FP Labs News & Updates

Beauty manufacturing is a key component of the industry’s—and indeed individual brands’ and products’—ecological footprint. To minimize or even eliminate these impacts requires complex calculations across many factors.

Learn more at Global Cosmetic Industry magazine.

Ideally, how many iterations should it take for a brand to approve a product? If there are additional iterations, what are common problems leading to them, and how can they be addressed? Do you believe the efficiency of the formulation process could be improved?

Since December 2023, online searches for “whole body deodorant” have exploded, dwarfing traffic recorded over the last 20 years. Why is that?

What’s Driving Whole-body Deodorant Growth?

“Consumers have returned to regular product use post-pandemic and the importance of multipurpose products is gaining traction in the category,” says Melissa Niebes, CEO of Federal Package.

One trend in the beauty value chain has been the consolidation of small manufacturers by private equity firms with visions of building portfolios. Unfortunately, indie beauty brands are often the collateral damage in such transactions because the first step is often mercenary optimization, leaving brands that cannot hit newly established minimum order quantities scrambling for new partners.

Bucking this trend, Federal Package, a preferred contract manufacturer for many leading personal care companies, has doubled down on its manufacturing capabilities with the launch of FP Labs, putting 40 years of experience into building a complete solution for beauty brands of all sizes.

New labs, ingredient supply chain trends, expanded turnkey offerings, AI-driven quality assurance for lipsticks and more top our leading beauty manufacturing trends this month.

In an era of rapid technological advancements, market growth and fragmentation, supply chain realignments and consolidation, and more, beauty’s manufacturing space (turnkey, contract manufacturers, white label producers, etc.) has never been more dynamic.

Consumer usage of sunscreens to prevent cancer grew^a 20% in 2023, versus 2021, per Mintel; in fact, 54% of sunscreen users reported more frequent product application compared to 2022. Yet growth in the sunscreen sector is expected to be modest through 2027 “due to the rise of multifunctional personal care products that include SPF,” according to the firm, which added that 57% of surveyed consumers reported daily use of SPF-boosted personal care.

Hey beauty entrepreneurs! Get the inside scoop on consumer-driven skincare trends from industry expert Jeffrey Martin. Make sure your products are aligned with emerging trends and hear Jeffrey's advice for scaling your business to get into larger retailers like Sephora or Ulta. Jeffrey is the Director of Marketing at Federal Package, a manufacturer of skincare products based in Chanhassen, MN.

In the beauty industry, there’s been a push toward brands owning custom formulas as they seek to differentiate themselves in a crowded market and appease investors prioritizing intellectual property. Still, a substantial portion of beauty products made and sold use stock and private-label formulas.

To find out more about the persistence, upsides and downsides of stock and private-label formulas, for the latest edition of our ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we ask 12 contract manufacturers the e following questions....