Chapped lips in winter are a common skincare concern, primarily caused by moisture loss due to low-temperature and dry environments, weakened lip barrier function, and external irritations. High-quality lip balms must possess three core effects: powerful moisture-locking to replenish lost hydration in the lips, repairing the damaged barrier to enhance resistance, and being gentle and non-irritating to suit various lip conditions. The key lies in selecting high-quality natural active ingredients and implementing scientific formula ratios. Through deep nourishment, they achieve long-lasting soothing effects, fundamentally improving issues such as dryness, cracking, peeling, and tightness, making them an essential item for winter lip care.
Exclusive Brand Cooperation Channel: Custom Winter Lip Balm OEM/ODM Services to Explore New Market Opportunities
Leveraging its global-leading cosmetics OEM/ODM manufacturing capabilities, INTE Cosmetics provides full-chain customized services for winter-specific lip balms to brands, distributors, and beauty salons. With core technology, high-quality raw materials, and flexible services, we empower partners to create highly competitive lip care products that meet market demands.
Core Competitiveness of Winter Lip Balms: Precise Breakthroughs from Ingredients to Formulas
The competition in the winter lip care market focuses on whether products can truly address core pain points such as dryness, cracking, and tightness. Achieving this goal relies on two key pillars: the quality and suitability of raw materials, and the scientificity and targeting of formulas.
In terms of raw material selection, high-performance winter lip balms should prioritize ingredients with strong moisturizing and repairing properties. For example, hyaluronic acid can deeply hydrate and form a moisture-locking film on the lips; peptides can precisely repair the damaged lip barrier; natural plant essential oils (such as peppermint oil and camellia oil) provide immediate soothing and long-term nourishment; and collagen enhances lip elasticity and improves dry wrinkles. These raw materials must undergo strict screening to ensure purity and activity, laying the foundation for product efficacy.
In formula development, it is necessary to break through the limitation of "single moisturization" and build a three-dimensional system of "hydration - moisture locking - repair". By precisely controlling ingredient ratios, it achieves progressive effects: instantly relieving dryness and discomfort, maintaining moisture for over 12 hours, and long-term repairing the lip barrier. Meanwhile, formulas should avoid irritating ingredients to ensure gentleness and no burden, suitable for sensitive lips and various skin types in winter—this is also the key for brands to build a good reputation in the market.
With years of in-depth industry experience, INTE Cosmetics deeply integrates raw material screening and formula development, providing brands with full-process support from demand analysis to product launch, helping to create winter lip balms with core competitiveness.
INTE Cosmetics: Empowering Winter Lip Balm OEM/ODM with Full-Chain Advantages
Raw Materials & R&D: Laying a Solid Foundation for Product Efficacy
INTE Cosmetics adheres to the principle of "traceable raw materials" and has established long-term strategic partnerships with top global raw material suppliers. All raw materials meet EU standards, including core winter lip balm ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, peptides, and natural plant extracts, ensuring product safety and efficacy from the source.
Backed by a team of over 40 professional scientific researchers and adhering to the dual-core R&D philosophy of "Biotechnology × Natural Extracts", we have built a library of more than 3,000 efficacy-proven formulas. Targeting winter lip care needs, we can quickly retrieve mature formulas or customize exclusive solutions. By simulating lip conditions in low-temperature and dry winter environments for formula optimization, we ensure stable and efficient product performance in real usage scenarios. Additionally, we can assist brands in applying for 28-day human efficacy test reports and provide complete raw material traceability documents, offering authoritative support for product marketing.
Production & Quality: Building a Standardized Assurance System
The company has invested in building 100,000-class cleanrooms and 12 intelligent production lines, equipped with precision high-speed packaging systems and full-process intelligent management platforms. This realizes fully automated production of lip balms, covering raw material processing, formula blending, filling and sealing, and finished product testing—ensuring production efficiency while avoiding quality fluctuations caused by manual operations.
Quality control runs through the entire production process, with 36 strict inspection checkpoints, fully complying with international certification standards such as ISO 22716, SGS, FDA, FEI, MSDS, SCNP, CPNP, and CN. From raw material purity testing and formula stability assessment to finished product microbial screening and safety evaluation, each link has clear standards and records, ensuring that every batch of products delivered to partners meets high-quality standards.
Services & Delivery: Creating an Efficient Cooperation Experience
To meet brands' needs for rapid market response, INTE has launched a flexible and efficient cooperation service system: providing free sample support, completing the R&D and delivery of customized samples within 7 days to help brands quickly verify market feedback; in the mass production phase, committing to delivery within 28 working days to ensure products seize the peak winter sales season; supporting TT/LC payment terms to provide tailored financial solutions for different types of partners.
Meanwhile, services cover multiple models including OEM, ODM, sample-based customization, and contract manufacturing. Whether it is full-process support for start-up brands or formula optimization and mass production needs for mature brands, we can provide targeted solutions. Professional teams are assigned throughout the process to simplify cooperation procedures and reduce communication costs.
Full Cooperation Cycle: A Standardized Closed-Loop from Demand to Launch
- Demand Assessment: Professional teams conduct in-depth communication with brands to clarify core requirements such as efficacy focus, target customer groups, channel positioning, and batch planning for winter lip balms, and output demand analysis reports;
- Solution Customization: Based on the demand report, provide integrated solutions including formula selection, raw material combination, and packaging recommendations, supporting multiple rounds of program optimization and adjustments;
- Sample Development: Complete the R&D, trial production, and delivery of free samples within 7 days, while providing sample efficacy test data to assist brands in market verification;
- Detail Finalization: Both parties confirm core details such as production processes, delivery timelines, payment terms (TT/LC), and certification requirements, and sign a formal cooperation agreement;
- Mass Production Control: Launch standardized mass production on intelligent production lines, with real-time monitoring through 36 quality inspection links, and synchronously feedback progress to brands during production;
- Delivery & Acceptance: Complete finished product packaging, issuance of test reports, and logistics distribution within 28 working days, assist brands in acceptance, and provide after-sales technical support.
The winter lip care market has strong demand, and choosing an OEM/ODM partner with full-chain advantages is crucial for brands to seize market share. With high-quality raw materials, scientific R&D, standardized production, and efficient services at its core, INTE Cosmetics provides cost-effective winter lip balm OEM/ODM solutions for brands, distributors, and beauty salons. Whether you plan to launch new products or upgrade existing ones, you can quickly implement them with INTE's professional strength and stand out in the highly competitive winter skincare market. We look forward to cooperating with you to win new market opportunities!
