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Hi NatOnline,
Certainly you would want sunscreen for the summer months. Also, you do a lot of reselling of products on your site. I would suggest finding a manufacturer and doing private label products. This way, you will greatly improve your margins, and won't be competing with all the others selling the same brand. Skin care is one of the most competitive environments on the web, and you have already defined your niche by using "natural elements", so stick with this.

Dress up nice, take your wife, and go to Macy's, Nieman Marcus, and other higher end stores. Shop the skin care area, see what they are pushing, and then have the product made for you and sell it for less than they do! You may even think about and purchase a few of the products that are naturally-based, and have them reverse engineered at a lotion manufacturer.

Best of luck!
Cliff

Hello Cliff,

Private labels mean higher quantity to buy from some vendors, with some others it is impossible.

Manufacturers will make products with a minimun of 500 units for each products, so we are talking about 100,000 units as we are selling more 200 products on our site. I really cannot afford a stock of $500,000 lol

We are a small business

Thanks for the compliments,

Perfumes, colognes etc... came from Hawaiian flowers extract. They don't make anything like that for men, the only things I can try to get are barber soaps with these fragrances, perhaps I should try to sell these products for us.

Sun screens and tanning lotions are what I am looking to sell next summer, I just found one vendor for now and need some more to compare ingredients, etc...

I will, thank you

Lighthouse24 thanks for the input,

Well some bath products don't sell very well, like bath salt you mentionned as Coconut bath soak. I am afraid that the accessories like volcanic foot scrub etc... will be the same. The bath salts are not very popular and took me a year to sell.

I know Ola just by name and by ranking on search engines, one of our competitors .

This is the time for us to evaluate which products we want to discontinue, and products we want to keep selling.

I think we will try to sell this summer some Tan lotions, after sun etc... extend the line in Kukui (creme scented and unscented) discontinued the oils but not the massage oils, etc... basically to reorganize all the products