The Client Approved My Sample Colour but My Production Batch Looks Slightly Different — How Do I Prevent Shade Variation Across 500 Candles?

The Client Approved My Sample Colour but My Production Batch Looks Slightly Different — How Do I Prevent Shade Variation Across 500 Candles?

 

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500 candles · approved colour · one batch looks different
Compare at the same age and light, find the input that changed, and accept every melt against a bracket strip.
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When production does not match the approved sample, check the comparison first, then read the pattern to find the input that changed. A chip from every melt, scored against a five-chip strip, keeps the other 450 candles inside the approval.
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acceptance band of dose, scored with a five-chip strip, worked example · CSI live pricing, October 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why does my production batch look different from the approved sample? Usually one of six things: you are comparing at different ages or under different light, the dye went in by drops or a rounded weighing, a new dye bottle or wax lot came in, the fragrance oil lot (or load) changed, the melt was held hot for longer, or it was not mixed evenly. The pattern tells you which: a whole melt off points to dose or lot, a gradient inside a melt to mixing, only some jars to the glass.

How do I stop it across 500 candles? Weigh a concentrate into every melt from one batch, buy the run’s dye and wax at the start (one lot where possible), record every lot, and pour one chip per melt that you judge at 72 hours against a bracket strip: five chips at −20%, −10%, 0, +10% and +20% of the approved dose.

What is the acceptance rule? In the worked example, a melt is accepted if its 72-hour chip sits between chip −1 and chip +1 under the standard light. Outside that band the melt is held and the cause found before the next melt.

What does a missed melt cost? In the worked example one 10 kg melt is 50 candles and ₹7,594.48 of CSI materials before jars and labour, 9.2% of the order. A ₹354.00 scale and a strip of chips cost less.
The short answer
Check the comparison first: same age (72 hours here), same light, same jar carton, lids off, against the retained sample, not a photo.
Then the formula: dose by weight from one concentrate batch, the same dye bottle, the same wax lot, the same oil lot and load, written temperatures and stir time.
The acceptance rule: one chip per melt, scored against a five-chip bracket strip; accept −1 to +1 (±10% of dose, worked example agreed with the client); hold anything outside.
The settling number: 11 melts, 11 chips, one band. In the worked example the run’s dye costs ₹708.00 bought up front; one held melt would be ₹7,594.48 of materials.
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In this guide
Score every melt against the bracket strip Worked example: 500 × 200 g blush candles, one 72-hour chip per 10 kg melt. Scores are the nearest chip on a strip poured at −20%, −10%, 0, +10% and +20% of the dose. accept: chip −1 to +1 −2 · −20% −1 · −10% 0 · master +1 · +10% +2 · +20% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 melt number → Melt 3 held: dosed by counting drops after the concentrate ran out new concentrate batch checked against the master inside the band: pour on outside: hold the melt, find the cause Scores, the ±10% band and the drift are a labelled worked example; agree the band with your client.
A control chart for the order: one 72-hour chip per 10 kg melt, scored against the bracket strip. Melt 3 lands between chips +1 and +2, outside the band, and is held; its cause (drops counted after the concentrate ran out) is fixed before melt 4. Scores and the band are a labelled worked example.
Tool · ₹354.00 · resolution not stated
Candle Making Weighing Scale: every melt gets weighed concentrate, never drops
Tool · ₹354.00
Pen Thermometer: add, pour and hold temperatures written on every melt
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Straight answer
The client approved my sample colour but my production batch looks slightly different — how do I prevent shade variation across 500 candles?
First make sure the difference is real: compare a production candle with the retained approved sample at the same age (72 hours in the worked example), in the same light, lids off, from the same jar carton. Many “different” batches are a fresh candle beside a cured one, or a workshop bulb beside a window. If it is still different, read the pattern: a whole melt uniformly off points to the dose (drops, a rounded weighing, a new concentrate batch or dye bottle), the wax lot, the oil lot or load, or a long hot hold; a gradient from the first jars to the last points to mixing; only some jars, to the glass. Then remove the causes for the rest of the run: weigh a concentrate from one batch into every melt, keep one dye bottle, one wax lot and one oil lot where possible (record them all), write temperatures and stir time, and pour one chip per melt. Judge each chip at 72 hours against a bracket strip poured from the approved formula at −20%, −10%, 0, +10% and +20% of the dose; accept a melt that sits between −1 and +1, and hold anything outside until the cause is found. For 500 candles of 200 g that is 11 melts and 11 chips; the run’s dye, bought up front, is ₹708.00.
One line: same age, same light, same lots, weighed concentrate, and a chip from every melt scored against a five-chip strip: that is how 500 candles stay inside the client’s approval.
The variation kit: a Candle Making Weighing Scale and a Pen Thermometer (₹708.00 for both) and the run’s dye bought once: Red 50 ml and Brown 15 gm (₹708.00). In stock on 7 October 2026.
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Your order as numbers

One approved sample, 500 candles, and one batch that does not quite match. The batch is the useful part: it tells you where the process leaks.

The title gives the quantity and the situation. It does not give the fill, colour or equipment, so the page uses a worked example: the series default 200 g at 8%, a blush made from Red with a Brown trace (the kind of shade built in the repeatable-formula post), British Rose, CSI 464, Eco C2, and a 10 kg melter that gives 50 candles a melt before losses.

The order, restated
Reader’s figures from the title in bold · fill, colour, doses, melts and buffers are labelled worked examples · load = % of total candle weight
Item Figure Source
Candles 500 Reader’s figure (title)
Approved sample Yes: client-approved colour Reader’s figure (title); keep it as the reference
Production One batch looks slightly different Reader’s figure (title)
Fill and load 200 g at 8% 16 g British Rose + 184 g CSI 464 per candle
Colour (worked) Blush: Red 0.30 g/kg + Brown 0.03 g/kg Illustrative; CSI dye pages state no dose
Pours 530 500 + 5 planned extras + 5% loss incl. shade rejects
Melts 11 of 10 kg (50 candles each before losses) 1% heel; the last melt part-filled
Reference Retained approved sample + bracket strip Judged at 72 h, standard light

If you did not keep a retained sample, make one before the next melt: pour a candle from the approved formula, as written, and ask the client to confirm it against the one they hold. A photo on a phone is not a reference; screens and cameras change colour every time.

Is it really different? Four comparison errors

Many colour problems are comparison problems.

Age. Soy colour reads differently while it is warm and for a while after; a candle poured this morning beside a sample poured two weeks ago is two different states. Compare at the same age. Light. A warm workshop bulb, a cool tube light and window daylight each pull the shade a different way; pick one standard light and use nothing else for judging. Surface. Frosting lightens how soy reads; CSI 464’s page claims "Low frosting, minimal blooming", but any soy can frost, especially with temperature swings, so compare the colour of the body, not a frosted patch. Glass. Different jar cartons can differ slightly in tint and wall thickness, and a fuller jar reads deeper; compare like with like.

The two-minute check
Put the retained sample, the questioned candle and one candle from an earlier good melt side by side at the window mid-morning, lids off, on a white sheet. If the earlier good melt also “looks off”, the light or your eyes have changed, not the candles.

Six production causes and how to tell them apart

Read the pattern before you touch the formula.

When the difference survives a fair comparison, the cause is almost always in one of the inputs or one of the process steps. The table sorts them by the pattern they leave, because changing the dose to fix a wax-lot problem just creates a second problem.

Why a production batch looks different · how to tell the causes apart
Read the pattern first; it narrows the cause before you touch the formula · tendencies, not certainties
Cause The pattern you see Quick check Fix
Comparing different ages Fresh batch reads lighter or darker; matches after a few days Re-compare at the same age as the sample Judge every chip at a fixed age (72 h here)
Different light Looks off in the workshop, fine by the window (or the reverse) Same place, same time, lids off, on white card One standard light for every comparison
Dose by drops or rounded weighing A whole melt uniformly deeper or paler What was weighed, on what step, from what? Weighed concentrate per melt, from one batch
New dye bottle or concentrate batch A step change from one melt onwards Batch sheet: when did the bottle or batch change? Buy the run’s dye at the start; chip-check every new batch
New wax lot Step change; the undyed base looks warmer or cooler Undyed chip from old and new lot side by side One lot per order where possible; never mix inside a colour
Fragrance oil lot or load Shade shifts towards yellow, salmon or grey Undyed scented chip, old lot vs new lot Record oil lot; check an undyed twin per lot; never change load mid-order
Temperature or hold time Melt held hot for long reads different from the rest Batch sheet: add, pour, hold times Written temperatures and a maximum hold
Incomplete mixing Gradient inside one melt: first jars differ from last Compare jar 1 and jar 50 of the same melt Written stir time; stir again before each pitcher
Jar batch or fill depth Only some jars differ, regardless of melt Same wax in two jars from different cartons Check glass tint and fill line per carton

Drops are a common cause. The worked example’s melt 3 went wrong when the concentrate batch ran out mid-shift and someone counted 60 drops of Red into the pot “like the trials”. Drop size changes with how full the bottle is, the nozzle and the temperature, so a counted dose can be well off the weighed one; at the light end of a red, that is visible. The fix is not more careful counting; it is never counting.

Oil colour is the most overlooked. A fragrance oil has its own tint, and a new lot can differ from the one in the approved sample (the oil-lot question is covered in the fragrance-colour-between-batches post). An undyed scented chip from each oil lot, beside one from the sample’s lot, shows it in 72 hours. The same logic applies to wax: an undyed chip from each wax lot (see the wax-yellower post).

Mistake: “correcting” a paler melt by adding extra dye to the next one. Why it fails: if the cause was a new wax lot or a cooler hold, the next melt overshoots and you now have three shades. Fix: find the cause first, using the table; change the input that changed, and keep the dose on the card unless the card itself is wrong.

The batch acceptance rule: bracket chips

“Looks about right” is not a rule. A strip of five chips is.

Human eyes are good at telling two colours apart side by side and poor at judging how far apart they are from memory. A bracket strip turns that strength into a rule. From the approved formula, pour five 20 g chips with the dye at 80%, 90%, 100%, 110% and 120% of the dose (100 g of scented wax per strip). Label them −2, −1, 0, +1, +2. Make 3 strips: one on the bench, one in the master box, one for the client.

Bracket strip · worked example · per 10 kg melt equivalent
Pour each chip from a small weighed batch at the dose shown, from the same concentrate, wax and oil lots as the approved sample · judge at 72 h
Chip Dose vs approved Red per 10 kg (illustrative) Meaning
−2 80% 2.40 g clearly paler: hold
−1 90% 2.70 g edge of the band: accept
0 100% (master) 3.0 g the approved shade
+1 110% 3.30 g edge of the band: accept
+2 120% 3.60 g clearly deeper: hold
1
Pour a chip first, from every meltBefore the pitchers go out, pour one 20 g chip from the melt into a labelled cup or tray: melt number, date, lots.
2
Screen it at 30 minutes against a 30-minute referenceNot a judgement, a screen: a quickly-set chip beside a reference chip poured and set the same way catches a gross error before 50 jars are filled.
3
Pour the melt, record everythingLots, temperatures, hold time, stir time, the concentrate batch and the weight added. This is the batch sheet the cause table depends on.
4
Judge the chip at 72 hoursStandard light, lids off, against the strip. Score it: the nearest chip, or halfway between two (+0.5, −1.5).
5
Accept −1 to +1; hold anything outsideAccepted melts go to QC and packing. A held melt does not ship until the cause is found and the client-facing decision is made (next section).
6
Plot the scoresA run of scores creeping one way (0, +0.5, +0.5, +1) is a warning before it is a failure: a concentrate running stronger, a lot changing, a habit drifting.

The ±10% band is a worked example and a judgement, not a standard: a very pale shade may need a tighter band, a deeper one may tolerate more. Agree the band with the client by showing them the strip at approval: “candles between these two chips are within what you approved.” That one conversation turns an argument about adjectives into a check anyone can repeat. What the client must approve, physically, before bulk is the approvals post.

What to do with a melt that fails

A jar candle cannot be un-dyed. Decide before it is poured, or decide what it becomes.

The best outcome is catching it at the 30-minute screen, while the wax is still in the pot. Too pale: weigh in more concentrate (the gap between the chip and the master tells you roughly how much) and re-screen. Too deep: you cannot take colour out; add weighed, scented, undyed wax and oil in the same 8% ratio, recalculate the dose for the new total and re-screen. Either way, the melt’s batch sheet records the correction.

Once it is poured, the options are commercial, not chemical. In the worked example one melt is 50 candles and ₹7,594.48 of CSI materials (₹49.09 of oil, ₹93.36 of wax and ₹9.44 of wick each) before your jars and labour, 9.2% of the order’s CSI materials.

A held melt · options · worked example of 50 candles
Practical judgement · the client’s agreed band decides what counts as acceptable
Option When it fits Cost in the worked example
Ship inside a separate table or room set Score just outside the band; client agrees in writing Nothing extra; needs the client’s yes
Keep for your own range or seconds Clearly off; not to be sold to this client as the wedding colour Remake 50: ₹7,594.48 of materials plus jars and labour
Pull the wax and re-pour Only where you can remove wax from the jars safely and cleanly Wicks lost (₹472.00), jars cleaned, labour; wax and oil recovered
Remake from the loss buffer The order’s 5% loss buffer covers one melt of 50 only partly (25 pours) Plan spare capacity for remakes in advance
Argued against our own interest: the cheapest fix for shade drift is not a product. It is a written card, a concentrate made once, a chip per melt and a fixed light. You do not need another bottle of dye, a different wax or more wicks to stop drift; you need to stop the inputs changing. If you do buy, buy the run’s dye at the start (₹708.00), so you never need a second bottle mid-order. How much spare production capacity to keep for remakes like this is the spare-capacity post.

Buying to prevent drift

Drift prevention is a purchasing decision made on day one. Three purchase choices remove three causes before production starts: the dye for the whole run in one go, the wax from one lot if CSI can confirm it, and the oil recorded by lot with enough bought to finish the order. The sheet below is the worked example for 500 candles; the loss buffer is set at 5% rather than a plain candle’s 4% because a colour order adds shade rejects (how to fold a reject rate into purchasing is the reject-rate post).

Purchase sheet · 500 × 200 g blush · CSI live pricing, 7 October 2026
530 pours, 1% heel · dye at the illustrative dose with 20% spare for strips and a remake · wicks and jars +2% · worked examples · lots and dispatch confirmed on WhatsApp
Line Required With buffers Packs ₹ Left over Drift control
Candle Dye Liquid Red 32.12 g 38.54 g 1 × 50 ml ₹472.00 weigh it one bottle, one lot
Candle Dye Liquid Brown a trace 3.85 g 1 × 15 gm ₹236.00 most of it one bottle
British Rose 8 kg 8.565 kg 8 × 1 kg + 500 g + 100 g ₹26,479.20 35.20 g record the lot; undyed chip per lot
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 92 kg 98.50 kg 9 × 10 kg + 9 × 1 kg ₹50,232.60 0.50 kg one lot if confirmed
Eco C2 530 541 500 + 50 ₹5,192.00 9 wicks —
Your jars 530 541 your supplier your price — one carton batch if possible
CSI total ₹82,611.80 ₹165.22 per saleable candle; tools ₹708.00 extra if you need them

CSI 464 is ₹507.40 a kilo whether you buy 1 kg or 10 kg bags, so buying it all at the start costs nothing extra per kilo; the only reason to split wax deliveries is cash or storage, and the reason not to is the lot. CSI does not promise lot continuity in advance; ask on WhatsApp what lot you received and whether the rest can match. If the answer is no, an undyed chip from each lot, side by side, decides whether the second lot can join this colour.

Argued against our own interest, again: do not top up mid-order with a fresh dye bottle, a bag of wax from your regular stock, or a new oil bottle opened “because it is the same product”. Each is a new lot. If you must, treat it as a change: chip it against the master before it goes near a melt (the full change-control method is the 4801–4900 series; the jar-lot version is the 700-identical-jars post).

The decision rule and what protects you

Every melt earns its place in the order with a chip.

The decision rule. Pour on when the last melt’s chip scored between −1 and +1 at 72 hours and nothing in the inputs has changed since. Stop and investigate when a chip falls outside the band, when scores creep the same way three melts running, or when any input changes (dye bottle, concentrate batch, wax lot, oil lot, jar carton). The settling numbers: 11 melts, one chip each, a band of ±10% of dose in the worked example, and 72 hours per judgement, so the last melt’s verdict arrives three days after it is poured: plan packing and delivery around that.

What you never skip on a colour-matched run
Calendar time, not labour time · planning judgements for 200 g soy candles
Step Why Calendar time
Chip from every melt, judged at 72 h The only proof the melt matches the approval 72 h after each melt
Same-age, same-light comparison Prevents false alarms and false passes Minutes, at the same time of day
Undyed chip for every new wax or oil lot Separates a base-colour shift from a dye problem 72 h
Chip-check every new concentrate batch A batch is a lot 72 h before it goes into production
Burn check of a melt from each lot Colour can hide a burn change With your production burn schedule
Commercial protection (practical judgement, not legal or financial advice): put the approved sample number, the bracket strip and the band on the written approval: “production candles within chips −1 to +1 of the approved strip, judged in daylight, lids off”. Give the client their own strip. State that the client’s approval is of a physical candle under that light, not of how candles look under venue lighting or in photographs. If a held melt ships to a separate table with the client’s agreement, get that in writing too.
Keep the chips after delivery
Box every melt’s chip with its batch sheet until well after the wedding. If one candle is questioned later, you can show which melt it came from and how it scored.
This page is for you if the colour is approved and production is drifting, or you want to stop it drifting. Read elsewhere if you are still building the formula (6343) or still finding the shade (6342).

What to buy

Five items, chosen on page statements, price and stock on 7 October 2026. CSI publishes no colour, burn or dose data, so nothing is ranked on performance.

1
tool · temperature, the invisible variable
Pen Thermometer For Candle Making
Temperature is easy to blame and rarely measured. Hold time and temperature can shift some dyes and darken some oils (a tendency, not a rule), and a melt that sat hot for an hour while you dealt with a jar problem is not the melt you approved. The page calls it designed for accuracy but states no range or accuracy figure in the text we captured, so check it in a pot of melting wax against a second thermometer before the order. Write add, pour and hold times on every melt.
Item Price Use
Pen Thermometer For Candle Making ₹354.00 add, pour and hold temperatures per melt
In stock on 7 October 2026. Buy — ₹354.00
2
tool · dose by weight, never by drop
Candle Making Weighing Scale
The fix for the dosing causes on this page. The page says it measures "in grams or ounces"; in the text we captured it states no resolution or capacity, so check its step before you rely on it for dye. If it reads in 1 g steps, weigh concentrate, not neat dye: 3.0 g of Red in a 10 kg melt is up to 16.7% out on such a scale, a 30 g weighing of a 1-in-10 concentrate up to 1.7%. Building that concentrate is the repeatable-formula post.
Item Price Use
Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00 wax, oil and concentrate per melt
In stock on 7 October 2026. Buy — ₹354.00
3
dye · liquid · buy the run’s dye at the start
Candle Dye Liquid — Red
A new bottle is a new lot. Buy the order’s dye at the start, with spare for bracket strips and a possible remake: 38.54 g at the illustrative 0.30 g/kg, so one 50 ml bottle. The page says "Red dye in soy wax tends to produce lighter to medium shades of red", so blush and pink shades sit at the light end, where small dosing differences show most. The Brown trace comes from one 15 gm bottle (₹236.00); its 100 gm shows the same price as the 15 gm on 7 October 2026, likely a listing error.
Size Price In this plan
15 gm ₹236.00 trials only
50 ml ₹472.00 the order: 38.54 g with 20% spare, bought at the start
100 gm ₹900.00 a much deeper shade
Red 50 ml + Brown 15 gm = ₹708.00, bought once. Buy 50 ml — ₹472.00
4
wax · container soy · the base colour
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles
Natural wax varies in base colour between lots, and pale shades show it first. The page claims "Low frosting, minimal blooming"; frosting still happens with soy and lightens how a surface reads, so judge chips at the same age. It states "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C" (and lists a melting point with the same figures; quote the pour line). At ₹507.40 a kilo in 1 kg and 10 kg bags, the 99 kg costs the same however it is split: ask on WhatsApp whether it can come from one lot.
Size Price Per kg In this plan
500 g ₹260.00 ₹520.00 bracket strips from the production lot
1 kg ₹507.40 ₹507.40 bulk top-up: 9 of these
5 kg ₹2,537.00 ₹507.40 same per kg
10 kg ₹5,074.00 ₹507.40 bulk: 9 of these
99 kg for ₹50,232.60. Buy 10 kg — ₹5,074.00
5
fragrance oil · rose · the worked example’s scent
British Rose Fragrance Oil
The page describes "fresh, dewy rose petals with subtle green undertones and a soft floral finish" and states "up to 10% soy". In the text we captured it states no vanillin content and no cure time, so the oil’s own tint and any change over time are yours to check: an undyed twin from each oil lot, beside the master, tells you whether a new lot moves the blush. ₹49.09 of oil a candle at the 1 kg price; the cheapest cover for 8.565 kg is 8 × 1 kg + 500 g + 100 g (₹26,479.20), not 9 × 1 kg (₹27,612.00).
Size Price Per gram 200 g candles at 8% (16 g)
15 g ₹94.40 ₹6.29 none (a sniff sample)
50 g ₹212.40 ₹4.25 3
100 g ₹342.20 ₹3.42 6
500 g ₹1,593.00 ₹3.19 31
1 kg ₹3,068.00 ₹3.07 62
₹26,479.20 for the order. Buy 1 kg — ₹3,068.00
Wedding season is commonly November to February; 30 November 2026 is 54 days from 7 October 2026. A colour-matched order is easier to keep consistent when its dye, wax and oil are bought once. Message us on WhatsApp with the quantities; we will confirm stock, lots and dispatch with a GST invoice, and say plainly what we can’t promise.
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The CSI principle
A colour stays approved only while its inputs stay the same and every melt proves it.
Same age, same light, same lots, weighed concentrate, and one chip per melt against a five-chip strip. 11 melts, 11 chips, one band.
"Shade drift is never a mystery. It is an input that changed when nobody was writing it down."
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide

CandleMakingSuppliesIndia sells the dyes, wax, oil, wicks and tools named here and does not sell finished candles. This page still tells you that the fix for drift is a process rather than a purchase, not to top up with new bottles or bags mid-order, that our scale and thermometer pages state no resolution or accuracy figure, and that one of our dye listings looks mispriced.

Every CSI price was checked on the live store on 7 October 2026, size by size; every item offered here is in stock on that date, and the out-of-stock Eco C1 10-pack is not offered. Stock depth, dispatch dates and lot continuity are not shown on product pages and are confirmed on WhatsApp.

The 200 g fill, 8% load, colour, doses, melt size, chip sizes, the ±10% band, the 30-minute screen, 72-hour judging age, the melt-3 drift, 5% loss, 1% heel and 2% piece buffers are labelled worked examples or planning judgements; the 500 candles, the approved sample and the batch that looks different are yours. This is practical judgement, not legal or financial advice. For bulk pricing, stock and lot confirmation, GST invoicing, and MSDS and IFRA documentation on request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

Why do my candles come out a different colour from batch to batch?
Usually the comparison (different age or light) or an input that changed: dye by drops or a new bottle, a new wax lot, a new fragrance-oil lot or load, a long hot hold, or uneven mixing. The pattern points to the cause: a whole melt off, a gradient within a melt, or only some jars.
How do I keep candle colour consistent across a large order?
Weigh a concentrate from one batch into every melt, buy the run’s dye and wax at the start, record every lot, write temperatures and stir time, and judge one chip per melt at a fixed age under one light against the approved sample.
How do I check a production batch against an approved candle sample?
Compare at the same age, in the same light, lids off, on white card, from the same jar carton. Better, pour a bracket strip at −20%, −10%, 0, +10% and +20% of the dose and score each melt’s chip against it; accept −1 to +1 if that is the band agreed with the client.
Does fragrance oil affect candle colour?
It can. Fragrance oils have their own tint, and a new lot can differ from the one in the approved sample. Pour an undyed scented chip from each oil lot beside one from the sample’s lot and compare after 72 hours.
Can I fix a candle batch that came out the wrong colour?
In the pot, yes: add weighed concentrate if it is too pale, or dilute with scented, undyed wax at the same load if it is too deep, then re-check. Once poured into jars, the options are commercial: client-agreed separate use, your own range, or a remake.
How long should I wait before judging candle colour?
Use one fixed age for the sample and every production chip; the worked example uses 72 hours. A quick 30-minute chip screen against a 30-minute reference catches gross errors before the melt is poured, but it is not the judgement.
500 candles, one approved colour
Compare fairly, fix the input, prove every melt.
In the worked example: 11 melts, a chip from each, a five-chip strip and a ±10% band, with the run’s dye bought once for ₹708.00. Ask us which wax lot you received before the next bags arrive.
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Continue the read — wedding orders & customisation
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About this guide: part of CSI’s cluster "Wedding orders & customisation" (6341–6360) in the series on bulk corporate and wedding candle orders × raw materials. It covers why a production batch can differ from an approved colour sample, how to tell the causes apart, how to prevent drift across a 500-candle order, a bracket-chip acceptance rule, what to do with a failed melt, and the purchasing choices that remove drift causes.

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 — British Rose Fragrance Oil, Candle Dye Liquid, Eco Soy CSI 400, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (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 bulk-order 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 — Arshad Shaikh, Antara Srinivas Iyer, Rahul Singh, Jaya Sawlani, Arminder Kaur, Priya Singh. Reviews below five stars are included as published, not filtered out.

Figures verified 7 October 2026, CSI live pricing: Pen Thermometer For Candle Making ₹354.00; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00; Candle Dye Liquid Red 15 gm ₹236.00, 50 ml ₹472.00, 100 gm ₹900.00; Candle Dye Liquid Brown 15 gm ₹236.00, 50 gm ₹472.00, 100 gm ₹236.00 as listed (likely a listing error); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260.00, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537.00, 10 kg ₹5,074.00; British Rose Fragrance Oil 15 g ₹94.40, 50 g ₹212.40, 100 g ₹342.20, 500 g ₹1,593.00, 1 kg ₹3,068.00; Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40, 20 ₹188.80, 50 ₹472.00, 100 ₹944.00, 500 ₹4,720.00, 1,000 ₹9,440.00; Thin (C1) 10-pack out of stock. Every other item priced here is in stock. Stock depth, dispatch dates and lot continuity are not published: confirm on WhatsApp. Per unit = price ÷ grams or units, two decimals.

Non-price figures: 500 candles, the approved sample and the differing batch are the reader’s figures (title). The 200 g fill and 8% load (total-weight basis: 16 g oil + 184 g wax), the blush colour and doses (0.30 g/kg Red, 0.03 g/kg Brown), 10 kg melts of 50, 20 g chips, the five-chip strip and ±10% band, the 30-minute screen, 72-hour judging age, the melt-3 drift (60 drops), 5 planned extras, 5% loss, 1% heel and 2% piece buffers are labelled worked examples or planning judgements. Weighing errors quoted are worst-case rounding (half a scale step). No CSI dye page states a dosage; the scale and thermometer pages state no resolution, range or accuracy figure in the text we captured. Wax and oil ceilings are as the pages state (CSI 464 up to 10%; British Rose up to 10% soy): formulation limits, not regulatory ones. Costs are CSI materials only and exclude your jars, labour, freight, packaging and GST.
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