I want to know how to make any of the following products in detail:
-Moisturizer + UV Whitening
-ANY Cosmetics products with Whitening effect
-Facial Soap (e.g. Nivea, Biore)
-Base Powder
-etc.
This cosmetics will be primarily marketed in tropical countries so
Whitening effect is one important ingredient. Any suggestion from those who
has been in cosmetics industry is welcome.

Anybody know any good resource for this ? I want to know how to make
above products in high quality. This includes the chemical
compositions, where to buy those chemicals, and step by step guide on
how to make it. This resource may also be a person that I can hire to
teach me how to make Cosmetics products. This resource has to be high
quality and profen safe because of the nature of the product.


-Amir

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Clarification of Question by mendoan-ga on 05 Oct 2004 19:40 PDT

Basically I want an information on high quality cosmetics Production
so I can start a cosmetics business.

All cosmetic products use the same stuff, the only difference is the
packaging and the marketing.

Yes but I need to know how that same stuff is made.
THanks for the comment.

I am not entirely sure that I approve of what you want to do.
However, the general method is to get a subcontractor to produce the lot for you.

A Google on: cosmetics manufacturer subcontractors
Came up with some interesting stuff, if you read the first 'hit'
carefully you will find the names of two subcontracting companies.
http://www.cpcpkg.com/01/09/potpourri.html

I spotted:
Outsourcing Services Group (OSG), a custom manufacturer of cosmetics
and personal care products
Cosmetic Essence Inc. (Holmdel, NJ), a contract manufacturer for the
cosmetic and personal care industry

Actually: http://www.cpcpkg.com/dir/cat/2481.html
Has a fair number of contract manufacturers

You could go to India, where they are very good at cloning products,
somehow I would not recommend that.

If on the other hand you want to set up a very small manufacturing
unit in say Africa, then you really need to look for an industrial
chemist to start you off.

Alternatively, get a subcontractor to supply you with 'kits' - you
will need packaging materials and rudimentary machinery all of which
they will know about.

Nice Comment but I will be dissapointed if the only way available is
to have a subcontructor. I want to know the knowledge and I know it
comes with a price.

I think I know what you want to do, and as I said before, I do not
entirely approve.

The main problem is that a 'garage factory' in sub Saharan Africa
could introduce some interesting and unpleasant problems for the end
users of your fairly simple products.

Fermentation comes to mind.

However, since you are going to do this anyway, I might as well point
you in a safer direction.
Search the UK Daily Mail for the last three months to find an article
on a UK guy who made a bacteriacidal hand cream from a base (glycerine
?) and Aloe Vera + EPOC , they pretty much printed his cook book.

Then, being evil, you could launch a spoof recruitment campaign for
industrial chemists with experience in the cosmetics industry. By the
second interview, over lunch, they will spill the lot - provided you
look plausible.

I totally disapprove of 'Peckham Spring Water' operations (a strictly
UK joke), but reckon that if you are going to get up to such mischief,
then a little damage limitation is required.

A pukka GA researcher will come up with the newspaper article.

As an aside, I would suggest that you package your product in a reel
(or snake)of plastic sachets. Production/packaging will be more
expensive, but it would enhance the life cycle of the product. If my
guess is correct, then you could claim 'activated by air' and suggest
a hairdryer on cold/warm.

Personally I would prefer to sell arms, rather than deal in pseudo pharmaceuticals 
- the results are less unpredictable.
- also, one day you might develop something called a 'conscience'