What a kilo is worth as candles

A kilogram of beeswax burns, roughly, for two hundred and fifty hours once it is in a properly wicked candle, since a well-sized wick draws through it at about four grams an hour. The same kilogram becomes a very different number of finished pieces depending on what you pour it into: about a hundred tealights, or twenty votives, or as few as four full-sized container candles, each using its own share of that kilogram at its own pace.

Whichever shape you choose, turning raw wax into finished candles multiplies what a beekeeper's kilogram is worth, the same way turning raw honey into mead multiplies what a jar of honey is worth: the ingredient stays cheap, and the skill of shaping it into something a buyer wants finished is where the value is added.