Start at ten.
Grow to ten thousand.
White label supplements that scale with you. Launch on tubs with almost no risk, then move to fully printed pouches as the volume comes.
Choose a productNot sure which format? Ask The Packer →
How brands grow with us
Three stages, and you only move when the volume justifies it. Nothing here asks you to commit before you know the product sells.
Tubs
Prove it sells
Ten tubs. Not a pallet, not a print run, not a five thousand unit commitment. You can put a real branded product in front of real customers for under two hundred pounds and find out whether anyone wants it.
Pouches
Where the margin is
Once it is selling, pouches change the economics. Printed film replaces the tub, the lid and the label, and there is no labelling step, so the cost per gram falls by roughly half.
Seven hundred is a genuinely low minimum for fully printed packaging. Most manufacturers will not talk to you below five thousand.
Stick packs
Single serve
One dose per stick, tear top, straight into a bottle. They are for sampling, for selling single servings across a counter, and for going into subscription boxes.
Most brands run these alongside pouches rather than instead of them. A pouch is the month, a stick is the trial.
The number that matters
Take bovine collagen, and look at what a gram actually costs you at each stage.
Your very first pouch order beats your best possible tub price. Not by a little. That is the whole argument for moving up when you are ready, and it is why we would rather you started small on tubs than not started at all.
Every format keeps its own price ladder, so buying tubs while you build up to pouches costs you nothing.
Not sure which one
Ask The Packer
Six questions and he will tell you which format actually suits you, what it costs at your volume, and whether you are ready for it.
He will happily tell you to start small. If you have not sold the product yet, or you need stock in a fortnight, he will point you at ten tubs rather than a print run. That is usually the right answer and it saves everyone a bad first order.
Ask The PackerFive products for a fifth of the outlay
Fully printed pouches used to mean committing to 700 of one design. Digital printing changed that. One print run can now carry five different products at 140 each, so you can launch a range on the capital a single product used to cost.
Five products meant five separate print runs and 3,500 pouches of stock before you had sold one.
Digital printing lets one 700 run carry five designs. Same five products, 700 pouches, one fifth of the capital.
The 5,000 sachet minimum splits the same way, so a five product sampler range stops being a stock gamble.
Each design is printed and filled as its own batch, with a £25 setup charge per design covering artwork origination and proofing. A split run is still a real order at trade volume. If you are testing a single idea rather than launching a range, start at ten tubs instead.
Step one
Choose your product
Pick one and you will see every format it comes in, with its own minimum order and price.
BCAA 2:1:1
Tubs from £14.98
Beta-Alanine
Tubs from £12.33
Bovine Collagen
Tubs from £16.70
Creatine Monohydrate
Tubs from £9.70
Electrolytes
Tubs from £15.80
Faba Bean Protein
Tubs from £24.06
L-Glutamine
Tubs from £15.92
Marine Collagen
Tubs from £19.50
Matcha Green Tea
Tubs from £32.77
Pea Protein Isolate
Tubs from £23
Soya Protein Isolate
Tubs from £22.59
How it works
Nothing is printed until you have approved it, whichever format you choose.
Choose
Pick your product, then your format and quantity.
Brand it
We send the statutory information that has to appear on the pack. You add your branding.
Approve
We send back a proof. Cancel free for a full refund at any point up to the moment you sign it off.
Shipped
We print, fill or label, box the order and send it out tracked.
The bit nobody plans for
Where is all this going to live?
One product is fine. Seven hundred pouches is fourteen boxes, and fourteen boxes fits in a spare room without anyone complaining.
A brand is not one product though. By the time you are running a proper range, the numbers look different.
Four pallets is not a spare room. And somebody still has to pick, pack and post every single order that comes in, which for most people starting a brand means you, at ten at night.
Outsourcing fulfilment costs less than most people assume. Worth finding out the actual number before deciding you cannot afford it, because it is often the thing that makes the jump from tubs to pouches possible a year earlier than it otherwise would be.
EZ3PL
A fulfilment company that can hold your stock and ship your orders, so you can spend your time on marketing rather than on packing tape.
Discounted rates for Make My Supps customers. Tell them you buy from us.
EZ3PL is a separate company with its own terms, but the two businesses are under common ownership. That is public on Companies House, so we would rather tell you than have you find it.
What you get
Every order, whatever the size or format.
- The statutory information for your product, set out ready for you to build your artwork around
- Your branding printed onto the label or into the film, to artwork you have approved
- Batch code and best before on every unit
- A scoop in every tub and pouch
- A proof before anything prints, and a full refund if you cancel before you approve it
- Boxed and shipped tracked from Weston-super-Mare
Order more, pay less
Every product has its own price ladder. The rate is set by how many of that product you order, not by your total order value.
Tubs break at 20, 30, 40, 50 and 100. Pouches at 1,500, 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000. Stick packs at 10,000 upwards.
Who this is for
Anyone who wants their own supplement brand without a five thousand unit minimum order.
Personal trainers
Sell your own branded product to the clients you already have, without committing to a pallet.
Gyms and studios
Put your name on the shelf behind the counter and keep the margin in house.
Clinics and practitioners
Supply your own labelled product to patients rather than sending them elsewhere.
New brands
Test a product and a price with ten tubs before you commit real money to a production run.
Outgrowing us is the point
When your volumes get past what this makes sense for, we move you across to SimplePack, our contract packing operation on the same site. Same building, same people, proper production runs and your own specification.
Questions
If yours is not here, email orders@makemysupps.co.uk.
Which format should I choose?
Is the pouch printing a label or the actual pack?
What is the minimum order?
That run does not have to be a single design. Digital printing lets us split it up to five ways, so 700 pouches can be five products at 140 each, and 5,000 sachets can be five at 1,000 each. There is a setup charge per design.
Can I launch more than one product at once?
Build one on the pouch or sachet split run pages.
Why is a pouch cheaper than a tub?
Which flavours can I order?
Where am I going to keep it all?
If you do not have the space, or you do not want to spend your evenings packing orders, a third party fulfilment company can hold your stock and ship your orders for you. EZ3PL do this and offer discounted rates to our customers. They are a separate company, under common ownership with SimplePack.