Skincare contract manufacturers offer businesses a great opportunity to expand into the health and beauty market. If you own a hotel, spa, or even a retail business, you might want to provide your customers with self-branded skincare products like shampoos or body wash. This helps to project a strong brand image, but can come with some risks.
Hiring new facilities, new equipment, new staff, and paying for ongoing maintenance and distribution can be a worrying prospect, especially for smaller companies. Outsourcing this manufacturing process, on the other hand, can help you achieve your goals with much less hassle.
Thanks to Statfold’s extensive skincare contract manufacturing services, we’ve helped many businesses develop their own skincare brands. Below, we’ve compiled the five best reasons to use a skincare contract manufacturer.
1. Rely on a contract manufacturer’s expertise
The time, effort, and money needed to start manufacturing new skincare products internally is much bigger than you might think. The first hurdle you need to overcome is a lack of familiarity with your new product. If you own a small chain of hotels, for example, you might not have access to staff members who understand skincare ingredients and manufacturing methods. In most cases, you’ll need to invest time and money into finding new staff members who understand the process.
On the other hand, a skincare contract manufacturer is already an expert. At Statfold, we’ve been making natural organic oils for over 30 years, and offering our services as contract manufacturers for 15 years. We are keenly aware of the manufacturing methods, ingredients, and compositions that make amazing health and beauty products, and with our range of quality accreditations, we can work with you to create the perfect skincare product for your brand.
2. Save on skincare manufacturing facilities
The next area you’d need to invest in would be new facilities and machinery to actually manufacture your own skincare product. That includes storage space for your chosen ingredients, ongoing maintenance, and even more staff members. This can prove to be very expensive, and you might start to see the risks associated with manufacturing your own skincare product, especially for small companies who aren’t looking to sell their products traditionally (like hotels and spas).
Statfold’s manufacturing facilities in the heart of Staffordshire have everything we need to start making your skincare products right away. That includes our signature cold presses, where we produce our sustainable oils, as well as our on-site laboratory. Instead of pouring money into an investment that’s too big for your needs, get in touch here to find out how we can help you.
3. Focus on branding and marketing
Believe it or not, there are even more costs associated with manufacturing a new skincare product in the form of branding and marketing. Since this is what will make customers want to try your products in the first place, it’s just as important as the product itself. However, investing in internal manufacturing means you’ll be stretching your resources thin across both areas, and most of this will likely go into the manufacturing process.
By hiring a skincare contract manufacturer, you can focus your efforts into making the branding and marketing for the product the best it can possibly be. An excellent example from outside of the skincare sector is Apple’s iPhone, which is manufactured by a number of different contract manufacturers. Apple’s marketing efforts for the original iPhone created one of the most iconic product lines in history. Likewise, when you work with Statfold, you’ll be guaranteed a great product using high-quality ingredient sourcing and manufacturing methods, letting you focus on your customers.
4. Flexibility of contract manufacturing
With the huge time and cost investment of creating a new product comes concerns about supply and demand. Even if you forecast sales data well ahead of time and think you know what the demand will be, best laid plans often go awry. If demand is much lower than you expected, you might need to make difficult decisions about the viability of your new investments. On the other hand, if demand spikes, you might not have the ability to scale production up immediately. This can hurt your relationship with consumers, and by the time you have scaled up, the demand may have faded.
Statfold’s skincare manufacturing services are extremely flexible, and we can react to fluctuations in demand to suit your needs. Our capability to adjust and scale is thanks to our expansive facilities and refined methodology. Don’t worry about over- or under- investing: rely on the flexibility of experienced specialists.
5. Other contract manufacturing services
Many contract manufacturers will offer additional services to make your experience even more comprehensive. Here at Statfold, our contract filling and packaging service takes care of the bottling, coding, and labelling process, so that once you’ve finalised your packaging designs we can turn your dream product into a reality. We also understand that the packaging process ties directly into your marketing goals and brand image: with strict quality control systems and a vast range of packaging options, we’ll make sure your product looks as amazing as you imagined.
Skincare contract manufacturing with Statfold
If you’re interested in learning more about our skincare contract manufacturing, we’re only a phone call or an email away. We’d be happy to advise you on the best approach to suit your budgetary, design and compositional needs. If you’re a business owner looking to invest in a new line of skincare products for your most valued customers, give us a call on 01827 830 871, drop us a line on sales@statfold-oils.co.uk, or submit an enquiry below.