Product Development
This is our favorite part of the job; taking your dreams from a concept to reality. Who doesn’t like to play genie? We sure do! Your wish is our command.
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Let’s chat! We’re always excited to hear your big ideas and collaborate with to you materialize them. Our goal is to navigate you through the process and help you arrive at a solution that meets all your unique business needs. We’ll gather your requirements and analyze them against our capabilities to develop the perfect formula that fits your budget and product specifications.
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Our sweet spot is right at the intersection where beauty meets innovation. Delta’s team of expert chemists are committed to seeking out the latest and greatest trends, curating the finest ingredients, and concocting formulas that would simply blow your mind! We bring a holistic approach to innovation, working with both our customers and vendors simultaneously to understand real-time shifts in the beauty industry, ensuring that we are stay at the forefront of these changes and adapt accordingly. We leverage this knowledge in our research and development practices to create extraordinary formulations, so that you can have a truly one-of-a-kind, dare we even say, unicorn product. Our R&D services are:
Custom Development: We’ll build your vision from scratch, leveraging our expertise and past experiences to quickly develop a solution that meets all your business requirements.
Reverse Engineering: Reinventing an existing product? We have the expertise to reverse engineer any benchmark you provide us. We love a good challenge!
BYOF (Bring your own formula): The name kind of explains itself. Looking for additional fillers? Bring us your formula and we will handle the rest.
Scale up of existing formula: Want to grow your business but formula expenses preventing you from scaling? Our team will work with you to analyze cost saving changes to ingredients or procedure that can make growth feasible.
Private Label: We have an extensive library of formulas in every category imaginable! Just pick one you like and shorten your time from formulation to launch.
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First impressions are everything! So, we understand the importance packaging plays in developing your ideal product. Our team of visionary designers will work with you to ensure that the moment your customer lays eyes on the product, it’s a guaranteed love at first sight. Having an eye-catching product that can easily stand out on the shelves, is just as important for sales as the formula itself. From helping you source the right packaging materials to designing a label that tells your compelling product story, our team of designers will fashion together an exterior that is perfectly tailored for your target consumer. Sure, packaging’s main purpose is more functional, but that doesn’t mean aesthetics don’t matter. This is a beauty product after all!
Manufacturing
This is where the fun really begins! We have all the manufacturing proficiencies to take your approved formula from the sample stage to full blown production. Ready to get started?
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With a diverse range of tanks, mixers, and tools our blending capabilities allow us to deliver consistent high-quality batches. Our equipment is designed to achieve uniform blending and avoid the creations of agglomerates by ensuring thorough dispersion and blending of dry power ingredients into liquid bases. This eliminates the risk of improperly homogenized emulsions that can be subject to separation and shelf instability. It’s not a risk you want to take, trust us. Our blending capabilities include:
Jacketed and heated tanks and processors
Diverse range of mixers and blending tools
Liquid, powder, and solids blending and compounding
Ability to blend low to high viscosity formulas
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No need to compromise on packaging. Our filling machines are designed to fit nearly any shape, size, cap, or material of the container your heart desires. Go on, have your pick! Our filling capabilities include:
Hot fills
Bottles
Jars
Tubes (plastic &aluminum)
Vials
Continuous spray
Pails
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This may be the last step in production, but it’s an important one. We offer a wide array of finishing services from labeling to pack out, so that your finished product is ready to hit the shelves as soon as it leaves our doors. Our finishing capabilities include:
Bottle labeling
Shrink wrapping
Bundle wrapping
Gift set assemblies
Custom assemblies
Pack out inner cartons
Pack out master cartons
Bulk pack
Testing
Testing. Sounds boring, right? But it’s crucial to ensuring your product stands the test of time. We can perform various cycles of testing on your formula and final packaging to guarantee you are good to go once you launch your product. No shelf-life issues to see here.
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We offer stability testing ensure that the cosmetic product maintains its intended physical, chemical, and microbiological quality, as well as functionality and aesthetics when stored under appropriate conditions. We perform stability in cycles of various stress conditions in environment and timeframes. Evaluation criteria includes:
Organoleptic Testing:
Appearance Color
Odor Texture Changes
Physico-Chemical Testing:
PH
Viscosity
Specific Gravity
Weight Changes
Microbiological Testing:
Microbial Count
System preservation before/after
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We offer compatibility testing between the product and its packaging, studying interactions that may occur between the formula, the container, and the external environment. The integrity of the package and the formulation must be considered, evaluating the weight, the sealing, and the functionality. We test for the following:
Absorption of product particles into the container
Corrosion
Leaching
Container efficacy protecting the contents from atmospheric oxygen and water vapor