Who this is for

For Contract Manufacturers

Find material at the last minute and under MOQ, and turn the excess on your floor into recovered EBITDA — for purchasing, planning, and finance.

Most beauty products are made by contract manufacturers, not the brand on the label. The full journey from formula to shelf, and where waste hides.

Our mission, in one sentence: Ava On Hand connects the beauty industry's surplus ingredients with the makers who need them. Here is what it means.

No contract manufacturer has a role that owns excess inventory. Every job that touches it is measured on something else — so it defaults to the CFO.

Most skincare products contain 15 to 35 ingredients. Real ingredient-list counts by category, from 8-ingredient toners to 54-ingredient creams.

A highway billboard, one long word, and the three-letter name that captures what ingredient sourcing should be: available, verified, anonymous.

Recovered obsolete inventory drops through at near-100% margin. What that is worth to a PE-owned contract manufacturer at exit, with the math.

The real arithmetic of emergency ingredient sourcing: 20 suppliers contacted, 8 replies, 1-2 viable quotes, and 10-plus business days on the clock.

There is no real marketplace for surplus cosmetic ingredients — and the reason is that surplus information rots faster than the material does.

Excess raw-material inventory ends as a write-off plus a disposal bill. A conservative model for what a contract manufacturer can actually recover.

A one-drum minimum against a 15 kg need can quintuple your real ingredient cost. The worked math, plus a formula for your own numbers.