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Candle cost calculator

Find your cost per candle and a price for your target margin. Enter your batch costs below, or load the clearly marked example to see how it works.

1. Your product

Product nameCurrency for all costsChoose before entering costs. No currency conversion.

2. Materials used in the whole batch

Use the total price and quantity of each purchase. Include wax, fragrance, wicks and jars. Weight converts to weight; volume converts to volume. Include known waste in batch consumption.

Material 1Material name

Purchase costPurchased quantityPurchase unitConsumed in batchConsumption unit

3. Yield, time and other costs

Enter 0 when a cost is genuinely zero. Empty costs remain incomplete.

Usable units from batchCount finished, saleable candles.Batch labour hoursLabour hourly ratePackaging cost per unitDo not count jars or packaging twice.Allocated overhead per unitYour allocation for energy, rent or other overhead.Selling fee (%)Percentage of the selling price; excludes fixed fees.Target profit margin (%)Profit divided by selling price, after entered costs and fee.

How this estimate works

Material batch cost = purchase cost × consumed quantity / purchased quantity, after compatible-unit conversion. Labour = batch hours × hourly rate. Unit cost = (materials + labour) / usable yield + packaging + allocated overhead.

The starting target price is unit cost / (1 − target margin − selling fee). We round upward to currency precision and verify against the rounded selling fee and full-precision costs. This models one sale with no fixed fee, tax, discount, returns or delivery charge. Use the wholesale tool for order costs.

Jar fill mass and fragrance quantities must come from your own measurements and formulation. The wax-per-jar tool can split a measured mixture mass.

SellerToolkit uses decimal arithmetic. Money displays use the selected currency’s minor units; costs stay unrounded during calculations. These results reflect the inputs you enter. Read our methodology.

1. Your product

2. Materials used in the whole batch

3. Yield, time and other costs

How this estimate works

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