I Have 25 Kg of Soy Wax — How Many 150 g Candles Can I Produce at 8% Fragrance Load After Allowing for Production Loss?

I Have 25 Kg of Soy Wax — How Many 150 g Candles Can I Produce at 8% Fragrance Load After Allowing for Production Loss?

 

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Wax → candles · 25 kg · 150 g · 8%
A 150 g candle at 8% contains 138 g of wax, so 25 kg of wax has 181 candles in it. Production loss is what stands between that number and the one you can sell, and it is the allowance makers guess most often and measure least.
181 → 168
theoretical candles from 25 kg at 8%, then sellable after 4% production loss and 6 test candles · promise 160 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
How many 150 g candles from 25 kg of soy wax at 8%? 181 in theory: 25,000 g ÷ 138 g of wax per candle = 181.16, rounded down. The 25 kg becomes 27.17 kg of finished candle.

After production loss? At a 4% loss (working assumption) you pour 174; after 6 test candles, 168 are sellable. At 3% loss it would be 175 poured; at 6%, 170.

How much does each point of loss cost? About 1.7 candles, or roughly 248 g of wax, per percentage point on this bag. Going from 3% to 8% loss costs 8 candles. See the loss table.

What should I promise? 160. That is 168 sellable less a 3% QC buffer (162.96), rounded down to a clean number.
The short answer
Theoretical: 25,000 ÷ (150 × 0.92) = 181.16 → 181. Oil to scent all 25 kg at a true 8%: 25,000 × 0.08 ÷ 0.92 = 2,173.91 g.
After loss: ÷ 1.04 → 174 poured · − 6 tests → 168 sellable · × 0.97 → 162.96 → promise 160.
To use the wax: 2 × 1 kg + 2 × 100 g Mango Coconut ₹8,928.00 · 180 Salsa 200 ml jars ₹5,628.60 · 180 Eco Thin C1 ₹1,062.00. Replacing 25 kg of CSI 464: 2 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg, ₹12,685.00.
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In this guide
25 kg of wax → 150 g candles at 8%: what each point of production loss costs 160165170175180185 181177175174172170167164 0%2%4%6%8%10% working assumption: 4% Candles poured (before tests), rounded down. Production loss on the x axis; axis for candles starts at 160. theoretical 181
Each dot is the number of 150 g candles you can pour from 25 kg of wax at 8%, after that level of production loss, before test candles are set aside. The count falls by about 1.7 candles for every point of loss: 181 at zero, 174 at the 4% working assumption, 164 at 10%. The shape is gentle, which is exactly why a high loss rate goes unnoticed batch after batch.
Flat ₹507.40 a kilo from 1 kg
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Straight answer
I have 25 kg of soy wax. How many 150 g candles can I produce at 8% fragrance load after allowing for production loss?
About 168 sellable candles, from a theoretical maximum of 181. At an 8% load, a 150 g finished candle is 12 g of fragrance oil and 138 g of wax, because the load is a share of the finished weight. So 25,000 g of wax ÷ 138 g = 181.16, rounded down to 181. Production loss is the wax that never becomes a sellable candle: the heel in the jug and melter, spills, top-up pours, rejects that cannot be recovered. With a 4% production-loss allowance, a working assumption, you can pour 25,000 ÷ (138 × 1.04) = 174. Set aside 6 test candles and 168 are left to sell. For a client, promise 160. Each percentage point of loss costs about 1.7 candles on this quantity, so if your real loss is 8% rather than 4%, the poured count drops to 167. To use the whole 25 kg you need about 2,172 g of oil; Mango Coconut in 1 kg bottles covers it for ₹8,928.00.
One line: 181 in the wax, 174 after 4% loss, 168 to sell, 160 to promise.
25 kg is not a CSI pack size, so if you are buying to this figure, the listed route is 2 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg of Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 for ₹12,685.00, ₹507.40 a kilo. CSI 464 is rated up to 10% fragrance load by the wax maker, so 8% is inside the ceiling.
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181 in theory

The customer weighs 150 g. The wax bag only supplies 138 g of it. That is why 25 kg goes further than 25,000 ÷ 150.

Every count in this series starts from the finished candle. At an 8% load, 8% of 150 g is 12 g of fragrance oil, and the remaining 138 g is wax. When the wax is the fixed quantity, divide it by the wax per candle, not by the candle. The straight division, 25,000 ÷ 150 = 166, is the most common wrong answer, and it undercounts by 15 candles because it forgets that the oil adds weight.

25 kg of wax · 150 g finished · 8% of the finished weight
The theoretical count
Line Calculation Result
Wax per candle 150 g × 0.92 138 g
Oil per candle 150 g × 0.08 12 g
Theoretical candles 25,000 g ÷ 138 g 181.16 → 181
Finished weight possible 25,000 g ÷ 0.92 27,173.91 g
Oil to scent all 25 kg 25,000 g × 0.08 ÷ 0.92 2,173.91 g
Straight division (wrong) 25,000 g ÷ 150 g 166 — ignores the oil

The theoretical figure is a ceiling that assumes every gram of wax reaches a finished, sellable candle. No production run achieves that. The rest of this page is about the gap between 181 and the number you can actually sell. The same calculation at a smaller scale is in the 10 kg guide, and at 10% in the 10 kg at 10% guide.

What production loss does to the count

Production loss is usually written as a percentage: "plan 3–5% extra for pour loss and test burns" is the working assumption CSI uses across these guides, and the title asks for the count after it. Because it varies so much between workshops, here is the count at every level from zero to 10%. Test candles (6 here) come off after the loss.

25 kg of wax · 150 g at 8% · 6 test candles
Candles poured and sellable, by production loss
Production loss Exact Poured Sellable (− 6 tests) Candles lost vs 0% Wax lost
0% 181.16 181 175 0 0.00 kg
2% 177.61 177 171 4 0.49 kg
3% 175.88 175 169 6 0.73 kg
4% 174.19 174 168 7 0.96 kg
5% 172.53 172 166 9 1.19 kg
6% 170.91 170 164 11 1.42 kg
8% 167.74 167 161 14 1.85 kg
10% 164.69 164 158 17 2.27 kg

Every point of loss costs about 1.7 candles on 25 kg, roughly 248 g of wax. That sounds small until you add it up. A workshop running at 8% instead of 3% loses 8 candles from this bag, about ₹570.16 of CSI 464 plus the oil that went with it. Across a year of 25 kg batches, that is a meaningful share of the wax bill spent on the jug heel and the bench. The number to plan with is your own measured loss; the section below shows how to get it in one batch.

The loss that is really overfill. If your "loss" is high but the bench is clean and the jug is scraped, weigh ten finished candles. If they average 155 g instead of 150 g, you are not losing wax; you are giving it away. At 155 g, the same 25 kg makes 168 candles at 4% loss instead of 174. Mark a fill line on a reference jar and weigh the first few of every batch. The 80 g wedding-tin guide prices what a few grams of overfill cost on a large order.

What counts as production loss

Not all wax that leaves the bag and misses the jar is lost. Some of it comes back.
General practice · the recoverable column is a judgement, not a CSI measurement
Where the wax goes, and whether it comes back
Source Typical cause Recoverable? Control
Heel in jug and melter Wax left clinging after each pour Partly — scrape into the next melt Fewer, larger melts; scrape while warm
Spills and drips Pouring from a jug too big to control Rarely, once contaminated Smaller jug or a pouring funnel
Top-up pours Sinkholes filled with a second pour No — it goes into the candle Correct pour temperature; count it in the fill
Rejected candles Wick off-centre, surface defects Wax mostly yes, by remelting Wick centring device; steady cooling
Overfill Pouring by eye No — it leaves in the jar Fill line and a scale
Test candles Wick and burn checks Counted separately, not as loss Plan them as candles

Remelting a rejected candle recovers the wax, but it is commonly described as costing some fragrance top notes, and every remelt leaves another heel. Scorched or contaminated wax is not recoverable at all. So a workshop that remelts a lot can show a low wax loss and still have a weaker candle; that is a process problem, not a quantity one. A Wick Centering Device (5 for ₹118.00) and a pouring jug sized for the batch (₹531.00) remove two of the commonest causes cheaply.

Measure your own loss in one batch

The 4% on this page is an assumption. Your real figure takes one careful batch to find, and it replaces the assumption in every later calculation.

1
Weigh everything that goes inWax and oil, on the same scale, recorded to the gram. For a 25 kg run, record each melt separately.
2
Weigh everything that comes out finishedWeigh every sellable candle's contents (candle minus empty jar), or weigh ten and multiply by the count if they are consistent. Include test candles in this total; they are not loss.
3
Weigh what is recoverableScraped heel, remeltable rejects. Put it in a labelled bag; it goes into the next batch.
4
CalculateLoss % = (in − finished − recoverable) ÷ in × 100. If you put in 27.17 kg of wax and oil and finished 26.12 kg with 0.20 kg recoverable, loss = 0.85 ÷ 27.17 = 3.1%.
5
Use it, and re-check twice a yearYour loss changes with batch size, equipment and staff. Re-measure when any of them changes.
Loss as a divisor, not a subtraction
This page divides the wax by 1 + loss (25,000 ÷ 1.04) rather than multiplying it by 1 − loss (25,000 × 0.96). The divisor matches how the forward calculation adds loss (need × 1.04), so the two directions agree. The difference here is small, 174 versus 173 candles, but use one convention everywhere. The 50 kg guide compares both on a 5% wastage figure.

Turning 25 kg into candles: the order

To pour 174 candles at 8% with 4% loss, you need 174 × 12 g × 1.04 = 2,171.5 g of oil, plus jars and wicks with small spares.

To pour 174 candles (168 sellable + 6 tests) · listed, in-stock sizes
The conversion order for 25 kg of wax
Material Need Packs Price
Mango Coconut Fragrance Oil 2,171.5 g 2 × 1 kg + 2 × 100 g ₹8,928.00
200 ml Salsa Glass Jar, golden lug cap 174 + 2 spare 1 × 100 + 1 × 50 + 6 × 5 ₹5,628.60
Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 174 + 2% spare 1 × 100 + 1 × 50 + 1 × 20 + 1 × 10 ₹1,062.00
To use the wax you have ₹15,618.60
Replacing the 25 kg: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 25 kg 2 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg ₹12,685.00
Including replacement wax ₹28,303.60

Mango Coconut is one of the oils where the kilo genuinely saves money: ₹3.96 a gram at 500 g and 1 kg against ₹5.00 at 100 g, a 20.7% saving at 1 kg. So the oil order is two kilos and two 100 g bottles to cover the last 172 g. (Topping up with a 50 g and two 15 g bottles instead would cover it for ₹8,864.44, a saving of ₹63.56.) The Salsa jar comes with a golden lug cap. Its fill weight is not published; at a labelled approximate 0.86–0.90 g of wax per ml, the 200 ml brim holds roughly 172–180 g, so 150 g should sit below the rim, but pour one and weigh it. Raw materials per candle: ₹152.99, excluding labour, labels, freight and GST.

1
Container soy flakes · up to 10% load
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
Flat at ₹507.40 a kilo from 1 kg to 10 kg, so 25 kg costs the same whether you buy it as five 5 kg bags or two 10 kg and one 5 kg. The wax maker rates it up to 10% fragrance.
Pack Price Per kg 150 g candles at 138 g wax
500 g ₹260.00 ₹520.00 3
1 kg ₹507.40 ₹507.40 7
5 kg ₹2,537.00 ₹507.40 36
10 kg ₹5,074.00 ₹507.40 72
₹70.02 of wax in each 150 g candle Buy CSI 464
2
Tropical · 20.7% saving at 1 kg
Mango Coconut Fragrance Oil
One of the biggest kilo savings in the catalogue: ₹5.00 a gram at 100 g, ₹3.96 at 500 g and 1 kg. At 12 g per candle, one kilo scents 83 candles.
Pack Price Per gram 150 g candles at 12 g
15 g ₹93.22 ₹6.21 1
50 g ₹250.00 ₹5.00 4
100 g ₹500.00 ₹5.00 8
500 g ₹1,982.00 ₹3.96 41
1 kg ₹3,964.00 ₹3.96 83
₹47.57 of fragrance per 150 g candle at the 1 kg rate Buy Mango Coconut
Argued against our own interest, plainly. When a count comes up short, the easy fix is to buy more wax, and we sell wax. But on 25 kg, cutting production loss from 6% to 3% gives you 5 extra candles from the wax you already have. Measure the loss, fix the biggest cause, and only then decide whether you need another bag.
Other waxes, same count. Twenty-five kilos of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (rated up to 13%) or Natural Soy Pearl Wax (no ceiling quoted here) makes the same 181 candles at 8% in theory. The loss rate, the wick and the price differ. Wick sizes are not published for any jar; test before you pour the batch. For pillar wax, where trimming adds its own loss, see 25 kg of pillar wax into 150 g mould candles.
Heading into Diwali (8 November 2026) with 25 kg on the shelf? Work out the oil, jars and wicks for the whole quantity now, and measure your loss on the first batch so the second is planned from a real number. Send CSI your wax weight and batch results on WhatsApp for help and a quote.
Plan my 25 kg run
The CSI principle
Loss is a number you measure, not a number you pick.
Use 3–5% until you have your own figure. Then weigh in, weigh out, and let the difference decide every future count. A workshop that knows its loss can promise closer to the theoretical maximum, and knows exactly why it cannot promise more.

For the promise method with more than one constraint (oil, jars, moulds, days), see the 100 kg commercial-run guide. To run this forward, from an order to a wax quantity, the 2,000 × 150 g guide uses the same 138 g split, and I Have 30 Kg of Soy Wax in Stock and Average 180 g Finished Candles — Approximately How Many Customer Orders Can My Current Wax Inventory Support? turns a wax stock into customer orders.

Twenty-five kilos is a hundred and eighty-one candles. Every point of loss you do not measure takes nearly two of them.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The profitable advice for a supplier is "buy more wax". This page shows how much of your count is going to production loss, how to measure it, and that fixing it is usually cheaper than another bag.

Wax and oil prices are CSI live pricing, pulled on 24 September 2026; jar, wick and tool prices are as verified in September 2026. Candle counts are arithmetic on the weights, rounded down; costs are arithmetic on listed prices, shown to two decimals.

The 4% production loss, 6 test candles and 3% QC buffer are working assumptions; the loss table shows 0–10% so you can read off your own. The recoverable column is general practice, not a CSI measurement. The 0.86–0.90 g/ml factor is a labelled approximation; the Salsa jar's fill weight is not published. For help, a quote, MSDS or IFRA documents, message CSI on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

How many candles can 25 kg of soy wax make?
For 150 g candles at 8%, 181 in theory (25,000 g ÷ 138 g). With 4% production loss and 6 test candles, 168 sellable. For 200 g candles at 8%, 135 in theory.
What is a normal production loss in candle making?
CSI uses 3–5% as a working assumption for pour loss and test burns; it is not a measured industry rate. Measure your own by weighing wax and oil in and finished candles out for one batch.
How much fragrance oil for 25 kg of soy wax at 8%?
To scent all 25 kg at a true 8%: 25,000 × 0.08 ÷ 0.92 = 2,173.91 g. For 174 candles poured with 4% loss: 2,171.5 g.
Does production loss include test candles?
No. Test candles are real candles with jars and wicks; count them separately and subtract them after the loss. Loss is wax that never reaches a finished candle.
How do I reduce wax loss when making candles?
Fewer, larger melts; scrape the heel while it is warm into the next melt; a jug sized to the pour; a fill line and a scale to stop overfill; and a wick centring device to cut rejects. Re-measure after each change.
Can I buy 25 kg of soy wax from CSI?
CSI's container soy waxes are listed up to 10 kg bags; 25 kg of CSI 464 is 2 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg for ₹12,685.00. Natural Soy Pearl Wax is also listed at 50 kg. For larger quantities, ask on WhatsApp; no volume discount is published.
Measure the loss, then count
181 in theory. 168 after 4% loss. Your own loss decides the rest.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40 a kilo, Mango Coconut from ₹93.22, 200 ml Salsa jars from ₹200.60 for 5 and Eco Candle Wicks at ₹5.90 each. Send your wax weight and batch results and we will help you work out the count and quote the rest.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team as part of the 3801–3900 production-calculator series. The wax-to-candles formula and loss method apply to any wax and any supplier.

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Figures pulled 24 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260.00 / 500 g, ₹507.40 / 1 kg, ₹2,537.00 / 5 kg, ₹5,074.00 / 10 kg. Mango Coconut Fragrance Oil ₹93.22 / 15 g, ₹250.00 / 50 g, ₹500.00 / 100 g, ₹1,982.00 / 500 g, ₹3,964.00 / 1 kg. Jar, wick and tool figures: 200 ml Salsa Glass Jar with golden lug cap ₹200.60 / 5, ₹1,475.00 / 50, ₹2,950.00 / 100; Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 ₹59.00 / 10, ₹118.00 / 20, ₹295.00 / 50, ₹590.00 / 100 (₹5.90 each); Wick Centering Device ₹118.00 / 5; Candle Wax Pouring Jug ₹531.00.

Non-price figures and assumptions: Load is a share of finished weight: oil = W × L, wax = W × (1 − L); candles from a wax quantity = floor(wax ÷ (W × (1 − L) × (1 + loss))). CSI 464 is rated up to 10% fragrance load (wax maker's stated maximum, not regulatory). The 4% production loss (0–10% tabulated), 6 test candles and 3% QC buffer are working assumptions. The Salsa jar's fill weight is not published; the 0.86–0.90 g/ml factor is a labelled approximation. Wick size per jar is not published. Material cost excludes labour, packaging, freight and GST. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and stock change; the linked product pages are authoritative.
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