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Colour is not a bottle of dye. It is a three-to-five shade system your whole range has to live inside.
★★★★★
"Its concentrated color so a little amount gives the candle good pastel shade."
Shanu ShahVerified buyer · Sep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Purple
★★★★★
"Very good quality liquid dyes. Good vibrant colours in both luxury soy wax and coconut soy wax. I'm very happy with it."
Antara Srinivas IyerVerified buyer · Jun 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Purple
★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"It mixes very well and give you various shades like light to dark depending upon the amount of dye you add."
AshwiniSep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Brown
★★★★★
"Super productsss"
Suvarna PVerified buyer · Sep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Blue
★★★★★
"Good quality"
Ana FernandesVerified buyer · Nov 2024
Gold Mica
★★★★★
"Its concentrated color so a little amount gives the candle good pastel shade."
Shanu ShahVerified buyer · Sep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Purple
★★★★★
"Very good quality liquid dyes. Good vibrant colours in both luxury soy wax and coconut soy wax. I'm very happy with it."
Antara Srinivas IyerVerified buyer · Jun 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Purple
★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"It mixes very well and give you various shades like light to dark depending upon the amount of dye you add."
AshwiniSep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Brown
★★★★★
"Super productsss"
Suvarna PVerified buyer · Sep 2025
Candle Dye Liquid Blue
★★★★★
"Good quality"
Ana FernandesVerified buyer · Nov 2024
Gold Mica
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✓ 25 products in the Candle Dyes collection ✓ Liquid dyes, chips and mica in one order ✓ GST invoicing & documentation on request
Candle Sourcing Guides · Colour
Choosing a supplier is the easy half. The hard half is deciding which three to five colours your brand owns, dosing them by weight so batch forty looks like batch one, and knowing that the same dose reads differently in soy than in paraffin and differently again behind amber glass.
₹236
entry price for 15 ml or 15 g of liquid candle dye in every shade · dye chips from ₹236 · mica from ₹57.82 / 10 g · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
How many colours should a candle range have? Three to five. A rainbow of ten reads as a craft stall; four shades used consistently across every SKU read as a brand. Each extra colour is another ₹236 bottle, another dose record and another wick re-check.How do I get the same colour every time? Dose by weight against wax weight, never by drops. Write the dose as a percentage of wax weight in a per-SKU record, and re-establish it whenever you change wax, jar or dye batch.
Why does my colour look different this time? Because one of three things changed: the wax (soy is opaque and pales a dose that paraffin renders deep), the jar (amber glass warms and kills a pale pastel), or the dose itself.
Is mica a dye? No. Mica is a surface pigment, not a wax-soluble dye. It belongs on the outside of a candle. Stirred into the wax body it stays as suspended solid particles that can clog a wick.
The short answer
Pick the palette before the supplier: three to five shades that work together across your whole range, tied to your scents and your season, not chosen one bottle at a time.
Buy in the format that matches the job: liquid dyes from ₹236 / 15 ml for fine dose control, dye chips from ₹236 for fixed-step colour, mica from ₹57.82 / 10 g for surface work only.
Then make it repeatable: dose by weight as a percentage of wax weight, log it per SKU, and re-check the wick every time you change the dye load — a heavier load changes how the wick behaves.
In this guide
The dose is a constant across all nine cells; only the wax body and the jar change. The shading shows the direction and rough scale of the effect, not measured values — the point is that a colour signed off in a clear jar of paraffin is a different product in an opaque soy candle behind amber glass. Establish the dose in the exact wax and the exact jar you sell in, then write it down.
Fine dose control
Liquid Dye Purple · from ₹236
Surface only
Gold Mica · from ₹116.82
Bulk & help
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Straight answer
What should you actually be buying from a candle colour supplier in India?
A system, not a shade. Decide the three to five colours your brand owns before you open a single product page, then buy only those — from the Candle Dyes collection, 25 products covering liquid dyes at ₹236 for 15 ml, dye chips from ₹236, and mica powders from ₹57.82 for 10 g. Then do the part most makers skip: dose by weight against wax weight, record the dose per SKU, and re-establish it every time you change wax, jar or dye format. The same dose is a deep shade in paraffin and a milky pastel in opaque soy, and it disappears entirely behind amber glass. Mica is a surface pigment, not a dye, and does not belong in the wax body. If you are choosing between specific dye products, the buying guide is here; if you are past 200 units a month, the wholesale maths is here. And if your look is bare cream soy, buy no dye at all — that is a legitimate premium finish and it costs ₹0.
One line: own three to five colours, dose them by weight as a percentage of wax weight, log the dose per SKU, and re-test the wick whenever the load changes.
Colour is the cheapest line on your bill of materials. At a 0.1% dose, a 100 g bottle of liquid dye at ₹900 colours 100 kg of wax — five hundred 200 g candles, at ₹1.80 of dye per candle. The ₹354 weighing scale that makes it repeatable costs more than the dye.
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Building a colour palette for a candle range
Ten colours is a craft stall. Four used with discipline across every SKU is a brand.
The expensive mistake is not the wrong dye. It is buying one bottle at a time, per product, with no plan — a lilac lavender candle, a brown coffee candle, a pink strawberry one, until your shelf holds eleven colours with no relationship to each other. Nothing is wrong with any single candle. The set does not read as one company.
A palette is the fix, and it is a commercial decision before an aesthetic one. Pick three to five colours and refuse the sixth. Every SKU is one of them, or an uncoloured version of the range. That constraint is what makes a shelf, a stall table and an Instagram grid look deliberate — nine tiles in four repeating shades read as a considered brand, nine tiles in nine shades read as nine unrelated products.
The cost of an undisciplined palette, in rupees. Each colour is a minimum ₹236 for 15 ml, and 15 ml is a trial size — you move to the 50 g tier at ₹472 within months. Ten colours at that tier is ₹4,720 of dye mostly sitting untouched, plus ten dose records and ten wick re-checks. Four colours is ₹1,888, four records, four wick tests, and four shades you know well enough to hit reliably. The saving is the second benefit. The first is that your range starts looking like it came from somewhere.
Tie colour to scent, and scent to season
Colour does a job before the customer smells anything: it predicts the scent. Someone picking up a deep brown candle expects coffee, wood or chocolate. If it smells of jasmine you have created confusion at the point you needed confidence. Pair each palette colour with a fragrance family and hold the pairing across the range.
A worked four-colour palette
Four shades, four fragrance families — and the dye SKUs behind them
| Palette colour | Scent family it signals | Season it carries | CSI dye | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warm cream / uncoloured | Sandalwood, vanilla, oud — the anchor | All year; the default | No dye | ₹0 |
| Deep red or maroon | Spice, cinnamon, rose | Diwali and wedding season | Candle Dye Liquid Red | ₹236 / 15 g |
| Soft lilac | Lavender and florals | All year, strongest in spring | Candle Dye Liquid Purple | ₹236 / 15 g |
| Pale blue | Aquatic and fresh linen | Indian summer; bathroom SKUs | Candle Dye Liquid Blue | ₹236 / 15 g |
Four colours, three bottles, ₹708 to start the whole palette at trial size — the fourth costs nothing, because bare soy is a shade in its own right. Note what the table lacks: a green, an orange, a yellow and a black, each bought for one candle. Extend later, and on purpose. Festive planning runs on the same logic — with Diwali on 8 November 2026, a festive shade needs choosing, dosing and wick-testing by early October.
Two palette colours should be neutral
Bright shades date, sell in bursts and photograph inconsistently. Neutrals — uncoloured cream, a soft grey-brown, a deep charcoal — carry the range between festivals and give the accents something to sit against. Four bright shades has no rest in it.Customers do not remember your shade names. They remember whether your six candles looked like they belonged to each other.
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Getting the same colour every time
"A few drops" is not a recipe. It is a story you tell yourself about last time.
Colour consistency is a measurement problem, solved the way fragrance load is: by weight, as a percentage of wax weight, written down. Drops are not a unit — drop size varies with the nozzle, the bottle temperature, how hard you squeeze and how much dye is left. Two makers following "eight drops per kilogram" produce visibly different candles, and so does one maker in January and in June.
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Fix the wax weight first, not the candle weightColour dose is a percentage of the wax, because that is what the dye disperses into. A 200 g candle at an 8% fragrance load is 184 g of wax and 16 g of oil. Dose the 184 g. Dose the finished weight instead and you are 8% over on every batch — small, but systematic, and systematic errors are what make batch forty look wrong beside batch one.
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Start low and climb in fixed stepsBegin at 0.1% of wax weight — 1 g of dye per 1 kg of wax — and climb in 0.05% steps, pouring a small test at each and lining them up in daylight once set. These are starting points for your own testing, not a manufacturer specification: the only dose that matters is the one you establish in your own wax and jar. A candle making weighing scale at ₹354 gives the tenth-of-a-gram resolution this needs.
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Judge the colour cold, cured and in the real jarMolten wax is translucent and looks two or three shades deeper than the finished candle; soy lightens further as it sets. Never sign off a shade from the pot. Pour into the exact jar you sell in, leave it 24 hours, and judge it in daylight, not under a warm bulb.
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Add dye to fully melted wax, before the fragranceAdd dye while the wax is fully liquid, stir until there is no streaking, then add fragrance at the temperature the wax specifies — Eco Soy CSI 400 states 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring. Streaks in the pot become streaks in the jar; a bamboo stirring stick from ₹118 per pack of 5 is the cheapest insurance.
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Write the dose into a per-SKU record and never work from memoryOne line per SKU: product name, wax and size, jar and internal diameter, dye product and format, dose in grams and as a percentage of wax weight, wick type and size, date. That record is the difference between a brand and a series of one-off pours, and it lets you hand the pour to someone else unchanged.
Four things invalidate a recorded dose. Re-establish it when any of them changes. 1 — The wax. Antara Srinivas Iyer's review notes good vibrant colours in both luxury soy and coconut-soy — both work, and they do not look identical. Opaque soy scatters light and reads paler than translucent paraffin at the same dose. 2 — The jar. White matte shows only the top surface; amber warms everything behind it. 3 — The dye format. Liquid and chips are not interchangeable gram for gram. 4 — The fragrance oil. Some oils, vanillas especially, discolour wax over weeks, shifting a pale shade regardless of your dye.
The CSI principle
A colour you cannot reproduce is not a brand colour. It is an accident you liked.
The test is simple and slightly uncomfortable: given only your written record and your materials, could someone else pour a candle that matches the one on your shelf? If not, the colour lives in your hands rather than your process, and it drifts the first time you are busy.
Pastels, saturated colour, and the wick re-check
Dye load is the dial between "barely tinted" and "solid colour", and it is not free.
Two makers with one purple bottle produce different products. Shanu Shah's review of the Candle Dye Liquid Purple catches one end — "Its concentrated color so a little amount gives the candle good pastel shade" — and Ashwini's review of the brown the other: "It mixes very well and give you various shades like light to dark depending upon the amount of dye you add." The dye is the same. The load is the design decision.
How the read changes with load
Directional guidance — establish your own numbers
| Look | Where to start testing | Reads best in | What to watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barely-there tint | Around 0.05% of wax weight | Clear or frosted glass | Disappears in an opaque jar — you pay for nothing |
| Pastel | Around 0.1% of wax weight | Soy, which pales a dose naturally | Amber or dark glass kills it — check before committing |
| Mid-saturation | Around 0.2% | Coconut-soy and paraffin; festive SKUs | Re-run the burn test — the wick was sized uncoloured |
| Deep, saturated | 0.3% and above | Paraffin and pillar work | Highest risk to wick performance; full re-test required |
Every colour change is a wick change until you have proved otherwise. Dye is a solid or concentrated liquid added to the fuel the wick draws and burns. At the pastel end that is a minor variable; as the load climbs it stops being minor, and a wick that gave a clean full pool in uncoloured wax can behave differently in a heavily dyed one — slower pool, mushrooming, soot. You cannot know without burning it. Treat a change of dye load exactly as a change of wax or jar: three identical test jars, burned side by side, and the wick that reaches the wall in two to three hours and burns clean wins. Eco Candle Wicks ship Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 per wick, so that re-test costs under ₹30 of wick. The wick sizing guide by jar diameter is here.
The commercially inconvenient version
If you sell one hero SKU at volume and will not realistically re-run the burn test, pour it uncoloured. A clean undyed soy candle with excellent throw beats a deeply saturated one that tunnels. We sell the dye and we would rather you sold a candle that works.Buying a palette rather than a bottle? Send us the three to five shades, the wax you pour and the jar you use, and we will tell you which formats and sizes make sense — including where the smaller tier is the better buy. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.
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The CSI colour range and what it actually costs
Three formats, three jobs. Prices are CSI live pricing, September 2026; the linked product page is always authoritative. Where a listing looks inconsistent we say so rather than quote the odd number as fact.
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Liquid dyes · finest dose control
Candle Dye Liquid — six shades
The default format for a brand: a liquid disperses fast and lets you hit 0.05% steps on a scale rather than being locked to whatever a chip weighs. Purple, Blue, Red, Green and Yellow run the same ladder; Pink lists at ₹236 on a single default variant.
| Size | Price | Per gram | Wax coloured @ 0.1% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹236 | ₹15.73 | 15 kg |
| 50 g | ₹472 | ₹9.44 | 50 kg |
| 100 g | ₹900 | ₹9.00 | 100 kg |
₹1.80 of dye per 200 g candle at the 100 g tier, 0.1% dose Buy Liquid Purple
Two listing inconsistencies to know about before you order. 1 — Brown and black each appear twice, on two price ladders. Candle Dye Liquid Brown and Candle Dye Liquid Black follow the ₹236 / ₹472 ladder above; Brown Candle Dye Liquid, Black Candle Dye Liquid and Orange Candle Dye Liquid run at ₹236 / ₹590 / ₹1,062 for 15 / 50 / 100 ml. Different prices for similar-sounding products, so compare both pages before adding to cart. 2 — The 100 gm variant on the Candle Dye Liquid Brown listing shows a figure well below its own 50 g variant, matching no other shade. We are not quoting it and would not plan a purchase around it — confirm the price with us before ordering it.
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Dye chips · fixed-step colour
Candle Dye Chips — six shades
Chips suit makers who want a countable unit rather than a measured one, and they travel better than a bottle that can leak. The trade-off is resolution: whole or half chips rather than tenths of a gram, so fine pastel work is harder. The three primaries sit ₹14 above the rest.
| Shade | Price | Stock | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Candle Dye Chips | ₹250 | In stock | Festive and gifting |
| Yellow Candle Dye Chips | ₹250 | In stock | Citrus and summer |
| Blue Candle Dye Chips | ₹250 | In stock | Aquatic and linen |
| Green Candle Dye Chips | ₹236 | In stock | Herbal and mint |
| Black Candle Dye Chips | ₹236 | In stock | Charcoal neutrals; shading colours down |
| Brown Candle Dye Chips | ₹236 | In stock | Coffee, wood, tobacco |
All six in stock on the September 2026 pull Shop all dyes
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Mica powders · surface only
Mica — standard and premium tiers
Mica is a surface pigment, not a dye. It does not dissolve in wax; it sits in it as fine solid particles. Its place is the outside of a finished candle — brushed onto a pillar, dusted over a set top, applied to a mould before pouring — and on lids and labels. Ana Fernandes's note on Gold Mica is simply "Good quality"; used for what it is for, it is.
| Size | Standard mica | Per gram | Premium mica | Per gram |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 g | ₹57.82 | ₹5.78 | ₹116.82 | ₹11.68 |
| 20 g | ₹115.64 | ₹5.78 | ₹234.82 | ₹11.74 |
| 50 g | ₹270.22 | ₹5.40 | ₹529.82 | ₹10.60 |
| 100 g | ₹529.82 | ₹5.30 | ₹1,119.82 | ₹11.20 |
Read the mica per-gram column before sizing up
On the premium tier per-gram cost does not fall steadily: ₹11.68/g at 10 g, ₹11.74/g at 20 g — slightly worse — ₹10.60/g at 50 g, back up to ₹11.20/g at 100 g. The 50 g pack is the best value on that tier, not the 100 g. Standard mica behaves as expected, ₹5.78/g down to ₹5.30/g. Two more honest flags: Yellow Mica is listed under a handle that reads as black mica, which looks like a listing error rather than a wrong product, and the Candle Dyes collection shows 25 products against a catalogue count of 26 — so if a shade is missing from the collection, search the store before assuming it is gone.
Mica in the wax body is the mistake to avoid. Stirred through the melt it does not dissolve; the particles stay suspended in the set wax and are drawn toward the wick as the candle burns. Solids reaching the wick can clog it — a small flame, a shallow pool, a candle that stops performing halfway down. Keep mica outside the burn path: surface, lid, label, box. For colour in the wax, use a wax-soluble candle dye.
Two sibling guides pick up where this stops. For which dye product to put in the cart — liquid against chip, shade by shade — read buying candle dye online in India. Past roughly 200 units a month, when the question becomes tier pricing and how much to hold, read wholesale candle dyes in India. This page is the layer above both: what your colours are and why. At ₹1.80 to ₹5.40 per 200 g candle, dye is a rounding error on the costing sheet — which is exactly why it is worth getting right.
Jar, label and wax colour are one decision
Nobody sees your wax colour. They see it through your glass, beside your label, under a shop light.
This is where colour work quietly fails: a shade chosen in a mixing pot, approved in a clear test jar, then poured into the vessel the brand sells in — where it looks like a different colour, or none at all. The jar is not a container for the colour. It is part of it.
What each vessel does to the colour behind it
Decide jar and shade together, never in sequence
| Vessel | What it does to the colour | Pairs with | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Frosted Glass Jar | Softens and diffuses the colour without shifting its hue — the most forgiving showcase for pastels | Pastels and mid-saturation | ₹354 / pack of 5 |
| White Matte Glass Jar | Hides the wax body — only the top surface is visible, so most of your dye is not | Uncoloured wax; top-surface accents | ₹354 / pack of 5 |
| Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid | Warms everything behind it — pale blues go grey-green, pastels vanish | Deep reds, browns, ambers, uncoloured wax | ₹236 / pack of 5 |
| Black Matte Glass Jar | Hides the wax body; a hard graphic frame around the top | Uncoloured wax, or one top-surface colour | ₹354 / pack of 5 |
Why an amber jar kills a pale pastel. Amber glass is a filter: light entering and leaving is shifted toward yellow and red, so any colour behind it is viewed through that shift. A pale blue reads dull grey-green, a soft lilac brownish, a barely-tinted pink as nothing. The dye did not fail — the dose is fine, it is being filtered out. The rule: if the jar is amber, dark or opaque, either commit to a deep warm shade or do not dye the wax at all, and put the colour budget into the label and lid. Note too that CSI's Colorful Votive Glass Jars – Amber is out of stock on the September 2026 pull — check the containers collection for a live alternative before building the SKU.
The label completes the system. Three surfaces can carry brand colour — wax, glass and label — and the strongest small ranges pick one. A cream candle in clear glass with a deep maroon label is coherent. The same candle with a maroon label and maroon wax and a maroon lid is a costume. Decide which surface talks; let the other two be quiet. Packaging materials are the cheapest place to put colour, because a label is printed once at scale and never needs a wick re-test.
Photograph the shade before committing the batch
Your Instagram grid is a shelf. Pour one test candle in the real jar, shoot it against your usual background, set it beside your last four posts. If it looks like a stranger there, the shade is wrong for your brand even if it is beautiful on its own. Twenty minutes, and it saves a 200-unit pour.Who should skip colour entirely
We sell dye; here is where we tell some of you not to buy any. Uncoloured soy is not the absence of a decision. It is a decision — natural cream wax, plain glass, one typographic label. It signals "the ingredients are the product", photographs consistently, never clashes with a customer's interiors, and costs ₹0 per candle.
Skip colour if any of these describe you. You sell mainly in white matte, black matte or ceramic vessels — the wax body is invisible, so dye is spend with no return. Your positioning is natural or ingredient-led — dye argues against that story, and customers ask about it. You are still stabilising throw, cure or wick performance — add colour after the candle burns correctly, or you will not know which variable moved. You are pouring under 50 units a month — your time is better spent on scent and finish. You are launching within four weeks — a new colour needs a step test, a cure and a wick re-check, and rushing all three before a launch is how you ship a batch that tunnels.
If that is you, spend the money elsewhere. A Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 upgrade at ₹325 per 500 g buys a smoother, creamier top that reads as premium on an uncoloured candle more convincingly than dye would. So does a better jar, a better label and a longer cure. Colour multiplies a range that already works; it does not substitute for one that does not. When you are ready, buy three bottles, not ten.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On a colour page the commercially convenient advice is "buy one of everything, they are only ₹236 each". We have argued the opposite twice on this page — buy three to five shades rather than ten, and skip dye altogether if you pour into opaque vessels or your candle is not yet burning correctly. A maker who buys ten bottles and uses two does not come back for the eleventh.
Every price, size and stock position on this page comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. Where a listing looked inconsistent — the duplicate brown and black liquid dye listings on two different price ladders, the 100 gm brown variant that does not follow its own ladder, the Yellow Mica handle that reads as black, and the 25-product collection count against 26 catalogued colour products — we have flagged it rather than quoting it as fact. The dose percentages in this guide are starting points for your own step testing, not manufacturer specifications; the only dose that is correct is the one you establish and record in your own wax and your own jar.
For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation, or help matching a palette to the wax and jars you already pour, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
How many candle colours should a small brand actually buy?
Three to five. Every colour is a recurring cost and a recurring process: a bottle from ₹236, a step test to establish the dose, a written record, and a wick re-check whenever the load changes. Four shades used consistently across a whole range read as a brand; ten shades read as a craft stall. Two of your shades should be neutral so the accents have something to sit against, and one of them can be uncoloured wax, which costs nothing.
How do I dose candle dye so the colour is the same every batch?
Dose by weight, as a percentage of the wax weight, not by drops — drop size is not a unit. Start around 0.1% of wax weight (1 g per 1 kg of wax) and climb in 0.05% steps, judging each test cold and cured in the exact jar you sell in. Write the final dose into a per-SKU record alongside the wax, the jar, the wick and the date. A weighing scale at ₹354 is what makes this repeatable. These figures are starting points for your own testing, not a specification.
Why does the same dye look different in soy and paraffin?
Because the wax body itself is part of the colour. Paraffin is translucent, so light passes through the coloured wax and the hue reads deep and true. Soy sets opaque and off-white, so it scatters light and the same dose reads paler and milkier — closer to a pastel than to the shade you mixed. Coconut-soy sits between them. A shade signed off in one wax has to be re-established in the other, which is why the wax goes into the per-SKU record next to the dose.
Can I use mica powder to colour the wax itself?
No — mica is a surface pigment, not a wax-soluble dye. It does not dissolve; the particles stay suspended in the set wax and are drawn toward the wick during the burn, where solids can clog it and choke the flame. Use mica on the outside: brushed onto a set top, applied to a mould before pouring, or on lids, labels and packaging. For colour inside the wax body, use a liquid candle dye or a dye chip.
Does adding more dye affect how the candle burns?
It can, and you cannot know without burning it. Dye is added to the fuel the wick has to draw, so at pastel loads it is a minor variable and as the load climbs it stops being minor — a wick that gave a clean full pool in uncoloured wax may behave differently in a heavily dyed one. Treat a change of dye load like a change of wax or jar: three identical test jars, burned side by side, wick chosen for a pool that reaches the wall in two to three hours with no soot. At ₹5.90 to ₹9.44 per wick that re-test costs under ₹30.
Is it worth colouring wax if I sell in white or black matte jars?
Usually not. An opaque vessel hides the wax body completely — the customer sees only the top surface, so most of the dye you paid for is never seen. Either put the colour where it is visible (the label, the lid, the box) or move to a clear or frosted jar if the coloured wax is genuinely part of the design. Uncoloured wax in an opaque jar is a complete, premium-looking product and it costs ₹0 per candle in dye.
Pick the palette, then buy the bottles
Three to five shades. Dosed by weight. Recorded per SKU. Re-checked at the wick.
Liquid candle dyes from ₹236 for 15 ml across Blue, Red, Purple, Green, Yellow, Brown, Black, Orange and Pink · dye chips from ₹236 in six shades · standard mica from ₹57.82 for 10 g and premium mica from ₹116.82. 25 products in the Candle Dyes collection, shipped across India with GST invoicing and documentation on request.
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- How to price candles in India 2026
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the palette method, the dose-by-weight procedure and the jar-and-label reasoning 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 and the wording is unedited. Five are recorded by Judge.me as verified purchases and carry the badge; the review of Candle Dye Liquid Brown by Ashwini is published but not recorded as verified, so it is shown without one.
Figures verified September 2026: Liquid candle dye — Blue, Red, Purple, Green, Yellow and Brown at ₹236 / 15 g, ₹472 / 50 g and ₹900 / 100 g (₹15.73, ₹9.44 and ₹9.00 per gram); Orange, Brown and Black on the separate listings at ₹236 / 15 ml, ₹590 / 50 ml and ₹1,062 / 100 ml; Black on the second, separately listed Candle Dye Liquid Black product at ₹236 / 15 ml and ₹472 / 50 ml; Pink at ₹236. The 100 gm variant on the Candle Dye Liquid Brown listing shows a figure inconsistent with its own smaller variants and with every other shade; it is deliberately not quoted on this page and should be confirmed before ordering. Dye chips — Red, Yellow and Blue at ₹250; Green, Black and Brown at ₹236; all six in stock. Standard mica — ₹57.82 / 10 g, ₹115.64 / 20 g, ₹270.22 / 50 g, ₹529.82 / 100 g, in White, Green, Blue and Yellow, with Orange and Silver out of stock. Premium mica — ₹116.82 / 10 g, ₹234.82 / 20 g, ₹529.82 / 50 g, ₹1,119.82 / 100 g, in Purple, Pink and Gold. The Yellow Mica product is listed under a handle reading as black mica. The Candle Dyes collection shows 25 products against 26 colour products in the catalogue. Jars — Clear Frosted, White Matte and Black Matte Glass Jars at ₹354 per pack of 5 (₹70.80 each); Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid at ₹236 per pack of 5 (₹47.20 each); Colorful Votive Glass Jars – Amber out of stock. Wax — Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500 g; Fully Refined Paraffin Wax Pellets ₹354 / 1 kg; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500 g. Wicks — Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) ₹9.44 each. Tools — Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118 per pack of 5. Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies fragrance addition at 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring. Per-candle dye cost assumes a 200 g candle, 0.1% dye on wax weight and the 100 g liquid dye tier. All dose percentages are starting points for your own step testing, not manufacturer specifications. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.