Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
🌿 Ever wondered where your lotion, body spray, or shampoo really comes from? 👀
Join Lorraine Dallmeier (CEO of Formula Botanica) as she takes you on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Mayfield Labs, a UK-based cosmetics factory, accompanied by Lucy Poole, the lab’s General Manager.
In this fascinating walkthrough, you'll get to see every stage of professional skincare manufacturing – from the raw ingredient storage and pre-weighing area to the formulation lab, 1-tonne mixing vessels, and the fully automated filling and packaging lines. You’ll also meet the dedicated team behind the process, including the lab technicians, production leads, and quality control experts who help turn cosmetic ideas into safe, stable, and scalable products.
This is your chance to go beyond the kitchen and discover what really happens when indie beauty brands scale up their production. Whether you're a formulator, brand founder, or beauty enthusiast, this factory tour is packed with insight and inspiration.
🧴 What You’ll Learn:
🌿 How skincare products are made inside a real UK factory
🌿 The difference between home formulation and professional manufacturing
🌿 What a 1-ton mixing vessel looks like (yes, really!)
🌿 How ingredients are pre-weighed and tested for quality
🌿 The full journey from lab design to automated filling and packaging
🌿 How body sprays, lotions, and deodorants are produced at scale
🌿 What safety checks and traceability steps are done behind the scenes
🌿 How Natural Looks gets its products manufactured and shipped internationally
🎥 Video contents:
0:00 Welcome to Mayfield Labs – outside the factory
1:00 Hand sanitisation and entry to the production facility
1:14 Raw material storage and quality control area
2:21 Formulation laboratory – product development and testing
4:08 Large-scale manufacturing (1-tonne mixing vessels)
5:16 Blending phases: water and oil in industrial vats
6:07 Medium-batch mixing station (300-litre vessel)
7:26 Pre-weighing area – ingredient preparation for production
8:16 Air stirrer production of a body spray
9:01 Post-production testing and holding zone
10:00 Filling, capping and labelling line
12:15 Quality control station (torque, weight and batch coding)
13:25 Finished product packaging area
14:37 Palletising and preparing shipments
15:22 Dispatch and storage prior to shipping
👇 Useful Links:
Work with Mayfield Labs → mayfieldlabs.co.uk
Learn more about Formula Botanica → formulabotanica.com
Learn to formulate → formulabotanica.com/freetraining
Learn more about Natural Looks → naturallooks.co.uk
🎥 Featuring: Lorraine Dallmeier CEO - Formula Botanica) & Lucy Poole
(Managing Director - Mayfield Labs)
📍 Location: Mayfield Labs, UK
🔔 Subscribe for more beauty business insights
🌿 Ever wondered where your lotion, body spray, or shampoo really comes from? 👀
Join Lorraine Dallmeier (CEO of Formula Botanica) as she takes you on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Mayfield Labs, a UK-based cosmetics factory, accompanied by Lucy Poole, the lab’s General Manager.
In this fascinating walkthrough, you'll get to see every stage of professional skincare manufacturing – from the raw ingredient storage and pre-weighing area to the formulation lab, 1-tonne mixing vessels, and the fully automated filling and packaging lines. You’ll also meet the dedicated team behind the process, including the lab technicians, production leads, and quality control experts who help turn cosmetic ideas into safe, stable, and scalable products.
This is your chance to go beyond the kitchen and discover what really happens when indie beauty brands scale up their production. Whether you're a formulator, brand founder, or beauty enthusiast, this factory tour is packed with insight and inspiration.
🧴 What You’ll Learn:
🌿 How skincare products are made inside a real UK factory
🌿 The difference between home formulation and professional manufacturing
🌿 What a 1-ton mixing vessel looks like (yes, really!)
🌿 How ingredients are pre-weighed and tested for quality
🌿 The full journey from lab design to automated filling and packaging
🌿 How body sprays, lotions, and deodorants are produced at scale
🌿 What safety checks and traceability steps are done behind the scenes
🌿 How Natural Looks gets its products manufactured and shipped internationally
🎥 Video contents:
0:00 Welcome to Mayfield Labs – outside the factory
1:00 Hand sanitisation and entry to the production facility
1:14 Raw material storage and quality control area
2:21 Formulation laboratory – product development and testing
4:08 Large-scale manufacturing (1-tonne mixing vessels)
5:16 Blending phases: water and oil in industrial vats
6:07 Medium-batch mixing station (300-litre vessel)
7:26 Pre-weighing area – ingredient preparation for production
8:16 Air stirrer production of a body spray
9:01 Post-production testing and holding zone
10:00 Filling, capping and labelling line
12:15 Quality control station (torque, weight and batch coding)
13:25 Finished product packaging area
14:37 Palletising and preparing shipments
15:22 Dispatch and storage prior to shipping
👇 Useful Links:
Work with Mayfield Labs → mayfieldlabs.co.uk
Learn more about Formula Botanica → formulabotanica.com
Learn to formulate → formulabotanica.com/freetraining
Learn more about Natural Looks → naturallooks.co.uk
🎥 Featuring: Lorraine Dallmeier CEO - Formula Botanica) & Lucy Poole
(Managing Director - Mayfield Labs)
📍 Location: Mayfield Labs, UK
🔔 Subscribe for more beauty business insights
