they actually occur: the wax was below the stated add temperature, the dose was above the load the wax page states, the stir was shorter than two minutes, or water, a wet utensil or an incompatible base got into the melt.How do I tell separation from sweating? By when and where. Separation shows up in the liquid melt or inside the set wax, within minutes to hours. Oil standing on top is a single film the set wax pushed out once. Sweating arrives days later and comes back after every warm spell.
How much oil will a kilo of wax actually hold? Only what its page states. At CSI 464's published up to 10%, one kilo of wax carries 111 g of oil. At CSI 468's up to 13%, 149 g. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks states its 8–13% band as a share of total wax weight, which is 80 g to 130 g per kilo.
Can I save a separated batch? Usually. If the cause was temperature or stirring, re-melt inside the page's band and stir two timed minutes. If the cause was dose, you have to add wax until the ratio is legal again. Diagnose first — the two fixes are not interchangeable.
The short answer
Separation is a solubility event, not a quality event: wax holds fragrance oil in solution up to a stated quantity and at a workable temperature. Take away either condition and the two materials go back to being two materials — in the jug, in the jar, or in a soft wet patch you find a day later.
Check the four conditions in order: temperature at the moment of addition, dose against the lower of the wax page's and the oil page's stated figures, a full two minutes of stirring, and a dry, clean jug with nothing else in it.
Then never pour a melt you have not looked at: hold the jug still for thirty seconds and read the surface. A melt that has gone homogeneous stays homogeneous. One that streaks, swirls or shows a separate film is telling you now, while the fix costs nothing.
In this guide
Bar length is grams of fragrance oil per kilogram of wax, converted from each page's stated load. The Chunks bars are shorter than the percentages suggest because that page states its band as a share of total wax weight — the same "13%" is 130 g per kilo on its basis and 149.43 g on the series convention. Separation lives past the end of whichever bar is yours.
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Straight answer
Why does fragrance oil separate from candle wax, and what do I do about it?
Because a candle is a solid solution — oil dissolved into wax and then frozen in place — and a solution has conditions. Break one and the two materials come apart. In practice there are four conditions and they fail in a predictable order. Temperature: oil goes into wax properly inside the band the wax page states, and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks publishes that band as 80–90°C, with Eco Soy CSI 400 specifying 85°C and a two-minute stir. Below the band, a melt can look mixed and be nothing of the kind. Dose: a wax carries a stated quantity and no more — up to 10% on CSI 464, up to 13% on CSI 468 — which on a kilo of wax is 111 g and 149 g of oil respectively. Agitation: stirring is what distributes the dose while the window is open, and thirty seconds is not two minutes. Cleanliness: water, a damp jug, a dye that has not gone in or a diffuser base will all sit out of solution and take fragrance with them. So the fix depends on the diagnosis. Temperature and stirring are repaired by re-melting inside the band and stirring properly; dose is repaired only by adding wax until the ratio comes back inside the stated figure; contamination is not repairable at all. Look at the jug before you pour and all three become cheap.
One line: separation means the oil was never dissolved — so fix the temperature, the dose, the stir and the jug, in that order, and read the melt before it becomes ninety-nine jars.
The two container waxes that publish enough to work to: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260 / 500 g, stating "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" with a melting point and pour temperature of 80–90°C, and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500 g, stating an 8–13% band, an 80–90°C add temperature and a 70–80°C pour.
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Separation, oil sitting on top, or sweating — three faults, one family
All three look like oil where oil should not be. They have different clocks, and the clock is what names them.
Makers describe all three with the same sentence — "there's oil coming out of my candle" — and then get given advice for the wrong one. The distinction is not cosmetic. Each fault points at a different variable, and the fix for one does nothing for the others. Put plainly: separation is a mixing failure, oil on top is a single expulsion, and sweating is a repeating expulsion triggered by heat. If you can say which clock your fault is on, you have already narrowed six causes to two.
Which fault do you actually have?
The same symptom, three different clocks — and three different guides
| Fault | Where you see it | When it appears | What it is telling you | Does it come back? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Separation this guide |
In the liquid melt — streaks, swirls, a film that will not stir in — or as a soft, wet, translucent zone inside the set wax | While the wax is still liquid, and as it sets. Minutes to a few hours | The oil never went into solution, or dropped out of it while the wax crystallised | It does not need to. It was never fixed in the first place |
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Oil standing on top separate guide |
A continuous liquid film lying across the whole top surface of a candle that has otherwise set hard | Present the first time you look at the set candle — typically within 1 to 48 hours of pouring | The setting wax pushed out a surplus in one go and left it on the easiest surface | Wipe it once and, at a steady room temperature, it usually stays dry |
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Sweating separate guide |
Discrete beads or a greasy sheen on a candle that set clean and looked finished | Days or weeks later, and specifically after the candle has been warm | A load sitting near the material's limit meeting a temperature cycle | Yes — that is the diagnostic. It returns every time the candle warms and cools |
The test that separates the first two in five seconds. Press a clean tissue flat on the surface of the suspect candle, hold for five seconds, lift it and write down "dry" or "stained". Then put the candle somewhere with a steady temperature, lid off, and press a fresh tissue on it again after 72 hours. Stained, then dry is a one-off expulsion. Stained, then stained again is an ongoing one, and you are in sweating territory. Neither — but a wet-looking interior when you cut the candle in half — is separation, and that is this page. Do the cutting on a test jar, never on stock.
One honest qualification: none of these three faults proves any single cause. A ring at the glass can be the glass; a wet patch can be a pour into a cold jar. The clock only tells you which shortlist to work, and this page is the shortlist for the fault still visible in the jug.
What one kilo of wax is actually stated to carry
Solubility is the whole story, so it is worth having in grams rather than percentages. A percentage is an abstraction; grams are what your scale shows. The table below converts every stated load in the CSI wax range into grams of fragrance oil per kilogram of wax, which is the number you can weigh against. Where a page states nothing, the row says so — and a blank is not permission, it is an instruction to test.
Stated loads converted to grams per kilo of wax · CSI product pages, September 2026
The solubility budget, wax by wax, with each page's own basis
| Wax | Stated load, verbatim | Basis the page uses | Oil per 1 kg of wax | Oil in a 200 g candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" | No basis given — read on the series convention, a share of the finished candle | 111.11 g | 20 g |
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | "Fragrance Load Up to 13%" | No basis given — same convention | 149.43 g | 26 g |
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | "up to 13% fragrance load capacity"; "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight"; "10% Recommended" | Explicitly "of total wax weight" | 80 g to 130 g, 100 g at the page's recommendation | 14.81 g to 23.01 g |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | No fragrance load stated | — | Not published. Use 86.96 g (8%) as a working reference and earn any increase with a burn test | 16 g at 8% |
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax, Soy Pillar Wax, Premium Coconut Soy Wax | No fragrance load stated on any of the three | — | Not published. Same rule: start low, test, record | 16 g at 8% |
| Massage Candle Base | "Add skin-safe fragrance or essential oil at around 6-10% by weight for massage candles" | "by weight" | 60 g to 100 g | Not a jar-candle format — read the page |
Worked out above: on the finished-candle convention, oil per kilo of wax = 1,000 × L ÷ (100 − L). At 8% that is 1,000 × 8 ÷ 92 = 86.96 g; at 10%, 1,000 × 10 ÷ 90 = 111.11 g; at 13%, 1,000 × 13 ÷ 87 = 149.43 g. Where the page states its percentage of total wax weight, as Luxury Soy Wax Chunks does, the conversion is simply 1,000 × L ÷ 100 — so 80 g at 8%, 100 g at 10% and 130 g at 13%, and a 200 g candle built that way is 200 ÷ 1.13 = 176.99 g of wax with 23.01 g of oil at the top of the band. The two conventions differ by 19.43 g per kilo at 13%, which is a real amount of money and a real amount of solubility. Both bases are set out step by step in how to calculate fragrance load for candles.
There is a second ceiling most makers never look up, and when the two disagree the lower one is the one that binds. Your oil page publishes a candle rate of its own, and CSI's are specific: Jasmine Fragrance Oil states "Up to 10% for soy wax" and "Up to 6% for paraffin wax"; British Rose states the same pair; Lemongrass and Lime states "6-10% of total wax weight for candles. 10-15% for wax melts". A 13% wax does not license a 10% oil, and a 13% oil does not raise a 10% wax. Two published figures, lower one wins, every batch.
Stated figures, stated precisely
Every load and temperature quoted on this page is the wax maker's or the oil supplier's own published figure — formulation guidance describing what that material is built to do. They are not regulatory limits, not safety certifications and not a substitute for your own burn test. Where a page publishes nothing, this guide says so rather than borrowing a number from a similar product. CSI supplies SDS and IFRA documentation on request, along with bulk pricing and GST invoicing, on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.Six causes of separation, in the order worth checking them
Order matters because the cheap checks are also the common ones. Work down this table and stop at the first row that describes your bench. Every row has a test that produces a yes-or-no answer rather than an impression, because "it looked fine" is how a separated melt becomes a hundred jars.
Diagnosis order · cheapest and most common first
What went wrong, how it looks, and the test that proves it
| # | Cause | What you see | The test | The fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wax below the stated add temperature | Oil beads or ribbons on the melt surface and will not incorporate however long you stir; the melt looks cloudy rather than clear | Read the thermometer at the moment the oil goes in. Compare with the page: Chunks 80–90°C, Eco Soy CSI 400 85°C | Re-melt to the band and re-stir. Nothing else needed if this was the only fault |
| 2 | Dose above the stated load | The melt goes clear, then a layer reappears as it cools; a wet zone sets into the candle body | Weigh back: oil ÷ total batch weight. Compare with the lower of the wax page's and the oil page's figures | Add wax until the ratio is inside the figure — the arithmetic is in the too-much-oil guide |
| 3 | Stir too short or too gentle | Streaks and swirls that a further minute of stirring visibly removes | Time it. Eco Soy CSI 400 states "stir gently for 2 minutes" — use a clock, not a count | Stir the full two minutes, low and slow, scraping the walls of the jug |
| 4 | Water or damp equipment | Spitting or crackling as the oil goes in; cloudiness that never clears; pinholes and wet spots in the set candle | Dry everything and repeat with one clean jug. If the fault vanishes, it was moisture | Dry jug, dry sticks, dry vessels. Never let a double-boiler splash into the melt |
| 5 | Something in the jug that is not wax or candle oil | Colour flecks, a base that stays as a distinct phase, a greasy layer you did not add | Strip the recipe back to wax plus one oil and pour a single jar | Add dye and any additive per its own page's instruction, and never substitute a diffuser base into a candle |
| 6 | The set: cooling too fast, or a cold vessel | Wet-looking patches against the glass, frosting, a soft core — but the jug was clean | Pour two jars from one melt — one into a room-temperature jar, one warmed with a hot air gun. Compare at 24 hours | Pour inside the stated pour band, into vessels at room temperature, and let them cool undisturbed |
Notice what is not on that list: the age of the bottle, or "a bad batch". Those are the explanations makers reach for first, because they are the only ones that are not the maker's fault — and they are the least likely. CSI's oil pages publish no shelf life and no storage specification, so a bottle that separates in wax is almost never a bottle that has gone off.
The cause that hides behind a perfect thermometer reading. A thermometer tells you the temperature of the wax where the probe is. Melt a kilo on a hob in a thin pan and the wax at the bottom can be far hotter than the wax at the top, so a probe held in the middle reports a number that describes almost none of the batch. Stir before you read, read in two places, and if your bench has a recurring incorporation fault that survives every other fix, the melting method is the suspect. A 1 litre Mini Electric Wax Melter at ₹2,360 holds a band far more evenly than a pan, and one CSI customer, Tanya Walia, describes exactly that switch: "Now i just leave my wax in the melter and thats it."
The jug test: find separation before it becomes stock
This is the whole commercial argument of the page. Separation discovered in the jug costs you the oil and five minutes. Separation discovered in a labelled, boxed, cured case costs you the oil, the wax, the glass, the wick, the label, the box, the hours and — if one got out — a customer. The procedure below adds about three minutes to a pour and is the reason experienced production benches almost never ship a separated candle.
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Weigh the oil into a tared cup before the wax is readyLoad is a weight percentage, and oils differ in density, so millilitres will not give you a repeatable dose. Weigh the whole batch's oil once, into one cup, on a ₹354 weighing scale. One cup means one dose, which kills the single most expensive bench accident there is: dosing twice.
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Bring the wax into the page's band and read it, stirredStir the melt, then read the pen thermometer in two places. For Luxury Soy Wax Chunks the stated add band is 80–90°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies 85°C. Write the actual figure on the batch card, not the target.
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Pour the oil in one stream, then stir for two timed minutesSet a timer. Stir slowly and deliberately with a bamboo stirring stick — ₹118 for five, ₹1,062 for fifty — scraping the wall and the base of the jug rather than whipping the surface. You are dissolving, not aerating. Whipping introduces air, and air in setting soy is its own cosmetic problem.
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Stop. Hold the jug still for thirty seconds and look at itThis is the test. A dissolved melt is uniform: one colour, one surface, no moving boundaries. A melt that is not dissolved shows swirls that persist, a faint oily film that reforms at the edge, or a shimmer travelling across the surface as it stills. If you see any of those, do not pour — go back to step 2 and check the temperature, then the dose.
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Pour one sample jar first, and date its baseOne 120 g Amber Shiny Glass Jar at ₹47.20, one Eco Candle Wick at ₹5.90 and about ₹113 of wax and oil. Let it set on plain paper, unlidded, and inspect at 24 hours before you commit the remaining melt. The Chunks page asks for "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks)" of cure before burn testing, so your sample has a job to do anyway.
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At 24 hours, cut the sample in halfSeparation inside the body of a candle is invisible from the top. Push the set wax out of the sample jar, or cut it vertically, and look for translucent wet zones, a greasy interior surface or oil weeping from the cut. This is the one inspection that distinguishes a genuinely dissolved candle from a lucky-looking one, and it costs one jar out of a batch.
Write the temperature down, not the intention
A batch card that says "80–90°C" tells you nothing in three weeks. A batch card that says "87°C at addition, 76°C at pour, stirred 2:00, 24 °C room" lets you change exactly one number next time and learn something. The two instruments that make this possible cost ₹354 each and are bought once: a pen thermometer and a weighing scale.Salvaging a separated batch — and knowing which salvage you need
There are two rescues and they are not interchangeable. Using the wrong one turns a recoverable batch into scrap with extra steps.
If the cause was temperature or stirring, the oil is all still in the vessel and simply has not been distributed. Re-melting the candles inside the page's stated band and stirring properly can dissolve what was never dissolved, and nothing has to be added. If the cause was dose, re-melting achieves nothing at all, because the surplus will come straight back out — the only route is to add wax until the ratio is inside the stated figure, which is a different operation with a different cost. And if the cause was contamination, there is no rescue: water, a diffuser base or an unknown additive cannot be taken out of wax.
Three causes, three outcomes · 25 × 200 g candles on CSI 464 at its stated 10%
The batch holds 4,500 g of wax and 500 g of oil — what each rescue costs
| Diagnosis | What the rescue is | What you buy | Candles you end up with | What you must re-do |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Added below the band, or stirred under two minutes | Re-melt inside 80–90°C, stir two timed minutes, re-pour | Nothing — the materials are already in the vessels | 25, minus your own handling losses | Cure and burn test from zero. Re-melting costs volatile top notes, so score the scent again |
| Dose above the stated load | Dilution: oil ÷ target load = the weight the batch must become | Wax only. To take 500 g of oil from 12% back to 10% the batch must reach 5,000 g, so 861 g more wax — ₹436.87 | 25 instead of 21, plus 4 more jars and wicks at ₹212.40 | Re-wick — you changed the ratio, so the pool is untested. Then cure and burn test |
| Water, damp tools or a foreign base | There isn't one | Nothing worth buying | Zero saleable. They become bench testers | Find the moisture source before the next pour, or you will pay twice |
Worked out above: 25 × 200 g candles at a 10% load is 25 × 180 = 4,500 g of wax and 25 × 20 = 500 g of oil. Bought as one 5 kg CSI 464 pack at ₹2,537 and one 500 gm Jasmine bottle at ₹1,961 that is ₹4,498 of raw material, or ₹169.77 per candle — ₹91.33 of wax at ₹0.5074/g plus ₹78.44 of oil at ₹3.922/g. The dilution row assumes the same 500 g of oil was poured at 12% instead, so the batch weighed 500 ÷ 0.12 = 4,166.67 g and must reach 500 ÷ 0.10 = 5,000 g: that is 833.33 g of extra wax against the 12% batch, or 861 g if you are rebuilding from 4,139 g of wax, at ₹0.5074/g. Extra glass and wicks are four Amber Shiny Glass Jars at ₹47.20 and four Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90, so ₹188.80 + ₹23.60 = ₹212.40.
A rescued batch is a new recipe, and must be sold as one. Re-melting is not a neutral operation: the lightest, most volatile parts of a fragrance leave a hot melt first, so a rescued batch can read flatter on top than the original ever would have. That is not a defect you can see — it is one you have to smell for. Cure it, burn one for three hours from cold, score it, and if it is not the product you were selling last month, do not put last month's label on it. Bench testers, staff candles and samples are all honest destinations. Stock is not.
Rebuilding a batch before Diwali on 8 November 2026? A re-melt plus a fortnight of cure means having the extra wax on the bench in the first half of October, not on order. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and SDS or IFRA documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.
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Oils whose pages give you the numbers a dissolution problem needs
When separation is the question, three things on an oil page earn their place: a stated candle load so you know the dose, a stated flash point where the page has one so you can talk to your wax page's add band intelligently, and a stated vanillin figure so you can tell a discolouration question apart from an oil-migration one. Per-candle figures below assume a 200 g candle at an 8% load — 16 g of oil — at 1 kg pricing, and scale proportionally if you pour to a stated ceiling instead.
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Floral · single note · the fully documented case
Jasmine Fragrance Oil
The most complete page in the range for this particular question. It states a candle load of "Up to 10% for soy wax" and "Up to 6% for paraffin wax", a cure of 48–72 hours for soy, a measured flash point of 185°C and "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration" — and, unusually, it gives its own incorporation instruction: "Add to wax cooled to recommended pour temp before adding fragrance". Note that this sits differently from the CSI wax pages, which state an add band of 80–90°C. Two published instructions that do not line up is exactly the situation to raise on WhatsApp and settle with the SDS and a test, rather than splitting the difference and guessing. The profile is stated as sweet, exotic and musky floral.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 120 g jars @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹103 | ₹6,866.67 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹230 | ₹4,600 | ≈5 |
| 100 gm | ₹430 | ₹4,300 | ≈10 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,961 | ₹3,922 | ≈52 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,923 | ₹3,923 | ≈104 |
₹37.66 of oil per 120 g jar at 8% · ₹62.77 in a 200 g candle, 1 kg pricing Buy Jasmine
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Floral · citrus · the one where the numbers actually collide
Neroli Fragrance Oil
Worth studying because its stated figures sit inside the temperature band your wax page authorises. The page states "Flashpoint: 85°C", "Up to 10% for soy wax" and "Up to 6% for paraffin wax", a cure of "48–72 hours for soy wax", and "Vanillin Content: 0% (No risk of discoloration)" — while Chunks and Eco Soy CSI 400 both publish an add band of 80–90°C. When an oil's stated flash point falls inside your wax's stated band, that is the pairing to ask CSI about before setting an add temperature: request the SDS figure, follow the wax page, burn test. Not a reason to avoid the oil — a reason not to improvise.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 120 g jars @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹118 | ₹7,866.67 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹342.20 | ₹6,844 | ≈5 |
| 100 gm | ₹665.52 | ₹6,655.20 | ≈10 |
| 500 gm | ₹3,327.60 | ₹6,655.20 | ≈52 |
| 1 kg | ₹6,655.20 | ₹6,655.20 | ≈104 |
₹63.89 of oil per 120 g jar at 8% · ₹106.48 in a 200 g candle, 1 kg pricing Buy Neroli
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Container wax · publishes load, melt and pour
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes)
The wax half of the pairing, and the one this guide's arithmetic uses. Its page states "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", a "Melting Point 80°C – 90°C" and a "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C", and describes the wax as "Ideal for single-pour container candles". Attribute those temperatures to the page when you quote them: it states the same band for melting and for pouring, which is worth confirming against your own thermometer before you build a process around it. Flakes also weigh out cleanly in small quantities, which matters when you are running a one-variable test. Note the 500 g pack works out dearer per kilo than the 1 kg.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200 g candles @ 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260 | ₹520 | ≈2 |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹507.40 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537 | ₹507.40 | ≈27 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074 | ₹507.40 | ≈55 |
₹91.33 of wax per 200 g candle at a 10% load Buy CSI 464
The CSI principle
A melt that has not gone clear is not a candle in progress. It is two materials in a jug, waiting to embarrass you separately.
Dissolution is the only step in candle making that is both invisible in the finished product and completely obvious at the moment it happens. Thirty seconds of looking at a still jug is the highest-return half-minute on the bench, and it is free.
The ₹826 of bench kit that turns separation into a variable
Every cause in the table above is a measurement problem wearing a chemistry costume. You cannot hold a temperature you are not reading, you cannot repeat a dose you did not weigh, and you cannot stir for two minutes without a clock. Three items fix all three, they are bought once, and they are reused for every batch for years.
The incorporation kit · CSI live pricing, September 2026
What each item stops, and what it costs
| Item | Pack | Price | The cause it removes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pen Thermometer | 1 | ₹354 | Cause 1 — wax below the stated add band, and cause 6, pouring outside the stated pour band |
| Candle Making Weighing Scale | 1 | ₹354 | Cause 2 — a dose you cannot state in grams is a dose you cannot defend against a stated ceiling |
| Bamboo Stirring Sticks | Pack of 5 | ₹118 | Cause 3 — a stir that reaches the wall and base of the jug rather than skimming the top |
| Incorporation kit total | ₹826 | Bought once; reused on every batch | |
| Mini Electric Wax Melter · 1 litre | 1 | ₹2,360 | The hidden version of cause 1 — a pan whose bottom is far hotter than its top |
| With the melter | ₹3,186 | Worth it once a recurring fault survives every other fix |
Set that against the batch. Twenty-five 200 g candles on CSI 464 with Jasmine at a stated 10% load carry ₹4,498 of wax and oil before a single jar, wick or label is counted. The kit is 18% of one batch, spent once, against a fault that can take the whole batch. That is not a close call, and it is the same argument a production bench makes when it buys a second thermometer so that nobody has to share.
Buy the scale even if you already own kitchen scales. The question is not whether a scale exists in your house; it is whether it reads to 0.1 g at the low end and holds a tare through five additions. A 9.6 g dose for a 120 g jar is the kind of number cheap kitchen scales round into nonsense, and rounding 9.6 up to 10 on every jar is a 4% load error you will spend a month blaming on the oil.
One last habit, and it is free: change one thing per batch. Raise the add temperature, extend the stir and switch the wax in the same pour and you have learned that something worked — not what, which means you cannot repeat it next season.
Wax does not reject fragrance. It declines to hold what it was never built to hold, at a temperature where it cannot hold anything.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. Fragrance oil is one of the things we sell, and the commercially convenient diagnosis for a separated batch would be "you need a better oil". We are telling you it is almost always a temperature, a dose, a stir or a wet jug — because a maker who fixes their own bench keeps pouring, and a maker who keeps buying new bottles to solve a measurement problem eventually stops making candles.
Every load, temperature and cure figure on this page is quoted from the product page that publishes it, and where a page publishes nothing we say so rather than borrowing a number. Prices, pack sizes and stock are live CSI listings in September 2026, and the linked product pages always take precedence. Stated loads are formulation figures published by the maker of each material, not regulatory limits. Flash points are quoted only for the products whose pages state a measured value; where a page states none, the honest answer is that it is not published and the SDS figure should be requested.
The jug test, the diagnosis order and the salvage arithmetic here are a protocol for you to run, not results CSI is reporting: we publish no burn-test or laboratory data of our own and make no claim about how a particular jar will behave. For SDS or IFRA documentation, bulk pricing, GST invoicing, or help matching an add temperature to a specific oil and wax pairing, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my fragrance oil separating from my candle wax?
Because it never dissolved, or it came back out of solution as the wax set. Check four things in order: the wax temperature at the moment the oil went in against the band your page states — 80–90°C on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, 85°C on Eco Soy CSI 400; the dose against the lower of your wax page's and your oil page's stated loads; the stir, which should be two timed minutes; and the jug, which must be dry and hold nothing but wax and candle fragrance oil. A cloudy melt that will not go clear is almost always the first of those.
How much fragrance oil can one kilo of soy wax actually hold?
Only what the page for your wax states. At CSI 464's published "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", one kilo of wax carries 111.11 g of oil on the finished-candle convention. At CSI 468's stated 13%, 149.43 g. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks states its 8–13% band as a share of total wax weight, which is 80 g to 130 g per kilo. There is no universal soy figure, and a wax whose page states nothing — like Eco Soy CSI 400 — has to earn its number from your own burn test.
Is separation the same thing as my candle sweating?
No, and the difference decides the fix. Separation happens while the wax is liquid or setting and shows up as streaks in the jug or a wet zone inside the candle body. Sweating happens days or weeks later, on a candle that set clean, and it returns every time the candle warms and cools. A standing film present the first time you look at a set candle is a third thing again — oil sitting on top, a single expulsion rather than an ongoing one. Wipe with a tissue, wait 72 hours, wipe again: dry the second time means it was a one-off.
Can I fix a separated batch by re-melting it?
Only if the cause was temperature or stirring. Then yes — re-melt inside the band your wax page states, stir two timed minutes, and re-pour; nothing has to be bought, because all the material is still in the vessels. If the cause was dose, re-melting changes nothing, because the surplus simply comes back out; you have to add wax until the ratio falls inside the stated figure. And if water or a non-candle base got into the melt, there is no rescue at all. Diagnose first, then choose. Either way, treat the output as a new recipe and re-test it.
Does adding fragrance oil to wax that is too cold cause separation?
It is the most common single cause on a home bench. A melt below its stated add band can look mixed because the oil is dispersed as fine droplets rather than dissolved, and those droplets rejoin as the wax cools — so the fault appears hours after a pour that seemed fine. The tell is a melt that stays faintly cloudy and streaks when you stop stirring. Read the thermometer at the moment of addition, in a stirred melt, in two places, and record the number. Best temperature for adding fragrance oil to soy wax covers the band itself.
Could the fragrance oil itself have gone bad?
It is the least likely explanation, and it is also the one nobody can verify from a product page: no CSI fragrance oil page states a shelf life, an expiry date or a storage specification, so any figure you are quoted for one is not coming from the product. Keeping oils closed, out of direct sunlight and away from heat is sensible general practice rather than a published requirement. Before you write a bottle off, reproduce the pour with a thermometer, a weighed dose, a two-minute stir and a dry jug — and ask CSI for the SDS on WhatsApp if you want the handling figures.
Dissolve it properly, once
Read the band, weigh the dose, stir two minutes, then look at the jug for thirty seconds before it becomes stock.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260 / 500 g stating up to 10%, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500 g stating 8–13% of total wax weight with an 80–90°C add band, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500 g stating up to 13%, Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹399 / kg specifying 85°C and a two-minute stir, Jasmine from ₹103 for 15 gm, Neroli from ₹118 for 15 gm, a pen thermometer at ₹354, a weighing scale at ₹354 and bamboo stirring sticks from ₹118. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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Continue the read
- Why is oil sitting on top of my candle?
- Why is my candle sweating fragrance oil?
- Fragrance load, mixing temperature, pour temperature and cure time — how they work together
- What happens if you put too much fragrance oil in a candle?
- Best temperature for adding fragrance oil to soy wax
- Why your candle is sweating fragrance oil
- Can too much fragrance oil make a candle smell weaker?
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. The solubility arithmetic, the jug test, the six-cause diagnosis order and the salvage decision apply to any supplier's materials; the quoted loads, temperatures, prices and pack sizes are specific to the CSI range in September 2026. The diagnosis order and the inspection steps are a protocol for the reader to run — CSI publishes no burn-test or laboratory results of its own, and nothing here claims that a given jar will fail or pass in a given way.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; four longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Stated wax figures, verbatim: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", "Melting Point 80°C – 90°C", "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C", "Ideal for single-pour container candles"; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks "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", "Pour at 70-80°C into your prepared containers with wicks in place", "Allow candles to cure for a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests"; Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C"; Eco Soy CSI 400 states no fragrance load, "Melt Point 100°F (37.8°C)", "add your fragrance or essential oils at 85°C (185°F), stir gently for 2 minutes, and pour directly", "Fragrance Add Temperature 80 to 90 degrees", "Recommended Wick Eco Wicks"; Natural Soy Pearl Wax, Soy Pillar Wax and Premium Coconut Soy Wax state no fragrance load or temperatures; Massage Candle Base "around 6-10% by weight for massage candles". Stated oil figures, verbatim: Jasmine Fragrance Oil "Up to 10% for soy wax", "Up to 6% for paraffin wax", "Up to 12% for wax" melts, "Flashpoint 185°C", "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration", "Add to wax cooled to recommended pour temp before adding fragrance"; Neroli Fragrance Oil "Flashpoint: 85°C", "Recommended Fragrance Load: Up to 10% for soy wax Up to 6% for paraffin wax", "Cure Time: 48–72 hours for soy wax 24–48 hours for paraffin wax", "Vanillin Content: 0% (No risk of discoloration)"; British Rose and Lemongrass and Lime as quoted in the body. Loads are formulation figures published by the maker of each material, not regulatory limits. Assumptions used in the arithmetic: fragrance load is a share of the finished candle unless a page states otherwise, so a 200 g candle at 8% is 16 g of oil and 184 g of wax and at 10% is 20 g and 180 g; oil per kilogram of wax on that basis is 1,000 × L ÷ (100 − L), giving 86.96 g at 8%, 111.11 g at 10% and 149.43 g at 13%; on the "of total wax weight" basis used by the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page it is 1,000 × L ÷ 100, giving 80 g, 100 g and 130 g, and a 200 g candle at 13% of wax weight is 176.99 g of wax with 23.01 g of oil; one wick per single-wick candle; a 3–5% wax allowance for spills and top-ups is a planning figure and is excluded from these tables. Prices used: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹0.5074/g), 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299, 1 kg ₹599; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 500 g ₹325, 1 kg ₹650; Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399; Natural Soy Pearl Wax 1 kg ₹450; Jasmine Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹103, 50 gm ₹230, 100 gm ₹430, 500 gm ₹1,961 (₹3.922/g), 1 kg ₹3,923 (₹3.923/g), so 9.6 g = ₹37.66 and 16 g = ₹62.77; Neroli Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹118, 100 gm ₹665.52, 1 kg ₹6,655.20 (₹6.6552/g), so 9.6 g = ₹63.89 and 16 g = ₹106.48; Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid (stated capacity 120 gm, 6 cm diameter) ₹47.20 each; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹5.90 each; Pen Thermometer ₹354; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Bamboo Stirring Sticks pack of 5 ₹118, pack of 50 ₹1,062; Mini Electric Wax Melter 1 litre ₹2,360. Derived figures: 25 × 200 g candles at a 10% load = 4,500 g wax + 500 g oil, bought as 5 kg CSI 464 ₹2,537 plus 500 gm Jasmine ₹1,961 = ₹4,498, or ₹169.77 per candle (₹91.33 wax + ₹78.44 oil); the dilution row takes the same 500 g of oil poured at 12% (a 4,166.67 g batch) back to 10% (a 5,000 g batch), adding 861 g of wax at ₹0.5074/g = ₹436.87 plus four jars and four wicks at ₹212.40; the incorporation kit is ₹354 + ₹354 + ₹118 = ₹826, or ₹3,186 with the 1 litre melter, which is 18% of one ₹4,498 batch. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.