Tips for Wholesale Suppliers
How to find your best bath bomb wholesale ingredients supplier? This is a question we get asked all of the time. The best place to find any of your ingredients is going to be from a local food service supplier. You can call them and ask them about how to set up an account what their minimums are and if they have price breaks for quantity purchases. Sometimes your local wholesale club such as Costco or Sam's may have pricing that is just as competitive as these other stores so you can compare prices and you won't have the minimums that they require. The only advantage to buying from the restaurant supply store is after you start to do some volume you can have your products delivered at no extra charge. This can be a great timesaver when you are doing volume as many of these food grade products are brand name and the quality of the product is usually pretty consistent.
If you find a product that has a brand name that you are not familiar with it may be an imported product sometimes it is best to go online and look for some reviews of these products before you make a substantial purchase. The savings can be great but the headaches can be great also so double check online to make sure that others are using them for the same application you are and the they are getting positive results. The other thing is you are first starting is you will probably need a tax ID number to purchase from a restaurant supply store. When you're buying from Sam's or from Costco you probably don't need one you can also ask for a sample which you may have to purchase for some of these products. Just do a short run to see if they will work. As far as baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is concerned, there are many different grades some grades are not made for food suppliers and should be avoided. Other grades seem to have similar grading components yet the actual manufacturing of each item is different and only experimentation will be able to tell whether or not it is going to work for you.
Being flexible is probably your number one skill as a small businessperson. Large companies often get locked into situations that are not advantageous to them and you will have flexibility as the market changes and as consumer tastes change you will be able to change more quickly and bring products to market in an expedited manner.
If you find a product that has a brand name that you are not familiar with it may be an imported product sometimes it is best to go online and look for some reviews of these products before you make a substantial purchase. The savings can be great but the headaches can be great also so double check online to make sure that others are using them for the same application you are and the they are getting positive results. The other thing is you are first starting is you will probably need a tax ID number to purchase from a restaurant supply store. When you're buying from Sam's or from Costco you probably don't need one you can also ask for a sample which you may have to purchase for some of these products. Just do a short run to see if they will work. As far as baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is concerned, there are many different grades some grades are not made for food suppliers and should be avoided. Other grades seem to have similar grading components yet the actual manufacturing of each item is different and only experimentation will be able to tell whether or not it is going to work for you.
Being flexible is probably your number one skill as a small businessperson. Large companies often get locked into situations that are not advantageous to them and you will have flexibility as the market changes and as consumer tastes change you will be able to change more quickly and bring products to market in an expedited manner.
