I Produce About 50 Candles a Day — How Do I Convert Daily Production Into Minimum Raw-Material Stock Levels?
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A production day is the only unit that never lies to you. Multiply it by the days you cannot be without material, and you have your minimum.
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Candle Business Guides · Inventory × The Production Day
Fifty 200 g-class candles a day is 9.25 kg of wax, 740 g of fragrance oil, 50 wicks and 50 jars — every single day you pour. A minimum stock level is nothing more than that daily draw multiplied by the number of days you cannot afford to be without material: here eleven, giving 101.75 kg and 8.14 kg.
9.25 kg / day
of soy wax, plus 740 g of oil, 50 wicks and 50 jars · multiply by 11 days (7-day lead time + 4-day buffer) for the minimum level · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What does one production day consume? At a 185 g fill with fragrance at 8% of wax weight (14.8 g), fifty candles draw 9.25 kg of wax, 740 g of oil, 50 wicks and 50 jars. Priced at CSI 464, Jasmine at the 1 kg rate, Eco C1 wicks and 200 ml Salsa jars, one day of materials is ₹9,366.How do I turn that into a minimum? Multiply by the days you must cover: your lead time plus your buffer. On a seven-day lead time with a four-day buffer that is 11 days — 101.75 kg of wax, 8.14 kg of oil, 550 wicks and 550 jars, or 1.83 weeks of cover and about ₹1,03,031 on the shelf.
Why count in days rather than months? Because packs convert into days beautifully at this rate. A 10 kg wax bag is 1.08 days. A 100-jar pack is exactly 2 days. A 1,000-wick pack is exactly 20 days. A 1 kg oil bottle is 1.35 days if it were your only scent.
What is the monthly picture? Twenty-five pouring days is 1,250 candles — 231.25 kg of wax, 18.5 kg of oil, 1,250 wicks and 1,250 jars, roughly ₹2,34,162 of material. That is what the minimum is protecting, not replacing.
The short answer
Write the day, not the month: 9.25 kg of wax, 740 g of oil, 50 wicks, 50 jars. Every minimum level, every reorder trigger and every pack decision in this guide is that row multiplied by a whole number of days.
Minimum level = daily draw × (lead time + buffer): 11 days here, so 101.75 kg, 8.14 kg, 550 and 550. Use your own lead time, measured from your own deliveries, and name your buffer as a choice rather than a standard.
Convert every pack into days before you buy it: at 50 candles a day a 5 kg wax bag is half a day and a 1,000-wick pack is twenty. That single habit stops you buying a day of jars and a month of wicks in the same order by accident.
In this guide
Every bar is the same row of four numbers multiplied by a different count of days. The month is on the chart only to show what a minimum is not: 231.25 kg is what you consume, and holding it would park ₹1,31,131 more than the eleven-day minimum requires.
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Straight answer
How do I convert 50 candles a day into minimum raw-material stock levels?
Write one row of four numbers, then multiply it by days. A 200 g-class candle on a 185 g fill with fragrance at 8% of wax weight takes 185 g of wax, 14.8 g of oil, one wick and one jar, so a fifty-candle day draws 9.25 kg of wax, 740 g of oil, 50 wicks and 50 jars. That row is the unit of everything that follows. Your minimum stock level is the row multiplied by (your observed lead time + the buffer you choose): on a seven-day lead time with a four-day buffer, eleven days gives 101.75 kg of wax, 8.14 kg of fragrance oil, 550 wicks and 550 jars — 1.83 weeks of cover. Valued at CSI 464 at ₹507.40/kg, Jasmine at the 1 kg rate of ₹3.923/g, Eco C1 wicks at ₹5.90 and 200 ml Salsa jars at ₹29.50, that minimum is ₹51,628 + ₹31,933 + ₹3,245 + ₹16,225 = ≈₹1,03,031, and the four-day buffer portion of it is ₹37,466. The reason to work in days rather than months is that packs convert cleanly: a 10 kg wax bag is 1.08 days, a 100-jar pack is exactly 2 days, a 500-wick pack is exactly 10 days, a 1,000-wick pack exactly 20. Twenty-five pouring days — 1,250 candles, 231.25 kg, 18.5 kg, 1,250 and 1,250 — is your monthly consumption, which is what the minimum protects, not what it should equal.
One line: 9.25 kg, 740 g, 50, 50 — times eleven days. Count the shelf against that row every pouring morning and the ordering decides itself.
Eleven days of material in listed packs: CSI 464 10 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg = ₹53,277, nine 1 kg oil bottles, one 500-wick pack and one 50 at ₹3,245, and six 100-jar packs at ₹17,700.
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The production day, written out
Ask a maker how much wax they use and you get a month. Ask the shelf and it answers in days, because that is the only unit it understands.
A minimum stock level is a statement about time: how long you can keep pouring if nothing arrives. So the denominator has to be a day's consumption, and it has to be a day of pouring, not a day of the calendar. If you pour on 25 days a month, your day-rate is a 25-day rate, and a weekend does not consume wax.
At a 185 g fill, fifty candles a day is 9.25 kg of wax and 740 g of oil — 9.99 kg poured in total, plus fifty wicks and fifty jars. If you prefer load expressed as a share of the finished candle, 14.8 g in a 199.8 g candle is 7.41%; both conventions are in use and the arithmetic is identical as long as you label which one you mean. Weigh one filled jar to confirm the 185 g, because a jar page quoting 200 ml is giving you volume and wax is bought by weight.
One pouring day at 50 candles · 185 g fill · 8% of wax weight
The row that every number in this guide is a multiple of
| Line | Per candle | Per pouring day | Per six-day week | Per 25-day month | Cost per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy wax | 185 g | 9.25 kg | 55.5 kg | 231.25 kg | ₹4,693.45 |
| Fragrance oil (all scents) | 14.8 g | 740 g | 4.44 kg | 18.5 kg | ₹2,903.02 |
| Wicks | 1 | 50 | 300 | 1,250 | ₹295 |
| Glass jars | 1 | 50 | 300 | 1,250 | ₹1,475 |
| All four | ₹187.33 | ₹9,366.47 | ₹56,198.82 | ₹2,34,161.75 | — |
Worked out above: wax 50 × 185 g = 9.25 kg; oil 50 × 14.8 g = 740 g; wicks and jars 50 each. Week = × 6 pouring days; month = × 25. Cost per candle = 0.185 kg × ₹507.40 (₹93.87) + 14.8 g × ₹3.923 (₹58.06) + ₹5.90 wick + ₹29.50 jar = ₹187.33, so a day is ₹9,366.47 and a month ₹2,34,161.75. Prices are CSI 464 at its flat ₹507.40/kg, Jasmine Fragrance Oil at its 1 kg rate, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) and the clear 200 ml Salsa jar at its 50-and-100-piece rate.
The mistake: using a calendar day instead of a pouring day. Fifty candles a day across 30 calendar days reads as 1,500 candles and 277.5 kg of wax; across 25 pouring days it is 1,250 candles and 231.25 kg. The 46.25 kg gap is five days of production — enough to make a minimum level either dangerously thin or quietly expensive, depending on which way you erred. The fix: count only the days you actually pour, write that number at the top of the sheet, and recount it if your week changes. If you pour four days a week rather than six, your weekly draw is 37 kg of wax, not 55.5 kg, and every cover figure in weeks moves with it.
Turning days into a minimum level
A minimum is not a feeling about how much looks safe. It is the number of days of supply you need to survive the gap between ordering and receiving, plus however many extra days you have decided to pay for. Two inputs, both yours.
The first is lead time: the measured gap between placing an order and having material you can pour. Measure it on your own deliveries by writing two dates on every bag and box. This guide uses seven days because that is the figure in the question — not because anyone publishes it, and certainly not as a promise.
The second is the buffer, and it is a decision rather than a calculation. Four days is used here. Four days of production at this rate is 200 candles, 37 kg of wax and ₹37,466 of material — which is exactly the right way to think about a buffer: not as "a bit extra", but as a specific number of days you are buying, at a specific price.
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Fix the daily row and the number of pouring days9.25 kg, 740 g, 50, 50, on 25 pouring days a month. If your fill is 165 g or 210 g, redo the row now; if you pour on a different number of days, change that too. Everything downstream is a multiple of these.
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Measure the lead time per material, not once for the shelfWax, oil, wicks and jars may arrive on different cycles. If they genuinely come together, one figure is fine and this guide's seven days applies to all four. If the glass takes twice as long, the jar minimum doubles while the others stay put.
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Choose the buffer in days, then price itFour days = 37 kg of wax, 2.96 kg of oil, 200 wicks and 200 jars = ₹18,774 + ₹11,612 + ₹1,180 + ₹5,900 = ₹37,466. Naming the price is what turns a vague "keep some spare" into a decision you can defend or revise.
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Multiply to get the minimum, and convert it to weeks11 days × the daily row = 101.75 kg, 8.14 kg, 550, 550. Divide the days by your pouring week: 11 ÷ 6 = 1.83 weeks. Keep both numbers — days for the count, weeks for the conversation.
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Set a red line at bare lead-time coverSeven days with no buffer is 64.75 kg of wax, 5.18 kg of oil, 350 wicks and 350 jars. Below that, a single late delivery is a stopped pour. Mark it on the shelf — a line on the rack, a tag on the bag — so it is visible without arithmetic.
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Subtract committed material before you read anythingA confirmed 250-candle order is 46.25 kg of wax, 3.7 kg of oil, 250 wicks and 250 jars already spoken for. Available = on hand − committed. At fifty candles a day one accepted order can swallow five days of every line at once, and the only safe figure to compare against your minimum is the available one.
The day-multiplier table · 50 candles a day
Pick the row that matches your lead time plus buffer and read across
| Days of cover | In weeks | Soy wax | Fragrance oil | Wicks | Jars | Material value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | 0.17 | 9.25 kg | 740 g | 50 | 50 | ₹9,366 |
| 3 days | 0.50 | 27.75 kg | 2.22 kg | 150 | 150 | ₹28,099 |
| 6 days (one pouring week) | 1.00 | 55.5 kg | 4.44 kg | 300 | 300 | ₹56,199 |
| 7 days (lead time, no buffer) | 1.17 | 64.75 kg | 5.18 kg | 350 | 350 | ₹65,565 |
| 11 days (the minimum) | 1.83 | 101.75 kg | 8.14 kg | 550 | 550 | ₹1,03,031 |
| 18 days | 3.00 | 166.5 kg | 13.32 kg | 900 | 900 | ₹1,68,596 |
| 25 days (a month's consumption) | 4.17 | 231.25 kg | 18.5 kg | 1,250 | 1,250 | ₹2,34,162 |
Four days of buffer is not four days on every line
The eleven-day minimum above applies one lead time and one buffer to all four materials, which is the simplest honest version. If your glass genuinely takes longer to arrive than your wax, the jar row alone should be multiplied by its own days — at a fourteen-day jar lead time plus four, the jar minimum becomes 900 jars rather than 550, which is ₹10,325 more and the cheapest insurance you will buy that month, because a jar shortage stops every candle. Split the lead times as soon as you have six deliveries of evidence per line.The four minimums, and what they cost
Here is the eleven-day minimum broken out by line, with the buffer portion separated from the lead-time portion. The split matters: the lead-time portion is not optional at all, while the buffer portion is the part you can argue about.
Minimum stock levels at 50 candles a day · 7-day lead time + 4-day buffer
What is compulsory, what is a choice, and what each part costs
| Line | Lead-time portion (7 days) | Buffer portion (4 days) | Minimum level (11 days) | Value at minimum | Listed packs that fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy wax | 64.75 kg | 37 kg | 101.75 kg | ≈₹51,628 | 10 × 10 kg + 1 × 5 kg = 105 kg, ₹53,277 |
| Fragrance oil (total) | 5.18 kg | 2.96 kg | 8.14 kg | ≈₹31,933 | Nine 1 kg bottles, split by scent share |
| Wicks | 350 | 200 | 550 | ≈₹3,245 | 1 × 500 + 1 × 50 = ₹3,245 |
| Glass jars | 350 | 200 | 550 | ≈₹16,225 | 6 × 100 = 600 jars, ₹17,700 |
| Total | ≈₹65,565 | ≈₹37,466 | — | ≈₹1,03,031 | — |
Look at the two cheapest lines. The whole wick minimum — 550 wicks for ₹3,245 — is about 3% of the shelf, which is why there is no sensible argument for ever being short of wicks at this volume. Rounding the wick line up to a single 1,000-piece pack costs ₹5,900 and buys twenty days, nearly double the minimum, for less money than one day of wax. Meanwhile the oil line is ₹31,933 and has to be split across scents before it means anything, and the jar line is the one most likely to be the binding constraint.
Don't hold a month because the month is the number you know. A 231.25 kg wax shelf feels like good housekeeping and parks ₹1,31,131 more than the eleven-day minimum across the four lines — for a business consuming ₹9,366 of material a day, that is fourteen extra days of cash sitting still with nothing to show for it. The lead time is seven days, so anything beyond about eleven days of cover is storage, not safety. The fix: let the minimum be a floor you reorder from, not a level you maintain, and choose an order quantity separately. If you reorder a fortnight at a time from an eleven-day floor, your shelf swings between 11 and 23 days of cover and averages about 17 — which is a deliberate position rather than an accident.
Every pack expressed in production days
This is the table worth pinning up, because it changes how you read a product page. Once a pack is a number of pouring days, the question "is this pack the right size?" answers itself, and you stop buying a half-day of wax and a month of wicks in the same basket.
Listed CSI packs converted to pouring days at 50 candles/day
Pack quantity ÷ daily draw — and what the pack costs per production day
| Pack | Listed price | Days of cover | Cost per pouring day | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSI 464 500 g | ₹260 | 0.05 days | ₹4,810 | ₹520/kg — dearer per kilo than every other pack |
| CSI 464 5 kg | ₹2,537 | 0.54 days | ₹4,693 | ₹507.40/kg |
| CSI 464 10 kg | ₹5,074 | 1.08 days | ₹4,693 | Largest listed pack; rate identical to 1 kg and 5 kg |
| Jasmine 500 g | ₹1,961 | 0.68 days (sole scent) | ₹2,902 | ₹3.922/g |
| Jasmine 1 kg | ₹3,923 | 1.35 days (sole scent) | ₹2,903 | ₹3.923/g — fractionally dearer per gram than two 500 g |
| Eco C1 wicks 500 | ₹2,950 | 10.0 days | ₹295 | Flat ₹5.90 each at every pack |
| Eco C1 wicks 1,000 | ₹5,900 | 20.0 days | ₹295 | Nearly two minimums for the price of one day of wax |
| 200 ml Salsa jar 5 Pcs | ₹200.60 | 0.1 days | ₹2,006 | ₹40.12 each — the only pack that is dearer per jar |
| 200 ml Salsa jar 50 Pcs | ₹1,475 | 1.0 day | ₹1,475 | ₹29.50 each |
| 200 ml Salsa jar 100 Pcs | ₹2,950 | 2.0 days | ₹1,475 | Same rate as the 50; buy on handling |
Three conclusions fall straight out of that table. Wax has no pack reward above 1 kg on CSI 464 — the rate is identical at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg, and only the 500 g pack is dearer — so buy 10 kg bags purely to reduce handling. The wick pack is absurdly cheap in days, so round it up without thinking. And the jar pack is the one to watch: the 5-piece pack costs ₹10.62 more per jar than the 50, which across a 1,250-jar month would be ₹13,275 of pure avoidable cost.
Buying to a daily rate
Three cards, each chosen for what its pack ladder teaches a daily producer. Each table lists every listed pack with its price and per-unit rate, and for wax and oil the number of 200 g-class candles the pack covers.
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Wax · 9.25 kg a day · 101.75 kg minimum
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form)
The flat ladder is what makes this wax easy to run a daily operation on: ₹507.40 a kilo at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg, with only the 500 g pack dearer at ₹520. No pack decision, no false economy, no reason to over-order — buy whatever the eleven-day minimum needs and no more. Its page states a fragrance load of up to 10% and gives both the melting point and the pour temperature as 80–90°C; at 8% you are inside that ceiling with room to spare, which matters when you are pouring 250 candles a week to one recipe. A 10 kg bag is 1.08 pouring days and 54 candles, so the minimum is ten bags and a five. One CSI customer, Jaya Sawlani, writes that the "soy wax quality is the best".
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200g-class candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260 | ₹520 | ≈2 |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | ₹507.40 | ≈5 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537 | ₹507.40 | ≈27 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074 | ₹507.40 | ≈54 |
₹4,693.45 of wax per pouring day · 101.75 kg minimum ≈ ₹51,628 Buy CSI 464
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Fragrance · 740 g a day · 8.14 kg minimum
Jasmine Fragrance Oil
The ladder here makes an unusually clean point for anyone who assumes the biggest bottle is always right: Jasmine is ₹3.922 a gram at 500 g and ₹3.923 a gram at 1 kg. Two 500 g bottles cost ₹3,922 against ₹3,923 for one kilo — the kilo is one rupee dearer. So the pack choice is purely operational: a kilo is one container to open and 1.35 pouring days of a sole scent; two half-kilos are two seals and the option to stop. For any scent that is not your top seller, take the 500 g. Remember that the 8.14 kg minimum is a total across scents, and 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack — nine bottles at the minimum, split by each scent's share of your output.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 200g-class candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹103 | ₹686.67 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹230 | ₹460 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹430 | ₹430 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,961 | ₹392.20 | ≈33 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,923 | ₹392.30 | ≈67 |
₹58.06 of oil per candle at the 1 kg rate · 67 candles per kilo Buy Jasmine oil
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Wicks · 50 a day · 550 minimum
Eco Candle Wicks | Eco Wicks for Candle Making
The line where the day-multiplier table does its best work. Thin (C1) is a flat ₹5.90 a wick at every listed pack from 10 to 1,000, so the 500-piece pack is exactly ten pouring days and the 1,000 is exactly twenty — and the thousand costs ₹5,900, about one and a quarter days of wax. There is no volume reward and no volume penalty, which means the only sensible policy is to round generously and never think about wicks again. Thick (C2) is a flat ₹9.44 each; note the C2 10-piece variant is currently sold out, while the 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 are listed. Wick size belongs to your burn test and your jar diameter, never to your budget. One CSI customer, Ashwini, writes "Quality wick, works very well".
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks | ₹59 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 20 Wicks | ₹118 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks | ₹295 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 100 Wicks | ₹590 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 500 Wicks | ₹2,950 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 1000 Wicks | ₹5,900 | ₹5.90 |
₹295 of wicks per pouring day · 550 minimum ≈ ₹3,245 Buy Eco Candle Wicks
Priced above: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260 (₹520/kg), 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 (₹507.40/kg); Jasmine Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹103, 50 gm ₹230, 100 gm ₹430, 500 gm ₹1,961, 1 kg ₹3,923 — ₹4.30, ₹3.922 and ₹3.923 a gram, so two 500 g bottles (₹3,922) cost ₹1 less than one kilo; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 20 ₹118, 50 ₹295, 100 ₹590, 500 ₹2,950, 1000 ₹5,900 (flat ₹5.90 each), Thick (C2) a flat ₹9.44 each with the 10-piece variant currently sold out; 200ml Salsa Glass Jar 5 Pcs ₹200.60 (₹40.12 each), 50 Pcs ₹1,475 and 100 Pcs ₹2,950 (₹29.50 each). Cost per pouring day = daily quantity × per-unit rate.
At 231.25 kg of wax and 18.5 kg of oil a month you are above every listed fragrance pack and buying wax by the case. Send the daily row and your pouring days for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS or IFRA documentation — listed per-kilo and per-gram rates are the ceiling.
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The two-minute daily count that makes it real
A minimum level only works if somebody looks at it. At fifty candles a day the right rhythm is a short count at the start of each pouring day, not a careful audit once a month — because a month is four and a half minimums wide, and anything that goes wrong in week two will have stopped you before you notice.
The morning count · four lines, four thresholds, one decision
Minimum, red line and the action at each — substitute your own lead time
| Line | Count as | Minimum (11 days) | Red line (7 days) | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy wax | Kilograms, written on each bag as it arrives | 101.75 kg | 64.75 kg | Order at 101.75 kg; stop promising new dates below 64.75 kg |
| Fragrance oil | Grams, per scent, not as a total | 8.14 kg total | 5.18 kg total | Order any scent that falls below its own share of 8.14 kg |
| Wicks | Pieces, in sealed packs plus the open one | 550 | 350 | Order a 1,000 pack at 550; it is ₹5,900 and twenty days |
| Glass jars | Pieces, counting only unbroken stock | 550 | 350 | Order at 550, add a 3% breakage allowance, and never run this line thin |
| Committed | Candles promised but not poured | Subtract before reading any row | — | A 250-candle order removes five days from every line at once |
Two refinements once the habit sticks. First, re-derive the daily row whenever your output changes by more than about 10% — at 60 candles a day the wax draw is 11.1 kg and the eleven-day minimum becomes 122.1 kg, a 20 kg difference that a stale sheet will not tell you about. Second, re-measure the lead time every delivery, because the minimum is the lead time multiplied by the daily row: a slip from seven days to ten raises the wax minimum from 101.75 kg to 129.5 kg without anything else changing.
The CSI principle
A minimum stock level is a date, not a quantity. It is the last day you can place an order and still pour on Monday.
Once you hold the daily row — 9.25 kg, 740 g, 50 wicks, 50 jars — every stock question becomes arithmetic about days. How much to keep is a number of days. When to order is a number of days. Whether a pack is sensible is a number of days. The kilograms are just the day-count wearing a different unit.
Count the shelf in pouring days. The shelf does not know what a month is.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. At fifty candles a day you are spending roughly ₹2,34,162 a month on materials, so the easy version of this page would recommend holding a month of everything and selling you ₹1,31,131 more shelf than your lead time requires. It recommends eleven days instead, because a producer whose cash turns quickly keeps pouring, and one whose cash is in bags does not.
Every price and pack size is live CSI stock in September 2026, linked to the product page where current pricing is always authoritative — including the cases where the larger pack is no cheaper or fractionally dearer, as with CSI 464 above 1 kg, the flat Eco wick ladder and Jasmine's kilo. Fragrance loads and temperatures are quoted only where a page states them: up to 10% on CSI 464, with its melting point and pour both stated as 80–90°C. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. The fifty-candle day rate, the 185 g fill, the 8% load, 25 pouring days, the seven-day lead time and the four-day buffer are the reader's inputs, used to show the method; CSI publishes no delivery time, no minimum order quantity and no stock-availability promise, and none is implied here.
For a recurring monthly quote at this volume, GST invoicing, or MSDS and IFRA documentation, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 with your daily row and your pouring days.
Frequently asked questions
How much wax does 50 candles a day use?
At a 185 g fill, exactly 9.25 kg of soy wax a day, plus 740 g of fragrance oil at 8% of wax weight, 50 wicks and 50 jars. Over a six-day pouring week that is 55.5 kg and 4.44 kg; over 25 pouring days it is 231.25 kg and 18.5 kg for 1,250 candles. Add a planning allowance of about 3–5% on the wax for spills and top-ups when you convert the figure into an order.
How do I calculate a minimum stock level from daily production?
Multiply the daily draw by your lead time plus whatever buffer you choose. At 9.25 kg of wax a day with a seven-day lead time and a four-day buffer, the minimum is 9.25 × 11 = 101.75 kg; the same eleven days give 8.14 kg of oil, 550 wicks and 550 jars — 1.83 weeks of cover. The lead time is a measurement you take from your own deliveries; the buffer is a decision, and at this rate four days of it costs about ₹37,466.
Should my minimum stock be the same number of days for every material?
Only if they genuinely arrive on the same cycle. Where they do not, multiply each line by its own lead time: at a fourteen-day jar lead time plus a four-day buffer the jar minimum becomes 900 jars rather than 550. Two practical adjustments are almost always worth making — round the wick line up, because 1,000 wicks is ₹5,900 and twenty days of cover, and add a breakage allowance to glass, commonly around 3% of a month.
Is it cheaper to buy a month of wax at once at this volume?
On CSI 464 there is nothing to gain: the listed rate is ₹507.40 a kilo at 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg alike, and 10 kg is the largest listed pack, so a 231.25 kg month is simply twenty-four bags at the same rate as one. The 500 g pack is the only one that is dearer, at ₹520/kg. Holding a month instead of eleven days would park about ₹1,31,131 across the four lines for no price benefit. Recurring volumes are quoted individually.
How many wicks and jars should I hold if I pour 50 candles a day?
550 of each at an eleven-day minimum, with a red line at 350 — and treat the two lines very differently in practice. Wicks are trivial to protect: Eco C1 is a flat ₹5.90 each at every pack, so a 1,000 pack is ₹5,900 and twenty pouring days. Jars are ₹29.50 each from the 50-piece pack up, so 550 is ₹16,225, and glass breaks — count only unbroken stock and keep a 3% allowance.
Does a bigger fragrance bottle always cost less per gram?
Not always, and Jasmine is a clean example: ₹3.922 a gram at 500 g and ₹3.923 at 1 kg, so two half-kilos are a rupee cheaper than the kilo. Check each oil's own page rather than assuming. For a daily producer the practical rule is to buy the kilo for the scent you pour every day — it is one seal instead of two — and 500 g for everything else, where stopping is worth more than a rounding error. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack.
One row, multiplied by days
9.25 kg, 740 g, 50 wicks, 50 jars — times eleven days gives 101.75 kg, 8.14 kg, 550 and 550.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at a flat ₹507.40/kg with a stated 10% load and 10 kg bags at ₹5,074, Jasmine Fragrance Oil 500 g ₹1,961 and 1 kg ₹3,923, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at a flat ₹5.90 each with 1,000 for ₹5,900, and 200 ml Salsa jars at ₹2,950 per 100. Send us your daily row for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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Figures verified September 2026. Reader's assumptions, stated in-text and used in every calculation: 50 candles a pouring day; 185 g wax fill per 200 g-class candle; fragrance dosed at 8% of wax weight = 14.8 g per candle (equivalent to 7.41% of the 199.8 g finished candle); one wick and one jar per candle; 25 pouring days a month and a six-day pouring week; observed supplier lead time of 7 days; a chosen buffer of 4 days; a 3% glass breakage allowance and a 3–5% wax allowance for spills and top-ups. These are the reader's inputs, not CSI figures — CSI publishes no delivery time, no minimum order quantity and no stock-availability promise. Derived figures: daily draw 9.25 kg wax, 740 g oil, 50 wicks, 50 jars; weekly 55.5 kg, 4.44 kg, 300, 300; monthly 231.25 kg, 18.5 kg, 1,250, 1,250; materials per candle ₹93.87 wax + ₹58.06 oil + ₹5.90 wick + ₹29.50 jar = ₹187.33, so ₹9,366.47 a day, ₹56,198.82 a week and ₹2,34,161.75 a month; day-multiplier values ₹9,366 (1 day), ₹28,099 (3), ₹56,199 (6), ₹65,565 (7), ₹1,03,031 (11), ₹1,68,596 (18) and ₹2,34,162 (25); minimum level at 11 days 101.75 kg wax (₹51,628), 8.14 kg oil (₹31,933), 550 wicks (₹3,245) and 550 jars (₹16,225); the 4-day buffer portion is 37 kg (₹18,774), 2.96 kg (₹11,612), 200 wicks (₹1,180) and 200 jars (₹5,900) = ₹37,466; holding a month instead of 11 days parks ₹1,31,131 more; pack cover at this rate — CSI 464 500 g 0.05 days, 5 kg 0.54, 10 kg 1.08; Jasmine 100 g 0.135, 500 g 0.68, 1 kg 1.35 as a sole scent; Eco C1 wicks 50 = 1 day, 100 = 2, 500 = 10, 1000 = 20; Salsa jars 5 = 0.1 day, 50 = 1, 100 = 2; a 250-candle committed order removes 46.25 kg of wax, 3.7 kg of oil, 250 wicks and 250 jars from availability; at 60 candles a day the 11-day wax minimum becomes 122.1 kg, and at a 10-day lead time it becomes 129.5 kg. Prices used in maths: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 500 g ₹260 (₹520/kg), 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074 (₹507.40/kg); Jasmine Fragrance Oil 15 gm ₹103, 50 gm ₹230, 100 gm ₹430, 500 gm ₹1,961, 1 kg ₹3,923 (₹4.30, ₹3.922 and ₹3.923 a gram; two 500 g = ₹3,922, one rupee less than the kilo); Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59, 20 ₹118, 50 ₹295, 100 ₹590, 500 ₹2,950, 1000 ₹5,900 (flat ₹5.90 each), Thick (C2) flat ₹9.44 each with the 10-piece variant currently sold out; 200ml Salsa Glass Jar with 63mm Lug Cap 5 Pcs ₹200.60, 50 Pcs ₹1,475, 100 Pcs ₹2,950. Stated specifications as published on product pages: CSI 464 fragrance load up to 10%, melting point and pour both stated as 80–90°C; the 200ml Salsa jar page states "The 200ml capacity provides ample space for crafting beautiful votive or single-wick candles" — millilitres, not grams, so weigh one filled jar before planning from it; no CSI wick listing is described as pre-tabbed. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance oil pack and 10 kg the largest listed CSI 464 pack. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.