Our Manufacturing Process
From concept to shelf, we guide you through every step of creating your custom personal care line. Transparent, reliable, and built to scale.
Contract Manufacturing & Custom Formulations
Choose the path that best fits your timeline, budget, and brand vision.
1. Stock Formulations
(Private Label/White Label)
This is a great choice if you want to launch quickly with a low MOQ starting at 2500 units. You can choose from our bestsellers made with all-natural & organic ingredients. All you need to do is add your logo and label, which we can help you design.
Each stock formula comes with the full stability, compatibility, and preservative challenge testing included.
2. Custom Formulation
(Built for your brand)
If you’re looking to create a completely unique product from the ground up or personalize one of our existing formulas, this choice is tailored to your needs. You have the flexibility to incorporate active ingredients into our existing formulations, provide your own ingredient list, or even request us to reverse-engineer a product similar to your own or a competitor’s. For this option, there is a minimum order quantity (MOQ) of 2500 units.
To initiate the process, we require a $2500 non-refundable lab fee per formulation that includes up to three changes/submissions. This fee includes the Formal Stability & Compatibility (ACC) ($2000 value) and Preservative Challenge Testing (AET/PET) ($1500 value). Once you are satisfied with the sample and give your approval, we typically complete your order in less than 8-10 weeks.
We offer full-size samples of our catalog products. Our in-house designer team can help you design and print your labels. We offer standard packaging for each item in our catalog, which we overstock all year round.
However, if you are looking for something different, we can help you find your preferred components. Alternatively, you can supply your own packaging and we will fill and label your jars/bottles.
Defining Private Label Services
Before we jump into a discussion on contract manufacturing, let’s first define what we mean by each term and the relative benefits of each type of service as you create your custom personal care line.
Custom Formulations
Research and Development – 30 TO 150 DAYS
You might think that a 30 to a 150-day window is a bit ridiculous, but it’s actually quite necessary.
The research and development phase is a time for both art and science and is the foundation for your product’s success. When you hire our lab to create a formula, you are hiring us to research and develop a product that may take several versions to get to exactly what you want. Sometimes we get it right on the very first try. Sometimes products fail on the bench and they never get to you to review.
The chemical composition of natural and organic products will react to one another differently when, for instance, water at 110°F is used as opposed to water at 130°F. You might love the color of manganese or beetroot or hibiscus but find that when they combine with a preservative or a surfactant, the color changes. This is going to happen more frequently when using natural non-synthetic ingredients and as part of our R&D, we must have time to experiment, even with ingredients we frequently use. Stability testing does take 90 days.
Creating Custom Personal Care Products
Developing Your Bill of Material
A bill of material is a critical document for you and us. As part of your journey to market, we create a BOM, or bill of material, for us to use to create the final, shelf-ready product.
BOMs differ from company to company, and from product to product within a company or product line. But they all have the same goal: to act as the final ‘recipe’ for your product. Our BOM should be a comprehensive list of parts, items, assemblies and sub-assemblies that tell everyone how to assemble your final product. Then the BOM, will act as our shopping list for getting all the materials we need; labels, jars, lids, seals, retail boxes, inserts, etc. This is the point where we can finally price your product, when the “Recipe” is complete.
Shipping and Handling Considerations
When you ship your product from the manufacturer to your retail distribution location– either a retail store, distribution center (DC) or fulfillment house, you’ll need to tell the manufacturer how the receiver wants to receive your products. You’ll also want to be sure you think about how the individual units will ship to the end user, if applicable.
- How many units will ship to each location?
- Is there a limit on the number of units per box or weight limit?
- Can your products be mixed together or is each box a unique set?
- Can the box contain biodegradable peanuts or is paper dunnage required?
- What should the outer box label say?
- Will you use case packs and master packs?
- How are your individual units packaged?
It's About – The Details
As you begin to document what your product will look like and how it will arrive at its destinations, you’ll quickly see that all the little details add up to a clear bill of material for you and us.
Have your retail box and labels reviewed prior to printing to be sure you are in compliance with your governing agencies, such as the FDA, the European Commission, etc. as well as our own compliance initiatives.
Once all these questions are answered, and your product packed and ready to go, it leaves production and goes to Shipping and Receiving, along with a “Fill Ticket” which shows our Shipper what is in each box he receives.
Congratulations!!!
You have got it! Flourish and Prosper!
