Soy Candle Fragrance Oils Delivered to Visakhapatnam

The third number on the page

A soy candle is a solution. The fragrance oil has to dissolve into molten wax and stay dissolved while the wax crystallises, and both halves of that sentence are governed by temperature as much as by proportion. The load tells you how much oil the wax will hold. The add temperature tells you whether the oil gets the chance to go into solution at all, and whether any of it leaves the pot before the lid goes on.

CSI's wax pages publish that second number, and they do not all publish the same one. Three of the soy waxes name the same band — 80–90°C — for adding fragrance or for melting and pouring. One, the coconut-soy CSI 468, works far cooler: a stated melting point of 50–53°C and a stated pour of 58–60°C. That is a thirty-degree difference in the temperature your oil meets, from the same collection, and it is the reason a recipe proven on one of these waxes does not transfer to another by simply keeping the percentage.

Now the fragrance side. A flash point is the lowest temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapour to form an ignitable mixture in air, under the conditions of the test method used. It is a safety and handling figure, not a quality figure, and a high one is not a mark of a better oil. For a candle maker it does one practical job: it tells you how much headroom you have between the temperature you are working at and the temperature at which the material starts behaving differently. Adding a low-flash-point oil to wax that is sitting near or above that figure is how you lose the top of a fragrance before it ever reaches the jar — and it is an avoidable handling risk near an open element.

All 18 measured flash points, against the add band

Here is the whole documented set, in order, with the candle load each page states beside it. This is the useful table for a soy maker because it lets you do the temperature check and the load check in one pass, and because it shows that the two are not correlated: the oil with the lowest published flash point states exactly the same soy ceiling as the oil with the highest.

Look at the load column. It barely moves. Fifteen of the eighteen state the same soy ceiling of 10%, and the outlier upward — Cinnamon Vanilla at up to 13% of total wax weight — is a page written for makers who want a heavier load, not a page that disagrees with the others about soy. So the load question, for documented oils, is largely settled at 10%. The temperature question is where the pages actually differ, and it is the one nobody reads.

CSI's soy waxes and what each one states

Eight soy and coconut-soy waxes are in stock. Only four publish a fragrance figure or a working temperature, and those four are the ones a maker who wants a documented recipe should build on. The table gives the stated fields verbatim in substance, the operative load when paired with a 10%-stating oil, and the wax cost inside one 200 g candle at that operative load.

The temperature column is the one to act on. If your shortlist contains an oil with a published flash point under 100°C, CSI 468 is the wax that removes the conflict entirely: a stated pour of 58–60°C and a stated melt of 50–53°C keeps every part of the process comfortably below 85°C. It costs ₹25.67 more of wax per 200 g candle at a 10% load than CSI 464 does, and in exchange you are not working at the edge of a published figure. If instead your shortlist is all high-flash-point oils — the 143°C-and-above group — then the 80–90°C waxes are the cheaper and simpler route and the temperature question genuinely does not arise.

Four soy oils that publish a temperature

Four listings from the documented eighteen, chosen because each one changes a different part of the process. Each card carries the full pack ladder with the rate at each rung and the grams of oil a pack covers in a 200 g candle at a 10% load — 20 g per candle, which is the operative load when a 10%-stating oil meets any of these soy waxes.

The pour, step by step

Five steps, written so that the temperature and the load are both recorded rather than assumed. It costs nothing extra and it is the difference between a recipe and a good afternoon.

Soy in a warm, humid coastal workroom

Nothing below is a measurement of Visakhapatnam's weather and nothing below is a published CSI specification — no fragrance page in the range states a storage instruction, a shelf life or a storage temperature, and we are not going to invent one. What follows is general material behaviour a maker can verify in their own workroom, with any planning figure marked as an assumption.

The one planning assumption worth stating plainly: assume a slower set and a longer handling window in the warm months, which means fewer pours in a working day and a queue that is longer than your cure. Plan the calendar around the cure, because the cure is the only step you cannot compress. With Diwali on 8 November 2026, a soy container candle poured in mid-October and given the full one-to-two-week cure the Chunks page recommends is comfortably inside the window; one poured at the start of November is not.

Ordering oil and wax together

CSI ships across India and takes bulk orders on WhatsApp; there is no counter, branch or stockist in Visakhapatnam, so an order arrives as a consignment and the sensible shape is one order per stage rather than one order per shopping impulse. The table costs the two stages in real packs, using the operative 10% load and a 200 g candle.

Two honest notes. The wax is the constraint in the third row, not the oil: 5 kg of wax at 180 g a candle makes 27 candles while 500 g of oil covers 25, so buy the oil to the candle count and expect a little wax left over rather than the reverse. And on Jasmine the per-gram rate is identical at 500 g and 1 kg — ₹1,961 for 500 g against ₹3,923 for the kilo is a difference of ₹1 across the two — so the choice between them is about how fast you will use it, not about price.

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