Wax and Fragrance per Jar: A Worked Weight Example

Start with measured fill weight

Use the intended mass of the wax-and-fragrance mixture established by your own tested process. Jar volume in millilitres does not automatically give wax grams. This is quantity arithmetic, not a formulation or safety recommendation.

Ten jars, 200 g each

These are illustrative entered quantities. Ten jars each need 200 g of mixture, giving 2,000 g total. Suppose fragrance is entered as 8% of wax weight. Total mixture equals wax multiplied by 1.08. Wax = 2,000 / 1.08 = 1,851.851852 g. Fragrance = 148.148148 g. Per jar, that is approximately 185.185185 g wax and 14.814815 g fragrance.

A different percentage basis

If 8% means fragrance as a share of the total mixture, fragrance = 2,000 × 0.08 = 160 g and wax = 1,840 g. Per jar, use 16 g fragrance and 184 g wax. State the convention before comparing quantities or prices.

Convert consumption into costs

For an invented costing exercise, enter wax cost of 10 currency units per 1,000 g and fragrance cost of 20 per 100 g. These are not supplier prices. Under the wax-weight convention, wax costs 18.518519 and fragrance costs 29.629630, or 48.148149 combined. Add containers, wicks, packaging, labour and overhead separately. Avoid rounding quantities before calculating consumption cost.

Keep usable output explicit

Record additional consumption and usable output consistently. Do not count the same loss in extra materials and a second waste allowance. These calculations do not establish safe fragrance loading, wick choice or container suitability.

Try the wax per jar calculator and include remaining costs in the candle cost calculator.