A small-run program for brands that own their formula
Your own formula. Your name printed on the bottle, not a sticker. Made in our FDA-registered lab in Los Angeles, with design, packaging and launch marketing under one roof. Units, days and a price you can read before you call anyone.
Brand Builder in motion
Vertical, twelve seconds, a bottle with a name on it. The format your product will actually be sold in, and the reason the finish matters more than the formula sheet.
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Below 500 units you get a sticker on a catalogue moisturiser. Above 5,000 you get a factory and a quote form. In between sits the run a real first launch needs.
A creator with 100K followers sells roughly 500–1,500 units in a launch quarter. A 1,000–2,500 run is two to five months of inventory, enough to prove the product and reorder inside its shelf life. A 10,000-unit first order is two to five years.
At 2,500 units the batch fills a standard production vessel instead of a pilot pot. Setup and development amortise to a couple of dollars a unit. Below that the fixed costs eat the margin; above it you are buying stock you cannot yet move.
Screen, hot-stamp or digital print on a stock bottle costs cents a unit at this size, and a custom carton fits the budget. That is the difference between looking like a launch and looking like a sample.
Peels at the edge, scuffs in the bag, reads as private label at arm's length. Most suppliers under 5,000 units ship exactly this, or hand you blank product to label yourself.
Screen print, hot-stamp foil or digital direct print on premium stock components, in a custom carton. Decoration is in the program from 1,000 units, not a surcharge you discover on a call.
Everything a first launch needs, in the order it happens on our floor. Use all four or bring your own designer and agency. The product and the bottle are always ours to get right.
Adapted from our tested bases at 1,000, fully custom and owned by you at 2,500. Serums, creams, cleansers, SPF and acne treatments, made and released in an FDA-registered, cGMP facility in Los Angeles.
Premium stock bottles, jars and tubes, decorated in house. Screen print, hot-stamp foil or digital direct print, plus a custom printed carton. The finish of a 10,000-unit brand at a 1,000-unit run.
A senior packaging designer builds your identity and artwork to our print specs, so nothing is lost between the screen and the bottle. Already have a designer? We hand them dielines and colour targets.
Ingredient story, claims you can actually make, product-page copy and a content kit shaped for your channels. Your audience hears why this product exists from the people who made it.
Pick a run by how much you can sell in a season, not by what a factory needs to switch a machine on. Both include the reorder.
For a first product, or for graduating from a white-label platform to something you own.
Ships with a 10,000-unit production quote and a reserved reorder slot.
For a brand that means it: a formula you own, a bottle that looks like a launch, and the claims that sell in skincare.
Ships with a 10,000-unit production quote and a reserved reorder slot.
The reorder is already planned before the first box ships. Same formula, same bottle, production pricing.
This is what we have made for brands since 2017. The first two runs are the on-ramp.
Per-unit ranges are for a 30–50 mL serum or light cream in stock packaging, filled and boxed; fragrance, actives, airless components and OTC testing move them within the range. Development fee is per product. Cosmetic runs ship faster than OTC.
Four stages, each with a date. You see samples at two of them and sign off before anything is printed or filled.
Thirty minutes with a formulator, not a sales rep. Product, audience, claims, budget. You leave with a written scope: run, price, dates.
Your first lab sample is at your door within seven days. We adjust until you sign off. Identity, label and carton artwork are built to print spec in parallel; stability and micro testing start on approval.
Components decorated, a printed proof for sign-off, then the batch is made, filled, boxed and released with its records. Thirty to forty-five days from your approval to delivery.
Product ships with your launch kit. Your 10,000-unit quote and production slot are already in the file for when the first run sells through.
You have the audience. You have the point of view. What you could not buy, until now, was a first run that looks like a brand.
At 2,500 units, yes: the custom formula and its batch record are yours. At 1,000, your product is built on one of our tested bases; you own your brand, artwork and claims, and can move to a custom formula on your reorder.
Yes. We are an FDA-registered drug establishment and make OTC sunscreen and acne products every week. A small run adds SPF testing and release steps, so the timeline and fee are set on the call once we know the product.
Not with us. Below 1,000 the batch is too small for a production kettle, and you would be paying for a sample run, not a launch. If you need to test demand first, a white-label platform is the right first step, and we will happily be your second.
Good. Design and marketing are optional. We hand your team dielines, colour targets and print specs so the artwork survives the trip to the bottle, and we review the label for compliance before it prints.
Everything is made, decorated, filled and released in our lab in Los Angeles. Made in USA on the carton, and a regulatory record you can show a retailer.
Thirty minutes with a formulator. You will hear a run size, a price and a date, in writing, within two business days of the call. No quote form that goes nowhere.
A formulator will reply to within one business day with a few times to talk. If SPF or acne is on your list, we will come with the testing timeline already worked out.