Suppliers in Sun Care

Our mission is to help you grow your business. Essential Wholesale & Labs, located in the Pacific Northwest, is a premium skin and hair care manufacturer with over 20 years of experience crafting unique and effective products. We provide exceptional natural and organic formulations to retail and wholesale companies that sell under their brands, as well as DIY makers and crafters. We offer responsibly-sourced ingredients, stock bases to use as-is or modify, and a lab to create custom products exclusively for you. We focus on quality, sustainability, and science-backed formulas. As a full-service manufacturer we can fill, label, package, and ship your products to you or a distribution center. Please visit our Services page for a complete description. Essential values efficacy, safety, and sustainability and we’re proud to serve a diverse array of customers and businesses of all sizes. We craft all our bases and products onsite at our 70,000sq ft facility in Portland, Oregon, where we benefit from some of the cleanest and best water in the world. We’ve built a reputation for quality and consistency, and we believe everyone should understand what’s in their skin and hair care.Essential was founded by an innovative couple in 2002 with the goal of creating custom products for their children’s complex skin care needs. It grew from a kitchen operation all the way up to our current 2-building facility, now with the goal to make premium wholesale skin and hair care available to all. We’re very proud to support thousands of businesses around the globe and are constantly inspired by how they creatively market and alter our bases or craft their own unique products. Essential was purchased in late 2011, becoming a majority woman-owned business with an even broader commitment to sustainability and excellence. We moved from our previous location in SE Portland to the historic Industrial District in NW Portland in 2012, and have recently added an additional 15,000sf of adjacent warehouse space to accommodate our growth. Although our facilities are not open to the public due to confidentiality and manufacturing requirements, we remain accessible through our blog and video content, community events (prior to the pandemic), attending and presenting at conferences, and donating to both local and national causes close to our hearts.

Kern Tec is an Austrian processor of fruit pits - especially of stone fruits such as apricot, plum and cherry. Inspired by agriculture and circular economy in Europe, fruit pits are a waste product - as for example in the juice industry. However, these largely undiscovered resources have a great potential because of their valuable ingredients. At Kern Tec, they are gently washed, dried and then separated into seeds and shells in order to unfold their maximum potential. Through continuous innovation, we are able to maintain our philosophy of zero waste. Our sustainable products are not only beneficial to the environment, but above all to our customers, who can rely on the highest quality and innovative products.

We only use carefully selected raw materials from fruit growers and processing companies. With our partly energy self-sufficient production, we are able to create regional products for the first time and thus bring a meaningful added value from which everyone along the value chain benefits.

GARUDA INTERNATIONAL Inc., based in Exeter, CA (USA) has specialized in the development, manufacturing and the marketing of ingredients derived from natural sources for more than 45 years.

Garuda's products provide a specialized nutraceutical and functional benefits to foods, animal feed, beverages, dietary supplements, CBD/Hemp Oil Industries, cosmeceuticals and agriculture. GARUDA INTERNATIONAL Inc. is well known and globally recognized for the pioneering and development of natural milk calcium in the United States and the development and expansion of unique Quillaja saponaria extracts used by diverse industries across the globe.

Today Garuda International offers more than 60 products with a customer base spanning more than 30 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia. Many include well-known multinational food, cosmetic, dietary supplement, agricultural and pharmaceutical companies.

Garuda was built on and continues a long tradition of providing the finest ingredients with caring and dedicated customer service and support. We are committed to making a contributing to the preservation of the soil, the planet and the environment to support well being for all. Garuda maintains memberships with the NPA, IFT, AHPA and the American Botanical Council.

Thank you for visiting our website. The entire GARUDA INTERNATIONAL team sincerely appreciates your trust in our products and we look forward to our continued successes together. Please contact us for any additional information, other technical documents, price quotations, samples or any other assistance you may require.

Tagra Biotechnologies since its inception in 1998, focuses on developing and manufacturing microencapsulated ingredients such as actives, pigments, essential oils, UV filters, and highly water-soluble ingredients.

Tagra is the first to patent a unique innovative Release on Demand™ (RND™) Microencapsulation Technology. Tagra’s platform addresses industry challenges of stability, efficiency, and compatibility with other cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulation ingredients. The technology enables the masking, protecting, and releasing of more than 40 actives and pigments widely used in cosmetics and OTC preparations. Tagra’s microcapsules are friction released through consumer applications.

Tagra also owns and operates its own plant and state-of-the-art laboratory meeting all required regulations.