Finding the Best Beauty Manufacturing Route for You
PRIVATE LABEL
BEAUTY
Private label means the lab develops and tests (and owns) the formulations, and you put your name on them. Nobody has to know! The best case for private label is for those with a small starting budget, those who can’t wait and ready to rock and roll, or for those who have simply stumbled upon products they can’t live without, which just so happen to be private label! When you choose private label, you can get started quickly and with a low MOQ, so your go-to-market time is short.
Choosing the right beauty lab to manufacture with is very important. It’s essentially a long-term relationship and you must commit after you sign a contract. It’s a long term working relationship, as they own the formula. Don’t let that scare you! Your lab is here to help you out.
Choosing the right beauty lab to manufacture with is very important. It’s essentially a long-term relationship and you must commit after you sign a contract. It’s a long term working relationship, as they own the formula. Don’t let that scare you! Your lab is here to help you out.
CUSTOM FORMULATING
Congratulations on choosing the most challenging, but rewarding, path. In comparison to customized private label, custom formulating requires more time, money, and patience depending on the complexity of the project. No worries, good things come to those who wait! Custom formulation also means you’re potentially looking for something that hasn’t been created - ever. That’s major. Just like private labeling (PL), choosing a cosmetics lab is important. However, unlike PL, you’re not necessarily entering a long-term relationship with a lab. R&D and manufacturing are treated separately here.
The best thing about custom formulating with Genie Supply? After we finalize the formula (and after testing), you’re free to go wherever you want for contract manufacturing. You own the formula and there is no obligation to stick with us (though we would be more than happy to continue working with you!).
Examine the Custom Formulating Page and see if it’s the right fit for you, or fill out the onboarding form for a quote today!
CONTRACT MANUFACTURING
This means that you already own your completed formulation and you’re ready for our lab to replicate it en masse. For contract manufacturing, you already own the formula and have the exact ingredients with percentages by weight and full mixing instructions. All our lab will do is use your instructions to plug and play. If you’re not quite there yet, but you have the idea for your product and formulation, head back up to the custom formulating section to learn more and fill out that onboarding form. Ready to contract manufacture? Congrats! Fill out the onboarding form to get a quote today.
COSMETIC TESTING
All the routes mentioned above require testing! If you choose private labeling, all the necessary tests for production have already been performed! If you have a formulation that has already been created and is ready for manufacture, make sure the proper testing has been performed.
Beauty products are tested to ensure the safety of the product to the user and determine the shelf life of the product. Each and every batch of a beauty product should be tested to ensure no contaminates have infiltrated the formulation. Better safe than sorry, right?
Outside of standard testing, there are variety of other tests that can be performed on beauty products depending on the ingredients and your intended marketplace such as hemp testing 1,2 dioxide testing and more! At Genie Supply we offer a variety of testing options to fit your beauty brand’s needs, check out our testing info page to learn more about our cosmetic testing abilities.