Step 1. Contact a skin care manufacturer to discuss your product concept and determine whether or not the manufacturer has the knowledge base, capabilities and expertise necessary to develop your type of product.

Step 2: The fastest way to make the most amount of progress is to send the skin care manufacturer a sample of a similar type of product. This gives them extensive insight into the look, feel, viscosity, body fragrance level etc… that you’ll be looking for in the finished product.

Step 3: Select the packaging you want. visit sites like http://www.cospackamerica.com/ & http://www.arminak-associates.com/. Take a look at what they have and determine what type of packaging best fits your brand.

Step 4: Get a quote. Now that the skin care manufacturer has a good idea of the product type and packaging you need they will be able to provide you with a fairly accurate quote. By fairly accurate i mean in the 90% range.

Step 5: Get pre-production samples. Most skin care manufacturers charge in the range of $750-1500 for this service. It may seem a bit steep but believe me it comes nowhere to covering the actual cost incurred by the mfg. Know exactly what you want as formula changes at this point may cause additional charges.

Step 6: Request whatever revisions of the samples may be necessary to achieve the product you want.

Step 7: Approve the samples, receive final production pricing and place an order for your product. Delivery of the finished good should take about 6-8 weeks.

Do you know the difference between 1000 mg of calcium citrate and 1000 mg of elemental calcium (as calcium citrate)?

1000 mg of calcium citrate contains about 20% (200 mg) of elemental calcium. It’s a subtle difference but it has a great deal to do with both the quality and the cost of the product. Ask your vitamin manufacturer the right questions & make sure you get what you want.

If you want 1000 mg of calcium from calcium citrate you will need to have a formulation that contains roughly 5,000 mg of calcium citrate.  i.e. only 20% of the 5,000 mg is actually calcium. Have you ever compared vitamin manufacturer quotes and thought to yourself “how can the price from one be so dramatically than the other”?

The previous example could be the reason why. If vitamin manufacturer A quotes something using 1000 mg of raw material and vitamin manufacturer B quotes something using 5 times that amount (5,000mg) there is going to be a significant difference in the price.

Rest assured that Healthy Solutions is a vitamin manufacturer who will prepare quality formulations at a fair price.

Some people say that packaging is everything. While that’s true to a point, we beg to differ in many respects. Our philosophy is to produce a formula worthy of the high end packaging.

The bottom line is that in order to command the price points found in premier skin care products ($50-80+ and ounce) the consumer must see results.

“The U.S. government panel in charge of setting recommended daily intake levels for vitamins today announced a large increase of vitamin D for all populations in North America.

Specifically, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report advocated a doubling of vitamin D intake for infants (to 400 IU), a tripling of vitamin D intake for those between ages 1 and 50 (to 600 IU), a 50 percent hike in those ages 51 to 70 (to 600 IU), and a 33 percent increase for those older than 71 years old (to 800 IU).”

The upward trend has many companies interested in either adding or updating their Vitamin D Formulas. Healthy Solutions has developed a handful of stock vitamin D formulations. Work with a Vitamin Manufacturer who is at the forefront of industry trends so that your company can quickly capitalize on the sales associated with such trends.

1. They create a bright yellow/orange color
2. They have a distinct and somewhat strong “vitamin smell”
3. Their taste is less than desirable.

Lucky for our customers and our customers customers, Healthy Solutions has developed a handful of proprietary flavor profiles which do an incredible job of masking the odor and flavor of B vitamins. I would argue that we’re one of the few vitamin manufacturers who has successfully accomplished this feat.