Direct Sales of Natural Skin Care Products
Sun, Nov 18, 2007
I've owned and operated my own natural skin care business for a almost 7 years.
It has been both challenging and rewarding.
If you plan to create your own business, making your own product, be sure to make a plan beforehand as to exactly how much time you want to be spending, and then allow for more!
If you plan to sell other people's products, be sure to fully investigate the ingredients used.
There are MANY companies who market natural these days based on one or two ingredients, but many of their ingredients are not.
SCENT
One of the biggest things to look for is scent – do they use essential oils or synthetics (fragrant oils)?
This is a always a good indicator as to how committed to "natural" a company is.
If they are trying to present the use of synthetics as natural ingredients through misleading wording and labels, this is so pervasive right now… you see it everywhere… run, don't walk to another company.
PRESERVATIVES
The other is preservatives, although it will be very hard to find a company who does not use synthetic preservatives, in a mass production environment they are a necessity.
If you want to market truly natural products, a happy alternative may be to seek out someone else who has their own home business creating natural products and sell for them.
Many of them use a paraben free preservative, still synthetic, it is a safer alternative to some of the heavy hitters contained in many off the shelf products, designed to keep for years.
RESEARCH
You will need to do some research, and possibly approach them with a well thought out plan as to what you want, and what you can do for the company. Many are single proprietors and don't have a program in place, you may need to have some solutions ready, especially around the holidays.
The potential for a lucrative sales period is large, but it is also unbelievably busy, so you need to be prepared.
Be sure that the company is reliable, ethical and check out their product by ordering from them first.
Check customer service, packaging, speed of delivery etc to see what your customers will be receiving.
And be sure that they are a pleasure to work with and have an interest in your feedback as to what the customers you are in contact with have to say and marketing suggestions that you may have based on your experiences selling their products.
While you may not always be accommodated, an open mind and willingness to focus some effort on the market will result in a bigger chance of your success… and theirs.
You may need to work ground floor with them and almost certainly be working for a commission, but there will be even more reward in marketing a truly natural product, and in helping another work at home mom to create a successful business.
You can learn more about natural skin care at my websites…
http://www.skincarenaturals.com
Contact me if you'd like to be on my mailing list for upcoming affiliate opportunities selling my new natural skin care eGuides.
email:jan(at)skincarenaturals.com
Presently we have "All About Making Body Butters", which has been quite popular.
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Great pointers you have there. By the way, I just checked out both of your sites and thought that they are pretty neat.
I agree with you on the part of natural products.
Many companies today says claim that their product is “natural” just because they have a small percentage of natural ingredients.
For people out there who wants to buy “real natural” products look out for the word “100% natural” and not “natural”.
I know exactly what you mean – “natural” doesn’t necessarily mean natural or organic. I have actually created an acne skin treatment product – and yes, it’s actually natural made of organic ingredients. http://www.o-eco.com
So what exactly does natural mean? It’s so naughty to hoodwink people like that.
I remember McDonalds in Australia got in trouble a few years ago. There burgers were made with “100% Australian Beef” Sounds great – Trouble was, their supplier, a company based in Asia somewhere, was called “100% Australian Beef” – Not much Australian about that!
How naughty!
Wow! This is really a great info! I’ll keep reading and I’ll
share this site to my subscribers. Thank you so much!
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Hi Ryan,
I agree most companies claim 100% natural and such but are rarely so, but not all.
I have to say for Guilt Free balm is the best natural skin care product I have used. It smells a bit due to high cocoa butter but works really well.
sorry, I thik I messed up on the link for your ref.
http://www.veganskincream.com/main/blog/aloe-vera-skin-care
great tips. I enjoyed reading this
My mom tried making her own products years ago and succeeded by teaming up with people (i.e. hairdresser, local boutique shops, etc.) and cut them on the profit. She did pretty well and actually had to stop for a while. I’ll forward this post and hopefully she’ll get back into making it so I can gifts for my girl friends.
I agree. Those so-called “natural” products offered in the market doesn’t necessarily mean the it’s made with 100% organic ingredients. It’s really a great idea to make your own beauty products. This way, you’re sure that it’s really 100% natural.
Thanks for the advice. More and more people ask for natural products. I think it is hard to find natural products with scents that can compete with the other mass produced ones. What is usualy the shelf life of a product with a paraben free preservative?
Thanks
Skin care products are always on huge demand and have the capability of being sold like hot cakes. As Jan is running this business for the last 9 years or so, any one can get good tips from him for a successful business-if I’m not wrong.
I agree. 100% is best, I found, when looking for a natural skin cream to sell with my skin needling rollers, that many suppliers were a bit sketchy over natural and 100% natural. Luckily I managed to find a great 100% natural cream that actually works!!! 🙂 great post.
Great article. I found the fragrance oils to be one of the biggest selling points actually – in both ways. Some people are completely turned on by them while don’t even give a second look once they know what is going on. It’s pretty weird. Overall scents are important either way.