About
One plant, one team, and the people who run it are in the building.
Formology Lab is a personal-care contract manufacturer in Chatsworth, Los Angeles. One 20,000-square-foot plant with three filling lines, a chemistry and regulatory group down the hall from the floor, and fifty people who have done this before. Owned and run by its founder since 2017, with no outside capital.
Management
The people who will actually answer your call.
Fifty people work here: formulation chemists, a regulatory group with experience across several countries, a QC laboratory, planning and customer teams, and the crews on the three lines. The company is owned and led by its founder, with no outside investors, which is why the minimum is published rather than negotiated. These five are the ones on the phone, on the floor and on the file.
Oren Ezra
Founder & CEO · since 2017
Founded Formology Lab in 2017 after building skincare brands of his own (including a mineral line drawn from Japanese hot-spring chemistry) and a decade on the formulation side of clean beauty and OTC, from reef-safe zinc sunscreens to cannabinoid actives. Still takes the first call on most new programs.
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Gil Vakrat
Chief Operating Officer · since 2019
Has run the plant day to day since 2019: the three lines, planning, purchasing and the people on the floor. Came to manufacturing from regulatory consulting in Tel Aviv, and before that served as a commander in the Israeli Navy diving unit.
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Ortal Halff
VP Brand Partnerships · since 2020
The first person a brand talks to, and the one who stays on the account. Has led sales and brand partnerships since 2020, after operations roles in Los Angeles animation studios, where delivery dates are not negotiable either.
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Regulatory Affairs Manager
Owns the regulatory file for every product that leaves the building: ingredient restrictions, claim limits, labeling, and the registration or notification each market requires, in the US and the markets our brands export to.
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Senior Quality Assurance Manager · since 2023
Runs quality assurance in the lab and on the floor: incoming materials, in-process checks, release testing, and the investigation behind every failed result. Joined in 2023 after six years in laboratory and QA roles at Los Angeles cosmetic manufacturers; chemistry at Cal State Northridge.
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The plant
Everything happens under one roof.
Formulation, compounding, filling, packing and release are done in the same building by the same people. Nothing is sub-contracted out and brought back; a batch that starts here finishes here.
- Where
- 9174 Deering Ave, Chatsworth, Los Angeles
- Floor
- 20,000 square feet, one building
- Lines
- Three filling lines; tubes, bottles, jars, airless, sachets and sticks
- Capacity
- Rated around fifteen million units a year
- Registration
- FDA drug establishment and MoCRA cosmetic facility; California-licensed manufacturer
- Practice
- 21 CFR 210/211 cGMP for drug products; ISO 22716 for cosmetic
How it is run
The floor is watched by cameras, and every unit has a record.
Over the last two years the plant was rebuilt around software written in-house: one system holds every order, formula, batch, lot and quality check, and the lines are monitored around the clock with in-line camera inspection. The practical result for a brand is that a fill weight or a label that drifts is caught while the batch is still running, and that any unit can be traced to its lots and its tests.
Visit
Come and see the line before you commit to it.
We host customer audits and plant visits, and will sign your quality agreement. The building is twenty-five minutes from Burbank airport.
9174 Deering Ave, Chatsworth, CA 91311+1 424 452 0377 · info@formologylab.comStart a project