UK candle makers

Candle batch & restock planning

A recipe tells you what one batch needs. Stock planning tells you whether you can make it now, and what to buy for the next order. Keep the percentage convention and all ingredient masses explicit.

1. Check your batch recipe

Enter the measured wax-and-fragrance fill mass, candle count and percentage basis from your tested recipe. Keep container volume separate from blend mass.

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2. Check capacity and restock

Enter both ingredient stocks, the target quantity and each supply pack’s mass. See the limiting ingredient, target shortfalls, whole packs and stock left after the order.

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The percentage needs a denominator

CandleScience defines fragrance load relative to base wax. Candle Shack’s specific Temptress RCX recipe lists 198 g wax and 22 g fragrance: arithmetic makes this 10% of the 220 g finished blend, or about 11.111111% of wax. These describe the same amounts with different denominators. Use the convention in your recipe.

CandleScience: fragrance load terminology ↗

Candle Shack: Temptress RCX recipe ↗

Capacity and the target order are separate scenarios

With 4,800 g wax and 1,000 g fragrance, a 198 g + 22 g recipe supports 24 candles. A separate target of 30 needs 1,140 g more wax. If wax is sold in 1,000 g packs, two packs cover that shortage. The planner starts both scenarios from the stock you entered; it does not subtract a completed maximum batch before calculating the target.

Read the net mass on each supply pack

Supplier packaging varies by product. Enter 800 g for an 800 g pack, 4,800 g for 4.8 kg, or 12,500 g for 12.5 kg. Enter fragrance in grams as well; converting a bottle’s millilitres needs its actual density. Pack sizes in the forms are editable examples, and no supplier prices are assumed.

Use a tested candle recipe and the product’s permitted fragrance load. These tools check ingredient arithmetic; containers, wicks, testing, spare units and production time remain separate parts of the order.

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