Anhydrous Contract Manufacturing
Your Vision.
Our Expertise.
Personal care and home care, manufactured for the brands that own them — bombs, bars, tablets, powders, salts and soaks, formulated to your brief and finished under your label.
- 1900Founded
- 2Platforms
- 98+Audit score
- 100%Solar powered
Why Brands Partner With Us
Everything a growing brand needs from a manufacturing partner.
Custom Formulations
From bath bombs to toilet tablets, we formulate anhydrous personal care and home care products built around your brand’s vision.
Premium Ingredients
Every raw material is qualified before it enters production — with no animal testing across every product line we manufacture.
R&D Support
On-site formulation and stability testing — concept, chemistry and production run under one roof, with one point of contact.
Flexible MOQs
Built for brands at every stage — from emerging startups placing a first order to internationally recognized names scaling a line.
Scalable Manufacturing
A 100% solar-powered facility that scales with you — from pilot runs through the volume a national retail launch demands.
From Concept to Market
Our fastest launch took a brand from initial brief to a nationally shelved product in just 12 weeks, start to finish.
People. Products.
A Cleaner Tomorrow.
A Trusted
Manufacturing Partner
From Concept to Market
Solid Expertise for a
Brighter Tomorrow.
The Opportunity
Personal care and home care are being rewritten.
Three shifts are reshaping both categories at once — Coughlan is built to answer all three under one roof, on both platforms.
Sensory
Texture and format are the new differentiators — bombs, bars, tablets, and granules each carry their own tactile signature.
Sustainable
Waterless formats are reshaping both aisles, and brands need a manufacturer already built around them.
Fast
Innovation cycles are compressing industry-wide — the advantage goes to whoever gets from brief to shelf first.
Most manufacturers are built for one of these shifts. Coughlan was engineered for all three.
Built With You
Two platforms. Unlimited possibilities.
Anhydrous personal care and anhydrous home care, built on the same science and the same line. Bring us an idea on either platform and our formulators, our chemists and our quality team take it from first conversation to finished product on shelf — under your brand, not ours.
Personal Care
Bath, shower, hair, body and self care — bombs, bars, tablets, powders, salts and soaks.
Home Care
Dishwasher, laundry, cleaning, toilet and air care — the same anhydrous science, under the sink.
Neither line is a menu. Describe a format you don’t see here and we’ll tell you straight whether the platform can press it, what it would take, and how fast we could get it to shelf.
What’s Possible With Us
Real product, ready to private-label.
A look at what the Coughlan line can produce for you — every format below ships under your brand, not ours.
Platform 01
Personal Care
Bath, shower, hair and body, aromatherapy, and beauty and self care — bombs, bars, tablets, powders, salts and soaks, formulated to your brief and finished under your label.
Platform 02
Home Care
Dishwasher, laundry, cleaning, toilet, air care and multi-surface tablets — the same anhydrous science and the same line, applied under the sink instead of in the bath.
Bespoke shapes, embossing and dual-layer tablets are available with customer investment, so a format can be yours alone rather than shared across the category.
Personal care formats manufactured by Coughlan: bath bombs, shower steamers, powder cleansers, shampoo bars, body wash bars, shower tablets, bath salts and aromatherapy tablets, across bath, shower, hair and body, aromatherapy, and beauty and self care. Home care formats: dishwasher tablets, laundry tablets, cleaning tablets, toilet tablets, air care tablets and multi-surface tablets. Custom tooling for shapes, embossing and dual-layer tablets is available with customer investment.
The Coughlan Advantage
One partner. Idea to shelf.
Faster Innovation
Fewer handoffs, faster to shelf.
Differentiated Products
Proprietary shape, color, and texture combinations.
Brand Protection
Every batch that ships carries your name, not ours.
Consistent Scale-Up
Performance that holds from pilot to commercial volume.
One team owns your product from the first brief to the pallet that leaves Flanders.
Our Product Range
Seven real formats, one visual family.
Every format below is built on the same anhydrous formulation and manufacturing platform — whether it ends up in a bath or under a sink.
BombsFizzy & dense
BarsSolid cleanse
TabletsEffervescent
GranulesTextured mix
Tea BagsSteep & soak
PowdersFine & pourable
AromatherapyFragrance release
Most competitors show the dissolved, in-water moment. That belongs to your packaging. We build the engineered solid behind it.
Two platforms. One partner. Zero single points of failure.
Manufacturing Platform
Built to scale without switching partners.
Modular equipment built to optimize product lines quickly — without re-tooling for the next brief.
Made in America
Manufactured in Flanders, New Jersey.
Not offshored. Not outsourced.
One facility, on U.S. soil, that your team can actually visit — not a subcontractor three time zones away, with a supply chain you can’t see.
37 Ironia Road, Flanders, NJ 07836
Quality You Can Verify
A 98+ internal audit score, built into every batch.
Raw Materials
Supplier qualification before anything enters production.
Packaging
Every component verified before it touches a finished good.
In-Process
Continuous checks throughout the manufacturing run.
Finished Goods
Final release testing before anything ships.
98+ Internal Quality Audit Score · No Animal Testing, Across Every Product Line
Enterprise Readiness
The checklist procurement and legal run before they’ll sign.
01
Quality
QA/QC systems, batch records, full traceability.
Audited. Documented. Verified.
02
Regulatory
Ingredient and product documentation, safety support.
Compliant at every border.
03
Supply Chain
Planning from raw materials through finished shipment.
Raw material to finished shipment.
04
Commercial
Forecasting, capacity planning, launch support.
Ready to scale with your launch.
05
Continuity
Built to absorb disruption, not just deliver in good conditions.
Built to keep your roadmap on track.
From Idea to Shelf
From concept to commercial scale.
Fewer handoffs between R&D and production keep every launch on schedule and on-spec.
Concept
Brand brief
Formulation
Sensory & performance
Prototype
Shape, color, fragrance
Stability
Accelerated testing
Pilot
Process validation
Scale
Commercial launch
One point of contact, one facility, from first call to commercial launch.
Sustainability
A lighter footprint, built in from day one.
Solar-Powered Floor
100% of manufacturing machinery runs on solar power generated on-site.
Clean energy. Real impact.
Waterless Formulation
Anhydrous formats reduce water use across the product range by design.
High performance. Lower impact.
Efficient Footprint
One facility, one supply chain your team can see start to finish.
Streamlined today. A brighter tomorrow.
Client Proof
A track record we’re building in the open.
For more than a century, Coughlan has been a trusted manufacturing partner across the prestige and mass-market personal care industries — from emerging startups to internationally recognized brands. Client identities available under NDA.
“Working with Coughlan means tapping into a century of deep manufacturing heritage. In an industry where newer suppliers struggle with batch consistency and supply chain shocks, Coughlan’s decades of formulation expertise give our brand absolute reliability and peace of mind. Coughlan’s ability to react quickly to the ups and downs of materials linked to goods sold at retail make them a very valuable member of our supply chain team.”
Summit Brands
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Categories We Manufacture For
Haircare
Aromatherapy & Wellness
Personal CareHome Care & CleaningLaundry & DishwashingAir & Surface Care
Case Study
From brief to shelf in 12 weeks.
Coughlan partnered with a fast-growing brand to develop and manufacture a line of bath bombs, taking the concept from ideation to national retail launch in just 12 weeks.
Category
Bath & Body
Format
Bath Bombs
Outcome
Launched nationally
Resources & Insights
Research-stage reading for brand teams.
A resource library written from inside the manufacturing process — the first two guides are live below.
Anhydrous Formulation 101
Why waterless bath and body formats behave differently — and what that means for shelf life and shipping.
How to Vet a Contract Manufacturer
The questions to ask before you commit — facility access, MOQs, and who actually owns the formula.
FormulationAnhydrous Formulation 101
“Anhydrous” simply means formulated without water as a base or carrier. In bath and body manufacturing, that covers bath bombs, solid shampoo and body wash bars, powder cleansers, bath salts, and balms — formats built on butters, oils, waxes, and dry actives instead of a water-based emulsion.
Brands increasingly choose anhydrous formats for a few concrete reasons: without free water, there’s far less risk of microbial growth, which means a lighter preservative system and often a longer, more stable shelf life. Anhydrous products also tend to be more concentrated by volume, which lowers packaging and shipping weight compared to an equivalent liquid product — a real cost and sustainability advantage at scale. And for brands building a “clean beauty” story, an anhydrous format is often an easier, more credible fit.
The tradeoff is formulation discipline: without water to act as a universal solvent, texture, dissolve rate, and stability all have to be engineered through the fat and wax phase, and packaging has to manage moisture exposure rather than leak prevention. It’s a different formulation skill set than liquid product development — which is why anhydrous work is a core specialty here rather than a side offering.
SourcingHow to Vet a Contract Manufacturer
Facility access and transparency. A manufacturer confident in its operation will let you see it — in person or via documentation. Ask what quality and compliance records they’ll share before you sign anything, not after.
Who owns the formula. Get IP ownership in writing before formulation work starts. A manufacturer that ships every batch under your name, not theirs, and treats your formula and client relationship as confidential, is protecting your brand rather than building a case study out of it.
MOQs and scale-up path. A minimum order quantity that fits your first production run is table stakes; the harder question is whether the same partner can scale with you from a pilot batch to full commercial volume without a re-qualification process or a change in point of contact.
Communication structure. Ask how many people you’ll actually talk to across concept, formulation, and production. Every handoff between departments is a place a launch date can slip — a single point of contact from brief to shelf is a meaningfully different experience than a new project manager at every stage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from brands considering Coughlan.
What products does Coughlan Products manufacture?
We manufacture anhydrous bath, body, hair, and home wellness products across four categories — Bath, Shower, Hair & Body, and Aromatherapy — including bath bombs, shower steamers, powder cleansers, shampoo bars, body wash bars, shower tablets, bath salts, and aromatherapy tablets.
Do you manufacture under our brand, or yours?
Yours. White label and private label manufacturing is our core business — every batch that ships carries your brand’s name, not ours. Client identities are kept confidential and available for review under NDA.
What is your minimum order quantity (MOQ)?
We offer flexible MOQs to support brands at different stages, from early production runs to full commercial scale. Share your target volume and product category in the form below and our team will confirm what’s achievable.
Is your facility GMP compliant?
Yes. Our facility is GMP compliant and maintains a 98+ internal quality audit score.
What does your product development process look like?
Every product moves through six stages inside one facility — Concept, Formulation, Prototype, Stability, Pilot, and Scale — from initial brief to commercial launch.
How sustainable is your manufacturing, and do you test on animals?
Our facility runs on 100% solar-powered manufacturing, and much of our line is built around anhydrous, waterless formulation formats. We maintain a no-animal-testing standard across every product line we manufacture.
Can we see examples of products you’ve made for other brands?
We manufacture for brands across industries, from emerging startups to internationally recognized names, but client identities are kept confidential and available for review under NDA.
How long has Coughlan Products been manufacturing?
Coughlan Products was established in 1900 and has over 125 years of manufacturing expertise, based in Flanders, New Jersey.
Let’s Talk
Ready to see what we can build together?
A long-term manufacturing relationship, not a single production run — continuity that protects your roadmap, and your business.
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Sustainable Manufacturing
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