WHETHER YOU PRODUCE SOAP, BODY BUTTER, LIPSTICK OR OTHER PRODUCTS - COSMETIC COMPANION WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE STEPS OF FORMULATION, SAFETY AND PROFITABLE SELLING
BESPOKE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
Cosmetic Companion guides and helps you through all the stages of a product life cycle.
With the aid of graphics and comprehensive, detailed ingredient information you can create more interesting recipes. The ingredients are categorised in price bands​​ so that you know as you create your recipe the approximate costs will be.
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Once you have created your recipe an accurate estimation of cost enables you to set the sales price and see how much profit you would make. Important at this stage is that Cosmetic Companion factors in viscosity to calculations, enabling accurate pricing as well as stock levels.
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GRAPHICS
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ON-BOARD SUPPORTING INFORMATION
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PAPERLESS DOCUMENT LIBRARY
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CHOOSE YOUR OILS AND BUTTERS
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REVIEW SOAP PROPERTIES
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​​CHOOSE VARIANT INGREDIENTS
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CREATE TEST BATCH
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COST & PRICE THE PRODUCT
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ASESSMENT APPLICATION
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CHECK STOCK LEVELS FOR INGREDIENTS AND PACKAGING REQUIRED TO PRODUCE
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PURCHASE INGREDIENTS AND PACKAGING AND ADD TO YOUR STOCK INVENTORY
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PRODUCE PRODUCTS AND REDUCE YOUR STOCK INVENTORY
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CREATE BATCH LOG
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MAINTAIN AN ACCURATE PRODUCT INVENTORY
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​​​RECORD PRODUCT SALES​​​​
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REVIEW PRODUCT SALES AND INVENTORY
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REPORTS YO HELP WITH YOUR ACCOUNTS
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Cosmetic Companion is an Excel-based application. However, do not be confused - it is nothing like the Excel sheets you are probably used to. In fact, you will never actually see a spreadsheet at all. Built using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), Cosmetic Companion provides the perfect user-friendly system for all your cosmetic production needs.
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The program is installed locally on your computer or laptop, running a Windows operating system and with Excel installed. ​​
LYE CALCULATIONS
The in-built lye calculator in Cosmetic Companion provides much more than other online services. ​
It shows interactive visual information on the properties of each ingredient. Additionally showing, graphically, the evolving properties of your soap recipe.
Also provided is a price banding for ingredients, to help you judge the likely price range of your product.
ADDITIVES
There is no blanket percentage for the quantity of additives that you can add to your product. The amount, of each additive, must meet UK and European safety standards to ensure that the product is safe for your customers to use.​
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Cosmetic Companion has a in-built algorithm, which works out the percentages of ingredients that you can add to your product.
RAW MATERIALS STOCK
Balancing the stock of raw materials you are holding versus the sales of your product is easy to handle with Cosmetic Companion. The Raw Materials module enables you to log the purchases of materials and monitor their availability when producing more products.
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Reports are available to show the value of raw materials you are holding, purchases made and maw material stock you have available, or not, when it comes to actually producing your products.
PRODUCING PRODUCTS
When planning to produce your products, Cosmetic Companion will check each ingredient against the stock you have available.
According to the results, you can decide whether to 'plan' to buy the required materials or to wait until you have bought the ingredients and produce at a later date.
Whichever you choose Cosmetic Companion will add the finished products to the inventory, ready for you to make sales.​
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SALES TRACKER
As you make sales you log them in Cosmetic Companion and your product stock will be automatically reduced.
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If you have a large order come in you can immediately check the stock available. In fact, you will not be able to enter the sale if you have insufficient stock, thereby eliminating the need to continually go off to check how many products you are holding
PAPERWORK
Cosmetic Companion takes care of documenting all the necessary paperwork. Everything is stored in the document library to support the on-going success of the recipe you have created.
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Recipes, assessment applications, costings and batch logs and even shopping lists are all archived in you own private library.