How much $$ requiried to manufacture your own cosmetic product?

I have been buying skin products from a company whose products I loved. I saw that they offered a private label program so I jumped on it. I can start off with less than 1k in product and they dropship, but I prefer for them to send me the products. When sales pick up to the point where I'm spending too much time packing and mailing, I will let them dropship but they must sign a confidentiality agreement because I don't want them stuffing their promo material in with my orders even though I don't think they're "those type" of people but you never know because people can get greedy hahahaha!

The only thing I was concerned about is if the customer googles the ingredients in the order that it appears on the bottle, it will come back to their website and they will see that the product is on the manufacturer's site as well but I doubt that will be a big problem. Right now this works for me, if/when the product line gets big I may venture into custom formulation but for right now this works for me as I am bootstrapping it.
 


With few exceptions, most of what you see sold online is, or was, a white label. Even companies like GNC use private-label manufacturers to make their products, they aren't all "Chinese crap", and are a much easier way to get started then trying to setup your own GMP-complaint manufacturing facility and hire chemists.
 
eliquid said:
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Direct Outbound is a much better option for private label skin. John Monarch and those guys know how to fucking run an operation (I've been down there and toured their facility.

mont7071 said:
With few exceptions, most of what you see sold online is, or was, a white label. Even companies like GNC use private-label manufacturers to make their products, they aren't all "Chinese crap", and are a much easier way to get started then trying to setup your own GMP-complaint manufacturing facility and hire chemists.
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Out of curiosity, when you first started selling nutra products, did you request the lab verify the formula they were supposed to use? In other words, if one of your products says there is 100mg of elk semen, do you actually request a lab report verifying that there is indeed 100mg of elk semen per serving?
 
jeffrey said:
Out of curiosity, when you first started selling nutra products, did you request the lab verify the formula they were supposed to use? In other words, if one of your products says there is 100mg of elk semen, do you actually request a lab report verifying that there is indeed 100mg of elk semen per serving?
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For ingestibles, I get a Certificate of Analysis from the lab for my file. if I have any concerns, I send a sample to an independent lab for GCMS analysis.
 
super said:
What was your product? And can you just buy chemicals and mix them up without some kind of approval (eg. confirmation that it is safe for use)?
Just curious.
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Not cosmetics, but a similar smaller niche.

Depends on what you're making and selling. I spent a good 6 months just researching before I made my first unit of product. Honestly, lawsuits worry me more than anything else.
 
StackCash said:
It's worth noting that there are A TON of these companies popping up in this niche. Yes, competition means theirs money to be had, but you do need to realize you're already behind.
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I'd say fuck it, don't bother. Lots of dudes getting tired of dealing with biatches, so the Metrosexuals are fast on their way with being replaced by MGTOW's, who DGAF about grooming.


Buy if you want to save cash, you can use your own fap
 
jeffrey said:
How many bottles did they quote you for? We got quoted around 30k for 5k bottles of a custom formulation for a skin care product coming out soon.
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don't you have to go through like tons of regulatory approvals and health departments as well?
 
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