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R&D

Transform your idea into a profitable product

Trusted Product Development

We specialize in combining the best of science, technology, and nature into creating products that customers will love.

We help clients move quickly through the challenging terrain of product development. Our team of in-house chemists and lab techs bring years of experience, honesty, and ideas to the table to bring your vision from idea to brand.

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Our experts abide by the highest quality standard and all new formulations undergo the strictest of testing to ensure the safety, effectiveness, and proper shelf life of all new formulations. 

Your team

Our team is your team. Our guidance is part of our R&D package

R&D is not just formulating. With your vision and our experience, capabilities, and streamlined process—you can have confidence in your product being market-ready. We will guide you through the process from start to finish.

Here are some things to consider before we start:

  • Packaging: #1 priority & most important
  • Hero Ingredients: key ingredients
  • Ingredients to Aviod
  • COGs: cost of goods sold
  • Order Volume
  • Certifications: organic, all-natural, vegan, etc
  • Testing Needed
  • OTC: any claims needed
  • Market: locations to be sold & to whom
  • Launch date
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The R&D Process

Our streamlined and optimized process

  • Step 1
    Product Concept
  • Step 2
    Packaging
  • Step 3
    Formulation
  • Step 4
    Testing
  • Step 5
    Artwork
  • Step 6
    Approval

Product Concept/Scope of work:  

    • Ingredients to include
    • Ingredients to avoid 
    • Hero Ingredients 
    • Claims 
    • COGs 
    • Quantity 
    • Where sold/distribution 
    • Benchmark sample 
    • Use own formula or use Tropical stock formula 
    • Launch date 

Packaging: 

  • Packaging selected by client with an outside provider
  • Work with Tropical Labs to select packaging
  • Size of packaging
  • Type of dispensing
  • Secondary packaging (outer box)
  • Packout bible for shipping

Ingredient selection/Formulation: 

    • ingredients wanted 
    • Claims 
    • OTC 
    • Organic 
    • Gluten-free 
    • Kosher 
    • Hero Ingredients 
    • Ingredients to avoid 

Product Testing, compliance, regulation: 

  • Stability testing  
  • Timeframes:  
    • 3mos-1year 
    • 6mos-2 years 
  • Preservative (PET)
  • Allergen (HRIPT) 
  • Packaging Compatibilty 
  • Freeze thaw 
  • Documentation 
    • SDS 
    • C of A
  • Certifications & Registration(FDA, Organic, etc) 
  •  
  • Create or Submit artwork
  • Label Compliance
  • Full approval on all specification of components for product 
  • BOM Review
  • Production
  • Shipped

MOQ: 2500+ with 8-12 months+ lead time [Click to view & download the full detailed process]

Get Started

Tap into our talented R&D gurus with years of experience.

We have assembled a team of chemists who are obsessed with innovation and geeky about creating the most amazing formulations that our clients will love and their clients will buy.

We are dedicated to making your brand successful. Our #1 goal for each and every client is to effectively produce product with an amazing experience from start to finish.

Work together

Testing & QA

Quality is our top priority

Our goal is to create the safest and most effective products; enforcing some of the most rigorous testing and quality assurance standards in the industry.

We regularly run the following tests: 

  • Environmental
  • Impurities/Microbial
  • Stability
  • Specific Gravity
  • Moisture
  • Organoleptic
  • PH Balance
  • Viscosity
  • Aesthetics
  • Heavy Metals
  • FTIR
  • ATP
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Tropical Labs Inc.
8625 Florida Mining Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33634

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1-888-862-6440