I Have a 1,000-Piece Candle Order with a 150 g Fill Weight — How Much Finished Candle Mixture Do I Need Before Adding a Production-Loss Allowance?

Finished mixture: the number to calculate first

"Finished candle mixture" is the wax and fragrance oil together, as they leave the jug — the thing a jar is filled with. For a 150 g fill weight it is simply 150 g per candle, whatever the load, because the load decides only how that 150 g divides between wax and oil. So 1,000 candles are 150,000 g = 150 kg of mixture net. That is the figure the production plan, the melt schedule and the pour-loss allowance are all applied to, and it is why it pays to calculate it first and split it last.

"Before adding a production-loss allowance" still means after the allowances that are not loss. Test candles are candles, not loss: eight of them (a labelled working figure for a wick trial and throw checks) add 1,200 g. Rejects are candles that are poured and then fail; the 2% example allowance divides by 0.98 so that 1,000 survive. That gives 154.29 kg of mixture before the loss allowance. Pour loss — what sticks to the melter, jug and funnel — is the last allowance on wax and oil, and it is a percentage of everything melted, tests and rejects included.

Two mistakes show up in that table. The first is applying the loss percentage to the net order only: 150 kg × 1.04 = 156 kg, which is 4.46 kg short because it forgot that test and reject candles are melted too. The second is adding the loss percentage before the rejects, or adding both to the already-rounded pack quantities, which counts slack twice. The order — tests, rejects, loss, then round — is the same on every page of this cluster; the procurement-sheet post lays it out as columns.

Splitting the mixture into wax and oil — and what changes with the load

Only now does the formula enter. At CSI's convention the load is a share of the finished mixture, so the oil is mixture × load and the wax is the rest. The mixture total does not move when the load does: a 10% candle and a 6% candle of 150 g both weigh 150 g. What moves is the split — and the bill, because oil costs far more per gram than wax.

Read the 10% row carefully. It is allowed in CSI 464 only because CSI 464's page states a maximum of 10% — so 10% is at its ceiling, not below it, which leaves no headroom if a weighing drifts. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and CSI 468 both state 13%, so 10% sits inside their limit with room to spare. Natural Soy Pearl's page publishes no fragrance ceiling, so for it any load is a tested starting point, not a figure inside a stated limit. None of these ceilings is a target or an optimum, and none is regulatory.

Turning the mixture into melt batches

Mixture is also the unit your melter works in. CSI lists an Electric Wax Melter in 10 kg and 20 kg capacities (₹21,240.00 and ₹25,960.00) and a 1-litre mini melter (₹2,360.00). Melt throughput is not published, and whether a capacity refers to solid wax or molten volume is worth checking on the product page or on WhatsApp — so treat the 10 kg batch below as an example and replace it with the batch you have actually weighed.

The batch sheet does two jobs. It tells your team exactly what to weigh for every melt — 9,200 g of CSI 464 and 800 g of Blue Ocean — so the load cannot drift from batch to batch. And it is the bridge between the purchase and the floor: 17 melts × the batch wax equals the wax you bought, give or take the last partial melt. If your real batch is smaller, the number of melts rises and so, usually, does pour loss, because each melt leaves something in the vessel. That is why the loss allowance is applied to the mixture, not the candles.

The priced order for 1,000 × 150 g

With the mixture fixed at 160.46 kg and the load at 8%, the order follows. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 is priced flat at ₹507.40 a kilo from 1 kg to 10 kg, so the cover for 147.62 kg is 14 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg + 3 × 1 kg for ₹75,095.20. Blue Ocean is one of the oils whose per-gram price barely moves — ₹4.94 at 50 g, ₹4.95 at 100 g and ₹4.96 at 500 g and 1 kg — so the cheapest cover for 12.84 kg is 12 × 1 kg + 1 × 500 g + 3 × 100 g + 1 × 50 g for ₹63,682.00. On CSI's listing, a bigger bottle mostly buys fewer bottles; volume pricing beyond the listed packs is quoted on WhatsApp and no discount figure is published.

Jars sit outside the CSI subtotal on this page because the question is about mixture, not containers. If you want a CSI jar for a 150 g fill, the 200 ml Salsa Glass Jar with golden lug cap is the practical candidate — but its fill weight is not published, so weigh a 150 g test pour first. The lavender-and-vanilla post prices 1,054 of them for the same fill. The jar count above includes a 2% breakage allowance on glass only.

The CSI products in this order

Frequently asked questions