Face mask contract manufacturing

A cosmetics plant develops and produces a facial mask for your brand, wash-off clay or cream, sheet mask, or peel-off, from formula and sheet or film selection through stability testing, filling or sachet packing, and the BPOM notification. You decide the ritual you are selling and put your name on it.

Clay or mud masks for oily and congested skin; cream masks for dry and mature skin; gel masks for a cooling, hydrating step; sheet masks for a quick hydration or brightening ritual; peel-off masks for a satisfying, surface-polishing result; and a wash-off exfoliating mask with a short-contact acid. Each suits a different customer and price point.

A face mask is left on for ten to twenty minutes and then rinsed, peeled, or removed. A sleeping mask is a leave-on, closer to a rich night cream or gel, applied as the last step and washed off in the morning. The two are developed and tested as different products; we make both.

Kaolin is soft and mild, bentonite absorbs more oil and thickens, Moroccan lava clay (rhassoul) adds a gentle cleansing story, and activated charcoal gives the dark color buyers associate with oil control. A clay mask cracks when it dries too fast and too completely; glycerin and a flexible polymer in the base keep it from turning into dust on the face.

Water leaves the paste, either into the headspace or through a lid that does not seal, and the clay packs down. A clay mask needs humectants to hold water, a suspending polymer to stop settling, and a jar with a good seal; a tube avoids the problem entirely. We check consistency after 45 °C storage before approving the formula.

A sheet, cotton, tencel or lyocell nonwoven, bio-cellulose, or hydrogel, each with a different fit and price; an essence of 20 to 25 ml, mostly water with humectants and actives such as hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, centella, or a ferment; and a sealed sachet. The sheet is the main cost driver and shapes how the mask feels on the face.

A sheet mask is a water-rich essence sitting in cloth for a year, so its preservative system is tested harder than a cream's: a preservative blend from the permitted list under BPOM Regulation No. 23 of 2019 as amended, a challenge test on the essence, and a sealed, single-use sachet so nothing is reopened. Multi-use sheet mask packs are a hygiene risk and we do not recommend them.

The base is polyvinyl alcohol with a plasticizer; it dries into a continuous film that lifts surface cells and fine hair when peeled. It tears when the film is too thin, dried unevenly, or has too little plasticizer, and it hurts when applied too thick on the hairline. The polymer level and drying time are tuned in development and the directions say how thick to apply.

Yes. A clay mask with kaolin, bentonite, and charcoal is the classic; salicylic acid up to the 3 percent rinse-off limit can be added because the mask is washed off. Claims stay cosmetic: helps absorb excess oil, helps cleanse pores, helps reduce the appearance of blemishes. "Removes acne" is not permitted.

A cream mask or a sheet mask with hyaluronic acid, glycerin, panthenol, and ceramides is the usual answer. The hydration effect of a mask is immediate and measurable with a corneometer, which makes "instant hydration" a claim a brand can support; "long-lasting hydration" needs a measurement hours later.

"Hydrates" needs a corneometer reading. "Helps absorb excess oil" needs a sebumeter or a demonstration test. "Brightens the look of skin" needs an instrumental or clinical study. "Deep cleanses pores" is accepted as a cosmetic claim when the formula supports it; "detoxifies" is a word we avoid, because there is no cosmetic test for it. Wording follows BPOM Regulation No. 3 of 2022.

Yes; a face mask is a cosmetic, and after the phase-in under Government Regulation No. 42 of 2024 ended on 17 October 2026, it must be halal certified or labelled non-halal. For masks the points to check are collagen, glycerin, and any ferment or animal-derived extract in the essence, and the sheet material itself. We build the halal file alongside the BPOM notification.

A jar for clay and cream masks applied with a spatula, with a liner to keep the seal. A tube for a clay or peel-off mask, which keeps it from drying out. A flip-top bottle for a fluid gel mask. Sheet masks go in single-use sachets, usually 25 to 30 ml, which is a separate packing setup we arrange for.

ODM: our R&D team develops the mask from your brief, choosing format, clay or sheet, actives, and scent. OEM, or private label: you start from a clay, cream, or sheet mask base we already produce and change the extract, the fragrance, or the pack, with suspension or preservation already proven.

The format (clay, cream, gel, sheet, peel-off), the skin concern you are selling to, how long the mask should stay on, your preferred actives, whether it must be fragrance-free, a reference product, the selling price range, a rough quantity, and the claims you hope to print. From these we propose a format and base and make samples.