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Ok, I see now why I did not notice they where going to discontinue it… They did not update the Spanish website version. I will buy A model but not the datalogger (yet). Thanks!
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@Bill_Toge agree.
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Thanks @Bobzchemist 🙂
I did not know that Silverson was thinking about discontinuing the 250W model ! What do you think about the datalogger program? -
For sure that it will not protect from infinite high termal exposition but i wonder if it can do it temporary at least. In theory the mechanism is to avoid water evaporation and reducing heat transfer. Do they really do it?
I wonder if this last property it is true, would not be contradictory if you are precisely trying to heat it? -
Interesting experiences. In my personal case (europe), it was the opposite: university teach us not to waste material, and private companies told me the opposite.
So I would add to all that you already said, that a decisive factor is the size of the company. Not because of worker salary or raw material (that´s also important as you said) but just for time/cost relation. Very often large companies loose more money waiting to repeat a single batch because it went wrong than doing 10 times more batches and choosing only one of them. Of course this is not valid for very special (an expensive) raw materials but it is for common materials. -
Agree with both. A good business plan (understanding a business project not only like a financial plan) include most of things you told. The only thing i am not totally agree is that entrepreneurs have to go so so deep like: “Three years product development and test marketing”, Employing a graphic design team to create the corporate identity and product labels (just an example to show my point)
Why? because that takes too much resources and maybe she/he does not have so much money for that and that is the reason why she/he is looking for resources. Certainly you have to show great potential, a great idea and a solid project to an investor but almost a finished line is not required for that.
Anyway is important to note that there are different investment needs and we should not confuse them. For example Belassi seems to need investment for expanding but not to create a new line.
It is true that some prototypes may be required to show something physical, but there are a lot of projects that take investors in early steps just because it has a new/attractive USP.One of my friends is precisely Business angel with a good historic of successful projects and some of them were almost nothing when they were presented to him. He guided them during 6 months and presented the investors after that.
It is important to keep in mind that investors requirement will not be the same if you knock their door that if you present yourself in a investors fair where investors are looking for projects.
What you are not going to find is an investor just saying: I would like to create a new cosmetic line but i need money. -
if you have a good business plan, you can present it to a “business angel”. If you pass the filter they can put you in contact with potential investors.
You could also find investors in some trade fairs.
But the most important: before any step, make a VERY clear and complete business plan if you want to be considered by investors. -
David, the point is how do you want to change the formula. If you want to increase an ingredient you have to decide (it depends of many factors) between at least 2 options:
1- To add an amount of your ingredient and do not change the rest of your formula. In this case % of the rest of ingredients are reduce proportionally to his initial % because “you can not have” more than 100%. That would be this example:
water=98.02
citric acid = .99009
EDTA = .99009
2- to increase your ingredient reducing another/s (for example reducing the solvent) but not the rest. That would be Perry´s example (he reduced just the solvent):FROM
Water = 80
Citric acid = 10
EDTA = 10TO
Water = 70
Citric acid = 20
EDTA = 10Look the finals % to try to figure out how is going to impact the formula.
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Destilled is ok to use in cosmetics.
Mineral water as his name says, has minerals so is not “pure” water.
This link may help you.
https://chemistscorner.com/different-water-used-in-cosmetic-formulating/ -
Mike I understood the article, I will try to explain better myself. I am agree with you both. As I said a star player do nothing without a good team. Also we can see mediocre teams with no star player (mediocres ideas) that win the competitions because the team in solid general terms (good implementation). But the star player does not have a value of 1$ because having bad partners. The value is the same, it is just that it is a “potential” value.
Here what I wanted to say:
The article says: Why Game Publishers Aren’t Interested In Your Game Idea.
There, it is the problem in my opinion. If publishers just ignored because there is not implementation, they are not good publishers. The Intelligent ones would see the potential in the idea and they would do the implementation themselves, not just ignoring the great idea.
If the article would says: why some great ideas did not work? I would be agree. -
I think article is wrong.
Ideas are the most important, there is not doubt for me. They are priceless as they can not be manufactured.
They are like the star player of a team sport. If the star player has not good partners he is not going to win the match….it does not matter that he is the best. But loosing the match does not means that he is not the most important! Idem if we think only an idea can success without nothing more. But just ignoring good ideas because his creator does not know how to implement them is not intelligent.Another question is that people misunderstood very often “idea” with “product”, there is the problem then. Example: are Mary key products a good idea? it does not matter as the products are not the idea, the distribution channel and marketing are.
Are lush products a good idea? formulation is not the idea neither.PS: if we follow the table: awful idea with brilliant executions will make you loose a lot of money haha
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In my opinion, yes, there are a lot of market for this (just search in internet and you will find a lot of small companies with this problem). As ChicoB says, the main thing is to find a way to make it profitable for you, offering competitive prices, if so, I think it could really work. With so many cheap transport companies, it is not difficult to send worldwide nowdays
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maybe this machine is expensive, I do not know, but is is it necessary to have one like that? I mean, maybe just a more cheap hot press can do almost the same job.
Another point is: If you buy this manual hot sealing machine is it enough profitable to you? offering a good price with a manual machine is not very easy. If can seal a maximum of 6 tubes per minutes…Maybe someone can offer you a different point of view. -
I do not know if there is a non covered need, but to fill bottles or jars is not difficult / expensive with a manual equipment (i have seen some examples here in the forum).
For tubes: I can imagine (I just do not know) that there are hot sealing machines for plastic tubes (you just need some kind of hot press) and physic (press and turning the end is needed) sealing for meta tubes (maybe metallic tube is slightly more difficult to have a professional look?). -
I never had to sterilize packaging as I was in R&D. I have use ethanol for sterelize glass and metals (an some laboratory plastic bottles) but not packaging. From in my personal life I know that ethanol affect a lot of different “transparent plastics” and make them cloudy and breakable. IPA solve this?
Is it a common process to sterilize packaging? I mean, that have to be a huge work if you do not have specific sterilization equipment! In that case, some recommendation when manual cleaning is not viable? -
Yes, now you have an important job. About prestashop, it has not montly payment, it is totally free (only premium addons need to be purchase). Maybe you rode about prestashop cloud that is a new service (and i do not recommend it as it is less flexible) that is a suscription service.
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@Belassi, I just came to my mind: If you want to “take the place” of lush in mexico and they did not arrived yet, there should be a lot of mexicans searching in google “lush mexico”. Think about get a very good position for these terms in google SERP and you could get a very effective marketing effect.
About Concrete5 I do not have experience with such platform, but you should consider to evaluate WordPress or Prestashop platforms too (magento is often for bigger companies). Why? those two have a huge community that gives support, much more professional are able to work in them, they evolve incredible faster because of millions of clients and you can have more addons that you can imagine. Just consider it now that you are still starting
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Taking bob list (thanks, bob, great resume and very useful links) if budget is not big, you can to try ro reduce the cost of the balance buying 2 with not so big measurable intervals instead of one.
I mean:Bob balance example is a good balance and it measure up to 1500 g with a precision of 0,01g and it has a cost of 1300$.You could save a lot of money buying an ohaus balance with same precision that only measure up to 600gr paying only about 250$. Now if you need to measure more than 600gr you can buy another one for bigger weights (this one can be even cheaper). Precision for the second balance will be generally 0,1 instead 0,01 but for measure more than 600gr of a raw material is not significative. -
@Perry but lightening power is more or less proven isn´t?. You wrote about that in this post: http://thebeautybrains.com/2014/05/which-kind-of-vitamin-c-is-best-for-skin-the-beauty-brains-show-episode-31/
About ascorbic acid you said:“”Ascorbic Acid (AA)
Is it Stable? Stable at pH less than 3.5 in aqueous solution and it’s stable in anhydrous systemsDoes it penetrate? Ex vivo testing proves it penetrates as a solution or micro particles
Does it convert to Ascorbic Acid? No conversion required.
Protects from UV damage: Yes, human in vivo testing.
Increases collagen synthesis: Yes, human in vivo testing.
Reduces skin pigmentation: Yes, human in vivo testing.
“”It is true that I did not read any FDA study about that (i do not work with vitamine c so I did not have to yet) but coming from you I supposed it was as you said but now i see that maybe I did not correctly understood something. Could you please clarify me this?Thanks -
Well, brookfield is almost an standard in cosmetic industry
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Hi,
If you are really “disconnected” from your formulating capacities, maybe you can find helpful Perry´s formulation course:I may interesting this blog too (it is not high science but it is more scientific that most of others DIY blogs):swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.comWelcome to the forum -
Don you have a designer for the new brand? I do not know about shrink-wrap costs, but designers are really affordable now days and you can find really good quality-cost designs.
If you are quite limited in resources now, you could check fivver.com . If you search a little bit, it is a bargain for everything related to marketing -
Ok, I understand.
They have a lot of differents papers and materials (you can even order a catalog with all types of papers) and maybe you should check if some of the papers could be valid. If so, maybe your format it is not in the label section but you find other section that allows to use the paper you would like and later you can adapt it to your jar.For example: printing in A4 (where you can use most of available papers) an later just send them to a “paper store” to cut it in pieces in your desired format…We have solve a lot of problems adapting things to other purposes. Sometimes this type of “solutions” are even better as it could be even more economical and flexible.Just giving possible solutions. -
try onlineprinters.com They are in germany and they have great quality and price are amazing. But not sure if they have a lot of differents label models. I printed with them business cards and flyers and I am very pleased with the quality and service.
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@Belassi. Because of personal reasons I had to leave temporary the pharma field to reconstruct almost from scratch a familiar business. In this time I have learned a lot about ecommerce platforms, SEO tactics and marketing (I consider that my level is higher than some “professionals”).
My particular advice to you ald all new entrepreneurs is that SEO will be specially important to you. But at the same time it is a really dangerous field if you trust in someone who just called him “SEO expert” without having the personal knowledge to evaluate it yourself. It can literally ruin your online presence.If you need some advice or punctual help, just write me by private (to avoid non pure-cosmetics topics in the forum) Or if @Perry prefer it, maybe in “off-topic”.
It is a pity that you are not in Europe as I am interested to co-create/invest in cosmetic business (but a near location from me is required)