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Contract and private label candle manufacturing

Candle manufacturing for your brand.

We pour, cure, label and pack candles to a written specification at our workshop in Shropshire. You supply the artwork and choose the fragrance. Everything else is ours.

Specify a runCostings

Minimum run 50 units · 14 day cure · Poured, labelled and packed in the UK

Casey Harish and Sammy Southall at the workbench in the House of Wax workshop in Tong, with freshly poured candles in front of them
01Capability

Your brand on our candle

You choose the fragrance and send us your label. We make the candle to the same specification every time, so your second order matches your first.

Four candles from the same production line, labelled for Bro Candle, House of Wax and Borrowed, with a fourth reading Your Brand Here

Four candles from the same line. Bro Candle and Borrowed are brands we produce for; The Oak Room is our own reference candle, and is the specification every price on this page is built from.

02Process

From specification to dispatch

Specification
Step 01

Specification

We produce to a single standard: a 30cl flint glass vessel filled with 200g of soy wax at a 10% fragrance load. Your combination is recorded and quoted in writing before any payment is taken.

Fragrance and label
Step 02

Fragrance and label

Select a fragrance from the House Collection or supply your own oil. Send label artwork and we print it here. There is no minimum on label quantity, which is what makes a 50 unit run viable.

Production
Step 03

Production

Poured, cured for fourteen days, checked against the approved specification, then packed for dispatch.

03Costings

Work out your margin

Enter your retail price and run size to see what you keep on every unit. Open the assumptions to add your own shipping, packaging and marketing, and it will show what is left after the cost of selling it.

You keep per candle

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We charge you, per candle—
Before your own selling costs—
The run costs you—
Change the assumptions. Costs are per candle, so split anything you pay per order.

Your own costs are defaults. Change them to your real ones.

04Price and minimums

Price per unit

Unit price falls with run size because setup is spread across more units and materials are bought better. Totals are for the candles; delivery is quoted separately.

50 units£8.95 each£447 the run 
100 units£8.45 each£845 the run−£0.50 a unit
250 units£7.95 each£1,988 the run−£1.00 a unit
500 units£7.45 each£3,725 the run−£1.50 a unit
1,000 units£6.95 each£6,950 the run−£2.00 a unit
2,500+ unitsOn applicationVolume pricing

50% deposit reserves the pour slot, balance due before dispatch.

Minimum order

The minimum is set by the fragrance, not the candle. A scent we already hold and have burn tested runs at 50 units; one that needs testing first cannot.

House Collection50unit minimumChoose from fragrances we already hold, already wick test and already have safety data for.Minimum 50 unitsNo added lead timeNo development fee
Your Fragrance250unit minimumYou already have an oil you want to keep. Send it to us and we pour it.Minimum 250 units+10 working daysNo development fee
Bespoke Development500unit minimumWe source or develop a fragrance to a brief, then test it to production.Minimum 500 units+20 working daysDevelopment fee £450

What the price includes

Included

  • Label printing, with no minimum on quantity
  • Two rounds of artwork proofs
  • The back label, produced as standard
  • Lot coding and retained samples

Quoted separately

  • Delivery. Six units per parcel, so pallet delivery is more economical above a few hundred units. We will tell you where that falls for your run
  • Artwork origination, if you do not have a designer
  • Bespoke fragrance development, £450, credited against a first run of 1,000 or more
05Samples

Assess a sample before committing to a run

A single finished candle is £30, in your chosen fragrance and carrying your label where artwork is available. It is poured on the production line and cured for the full fourteen days, so it is representative of production rather than a mock-up.

Allow approximately ten days. The £30 is credited against your first order at any quantity.

Request a sample
A finished candle being packed for dispatch
06FAQs
50Minimum run, one SKU
NoneMinimum on label quantity
14 daysCure on every candle
UKPoured, labelled and packed
What is the minimum order?
50 units for one finished SKU using a fragrance from the House Collection. At a 10% load, 50 units is one litre of fragrance oil, which is the smallest quantity that does not leave a part bottle in stock.
Can we supply our own fragrance?
Yes. Supply the oil and its safety data sheet and we burn test it in the vessel before production. That route has a 250 unit minimum to cover testing.
Who is the legal supplier of the finished product?
You are. Your name and address appear on the label and you place the product on the market. We prepare a draft CLP hazard panel from your fragrance supplier's safety data sheet, which you approve before anything is printed.
What are the lead times?
Approximately 17 working days for 250 units from artwork approval, of which ten are the cure. A run using your own fragrance is approximately 27 working days, as the oil is tested first.
How consistent is production between runs?
Your vessel, wax, fragrance, load, wick and label are held as a written specification and every run is checked against it before packing. Each unit carries a lot code and we retain samples for twelve months.
Is the product identifiably ours?
Entirely. You own the artwork, nothing carries our name, and a fragrance you supply is not poured for any other customer.
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