How many candles from 10 lb of wax, and what the shortfall costs

Volume in millilitres or fluid ounces; the conversion is shown. Fragrance oil takes up part of the fill, so the wax in one candle is the fill less the fragrance.

What you paid and what it weighed. Pack weight takes grams, ounces, pounds or kilograms, and the conversion is shown.

This page ships no allowance of its own. Weigh your pitcher: pour the batch, let what is left set, weigh the pitcher, subtract its empty weight. The figure you weigh is about your pitcher; none of the published figures is. If you have not weighed it yet, the published figures below are quoted to the page they came from with the date they were read.

Optional, and the only part of this page that needs a number you may not have written down. Without it the page prints a count and the wax cost per candle the wax could theoretically have made. With it the page prints the cost per candle you can actually sell as a first. These counts belong to a batch that poured the whole purchase: the count of firsts is taken off the candles this wax made after the losses, not off the number you typed in part B, and if the two disagree the page says so below the working. The three counts here are ones you counted; the figure in the first field of the worked example, and the one-click fill beside the quoted 3 in part C, are a publisher’s recommendation about batches in general and not a count of yours.

Every line is computed from the figures printed beside it. The page works to a tenth of a gram and to the cent, which is what a bench scale and an invoice read. Steps 1 to 8 are printed in parts A and B, beside the figures they are worked from; the numbering runs on from there, so the working is one list of twenty-one lines and no line of it is printed twice.

Both costs divide what the whole pack cost by a count of candles, so wax still in the bag is charged to this batch as well: on the worked example the pack is 4535.9 g, the candles and the two losses account for 4480.6 g, and the rest is unmelted wax whose cost sits inside both figures. A cost a candle worked from only the wax you melted is a different figure, and pages that print one are not printing this one.

This page costs wax and nothing else. The full cost version, with every other material, labour, overhead and channel fees, is a page called Cost per sellable candle, and it is not published yet: there is no link here until there is something to link to.

Wax is lighter than water. These are published figures, each with the page it was taken from and the date that page was read. Four of them come from one chart on one site, which is one source and not four, and that page calls them approximate density values for ingredients frequently used in soap, candle, and skincare making. It also states the condition it measured them under: All values are in g/mL at room temperature (approximately 20°C / 68°F). That is the publisher’s own caveat on its own figure, quoted here because dropping it would be quoting the chart selectively; it changes nothing this page computes, which is grams of wax sitting in a container. Pick one above, or type your own from your supplier’s data sheet, which is the only figure that is actually about your wax.

One published range, for context and not adopted: a supplier-facing page says Candle wax specific gravity ranges from 0.80 up to 0.98, depending on the wax blend included in the formula and calls 0.86 an average specific gravity for candle supplies. This page has no default density of its own beyond the table row you select. armatagecandlecompany.com/blog/specific-gravity, page dated 2020-09-05, read 2026-09-29.