Where and How: Skin Care Product Development
Developing a new skin care product is a fun and creative adventure. When you first start the process of creating a new product, the finish line can seem far from reach. It is certainly an achievable task, however when you take it one step at a time and stay informed.
The first step to actually creating a new skin care product is finding a person or business that specializes in skincare product development.
Now there are a few steps before this one such as visualizing your new product and determining which ingredients you definitely do and definitely don’t want in your formulation, but the actual product development starts with someone who specializes in product development.
Why hire a professional?
If you are an avid reader of the Genie Supply blog, we may sound like a broken record here (sorry!), but hiring a professional or at least someone with experience to develop your skin care product is important for a few main reasons:
Formula replication: If you plan on manufacturing your formula on a large scale, you contract manufacturer will need to know to mix the formulation correctly in order to create the exact same product with each round of production.
Stability and bacterial safety: A experienced skin care developer knows how different ingredients mix together (or don’t) to create a bacterial resistant formulation. Stability and micro testing are commonly included with formulation services.
Overall quality and safety: Experienced skin care developers also know the safest levels of active ingredients in skin care products. While making a 50% pure retinol serum may sound like a good idea, for example, this strong of a concentration of retinol is a serious danger to users and a liability to you, not to mention the cost of ingredients. (Read more about the effects of too high concentrations of retinol)
Now you know why to hire a professional for skin care product development, but where do you find one and where do you start when you find one?
Find a Skin Care Product Developer:
A quick google search will turn up many options of formulators to choose from, but we have done some of the hard work for you and included a list of well known product developers below along with their area of specialization:
Charles Green Labs specializes in the indie beauty space and focuses on creating product for the younger consumer. They can develop a variety of products including lipstick and hybrid skin care.
Genie Supply (that’s us!) is a clean beauty lab. We specialize in clean beauty and making traditionally non-clean skin care products clean. We focus on creating a mutually beneficial relationship with our clients to creat innovative clean formulations.
Learn more about our mission and clean beauty here. Or contact us!
The Cosmetic Factory is yet another beauty lab based in the USA. This lab focuses on formulating clean and innovative products as well. Based on the company website, this lab focuses on working with celebrities and influencers to build their brands.
All of these labs are experienced in skin care product development and have cosmetic chemists on staff to develop products. When looking for your perfect match consider what the skin care product developer’s speciality is and if that specialty will be beneficial to you.
You are looking to create a long-term mutually beneficial relationship with the skin care developer, so be sure you vibe with the developer you select.
When meeting with them for the first time, whether virtually or in person, ask yourself:
What is the vision from my brand and who is my target audience?
Do I want my product to meet any specifications?
Clean?
Organic?
What will the star ingredient for my product be?
What will the benefits of using my product be?
What is my budget?
Knowing the answers to these questions before meeting up with your product developer will get your first meeting off to a productive start and guide the development process.
Making sure you and your product developer are on the same page from the very beginning will create a mutually beneficial relationship, and ensure your product meets your expectations.
Are you ready to start developing skin care products?
Although we have provided other resources to find skin care product developers in this blog, we hope you stick with us at Genie Supply. We focus on clean beauty and work with our clients to bring new and innovative formulations to the market.
Below is an overview of our product development timeline. While this timeline is specific to Genie Supply, the timeline will likely look similar for other product developers.
Custom Formulating Timeline
To begin working with Genie Supply to develop a skin care product, check out our web page all about custom formulation. When you are ready schedule a consult to speak with a respresentative about your idea.
In the meantime, learn more about us, our mission, and our team!
Extra questions? Email us at customerservice@geniesupply.com or give us a call at 812-329-1105.
