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How to buy quality raw ingredients from Alibaba?
I would like to buy raw copper peptides GHK-cu in small bulk. 10grams. What are some ideas about getting quality assured ingredients? Other bulk buying options? Thanks.
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7 Replies
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You might get lucky. You might not. I have bought ingredients from China (glycyrrhizic acid) and had no problems with quality. However, I have to say, the supplier certified the powder as something else entirely, because its export is actually controlled due to shortages. So it was risky.
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You better have a good specification sheet and certificate of analysis. Maybe an independent lab should analyze it.
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Personally, I never, ever buy ingredients from China. Unless you have a COA, I would not trust anything coming from China. And, they’re not above faking the COA.
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Thanks for the feedback. I want quality and safety first. Any wholesalers of raw materials like GHK cu that you know of?
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I found a great company that is based in Boston to buy my copper peptides from. They are called Active Peptide. http://www.activepeptide.com. They were responsive to my phone calls and questions. The thing that impressed me was companies like Skin Biology and Harvard buy their peptides from them.
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Thanks for the update.
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1) Be a large enough company that you can afford to conduct your own analytical tests, or have a contract lab do them.
2) Be able to make it clear to your supplier that you will be a repeat customer, and will buy from them often.
3) Be willing and able to discard the entire product, and replace it with another from a different company, and write off the loss.Otherwise, buying chemicals from Alibaba has about the same amount of risk as dialing a random chinese phone number and ordering from whoever answers.
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