I Need 500 × 250 g Candles in 30 Days — How Do I Convert the Order into Wax, Fragrance, Wick and Jar Purchase Quantities?

Converting the order into purchase quantities

Start with the conversion, because every date later depends on it. At a working 8% load each 250 g candle is 20 g of oil and 230 g of wax (CSI's convention: the load is a share of the finished candle). Five hundred of them are 125 kg of finished candle — 115 kg of wax and 10 kg of oil net. A tight deadline does not change the formula; it changes how much slack you can afford to leave out of the purchase, because a shortfall on day 20 cannot be fixed by day 30.

So the allowances here are a little more generous than a relaxed order would use, and each is a labelled working assumption to replace with your own: 12 whole trial candles (two wick candidates × three candles × two rounds of checks), a 3% reject allowance, 4% pour loss on wax and oil, and 2% breakage on glass. They are applied in that order, once each, and only then rounded to real packs.

The purchase quantities are therefore 126.26 kg of wax, 10.98 kg of oil, 528 wicks and stickers and 539 jars. A 250 g candle is a large one; there is no CSI jar with a published 250 g fill (CSI publishes fills only for the 85 g Golden Aluminium Tin and the 50 g Heart Cutout Velvet Jar), so the jar here is yours — and the jar count is the one line in this order that has to be right on day 0, because glass is the slowest material to replace in a hurry. The 2% breakage post sizes the glass buffer more carefully.

The purchase calendar, dated from today

Today is Sunday 4 October 2026; day 30 is Tuesday 3 November; Diwali is Sunday 8 November. The calendar below works forward from today and backward from dispatch at the same time. Two figures in it are CSI's own: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks' page states a cure of at least 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, and the wick has to pass before you buy 500 of it. Everything else — when materials reach you, how many candles your team pours a day, how long packing takes — is an example. CSI publishes no delivery times, so ask for a dispatch date on WhatsApp when you order and shift the whole calendar if it moves.

Read the critical path from the bottom up. Dispatch on day 30 needs packing done by day 29. Packing needs the last candle cured, and seven days after the last pour (inside the page's "ideally one to two weeks") puts the last pour on day 20, Sat 24 Oct. At an example 100 candles a day, 516 production candles take 6 pouring days, so production starts on day 15. Production needs the production wicks in hand on day 15, and the wick order needs a trial result on day 10. Day 10 needs three burn cycles, which need a 48-hour cure, which needs trial candles poured on day 5. Every material except the production wicks has to be in your workshop by day 5.

The day-0 purchase and the one that waits

The wax is Luxury Soy Wax Chunks. It is used here because its page gives a stated cure guideline you can plan a calendar around (at least 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks) and a 13% fragrance ceiling that leaves headroom above 8% — not because it throws better than CSI's other waxes, which we do not publish data to claim. At 126.26 kg the cheapest listed cover is 25 × 5 kg + 1 × 1 kg + 1 × 500 g for ₹75,773.00: Chunks cost ₹599.00 a kilo in 5 kg bags against ₹599.90 in the 10 kg bag, so 5 kg bags win. An order of this size is also worth a WhatsApp message — CSI's listed bags stop at 10 kg, larger quantities are quoted, and no discount figure is published.

The oil is Saffron Cedarwood, a festive choice for a Diwali order — and one with an unusual price shape. Its 500 g bottle is ₹2,584.20 (₹5.17 a gram) while its 1 kg bottle is ₹6,867.60 (₹6.87 a gram). So the cheapest cover for 10.98 kg is 22 × 500 g for ₹56,852.40, which is ₹18,691.20 less than 11 × 1 kg. That is the opposite of what most buyers assume about bigger bottles; on CSI's listing, always compute. CSI does not publish stock unit counts, so for 22 bottles of one oil ask on WhatsApp before you rely on the calendar.

The jar line is outside the CSI subtotal because it is your jar. If you would rather use a CSI jar, the White Matte Glass Jar is the obvious candidate, but its fill weight is not published: pour one to the line, weigh it, and only if it holds 250 g order 54 × pack of 10 for ₹38,232.00. Lids, labels, boxes and courier are also your own quotes and stay out of the CSI total.

The five-day wick trial that releases the wick order

A 250 g candle burns for many hours, so a full-life test cannot finish before the wick order has to go in. The working compromise used here: decide the wick after three clean burn cycles, and keep one candle of the winner burning to the end in parallel with production, so a late-life fault is caught before dispatch. That is a labelled working practice, not a standard, and it carries a risk you should name to the client if the order is large. The sample-wick-sizes post covers how many candidates to trial.

The second round of six trial candles is your safety net: if both wicks fail the first three cycles, you still have trial candles to re-pour with a different size without waiting for fresh wax or oil. That is why the trial count is 12 rather than 6, and it is the cheapest insurance on this page — 1,500 g of finished candle.

What can break the 30 days, and what to hold back for it

The leftover wax and oil from pack rounding — 242 g of Chunks and 21 g of Saffron Cedarwood — are a small remake reserve already paid for: enough for about 1 extra candles. The 20-day emergency-remake post sizes a deliberate remake reserve for an even tighter deadline, and the 500-favour hub shows the buy-after-approval version of this order when the client has not yet signed off the fragrance.

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