About
The Cosmetic Manufacturer matches beauty brands to US contract manufacturers. Brands pay nothing. Manufacturers pay only when they accept an introduction.
The problem
There is no shortage of capable contract manufacturers in the United States. What there is no shortage of is founders who cannot find them. The information that would tell you whether a factory can make your product — what it is registered for, what processes it runs, what it will accept as a first order, what the FDA has said about it — is scattered across federal registers, trade listings and company websites, and none of it is in a form you can compare.
So the search runs on referrals and trade shows, which favours whoever already knows somebody. The factories lose too: a shop that would happily take a 2,000-unit first run is invisible to the founder who needed exactly that, because nothing published anywhere says so.
What we built
A dataset assembled from public records, and a matching engine over it. You describe the product and the constraints that actually bind — the run size, where it has to be made, what it must not contain, which certifications you need. The engine returns a ranked shortlist and tells you why each manufacturer is on it, what it could not check, and which of your requirements it had to relax to fill the list at all.
That last part is the difference. A shortlist that drops a filter without saying so has answered a different question from the one you asked, and looks identical to one that did not.
How an introduction works
Two consents, and your name crosses once, at the end.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| You request | The manufacturer receives the brief with your identity withheld — they see the project, not who is behind it. |
| They accept | They have read the brief and want it. Nothing has been released yet. |
| You confirm | Your name goes to them, and only to them. This is the point where the introduction is real. |
| They decline | With a reason, which you see. You can ask again — briefs change. |
Each manufacturer on a shortlist is a separate handshake. Confirming one releases your name to that one and to nobody else.
How we make money
The manufacturer pays a fee when an introduction is accepted by both sides. That is the only thing we charge for.
Brands pay nothing, ever — not to search, not to be matched, not to be introduced. It is worth being blunt about the incentive that creates, because it is the usual failure mode of a marketplace: we are paid on introductions that a manufacturer chose to accept, so an introduction that wastes their time costs us the next one. Nobody can pay for a better rank, and the ranking code does not know what anyone has paid.
What we are careful about
- We never invent a value. Everything on a profile came from somewhere, and where it was inferred rather than stated, it says so.
- A missing field is missing data, not a no. Silence never counts against a manufacturer.
- Which brands work with which factories is not ours to publish. Verified product counts are public; the brands behind them are not.
- Nothing about your project is visible to a manufacturer you have not sent it to.
Where we are
Los Angeles, California. The network is US and Canadian manufacturers.