Outsourced cosmetic formulation support for labs.

When an external formulation strategist helps

This is for cosmetic laboratories and product-development teams that have the technical capability but need additional formulation strategy, clearer incoming briefs or documented support around a demanding project.

I work around your laboratory rather than pretending to be the laboratory. The goal is to reduce ambiguity before it becomes another missed sample, unclear client revision or avoidable reformulation.

Where I add capacity

• Turn a founder’s idea into a defined product job, sensory target and commercial brief.
• Research ingredient routes and clarify forms, grades, specifications, suppliers and sourcing questions.
• Set formulation direction, process questions, claims boundaries and the decisions the chemist needs to test.
• Review sample feedback and turn scattered comments into one documented next-round decision.
• Audit an existing formula and organise reformulation priorities, risks and practical alternatives.

A collaboration that fits around your process

We begin with the brief, the current stage and the part of the project that is slowing your team down. I return a defined scope and working direction, then support the agreed handoff, review or sample-development checkpoints.

The arrangement can be shaped around one project, a defined piece of overflow work or ongoing external formulation strategy. The scope and level of involvement are agreed before any detailed confidential material is shared.

What stays with the laboratory

Your laboratory remains responsible for physical formulation, sample manufacture, testing, safety assessment, regulatory determinations and production release. I provide the external formulation strategy and documentation that help your team make better decisions with the information in front of it.