How Do I Identify Which Candle Raw Materials Are Production-Critical Versus Materials That Can Safely Be Reordered Only When Needed?
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CSI inventory guides · classification
Not everything on your shelf is critical. Three questions tell you which three lines actually stop the pour.
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Candle Business Guides · Inventory Classification
Ask one question first: if the box is empty on Monday morning, does Monday's pour still happen? On an eighteen-material, nine-SKU range making 400 candles a month, the answer is no for only three lines — and one material that sits in 100% of candles is not among them.
48 hours
the stop test · a material is production-critical only if an empty box cancels a pour within two working days — 34 candles and ₹4,981.85 of output on this range · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What makes a material production-critical? Two things together: it sits in half or more of next week's output, and you cannot finish Monday's candles without it. On this range that is exactly three lines — the wax, the wick and the jar. Everything else is either order-triggered or bought for a scheduled run.What is the quick test? Walk the shelf and ask of each item: if this were empty tomorrow, what would I cancel? If the answer is "a pour, within two working days", it is critical. If the answer is "one SKU, next week", it is triggered. If the answer is "nothing until I schedule that run", it is on demand.
Can a cheap material be critical? Yes — Eco Candle Wicks at ₹5.90 each are critical here, because a wick is not swappable without a fresh burn test. And a ₹900 bottle of dye is not critical, because you decide when the coloured run happens.
What does each class get? Critical lines get a cover target in weeks. Triggered lines get a written reorder point and no buffer. On-demand lines get one pack and a purchase order per job. Three classes, three different behaviours.
The short answer
Classify by consequence, in a fixed order: share of output first, ability to pour without it second, your own observed replacement time third. Change that order and you will misclassify the cheap shared lines.
The second question does the real work: most materials in 100% of your candles have no substitute and are critical — but a wick sticker does, because a bamboo wick holder on the bench lets Monday's pour continue.
"Reorder when needed" is not "cheap": it means you choose the date. Dyes, mica and specialty wicks are on demand because you schedule the run that uses them; a 3%-of-output fragrance is not, because you cannot pour that candle with anything else.
In this guide
The gates run in order and the second one is the one that reclassifies things. Breadth alone would make wick stickers critical — they are in every candle. Question two moves them down a class, because a ₹118 set of bamboo wick holders keeps the pour going.
Critical · 44.4 kg a month
Eco Soy CSI 400 · 5 kg ₹1,996
Critical · 400 jars a month
Amber Shiny Glass Jar · ₹47.20 each
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Straight answer
How do I tell a production-critical raw material from one I can reorder only when I need it?
Put each material through three gates in a fixed order. Gate one, breadth: what share of next week's output contains it? Gate two, the stop test: if it were empty on Monday morning, could Monday's pour still happen with what is already on the bench and no fresh burn test? Gate three, friction: how many days, on your own record, from noticing to having it? A material is production-critical only when breadth is 50% or more and the pour stops — and on a nine-SKU range pouring 400 candles a month in the Amber Shiny Glass Jar, that is three lines: Eco Soy CSI 400 at 44.4 kg a month, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at 400 a month, and the jar itself at 400 a month. Ten lines are order-triggered: the nine fragrance oils, because you cannot pour a Roasted Coffee candle with anything else, plus wick stickers, which clear gate one and fail gate two. Five are on demand: three dyes, Gold Mica and the Thick (C2) wick, because you choose the date of the run that consumes them. The classes then behave differently: critical gets a cover target in weeks, triggered gets a written reorder point, on demand gets one pack and a purchase per job. At 17 candles a working day, two days of stoppage on any of the three critical lines is 34 candles and ₹4,981.85 of material value left unconverted.
One line: breadth tells you how big the stop is, the Monday test tells you whether there is a stop at all, and your own logged replacement time tells you how long it lasts — classify on all three, in that order.
The three lines that stop this workshop: Eco Soy CSI 400 at ₹1,996 for 5 kg, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹590 for 100 and the Amber Shiny Glass Jar at ₹236 for five — a stated 120 gm capacity, 6 cm diameter.
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The 48-hour stop test
Every maker can name their most expensive material. Almost none can name the one that will cancel Monday.
A production-critical material has one defining property: its absence removes your ability to make anything, immediately. Not "makes things harder", not "costs me a SKU" — removes the ability. The test is deliberately short-horizon, because that is where inventory decisions bite. Two working days is enough time to notice a shortage, phone around and improvise. If you still cannot pour at the end of it, the material was critical and your cover was wrong.
This matters because the two intuitive sorts both fail. Sorting by price puts a ₹900 bottle of Candle Dye Liquid Purple above a ₹5.90 wick, which is backwards. Sorting by breadth alone puts wick stickers at the top, which is nearly right but misses the workaround. The 48-hour test cuts through both because it asks about the only thing that matters on the day: can you pour?
The example range throughout is nine scents in one format. The Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid page states a capacity of 120 gm with dimensions of 6 cm diameter and 6.5 cm height, listed at ₹47.20 a jar in packs of one and five. Poured at 8% of wax weight, each candle takes 111 g of wax and 8.9 g of fragrance oil — a 119.9 g fill and 7.4% of the finished candle. At 400 candles over 24 working days that is 44.4 kg of wax, 3,560 g of oil, 400 wicks, 400 jars and 400 stickers a month.
Run the test standing in the storeroom, not at a desk
The answer to "can Monday's pour happen?" depends on what is physically on the bench, and you will get it wrong from memory. Walk the shelves with the list. You will discover a half-used bottle of a scent you thought was finished, a bag of wicks in the wrong box, and — more usefully — that the workaround you were counting on for one material does not exist, because the wick holders you were picturing are still in a cart you never checked out. Classification built on an imagined bench is fiction.Three questions, in this order
Order matters. Breadth sets the size of the problem, the stop test decides whether there is a problem, and friction decides how much cover the problem needs. Running them in any other sequence produces a list that looks sensible and protects the wrong things.
The classification rubric
What each gate asks, what it rules out, and where it is usually got wrong
| Gate | The question | Where the answer comes from | The common mistake |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Breadth | What share of next week's units contains this material? | Your SKU recipes and last month's unit counts — not a price list | Using rupees instead of units, which buries every cheap shared line |
| 2 · The stop test | If it is empty on Monday, can Monday's pour happen with what is on the bench and no new burn test? | A physical walk of the storeroom, today | Counting a substitution that needs a re-test, a different wick size or a change the customer would see |
| 3 · Friction | How many days from noticing to having it, at your worst observed case, and how coarse is the pack? | Your own order log — your measured figures, not a supplier promise | Using a typical time instead of the worst one you have actually recorded |
The classes fall out mechanically. Production-critical: breadth 50% or more and the pour stops. Order-triggered: the pour stops but breadth is below 50%, or breadth is above 50% and a workaround exists. On demand: the material is only consumed by a run whose date you choose. That last definition is the one most people get wrong, and it has nothing to do with price — it is about who controls the calendar.
"Reorder when needed" does not mean "cheap and small". A 3%-of-output fragrance oil is not an on-demand material. If a customer orders the Blue Ocean SKU and the bottle is empty, nothing else on your shelf makes that candle — you refuse the order or you wait. That is a triggered line with a written reorder point, even though it is only twelve candles a month and 106.8 g of oil. The genuinely on-demand lines are the ones where you set the date: dyes, mica, the Thick (C2) wick for an occasional wide-diameter order. Buy those against a confirmed job, not against a month.
Eighteen materials, classified
The whole list, with the three answers and the resulting class. Breadth is the share of the month's 400 units; consumption is derived from 111 g of wax and 8.9 g of oil per candle. Fragrance shares are this example business's own figures.
18 materials · 9 SKUs · 400 candles a month · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Breadth, the stop test, monthly consumption and planning class
| Material | Breadth | Monday's pour without it? | Monthly consumption | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | 100% | No — another wax needs a new burn test | 44.4 kg | Production-critical |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | 100% | No — a different size changes the melt pool | 400 wicks | Production-critical |
| Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid | 100% | No — the customer buys the jar | 400 jars | Production-critical |
| Candle Wick Stickers | 100% | Yes — bamboo wick holders centre the wick | 400 stickers | Order-triggered |
| Lavender Fragrance Oil | 28% | No — for that SKU | 996.8 g | Order-triggered |
| Sandalwood Fragrance Oil | 16% | No — for that SKU | 569.6 g | Order-triggered |
| British Rose Fragrance Oil | 14% | No — for that SKU | 498.4 g | Order-triggered |
| Cinnamon Vanilla | 11% | No — for that SKU | 391.6 g | Order-triggered |
| Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil | 9% | No — for that SKU | 320.4 g | Order-triggered |
| Fresh Strawberries | 8% | No — for that SKU | 284.8 g | Order-triggered |
| Apple Cinnamon Fragrance Oil | 6% | No — for that SKU | 213.6 g | Order-triggered |
| Roasted Coffee Fragrance | 5% | No — for that SKU | 178 g | Order-triggered |
| Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil | 3% | No — for that SKU | 106.8 g | Order-triggered |
| Candle Dye Liquid Blue | Scheduled run | Yes — pour the uncoloured SKU | Per coloured batch | On demand |
| Candle Dye Liquid Purple | Scheduled run | Yes — pour the uncoloured SKU | Per coloured batch | On demand |
| Candle Dye Liquid Yellow | Scheduled run | Yes — pour the uncoloured SKU | Per coloured batch | On demand |
| Gold Mica | Scheduled run | Yes — festive finish only | Per festive batch | On demand |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) | Scheduled run | Yes — no wide-diameter SKU in the core range | Per custom order | On demand |
Worked out above: wax = 400 × 111 g = 44.4 kg; oil = 400 × 8.9 g = 3,560 g, split by the scent shares shown (28/16/14/11/9/8/6/5/3 per cent of 400 units × 8.9 g). Wicks, jars and stickers = one each per single-wick candle = 400. Working month = 24 days, so 16.7 candles a day, rounded to 17 in the text. A 3–5% planning allowance on wax for spills and top-ups sits on top of the 44.4 kg. All consumption figures are this example's inputs, not CSI claims.
Why question two does the work
Breadth is easy to compute and almost everybody gets it right. The stop test is where classification is won or lost, because it asks whether a substitution is real — available on the bench today, requiring no fresh burn test, and invisible to the customer. Most substitutions candle makers imagine fail at least one of those three conditions.
Substitution, tested honestly
Four materials people assume are swappable, and whether the swap survives the three conditions
| Material | The imagined swap | On the bench today? | No re-test needed? | Invisible to the customer? | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eco C1 wick | Use C2 instead | Sometimes | No — the melt pool and burn time change | Yes, until it tunnels | Not a substitute |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | Use any other soy wax | Sometimes | No — wick, load and pour behaviour all shift | Yes, until it frosts differently | Not a substitute |
| Amber 120 gm jar | Use a 150 g jar | Sometimes | Fill weight changes, so the recipe does | No — it is the product | Not a substitute |
| Wick sticker | Use a bamboo wick holder and set the wick as the wax sets | Yes, at ₹23.60 a holder | Yes | Yes | A real substitute |
That single row is why the sticker line, despite sitting in 100% of candles, is order-triggered rather than production-critical. It is also a reminder that you can buy your way out of a criticality problem. A set of five bamboo wick holders at ₹118 permanently converts one 100%-breadth line from critical to triggered. One CSI customer, Lalitha Jagan, notes that the holder "doesn't exert any pressure on the wicks… and it is a very useful product". That is the cheapest reclassification available to a candle workshop, and it is a tool purchase rather than an inventory decision.
Do not classify a wick as substitutable because two sizes are "close". The Eco Candle Wicks page states that the wicks pair with soy, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes and gives no diameter guidance at all — C1 and C2 appear only as Thin and Thick variant names. That means the right size for your jar is something you established by burn test, and swapping it mid-order throws away that work. Treat every wick change as a new recipe: pour three, cure, burn, time the pool to the glass. Until that is done, the other size is not stock you can use — the full method is in the hot throw testing guide.
What each class looks like in the cart
Four cards — one critical line, one critical container, one triggered line and the tool that reclassifies a fourth. Each shows every listed pack with the per-unit price and how many of this range's 120 gm candles that pack covers.
1
Production-critical · 100% of units · 44.4 kg a month
Eco Soy CSI 400
The wax in every candle and the largest single line by weight. Its page describes an all-natural container wax, states a melt point of 100°F (37.8°C), specifies adding fragrance or essential oils at 85°C (185°F) with a gentle two-minute stir and pouring directly, gives the fragrance add temperature as 80 to 90 degrees, and recommends Eco Wicks — which is why the wick line below is the natural partner. It does not state a maximum fragrance load, so the 8%-of-wax-weight figure used throughout this page is a conservative working choice rather than a stated ceiling. Listed in 1 kg and 5 kg only: 44.4 kg a month is nine 5 kg packs, and there is no 10 kg or 25 kg pack to step up to, so recurring volumes above this go to a WhatsApp quote.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 120 gm candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 kg | ₹399 | ₹399 | ≈9 |
| 5 kg | ₹1,996 | ₹399.20 | ≈45 |
₹44.29 of wax per candle at ₹399 a kilo Buy Eco Soy CSI 400
2
Production-critical · 100% of units · the product itself
Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid
The jar fails the stop test harder than anything else on the list, because it is not an input the customer cannot see — it is what they bought. Its page states a capacity of 120 gm and dimensions of 6 cm diameter, 6.5 cm height, which is what makes the 111 g wax plus 8.9 g oil recipe fit with headroom. Listed at ₹47.20 a jar in packs of one and five, with no larger pack listed — so 400 jars a month is eighty packs of five, and the per-jar price does not move. Glass is also the one line with a breakage rate, so your reorder point here needs a few per cent more than pure consumption suggests. Note the product description text on this listing describes a black jar with a golden lid; the title, capacity and dimensions are the fields to plan from.
| Size | Price | Per piece | Candles covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 1 | ₹47.20 | ₹47.20 | ≈1 |
| Pack of 5 | ₹236 | ₹47.20 | ≈5 |
₹47.20 per candle · 400 a month is ₹18,880 Buy the Amber jar
3
Order-triggered · 28% of units · 996.8 g a month
Lavender Fragrance Oil
The largest of the nine scents and the clearest example of a triggered line: nothing else on the shelf pours a Lavender candle, but a shortage costs you 28% of output rather than all of it. At 996.8 g a month this is the one oil where the kilo bottle is the sensible pack — and the ladder is worth reading carefully, because the step from the 500 gm price of ₹5.24 a gram to the 1 kg price of ₹5.221 a gram is under two paise. Buy the kilo for fewer reorders, not for the saving. A CSI customer, Priyanka Purohit, records: "Quality of fragrance is very good. Cold through and hot though both are perfect." A kilogram is the largest listed fragrance pack across the range.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 120 gm candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹105.02 | ₹700.13 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹270 | ₹540 | ≈5 |
| 100 gm | ₹540 | ₹540 | ≈11 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,620 | ₹524 | ≈56 |
| 1 kg | ₹5,221 | ₹522.10 | ≈112 |
₹46.64 of oil per candle at the 500 gm rate Buy Lavender oil
4
The ₹118 reclassification
Bamboo Wick Holder
Not a raw material at all, which is exactly why it belongs in a guide about classification. A set of five holders at ₹118 — ₹23.60 each — is what turns the wick sticker from a line that can stop a pour into one that merely makes it slower. Buy it once, keep it on the bench, and one 100%-breadth material permanently leaves your critical list. There is no inventory decision on this page cheaper than that, and it is the only one that reduces risk without holding any extra stock at all. If your wick base is wider than the standard pad, the Large Candle Wick Stickers at ₹249 for 40 are the other route.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Set of 5 | ₹118 | ₹23.60 |
₹118 once · removes one line from the critical list Buy wick holders
Priced above: Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399, 5 kg ₹1,996 (₹399 and ₹399.20 per kg) · Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid pack of 1 ₹47.20, pack of 5 ₹236 · Lavender Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹105.02, 50 gm ₹270, 100 gm ₹540, 500 gm ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221 · Bamboo Wick Holder set of 5 ₹118 · Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹100, Large Candle Wick Stickers 40 ₹249 · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 100 ₹590 at ₹5.90 each.
Pricing the stop
Classification is only useful if it changes what you buy, and it will only change what you buy if the three classes have visibly different consequences. So price them. At 17 candles a working day and ₹146.53 of materials in the Lavender SKU, every stopped day has a measurable size — and the figure below is deliberately conservative, because it counts only the material value that stays unconverted, not the margin you did not earn or the order you had to refuse.
What a stock-out costs by class · reader's own replacement time of 10 working days
Candles not poured, and the material value left sitting as components
| Class | Example line | Share of output stopped | 48 hours costs | Ten working days costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production-critical | Eco Soy CSI 400 · Eco C1 wick · Amber jar | 100% | 34 candles · ₹4,981.85 | 167 candles · ₹24,421.50 |
| Order-triggered · large | Lavender Fragrance Oil | 28% | 10 candles · ₹1,465.30 | 47 candles · ₹6,838.02 |
| Order-triggered · small | Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil | 3% | 1 candle · ₹146.53 | 5 candles · ₹732.65 |
| Order-triggered · with workaround | Candle Wick Stickers | 0% of pours, slower work | Nothing stops | Nothing stops |
| On demand | Candle Dye Liquid Purple | 0% until you schedule the run | Nothing stops | Reschedule the coloured batch |
The ratio across the first three rows is roughly 33 to 1 between a critical line and the smallest triggered one, and that ratio is the whole justification for treating them differently. It also explains why the right response to a critical line is cover measured in weeks while the right response to a small triggered line is a reorder point measured in grams: the first is insurance against a catastrophe, the second is housekeeping. The number of weeks the critical lines deserve comes from your own lead time and demand spread — that calculation is set out in the weeks-of-cover guide.
The CSI principle
A material is critical when you cannot choose the date of the problem.
Wax, wick and jar decide when you pour. Dyes and mica wait for a run you schedule. Fragrance sits in between: the SKU waits, the workshop does not. Sort your shelf by who controls the calendar and the three classes name themselves.
Covering the three critical lines on a 400-candle month: 45 kg of Eco Soy CSI 400 in nine 5 kg packs, 400 Eco C1 wicks and eighty packs of five Amber jars. For recurring monthly volumes, bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.
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The ninety-minute audit
Do this once with the storeroom open and a notebook. The output is a one-page list with three headings, which is all the system most candle businesses will ever need.
1
Write down every material you hold, including the ones that are not raw materialsWax, oils, wicks, jars, lids, dyes, mica, stickers, labels, boxes. Eighteen lines is typical for a nine-SKU range; twenty-five is common. Do not filter yet. The things people forget are always the cheap consumables, and those are exactly where misclassification hurts.
2
Put last month's unit share against each lineFrom your SKU recipes: the share of last month's units that contained it. Wax, wick, jar and sticker will read 100% on most single-format ranges. Oils will read their SKU's share — here 28% down to 3%. Dyes and mica will read "scheduled run" rather than a percentage, and that is a valid answer.
3
Run the Monday test out loud, in the storeroomFor each line: "if this box were empty on Monday, what would I do?" Accept a substitution only if it is on the bench now, needs no fresh burn test, and the customer cannot tell. Write the substitution down where one exists — that note is what justifies the class, and in six months you will not remember why the sticker line is not critical.
4
Add your own worst observed replacement timeGo through your order history and find the longest gap you have actually recorded between placing an order for that line and having it on the shelf. Use the worst, not the typical — the typical is what you plan the reorder point around, and the gap between the two is what safety stock exists to absorb. These are your measured figures; no supplier publishes a delivery time you can put in a formula.
5
Split the page into three and write the rule for each classCritical: a cover target in weeks, counted every week, on a fixed day. Triggered: a reorder point in the unit you buy — grams for oil, pieces for jars — written on the shelf label. On demand: nothing held beyond one pack, bought against a confirmed job. Three headings, one rule each. Pin it where the stock is, not in a folder.
6
Re-run the Monday test whenever you launch, drop or re-wick a SKUClassification is only stable while the range is. A new wide-diameter candle promotes the Thick (C2) wick from on demand to critical in one launch. Dropping your only coloured SKU demotes three dyes to nothing. Re-reading the list takes ten minutes and catches a new critical line before it catches you.
Count critical lines, not critical rupees, on your weekly walk
A weekly stock count that covers everything will be skipped by week three. A weekly count that covers three lines takes four minutes and will actually happen. Count the wax in kilograms, the wicks and jars in pieces, write the three numbers on the same sheet each week, and let the triggered lines be checked monthly. The discipline you can sustain beats the system you abandon — and three numbers a week is the smallest system that protects 100% of your output.Ask not what a material costs, but what it cancels.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The commercially convenient answer would be that all eighteen of your lines are critical and all of them deserve six weeks of cover. The honest answer is that three of them are, that ten need nothing more than a number written on a shelf label, and that one of the best risk reductions available to you is a ₹118 set of wick holders that means you buy fewer stickers, not more.
Every price, pack size and stated specification on this page 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 — a 120 gm capacity and 6 cm diameter on the Amber Shiny Glass Jar, a 100°F (37.8°C) melt point and an 85°C two-minute fragrance stir on Eco Soy CSI 400, no diameter guidance at all on the Eco Candle Wicks page. Where a page states nothing, we say so rather than filling the gap. Eco Soy CSI 400 states no maximum fragrance load, so the 8%-of-wax-weight figure used here is a working choice.
Unit counts, scent shares, working days and replacement times on this page are the example business's own figures and should be replaced with yours. CSI publishes no delivery times, so the lead time in any reorder calculation 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 counts as a production-critical raw material in candle making?
One that satisfies both halves of the test: it is present in half or more of your next week's units, and an empty box stops a pour within two working days because nothing on the bench can replace it without a fresh burn test or a visible change to the product. On a single-format range that is usually just three lines — the wax, the wick and the jar. Everything else either costs you one SKU or waits for a run you schedule.
Are fragrance oils production-critical?
Usually not, but they are not on-demand either. A fragrance oil fails the substitution test — nothing else makes that candle — but it rarely clears the breadth test, so it belongs in the middle class with a written reorder point rather than a cover target. On this range Lavender at 28% of units costs you 47 candles over ten working days; the smallest scent at 3% costs five. Both get triggers; neither gets weeks of buffer.
Can a very cheap material be more critical than an expensive one?
Routinely. Eco Candle Wicks at ₹5.90 each are production-critical here and a ₹900 100 gm bottle of Candle Dye Liquid Purple is not, because the wick is in every candle and cannot be swapped without re-testing the melt pool, while the dye is only consumed by a coloured run whose date you choose. Price measures what cover costs. It says nothing about what a shortage cancels.
How do I treat materials I only use seasonally?
As on-demand lines with a dated pre-buy rather than ongoing cover. Gold Mica and festive dyes are not critical in September and are completely critical the week you have committed to a festive batch. The trick is to classify them against the run, not the calendar month: once a festive pour date exists, work backwards through cure and pour to the order date and buy to that. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November, which makes the backward count concrete.
Should I keep a backup wick size for emergencies?
Only if you have already burn-tested it in your jar, in your wax, at your load. An untested wick is not emergency stock — it is a different recipe. The Eco Candle Wicks page publishes no diameter guidance, so Thin and Thick are not interchangeable on paper. If you want a genuine fallback, test the second size properly once, record the melt-pool time, and then hold a small quantity. Otherwise spend the money on more of the size that works.
How often should I reclassify my materials?
Whenever the range changes, and otherwise twice a year. A launch, a discontinuation or a re-wick can move a line between classes in a single decision — adding one wide-diameter SKU promotes the Thick (C2) wick from on-demand to critical. The unit shares behind the breadth column also drift as the mix shifts, so re-read last month's counts when you do your monthly reorder. The full breadth-scoring method is in the shared-materials guide.
Three critical, ten triggered, five on demand
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Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399 for 1 kg, ₹1,996 for 5 kg · Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹47.20 a jar, ₹236 for five · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹5.90 each at every pack · Lavender Fragrance Oil 500 gm ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221 · Bamboo Wick Holder set of 5 ₹118. Message us for recurring-order pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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Figures verified September 2026: Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399, 5 kg ₹1,996 (₹399 and ₹399.20 per kg); stated melt point 100°F (37.8°C), fragrance or essential oils added at 85°C (185°F) with a gentle two-minute stir then poured directly, stated fragrance add temperature 80 to 90 degrees, recommended wick Eco Wicks; no maximum fragrance load is stated on the page and no separate pour temperature is given. Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid pack of 1 ₹47.20, pack of 5 ₹236; stated capacity 120 gm, 6 cm diameter, 6.5 cm height; the listing's body text describes a black jar with a golden lid. Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 20 ₹118, 50 ₹295, 100 ₹590, 500 ₹2,950, 1,000 ₹5,900 — ₹5.90 each at every pack; Thick (C2) 20 ₹188.80, 50 ₹472, 100 ₹944 at ₹9.44 each, with the 10-wick C2 pack currently sold out; the page states the wicks pair with soy, beeswax and other eco-friendly waxes and gives no diameter guidance. 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. Bamboo Wick Holder set of 5 ₹118 (₹23.60 each). Fragrance oils, 500 gm pricing used for per-gram maths: Lavender ₹2,620 (₹5.24/g; 1 kg ₹5,221 = ₹5.221/g), Sandalwood ₹2,513.40 (₹5.0268/g), British Rose ₹1,593 (₹3.186/g), Cinnamon Vanilla ₹2,301 (₹4.602/g), Citrus Lemon ₹1,420 (₹2.84/g), Fresh Strawberries ₹1,770 (₹3.54/g), Apple Cinnamon ₹2,371.80 (₹4.7436/g), Roasted Coffee ₹1,890 (₹3.78/g), Blue Ocean ₹2,478 (₹4.956/g). Candle Dye Liquid Blue, Purple and Yellow 15 gm ₹236, 50 gm ₹472, 100 gm ₹900; Gold Mica 10 gm ₹116.82, 50 gm ₹529.82. Example assumptions, not CSI claims: 9 SKUs, 400 candles a month in the 120 gm Amber jar, 24 working days (16.7 candles a day, written as 17), four weeks to a month; each candle 111 g of wax and 8.9 g of fragrance oil, a load of 8% of total wax weight and 7.4% of the 119.9 g finished candle; scent shares 28/16/14/11/9/8/6/5/3 per cent; one wick, one jar and one sticker per single-wick candle; a 3–5% planning allowance on wax for spills and top-ups sits on top of the 44.4 kg. Material value per candle in the Lavender SKU = ₹44.29 wax + ₹46.64 oil + ₹47.20 jar + ₹5.90 wick + ₹2.50 sticker = ₹146.53; 48 hours = 34 candles = ₹4,981.85; ten working days = 167 candles = ₹24,421.50. Replacement times (10 working days typical) are the reader's own logged figures — CSI publishes no delivery times, couriers or dispatch promises. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.