My Jar Costs ₹70, Wick ₹5, Wax ₹600 Per Kg and Fragrance ₹4,500 Per Kg — What Is the Complete Material Cost of My 200 g Candle?

Your four lines, added up once and properly

Most costing questions arrive with a hole in them. Yours does not: a jar at ₹70.00, a wick at ₹5.00, wax at ₹600.00 a kilogram and fragrance at ₹4,500.00 a kilogram is the entire materials bill of a container candle, and the only thing left to do is decide how many grams of each go in and multiply. Those four figures are yours throughout this page. They are never presented as CSI prices, never rounded and never corrected.

At 200 g of wax with a fragrance load of 8% of wax weight, one candle takes 200 g of wax and 16 g of oil, which is 216 g of fill in the jar. Priced on your figures: wax ₹120.00, fragrance ₹72.00, jar ₹70.00, wick ₹5.00. The total is ₹267.00, or ₹1.24 per gram of finished candle. Nothing else is inside that number, and the rest of this page is about what that means.

Which 200 g, and the load your question does not give

The fill reading carried through every table on this page is 200 g of wax. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight — that is how CSI's wax pages state their ceilings — so 200 g of wax at 8% carries 16 g of oil and 216 g goes into the jar. Read the other way, as 200 g of total fill, the same candle is 185.19 g of wax and 14.81 g of oil and the bill comes to ₹252.78 instead of ₹267.00, a difference of ₹14.22. Both are defensible; only one can be in your spreadsheet. This page uses the first and says so wherever a number depends on it.

The load is the series default, because your question does not name one. 8% of wax weight is the working figure used here. If your recipe runs at a different load, only the fragrance line moves: at your ₹4,500.00 a kilogram, every extra percentage point on 200 g of wax adds 2 g of oil and ₹9.00 to the candle. Everything else on the sheet is untouched.

Whichever load you settle on, check it against the two stated ceilings that apply to your own materials: the wax grade's stated maximum and the fragrance oil page's stated candle range. The lower of the two governs. On the CSI pair used later in this page, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 states up to 10% of total wax weight and Citronella Fragrance Oil states up to 10%, so 10% governs and your 8% sits under it. These are the manufacturers' stated formulation maximums, not rules imposed from outside; MSDS and IFRA documentation is available on request on WhatsApp.

The same candle, line by line, on CSI materials

Here is the identical recipe — 200 g of wax, 16 g of oil, one jar, one wick — built from stock on the CSI store in September 2026: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at the 5 kg pack, Citronella Fragrance Oil at the 1 kg bottle, the 200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap at the 50-piece pack and Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at the 100 pack. It comes to ₹183.14 against your ₹267.00, a gap of ₹83.86 a candle and ₹8,386.40 across a hundred.

Read the last column honestly, because one row runs against us. The CSI wick is ₹0.90 more than yours: Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) is ₹5.90 each and your wick is ₹5.00. Whether the difference buys you anything is a burn-test question, not a costing one, and this page will not pretend the arithmetic answers it. The other three rows go the other way, and the jar is the biggest of them at ₹40.50 a candle — glass bought in 50s is simply a different price from glass bought in fives.

Two vessel notes belong here. The 200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap is sold in packs of 5, 50 and 100, and the per-piece price falls from ₹40.12 in the 5-pack to ₹29.50 in the 50-piece and 100-piece packs — a real step, and the sort worth checking on any vessel before you commit a batch. CSI does not publish a fill weight for it, so this page prices it per piece and makes no claim that a 216 g pour fits it. Test one jar with your own wax before you buy a hundred.

One candle to one hundred

A hundred candles on your figures is ₹26,700.00 of materials: ₹12,000.00 of wax, ₹7,200.00 of fragrance, ₹7,000.00 of jars and ₹500.00 of wicks. Those are the four numbers to carry into a purchase order. In quantity terms it is 20.00 kg of wax, 1.60 kg of oil, 100 jars and 100 wicks — and quantities, not rupees, are what you actually order.

Put a wastage line under that total rather than inside it. Wax left in the jug, oil clinging to the bottle, a jar that chips, a candle with a sinkhole you cannot rescue — pick a percentage you can defend from your own pour records, apply it as its own row, and label it an assumption. A sheet that hides wastage inside the unit cost cannot tell you later whether your process is improving.

What the batch consumes against what you have to buy

Your hundred candles consume ₹18,313.60 of CSI materials. The order you place to make them is ₹19,470.00, because materials come in packs: 4 packs of 5 kg wax (20 kg, exactly what you need), 2 bottles of 1 kg oil against 1.60 kg needed, 2 packs of 50 jars and 1 pack of 100 wicks. The difference, ₹1,156.40, is not a cost of this batch. It is 400 g of oil sitting in your cupboard — 25 more candles' worth — and it belongs on your stock sheet, not on this one.

What this order will not get you is a lower price per kilogram for buying more of the same thing. On the CSI store, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 is the same ₹507.40 a kilogram at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg. Seven of the thirteen waxes are flat that way at every pack size; two have a genuine step down at 5 kg, and three cost more per kilogram in the larger pack than the smaller. On fragrance oils the meaningful step is from the 15 g sample to the 50 g bottle, and from 50 g upward most oils hold the same rate per gram. Check the ladder printed on the page you are buying from and treat any other claim with suspicion.

The saving that is arithmetic rather than folklore is freight. A 5 kg pack of Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 stores a packed weight of 6.0 kg, and the cheapest published band covering it is ₹630.00 on Standard Shipping. Four of them ordered one at a time come to ₹2,520.00; the same 24 kg in one consignment falls in a band published at ₹2,000.00 on Expedited Shipping, a difference of ₹520.00. Rates are as published in September 2026, are set by the store and can change, and there is no free-shipping threshold anywhere on the store.

The worksheet, with the blanks left blank

Here is the whole thing as a form you can copy. The top block is materials, and every figure in it comes either from your question or from a CSI product page. The bottom block is everything CSI does not sell — and every one of those rows stays empty until you put your own figure in it. CSI will not print a typical value for a label or a courier charge, because there is no honest one to print.

Four ways a batch sheet quietly lies to you

The pack you priced is not the pack you bought. A sheet built on a 5 kg wax rate and a 1 kg oil rate describes an order of that size. If your actual purchase was two 500 g bags and a 100 g bottle, the sheet is describing someone else's candle. Re-price the sheet whenever the pack size you buy changes, and keep the pack size written in the cell next to the rate.

The batch is a hundred candles, but the order is one order. Freight, in particular, does not divide neatly: it is charged on published weight bands, so it moves in steps rather than per candle. Treat the delivery charge as a cost of the order, allocate it across the candles that order produces, and say in your notes that you have done so.

Tax is included in the price, and your own position is your own. CSI store prices are inclusive of applicable taxes and GST invoicing is available, which is all this page can usefully say. What that means for your input credit, your registration or your pricing is a question for your accountant, not for a costing guide.

Materials are not the cost of the candle. ₹183.14 buys the things that go in the jar. It does not buy the label on it, the box around it, the courier that takes it to Bengaluru or the two hours you spent pouring and cleaning. Every business that prices from the materials line alone discovers this at scale, usually in the week after a festival rush.

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