How to Calculate How Much Candle Wax and Fragrance Oil You Need | Candle Making Math | CandleScience

Great explanation, but I still feel like I'm listening to a foreign language. It's not you, it's me! Stupid math...

THANK YOU!! This was the easiest example I have seen of how to measure of the amount of fragrance oil to use with candle wax!

This was so informative and easy to understand.
I've already decided that you would be my candle instructor's and supplier.
I've received my first batch of fragrance oils

This video was amazing so simple thanks so much !!!! Team work make the dream work

With this example will you have leftover wax? I’ve seen several examples where they subtract the FO % from the wax weight.

Didn't help the question with finding out how much wax is needed for a vessel, that you don't know how much wax it needs

Why does soy wax have a smell, how do I make my wax smell strong even when I open the lid؟

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you.

And then you have 3.06 oz of wax left over at the end, so how do you work out so you have the perfect amount including fragrance with no waste?

This was so easy. Thank you

I really don't understand the amount of oil for a 8% candle

Does the fragrance oil added to the melted wax change the overall wax weight?

This is so helpful. Thanks!!!!

Where would I find the website at what is the website can you please give it to me.

Thank you

Thank so you much. This is the easiest and most informative video i’ve watched for beginner candle making. The math was making my head hurt and you broke it down perfectly.

Maybe it’s just my fragrance oil, but I used 0.5 oz per pound soy wax and it’s way too pungent

AWESOME video. Question, I want my candle to smell stronger. If I make 4 candles instead of 6, can that be accomplished? Thank you in advance 🙂

I was stressing about this and youved made it simple as my jars are 20cl or 30cl

If you need a total of 51oz and you use the full 51oz and then add the 3.06oz of FO. Won't you then be left with more wax than you need ( 51+3.06=54.06) isn't there a way to make the exact amount that is needed (in this case it's 51oz) without having any leftover wax?

The doctor sharing, I understand the formula, my question. Is do you civic the 51oz by 20? Some videos and research I have done is you multiply your container is by hard (as you said),then you take that answer and divide by 20. A!so for fragrance, I read you multiply number of oz by 15, and that tells you how much fragrance to use. Please clarify. Thanks again.

I have a question about the math part of this I have 1 oz bottle
Of oil and I’m not sure😮 what to use to measure
My oil prevent. In a 1oz bottle
Say I only need %6 oil in the wax how do
I know what 6% is in the 1oz bottle ???😊

So you aren't subtracting fragrance oils from the over all amount of wax in jar. So the formula I have been using for these jars in 241g multiple by .075= 18.075 fragrance oil. Then I have been taking 241g and subtracting the fragrance oil percentage. This would look like 241g -18.08g fo=222.92 grams of wax and 18.08g of fragrance oil per one straight sized libby jar with fill line of 8.5 ounces (same jar you are using). Am I not supposed to subtract at the end?

can I add the fragrance to existing candles that are lit and melting

Thank you..

I want to make a few small candles each with a difference fragrance. I'd like to melt all the wax at one time, fill the jars then add the different fragrances. Is this impossible?
I don't want 3 large unusable candles I've messed up but can live with 3 I've messed up. Help me please

So we need to subtract 51 from 3.06 in order to get the right amount wax. Cause if we add the FO to 51, Then we get 54oz as the total and that’s more? Sorry I’m so confused cause so may people have different methods

Thank you so much for this

This was so easy to understand and very informative as well 😭😭😭

ARE YOU KIDDING ME 😅

do i also use this formula when calculating how much essential oil to use?

How do you calculate FO if mixing more than one fragrance?

thx 4 make it too simple🫶🏻

I searched the comments to find if anyone else realized he went above the fill line. This video should be taken down because many people look to Candle Science for the answers and this will only further confuse people.

Does this apply to both fragrance oil and essential oil? Or does FO refer to any kind of oil being used? I only work with EO

Thank you for sharing. 😊👍 Very helpful

Don’t you have to back out the weight of fragrance from wax to have total?

How do i get the wax weight if another website doesnt list it. Do i just fill the jar with water and weight in oz?

I found a scented oil, Brand Ananya. Can that be used in making a candle? I've never made a candle, but recently got a kit to make one. Any information is greatly appreciated.

Thank you this helps alot! 👍😃

Thank you for this! You broke it down perfectly!

I'm confused I have 30cl candle jars want to half fill the jar so how much wax in ounces and how much fragrance I want to use 10%

Simple mathemetics is essential oil

you are only telling us how to determine it by the products on your page which are already measured out. come on now. comes off as a selling gimmick and not to genuinely help....

Very helpful

Thank You!!!! So helpful!!!

Or… you could just use decimal throughout the whole project and make it 100x easier instead oh having to convert

Best video out there! Thanks dude!

Very difficult!!

I don't know if I am alone with this thought, but it seems you forgot to mention that actual wax weight is 51oz - 3.06oz = 47.94oz.