OEM Guide
Eye Cream and Eye Serum Development: Constraints and Testing
Eye products use the smallest amount of formula of any category and carry the highest testing burden. The cons…
OEM Guide
Articles in this category for beauty brand owners and cosmetics importers.
OEM Guide
Scaling Reorders: How to Keep Lead Times Predictable
Most brands plan the launch with care and the second order not at all. The reorder is where a good product tur…
OEM Guide
Custom Mould Tooling for Cosmetics: Costs and Lead Times
A stock pack can be ordered next week. A custom pack needs a mould, and the mould decides your minimum order q…
OEM Guide
Quality Control in Cosmetic Manufacturing: AQL and Batch Records
Quality is not a final inspection. It is a series of checks at defined points, each with a documented result, …
OEM Guide
Sustainable Cosmetic Packaging: Refills, PCR and Monomaterial
Three sustainability routes get confused with each other constantly. Each addresses a different part of the fo…
OEM Guide
Body Scrub and Exfoliating Body Care: Formulation and Fill
A body scrub is a suspension, and suspensions settle. Getting the particle size, the base rheology and the pac…
OEM Guide
Hand Cream and Foot Care Manufacturing: A Buyer's Guide
Hands are washed many times a day and feet live inside a shoe. Both facts change the formula more than most br…
OEM Guide
Solid and Waterless Formats: Shampoo Bars and Body Bars
Removing water sounds like simplifying the formula. In practice it changes the surfactant system, the process,…
OEM Guide
Colour Cosmetics OEM: Foundations, BB Creams and Cushions
A skincare project is finished when the formula is right. A colour project is finished when the formula is rig…