My New Soy Wax Batch Feels Softer than the Previous One and My Candles Burn Differently — How Do I Verify Whether the Wax Itself Changed?

My New Soy Wax Batch Feels Softer than the Previous One and My Candles Burn Differently — How Do I Verify Whether the Wax Itself Changed?

 

Pen Thermometer ₹354.00 · in stock CSI 468 from ₹325.00 · melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C Lot numbers for your orders on WhatsApp
New wax feels softer · did it change?
Take scent, season and memory out of the comparison, then read the wax.
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"all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range"
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"The products are great and of premium quality. I am a permanent customer and will be … but the delivery charges are very high which is restricting me to purchase more…"
Manasa GNVerified buyer · Feb 2025
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★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
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★★★★★
"So I live in a very cold region and it was becoming very difficult for me to maintain the temperature. My temperature would drop within seconds due to which I was not getting a good hot throw. Moreover, it would take me ages to melt the wax. But this mini melter is my saviour. It took me seconds to melt my wax and the wax stays warm for a longer time in the melter so I was finally able to get the desired hot throw. It is totally worth the money and so hassle-free."
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SraddhaVerified buyer · Mar 2025
Gardenia Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Product is very nice its working properly and melt wax very quickly . Plz launch same product in 2-3 litre also"
Priya SinghVerified buyer · Sep 2025
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★★★★★
"all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
★★★★★
"The products are great and of premium quality. I am a permanent customer and will be … but the delivery charges are very high which is restricting me to purchase more…"
Manasa GNVerified buyer · Feb 2025
Premium Coconut Soy Wax
★★★★☆
"Good quality wax"
Arminder KaurVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Eco Soy CSI 400
★★★★★
"So I live in a very cold region and it was becoming very difficult for me to maintain the temperature. My temperature would drop within seconds due to which I was not getting a good hot throw. Moreover, it would take me ages to melt the wax. But this mini melter is my saviour. It took me seconds to melt my wax and the wax stays warm for a longer time in the melter so I was finally able to get the desired hot throw. It is totally worth the money and so hassle-free."
Arzoo VyasApr 2026
[1 Year Warranty] Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter (1 litre capacity)
★★★★★
"I just tried making a candle out of curiosity & ordered supplies.. I found the ingredients to be of good quality. The wax quality especially has been top notch. I’ve tried the Gardenia fragrance oil. It is highly concentrated. The packaging of the items has been exceptionally good for me. Timely delivery."
SraddhaVerified buyer · Mar 2025
Gardenia Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Product is very nice its working properly and melt wax very quickly . Plz launch same product in 2-3 litre also"
Priya SinghVerified buyer · Sep 2025
[1 Year Warranty] Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter (1 litre capacity)
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CSI Diagnostics · New Wax Feels Softer
A bag of wax felt in a warmer month will feel softer whatever is in it. Compare both bags on the same day, then pour unscented twins and read them on one thermometer before you decide the wax changed.
4 twins
two from each bag, unscented, poured together · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
My new bag of soy wax feels softer. Did the wax change? Maybe, but "feels softer" is a reading taken on a particular day, in a particular room, often from memory. Soy and coconut-soy waxes feel softer when warmer (a tendency), so compare the two bags on the same day before you conclude anything.

How do I verify it? Pour unscented twins: two candles from the old bag and two from the new, same jar, same wick, same pour temperature, same shelf. Log how fast each sets, the surface at 24 hours, the texture on day 2 and day 7, melt and set readings on one thermometer, and one four-hour burn each.

What decides it? If old and new twins match on the same day, the wax is not your change, and the room or the season probably is. If the new twins differ in both duplicates, on set, texture, readings or pool, the lot behaves differently in your system: tell us with the lot numbers and re-check your wick.

What does it cost? ₹910.80 of materials in the worked example (four twins plus a melt check, 600 g and 200 g of wax), excluding labour, freight, packaging and GST; new cash of at most ₹413.00 if you own no thermometer or spare wicks.
The short answer
The rule: feel is not evidence until both bags are felt on the same day, at the same temperature, in the same form.
The test: unscented twins, old lot against new lot, two each, in one jar type with one wick, poured together; plus a melt-and-set reading on one thermometer.
The context: CSI 468's page states a melting point of 50–53°C and a pour of 58–60°C. Your two lots are read against each other; the page bands are context, not a pass mark.
The limit: CSI publishes no lot or batch data. Ask on WhatsApp for the lot numbers on both orders; nothing here implies a CSI batch changed.
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In this guide
Where the page figures sit, and where your readings go To scale in °C. Grey bands are page wording; the right-hand column is a worked example of your own two lots. 20°C 30°C 40°C 50°C 60°C 70°C 80°C 90°C CSI 468 page CSI 464 page 150 g jar page Your two CSI 468 lots melting point50–53°C pour58–60°C pour80–90°C hot pour up to 85°C old bag new bag clear on heating first skin on cooling marks sit together: no sign the melt changed (worked example, not data) Read your two lots against each other with one thermometer. The page bands are context, not a pass mark.
The page figures drawn to scale, with a worked example of your own readings beside them. The black and white marks are clear and first-skin readings for the old and new bag, two reads each, on one thermometer. Here they sit together, so the melt gives no sign of a changed lot; a consistent gap in both repeats would. The readings are illustrative, not CSI data.
The readings · ₹354.00
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Coconut-soy · melt 50–53°C · pour 58–60°C
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Straight answer
My new soy wax batch feels softer than the previous one and my candles burn differently. How do I verify whether the wax itself changed?
By taking fragrance, jar, wick and weather out of the comparison. First feel both bags, or candles from both, on the same day in the same room: a bag remembered from a cool month and a bag handled in a warm one will feel different whatever is inside them. Then pour unscented twins, two candles from each bag, in jars from one delivery, on one wick, at the same pour temperature, and cure them on one shelf. Record how fast each sets, the surface at 24 hours, the texture on day 2 and day 7, a melt and a set reading for each lot on one thermometer, and a four-hour burn. If the twins match, the wax is not what changed; look at the room, the season, the oil or the process. If the new-lot twins differ from the old in both duplicates, the lot behaves differently in your system: send us the results with both order numbers, and re-check your wick before the next batch.
One line: compare the bags on the same day, then let unscented twins, one thermometer and one burn each say whether the wax changed.
Every reading in this test needs one instrument: a Pen Thermometer costs ₹354.00 and is in stock on 26 September 2026. If you own a working probe thermometer, use that instead; consistency beats novelty.
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"Softer" is a reading, not a verdict

Your thumb is a thermometer as well as a hardness tester, and it can't tell you which one it is measuring.

Container soy and coconut-soy waxes are soft by design compared with pillar waxes, and how soft they feel depends heavily on temperature: the same wax commonly feels firmer on a cool morning and softer on a warm afternoon (a tendency, not a figure). So in our judgement the most common reason a "new bag feels softer" is that it is being handled at a different time of year from the old one. Late September sits at the end of the southwest monsoon, which runs roughly June to September; a bag opened in cooler months and one opened now are not being felt under the same conditions.

Form matters too. Flakes, chunks, a set candle and a spoonful of scraped wax all feel different, and fragrance oil commonly softens the feel of a finished candle compared with plain wax. If last month you pressed a finished, scented candle and this month you are pressing flakes, the comparison says nothing about the lot.

The two-minute same-day check
Put a handful from each bag, or one unburned candle from each batch, side by side in the same room for a few hours so both reach room temperature. Log the room temperature. Press each with a fingernail and draw a teaspoon across each with the same light pressure, with your eyes closed if someone can hand them to you. If you can't tell them apart, stop here: the "softer" was the season, not the bag. If you can, the unscented twins below will say whether it matters for the burn.

Storage is the other half. CSI 468's page says "Store in a cool, dry environment. Keep sealed when not in use." A bag left open near a window, on a warm floor or in a hot storeroom has had a different life from one kept sealed and cool, whatever lot it came from. Note where each bag has lived before you compare them.

What else makes a candle soft or burn differently

A new bag of wax is the obvious suspect because it is the thing you can see changed. Look at what you can't see first.

The table ranks the causes behind "the new batch feels softer and burns differently", most common first. The ranking is editorial judgement; CSI publishes no failure statistics. The unscented twins exist to separate the last row from the first four.

Differential table · new batch softer, burns differently
Most common first (judgement) · each row names what rules it in or out
# What you notice Likely cause Rules it in Rules it out
1 Softer now; you're comparing with how the old bag felt weeks ago Season and room temperature Same-day check: no difference Same-day check: new bag clearly softer
2 Finished candles softer; a new oil order or higher load went in Oil or load, not wax Unscented twins match Unscented twins differ
3 New bag stored open or somewhere warm Storage history Only the badly stored bag differs; a sealed part of it doesn't Both stored alike and both differ
4 Rough or pitted tops, slower set, more wet spots Pour temperature or cooling (process) Pour and room temperatures differ on the batch sheet Twins poured together still differ
5 New lot differs in the unscented twins, both duplicates The wax lot, in your system Twins differ on set, texture, readings or pool Twins match

Rows 1, 2 and 4 belong to other posts once you've ruled them in: a new oil order goes through the new-order gate, a season-driven change to the winter-summer comparison, and rough tops to the pour-temperature bracket. If both your wax and your wicks changed at once and the candle now tunnels, the swap-back 2×2 crosses the two lots in one pour. This page keeps to one question: did the wax change?

Mistake: testing the new bag in a scented candle against a retained scented candle from the old bag. What it does: the oil, its age, the load and the cure all ride along, and a softer or faster-burning candle could be any of them. Fix: unscented twins poured on the same day. Fragrance is the largest variable you can remove for free.

The unscented twin pour

Four candles of plain wax, poured together, are the fairest witnesses two bags of wax will ever get.

You need 400 g from each bag: 300 g for two twins and 100 g for the melt-and-set readings. If the old bag is empty, see the fallback at the end of this section. Everything except the lot is held the same: jars from one delivery, wicks from one pack, one pot per lot of the same kind, one thermometer, one pour temperature, one shelf.

1
Label and photograph both bagsOld bag O, new bag N, with the order numbers from your invoices. Ask us on WhatsApp for the lot numbers behind those orders, and note where each bag has been stored and whether it was sealed.
2
Prepare four jars and four wicksClean, dry jars from one delivery at room temperature; wicks from one pack, fixed and centred the same way. Label the bases O1, O2, N1, N2.
3
Melt each lot in its own pot300 g of O and 300 g of N, in identical pots, side by side on the same heat. No fragrance, no dye, no additive. Stir each gently the same number of times.
4
Pour both at the same temperatureFor CSI 468 the page states a pour temperature of 58°C–60°C; pick one figure inside it and pour both pots at that figure, read on the same thermometer. For another wax, use its page's stated figure; the 150 g jar's page says "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C", and the lower limit always governs.
5
Time the setLog the room temperature, then note the minute each jar first turns cloudy at the edge and the minute the surface looks opaque all the way across. You are comparing O with N, so the clock matters more than the exact moment you call it.
6
Read the surface and textureAt 24 hours: smooth or rough top, sinkhole round the wick, frosting, wet spots against the glass (photograph each under the same light). On day 2 and day 7: the fingernail and teaspoon checks, same room, temperature logged, blind if possible.
Bill of materials · unscented twins and melt check · worked example
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468, two lots · Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) · Eco C1 · CSI live pricing, 26 September 2026
Item Basis Used Value
CSI 468, lots O and N 10 kg at ₹6,370.00 (₹0.64/g) 600 g for twins (300 g each) ₹382.20
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10 at ₹944.00 4 jars ₹377.60
Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) Pack of 10 at ₹59.00 4 wicks ₹23.60
Four twins 4 candles ₹783.40 (₹195.85 each)
Melt-and-set check 10 kg price 200 g (100 g each) ₹127.40
Whole check from stock you hold ₹910.80

Material value, excluding labour, freight, packaging and GST. The new cash is nothing if you own a thermometer and spare wicks, and at most ₹413.00 for a Pen Thermometer and ten C1 wicks if you own neither.

No old wax left? Then you can no longer prove the lot changed, only whether the new lot suits your candle. Use two unscented twins of the new bag against a retained unscented candle if you ever poured one; failing that, against two twins of a different, known wax poured the same day (a reference, not a control), and say so when you read the result. From now on, keep 500 g of every bag, sealed and labelled, until the next bag has passed; the traceable batch sheet gives it a code.

Melt and set readings against the page figures

Two readings, taken twice, on one thermometer, tell you more than any single number measured to the decimal.

The diagram at the top shows where CSI 468's page figures sit: "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C" and "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C". For reference it also shows CSI 464's stated pour of 80°C–90°C and the 150 g jar's "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C". A home thermometer in a small pot is not a laboratory melting-point test, and CSI does not state the method behind its page figures, so do not treat a reading of 49°C or 54°C as proof that a lot is "out". What you can compare fairly is the old lot against the new one, read the same way on the same instrument.

The method

Check the thermometer in crushed ice and water first and note any offset. Put 100 g of each lot in identical small heatproof containers standing in the same warm-water bath. Clear point: as the bath warms, stir each gently and note the temperature at which the last visible solid disappears. First skin: lift both out onto the same surface, and note the temperature at which a skin first forms across the top. Repeat the whole cycle once. You now have four numbers per lot.

If the old and new lots' readings overlap across the two repeats, the melt gives no sign of a change, whatever your thumb said. If the new lot reads consistently lower or higher than the old in both repeats, and by more than the spread between your own repeats, the lot behaves differently in your hands; write the figures down with both order numbers. How big a gap matters depends on your thermometer and your candle, so we give no threshold; the twin burn below decides whether it matters.

Keep the wax pages' figures in charge
Whatever your readings, pour inside the wax page's stated range and never above the jar's stated limit. A lot that reads a little differently does not justify pouring outside the range; if it seems to need that, tell us before you change your process. The temperatures you choose inside the range are your own worked example, logged every batch.

The twin burn and the verdict

Texture tells you how the wax feels. The burn tells you whether a customer would ever notice.

At the age you normally test (many makers burn-test soy at day 7 as common practice), burn O1 and N1 for four hours, spaced apart, out of draughts, within sight. Unscented candles can share a session because you are reading wax, not scent. Log pool diameter at one, two and three hours, whether the pool reached the jar edge (commonly cited rules of thumb expect about 3–4 hours, or roughly an hour per 2.5 cm of width, about 2.8 hours for the 7 cm jar), pool depth at the end with a skewer (about 0.5–1 cm is a common target), flame height against a card marked in centimetres, and any soot. Repeat with O2 and N2.

Decision rule · unscented twins
Read both duplicates together · a difference counts only if both N twins differ from both O twins the same way
What you see What it points to Next step Purchase
Same-day feel, set, surface, readings and burn all match The wax is not what changed Season, oil, load or process: back to the hub's suspect order Nothing
N softer on the same day; set, readings and burn match A handling difference that doesn't reach the burn Carry on; note it on the batch sheet; tell us with lot numbers Nothing
N sets slower, surface rougher; burn matches Appearance only, or cooling sensitivity Slow the cooling; see 3271 and 3272 Nothing
N's pool wider or deeper, or flame taller, in both twins The lot burns hotter in your jar Re-check the wick one step down (from C1, the thinner Eco wick, that means another wick type) against your current wick, full jar; tell us with lot numbers and logs Possibly one pack of the smaller wick
N's pool smaller or slower in both twins The lot burns cooler in your jar Re-check one step up, full jar; if both lots and wicks changed, the 2×2 Possibly one pack of the larger wick
Twins disagree with each other Noise: wick position, draught, jar Repeat the odd pair; check wick centring Nothing

A lot that differs in your twins behaves differently in your system; that is not the same as a lot that is out of specification, and CSI publishes no lot data to compare against. Send us the logs, photos and both order numbers and we will look at them with you. Any wick change that follows must pass the full jar, down to about 1 cm of wax left, before it goes into production; glass heat is never judged by touching the jar.

Mistake: blending the rest of the old bag into the new one "to even it out". What it does: your next batch is neither lot, and if something goes wrong you can't trace it. Fix: use one lot per batch and record which, so the batch sheet stays true. For the first-level question of why one oil behaves differently in different soy waxes, see the same oil in different soy waxes.

What not to buy for a softer bag

Additives are the usual answer to "softer". They are the wrong first answer to "did it change?"
What not to buy yet: a hardening additive. Vybar (₹156.00 for 50 g) says on its page that it "enhances wax hardness", and our Microcrystalline Wax Slab (₹149.00 for 500 g) is sold for blending, but either one changes your formula, needs its own wick and burn testing, and hides the question you are trying to answer. In our judgement Vybar is more commonly associated with paraffin work, and results vary by wax. A different wax before the twins have spoken: that is a reformulation, not a diagnosis. A new bag of the same wax "to compare": a third lot, as above.

If the twins match, the answer to a softer feel in summer is usually storage and handling: keep bags sealed and cool as the page says, let finished candles set fully before packing, and pack in the coolest part of the day. None of that costs anything.

The kit for a wax-lot check

Four items: the worked example's wax, the thermometer that makes every reading comparable, and the wick and jar held constant. Chosen on page statements, price per unit and stock on 26 September 2026; CSI has no measured burn data, so nothing is ranked on performance.

1
wax · coconut-soy container blend · the worked example's wax
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
The page states "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C" and "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", describes a "Coconut-Soy Blend" with a "creamy texture" and a "Rich, opaque appearance with minimal frosting", and says "Store in a cool, dry environment. Keep sealed when not in use." Those are the page's claims and figures; your twins test what your two bags do. Argued against our own interest: a fresh bag bought today cannot tell you whether last month's bag differed; it is a third lot. Buy the 1 kg only if you have no old wax left and want a reference, and say so when you read the results. The 5 kg and 10 kg are the same ₹0.64 a gram.
Size Price Per unit What it covers
500 g ₹325.00 ₹0.65 per g a third-lot reference only if you have no old wax at all
1 kg ₹650.00 ₹0.65 per g the same, with enough for the twins and melt check (400 g)
5 kg ₹3,185.00 ₹0.64 per g production; ₹65.00 less than five 1 kg bags
10 kg ₹6,370.00 ₹0.64 per g production: the same per gram as the 5 kg
Wax in one unscented twin: ₹95.55 at the 10 kg price. See every size — from ₹325.00
2
tool · the melt and set readings
Pen Thermometer For Candle Making
Every number in this test comes from one thermometer, so the old and new lots are read on the same instrument. The page says it is for monitoring "the temperature of your candle wax" and states no range or accuracy figure in the text we captured. Check it in a glass of crushed ice and water, where it should read close to 0°C, and note any offset. Argued against our own interest: if you already own a working probe thermometer, use it and buy nothing; for comparing two lots, one consistent instrument matters more than a new one.
Size Price Per unit What it covers
Single ₹354.00 ₹354.00 every reading in this test; range and accuracy not stated, so check it in ice water first
Same instrument for both lots, every reading. Buy the thermometer — ₹354.00
3
wick · held constant in all four twins
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1)
The twins change only the wax lot, so all four take the same wick from the same pack. The page describes wicks from "natural fibers like cotton and paper" that "pair perfectly with soy wax"; every pack size is in stock on 26 September 2026 and the price per wick is the same at every pack size. Use your production wick; C1 here is the worked example's. If your new wicks also came in a new carton, keep one carton for this test, and leave the carton question to the wick-carton post.
Size Price Per unit What it covers
Thin (C1) / 10 ₹59.00 ₹5.90 four twins, with six spare
Thin (C1) / 100 ₹590.00 ₹5.90 production: the same per wick
Thick (C2) / 10 ₹94.40 ₹9.44 only if C2 is your production wick
Four twins take four wicks: ₹23.60. Buy C1 — ₹59.00
4
jar · held constant in all four twins
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram)
The page lists "Height 8cm, outer diameter 7cm" and "Safe for hot pour up to 85°C". CSI 468's stated pour of 58–60°C sits well below that. Clear glass also lets you see wet spots and the set front as the twins cool, which a coloured jar hides. Use four jars from one delivery so the glass cannot differ between lots; wall thickness and internal diameter vary between batches of mass-produced glass (a general tendency, measured in the container series).
Size Price Per unit What it covers
Pack of 10 ₹944.00 ₹94.40 four twins, with six spare from one delivery
Pack of 20 ₹1,888.00 ₹94.40 the same per jar
₹94.40 a jar; the same at both pack sizes. Buy 10 — ₹944.00
Diwali is 8 November 2026, 43 days from 26 September 2026. Twins poured this week can be read on day 7 and burned twice well before your Diwali pour. Send us your results and candle count, and we will quote CSI 468, wicks and jars with a GST invoice and dispatch date.
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The CSI principle
Take the scent, the season and the memory out, then compare the wax.
Two bags felt on different days in different weather will rarely feel the same. Four unscented twins poured together, read on one thermometer and burned in matched sessions, are the fairest comparison you can make at home.
"A wax that feels softer in September than it did in the cooler months has told you about September. Pour the twins before you blame the bag."
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide

CandleMakingSuppliesIndia sells the wax, thermometer, wicks, jars and additives named here, and does not sell finished candles. This page still tells you that a new bag cannot testify about an old one, that our hardening additives are the wrong first answer, and that any working probe thermometer does this job.

Every price and per-gram figure was verified on CSI's live store on 26 September 2026; every size in the pick tables is in stock on that date, and the tables are built to flag any that is not. Temperatures, loads and storage wording are quoted from the product pages; where a page is silent in the text we captured, we say so. CSI publishes no lot or batch data, composition or reformulation notices, and nothing here implies that a CSI batch changed.

The cause ranking, the test design and the decision rules are editorial judgement; the lot readings in the diagram are a worked example, not data; melt-pool times and depths are commonly cited rules of thumb. For lot numbers on your orders, bulk pricing, GST invoicing and product documentation on request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my new soy wax feel softer than the last bag?
Most often, in our judgement, because it is being handled at a warmer time or in a different form. Soy and coconut-soy waxes commonly feel softer when warmer. Compare both bags side by side on the same day before deciding the wax changed.
How can I test if a new batch of soy wax is different?
Pour two unscented candles from each bag in the same jars with the same wick at the same pour temperature. Compare set time, surface, texture, melt and set readings on one thermometer, and a four-hour burn. Differences must show in both duplicates.
What is the melting point of CSI 468 coconut soy wax?
The product page states a melting point of 50°C–53°C and a pour temperature of 58°C–60°C, with fragrance load up to 13%. A home thermometer reading won't match a stated figure exactly, so compare lots against each other on one instrument.
Can hot weather make soy candles softer?
Yes, as a tendency: soy waxes feel softer and can look different when warmer. That is why a bag remembered from cooler months can seem softer now. For season-driven sweating and burn changes, compare retained candles against a new pour in the same conditions.
Should I add Vybar if my soy wax feels too soft?
Not as a first step. Its page says it enhances hardness, but it changes your formula and needs its own wick and burn tests, and in our judgement it is more commonly used in paraffin. Find out whether the wax changed first.
Does CSI publish batch numbers for its wax?
CSI publishes no lot or batch release data. You can ask on WhatsApp for the lot or batch numbers on your orders and record them, so any later comparison is written against real lots.
Before you change your wax or add a hardener
Four unscented twins and one thermometer settle whether the wax changed.
Feel both bags on the same day. Then pour two twins from each, same jar and wick, and read set, surface, texture, melt and set points and one burn each (₹910.80 of materials in the worked example). Send us the results with both order numbers on WhatsApp.
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Continue the read — same formula, suddenly different result
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: part of CSI's cluster on a formula that suddenly gives a different result (3261–3280). This page owns the unscented twin pour for a wax bag that seems softer (old lot against new lot, same jar and wick), with set time, surface and texture notes, melt and set readings on one thermometer against the page's stated figures, and seasonal softness as a check. Wick lots are 3264; seasonal effects are 3270.

Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on the product pages named on each card — Eco Soy CSI 400, Gardenia Fragrance Oil, Premium Coconut Soy Wax, Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles, [1 Year Warranty] Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter (1 litre capacity). They are general product reviews, not assessments of the diagnostic advice on this page. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" appears only on reviews Judge.me recorded as verified — Arminder Kaur, Manasa GN, Arminder Kaur, Sraddha, Priya Singh. The reviews from Arzoo Vyas are published but not recorded as verified, and carry no badge. Reviews below five stars are included as published, not filtered out.

Figures verified 26 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 500 g ₹325.00, 1 kg ₹650.00, 5 kg ₹3,185.00, 10 kg ₹6,370.00; Pen Thermometer For Candle Making ₹354.00; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59.00, 100 ₹590.00; Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10 ₹944.00, Pack of 20 ₹1,888.00; Vybar 50 g ₹156.00; Microcrystalline Wax Slab 500 g ₹149.00. All in stock on 26 September 2026. Per gram, per wick and per jar = price ÷ units, two decimals; worked costs use the exact per-unit price, then round.

Non-price figures: CSI 468 melting point 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C, fragrance load up to 13% (11.50% of total weight if read on wax weight; 17.25 g of oil in a 150 g candle at 11.5%), and CSI 464 pour 80–90°C, are as stated on the product pages; the 150 g jar page states hot pour up to 85°C, height 8 cm and outer diameter 7 cm. Ceilings are formulation limits, not regulatory limits. The lot readings in the diagram are a worked example, not CSI data. Melt-pool times and depths are commonly cited rules of thumb; day-7 testing is common practice. The cause ranking and decision rules are editorial judgement. Costs exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST. Diwali 8 November 2026 is a calendar fact.
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