Candle Cost Calculator

Add the wax cost, which is the ounces used times the per-pound price divided by 16, to the fragrance cost, then add flat costs for the wick, container and any extras. The sum is your materials cost to make one candle.

Wax is sold by the pound, yet you only pour a few ounces into each candle. The tool divides the per-pound price by 16 to get a cost per ounce, then multiplies by the ounces you actually used, so partial pours are priced correctly.

A common rule is to mark the materials cost up two to four times to cover labor, overhead and profit. Start from this per-candle figure, then add the value of your time and packaging before settling on a retail price.

Anything per candle that is not wax, fragrance, wick or container: dye chips, warning labels, decorative lids, gift boxes, or a slice of the shipping you paid on supplies. Folding these in gives a truer cost than counting the obvious items alone.

No. It is deliberately the materials cost for one candle only. Add your hourly rate for pouring and a share of fixed costs like rent, insurance and utilities separately, since those depend on your batch size and business.

Divide a bulk price down to the units the tool expects. For a case of jars, divide the case price by the jar count for the container cost; for a spool of wick, divide by the number of wicks you can cut from it.

Yes. Fragrance, wick, container and other costs all accept zero, so an unscented tealight with no jar still totals correctly. Only the wax amount must be greater than zero, since a candle needs wax to exist.

Each line and the total are rounded to whole cents. Because the underlying wax cost is calculated at full precision before rounding, a breakdown may differ by a cent from adding the displayed lines by hand.

Yes. Every calculation runs in your browser and nothing you enter is uploaded or saved, so your supplier prices and margins stay on your own device. It also works offline once loaded.