Certifications
Preservative Challenge Testing Explained for Brand Owners
A preservative system that works in one formula can fail completely in another. The challenge test is how you …
Insights & Guides
Everything we have learned from 15 years of manufacturing for global beauty brands — shared openly.
Certifications
Stability Testing for Cosmetics: What Brands Must Know
A formula that looks perfect in the sample jar is not a product. Stability testing is the step where most earl…
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…
OEM Guide
Lip Care Private Label: Balms, Oils and Stick Formats
Lip care shares its manufacturing logic with colour cosmetics and its regulatory logic with both cosmetics and…
OEM Guide
Deodorant and Antiperspirant Manufacture: Formats and Fill Weight
Deodorant is a mechanical product as much as a chemical one. The format decides the formula, the filling line,…
Certifications
Baby and Kids Care Products: Safety Standards for Export
The same formula that passes as an adult product can be non-compliant for a child. Understanding which rules t…
OEM Guide
Hair Mask and Scalp Serum Development for Private Label
Scalp care is the fastest growing part of hair care and the part most brands get wrong, because a product that…