At Formula Botanica, one of the most frequent questions our community asks is where to buy certain organic skincare ingredients. Our students have access to our resources list of recommended, trusted suppliers around the world. However, knowing more about how suppliers work behind the scenes can help you ask the right questions when sourcing ingredients to suit your formulating needs.
Being a supplier of organic skincare ingredients isn’t an easy business to be in. There are numerous challenges in getting specific ingredients to each and every customer when and where they want them.
Ensuring availability of natural organic skincare ingredients isn’t the only issue our suppliers have to contend with. As natural formulators, we ask them also about the sustainability of their organic skincare ingredients, as well as whether they were grown, harvested and supplied in line with ethical business practices.
To help explain the supplier’s viewpoint, we spoke to Jem Skelding. As Jem explains, challenges in sourcing and supplying ingredients range from factoring in the ‘usual’ problems of accessing remote rural regions, and dealing with poor harvests and erratic weather affecting availability to acute situations such as war, famine and flood.
In this podcast episode, host Gemma discovers what goes on behind the scenes in supplying organic skincare ingredients, and for us, as formulators to know what to ask of our suppliers as well.
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Gemma Ortega Perez was Formula Botanica’s Relationship Manager between 2015 – 2019. To read more about the Formula Botanica team, visit our staff page.
