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ONLINE HELP

These help topic videos will show you how to use all of the Cosmetic Companion features.
They are designed to take you step-by-step through all of the functions of Cosmetic Companion.

Initial steps

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  • Setting the screen size

  • Personal information

  • Responsible person for submitting assessments

  • Preferred currency

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Blending essential oils

  • Fragrance Groups

  • Tones

  • Picking and choosing your own oils within safety limits

  • Transfer your blend directly into your recipe

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Creating a non-soap recipe

  • Find the right type of recipe

  • Different safety limits to soap

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Costing/Pricing the recipe

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  • Produce a cost and price for a unit 

  • Ingredient costs

  • Valuing your time

  • Time taken

  • Adjust price against profit

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Sales and Stock Reports
 

  • Top 50 selling products

  • Sales analysis

  • Stock analysis

  • Useful for year-end reporting

     

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Starting a new soap recipe

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  • Recipe name

  • Number of variants

  • Type of recipe

  • Batch size

  • Calculation method

  • Lye(s)

  • Superfat

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Saving and

printing the recipe

  • Saving and printing tab

  • Saving the recipe

  • Printing the recipe

  • Adding to the Document Library

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Raw Ingredients Stock

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  • Review your raw ingredients and packaging stock

  • Record purchases

  • Adjust stock levels to account for mishaps

  • Enter initial stock held

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Producing Products

& Batch Logs​

  • Review availability of the raw materials required to produce

  • Log production and add finished products to your stock of products

  • Create a batch log

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The Calculator
 

  • A handy tool offering useful functions, especially designed for the cosmetic maker.

     

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Choosing the oils and butters

  • Choosing the oil

  • Data sheets

  • Search oil properties

  • Check price bands

  • Usage warnings

  • Lye calculations

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Recalling previous recipes

  • Recipe and calculation tab

  • Recall the recipe from list

  • Duplicate the recipe

  • Delete the recipe

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Packaging Stock

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  • Review your raw ingredients and packaging stock

  • Record purchases

  • Adjust stock levels to account for mishaps

  • Enter initial stock held

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Creating Allergen Declarations

  • Review and update the allergen declarations for essential oils that you use

  • Produce the allergen declarations to meet UK/EU regulations for the products you sell

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Updating Cosmetic Companion​

  • Download an Update File

  • Refresh partner ingredients and prices

  • Load additional ingredient data sheets

  • Update safety limits

Adding ingredients to the variants

  • Variant name

  • Variant description

  • Packaging

  • Choosing ingredients

  • Safety limit percentage

  • Data sheets

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Resizing batch quantities

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  • Changing the weight of the recipe to what is needed for production purposes

  • Printing resized recipe

  • Option to save

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Purchases

  • See purchases made

  • Review by supplier

  • Review by ingredient

  • Choose a date range - useful for year-end reporting

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Selling Products

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  • Choose the recipe

  • Select the product

  • Enter sales for the period

  • Show increase in sales for the product and recipe

  • Show products remaining to sell

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Renewing your licence

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  • Choosing the licence

  • Downloading the licence key

  • Loading into Cosmetic Companion to renew your licence

TIPS

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