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The three colourants, and what each is actually for

A dye dissolves. Drop it into molten wax, stir, and the colourant goes into solution the way sugar goes into hot water — no separate substance is left in there, and the coloured wax travels up the wick and combusts with it. A pigment does not dissolve. It is a finely milled solid, and it stays a solid at every temperature your pour will reach. Both make wax look coloured. Only one is safe in the part of the candle that has to burn.

Mica is a pigment, not a dye — and it will clog a wick

This is the most useful paragraph on this page, so it is stated plainly. Do not stir mica powder into the wax body of a container candle. Not a small amount, not "just for shimmer", not mixed with liquid dye to soften it. Mica particles do not dissolve in wax at any temperature or any dose. They remain discrete solids held in suspension, and a burning candle is a machine specifically designed to draw liquid from the melt pool up into the wick by capillary action.

Follow what happens over a burn. The wick draws molten wax upward through the braid. The wax reaches the flame and combusts. The mica does not — it is a mineral, and it has no fuel value at candle-flame temperature. So it stays behind, lodged in the fibres of the braid. Every hour of burning adds more. The capillary channels narrow, the wick draws less fuel, and the flame gets smaller and smaller until it chokes out in a pool of unburnt wax. Along the way you will usually see a hard, crusted, oversized carbon head on the wick that no amount of trimming fixes, because the obstruction is inside the braid rather than on top of it. This failure does not show up on the first test burn. It shows up in a customer's home, halfway down a candle they have already paid for.

Dosing: colour is weighed against wax, not counted by eye

Colour is dosed the same way fragrance is — as a percentage of the wax weight in the pour. That framing is the only one that survives a change of batch size. "Six drops" means one thing in a 500 g test pour and something else entirely in the 4 kg pitcher you use once orders arrive.

The numbers below are CSI bench starting points, not manufacturer specifications. Pigment strength varies by shade — blacks and blues reach depth at a lower dose than yellows do — so treat these as the first pour of a test series rather than a recipe to copy. Cost per gram is calculated from the 50 ml bottle at ₹472, which works out at ₹9.44 per gram.

Read the right-hand column again. A pastel candle carries under one rupee of colour, and even a deep, saturated 200 g candle carries under nine. A 50 g bottle at ₹472 colours 100 kg of wax at a 0.05% pastel dose, or 50 kg at 0.1% — 50 kg being roughly 270 candles at 184 g of wax each. The 100 g bottle at ₹900 works out at ₹9.00 per gram and covers over 500 candles at 0.1%. Colour will never decide whether your business works, which is exactly why it should not be the line item you guess at.

On burn behaviour, here is what is known and where the evidence stops. Dye is a non-wax additive that ends up at the flame, and at high loads makers commonly report more carbon build-up and mushrooming than on the same candle poured clear. What nobody can give you from a blog post is the magnitude for your dye, dose, wax and wick, because those four interact. So the rule is procedural, not numerical: a colour change is a formula change, and a formula change requires a fresh burn test. If your clear candle was correctly wicked with a Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wick at ₹5.90 apiece, do not assume the deep-black version is. Burn one. The wick guide by diameter covers the method.

The full CSI colour range, with live prices

Everything below is from the Candle Dyes collection, which holds 25 products. Prices are CSI live pricing, September 2026. The linked product page is always authoritative — stock and pricing change.

Two micas were out of stock on the 10 September 2026 pull — Orange and Silver — so check the collection before planning a launch around them. Standard mica at ₹5.78 per gram in the 10 g size drops only to ₹5.30 per gram at 100 g, so there is no reason to buy 100 g of a colour you have not tested. Surface dusting uses a fraction of a gram per candle. A 10 g pot of gold mica will outlast most of the candles you make this year.

Consistency across batches, and why the same dose reads differently

A hobbyist can make a nice green candle. A brand has to make the same green in March and in September, in a batch of six and a batch of two hundred. That is a records problem before it is a chemistry problem, and it is solved with a scale and a notebook rather than with better dye.

Now the part that catches most makers out. Wax changes the colour, not just the dye. Paraffin sets to a clean, translucent base, so dye reads close to its true hue and saturates quickly — Fully Refined Paraffin Wax Pellets at ₹354 per kg shows a dye at its most vivid. Soy is a different starting point: naturally an opaque off-white to cream, and it crystallises as it sets, so it scatters light rather than transmitting it. The same dose in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599 per kg comes out lighter and slightly warmed by the cream underneath — a blue reads dusty, a yellow reads buttery.

Coconut-soy pushes this further. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 at ₹650 per kg sets whiter and more opaque than straight soy, and more opacity means more light scattered back out before it reaches the dye. Expect the same dose to read paler in coconut-soy than in soy, and paler in soy than in paraffin. That is not a fault in anybody's dye, and it is why your shade card has to be made in your own production wax. Antara Srinivas Iyer reported "good vibrant colours in both luxury soy wax and coconut soy wax" — the dye works in both, but the number in your recipe book will not be the same number.

Which brings us to the argument against buying anything at all. Uncoloured candles sell perfectly well. Much of the premium end of the Indian market — and almost all of the minimal, natural-materials end of it — is uncoloured cream soy in a plain vessel, and that is a deliberate aesthetic rather than a compromise. Natural soy colour signals "no unnecessary additives" to exactly the customer willing to pay more, and it removes a whole class of production problem: no shade drift, no re-wicking after a colour change, no frosting complaints on a dark surface, no dye inventory.

When colour does earn its place it is doing one of three jobs: signalling the scent before the customer smells it, so a green reads fresh and a deep brown reads woody; matching a vessel or seasonal collection so a range photographs as a set; or carrying a brand identity across products. "Because coloured candles look nicer" is not one of the three, and it is why most full dye sets get bought. Decide which job colour is doing, then buy exactly the shades that do it. If you are still assembling the bench, the complete raw material list sets out what you actually need, and how to start a candle making business in India covers the sequence to buy it in.

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