The Best Acne Pimple Patch Manufacturing Insights

From the #1 selling patches on Amazon to Kylie Skin's patch and Dior's eye patch, top global brands develop and manufacture patches in Korea. These popular famous brands are also contacting Korean hydrocolloid patch manufacturers to make products through vendors such as Crescent Seoul.

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Top 5 Brands Manufacturing Hydrocolloid Patches in Korea

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Hero Cosmetics

• Mighty Patch™ Original patch: Amazon #1 patch
• Hero Cosmetics manufactures Mighty Patch products from a Korean hydrocolloid patch manufacturer and sells them to the United States through ODM. The Mighty Patch ranked first in Amazon's patch rankings for a long time and became Hero Cosmetics' flagship product. The Mighty Patch played a major role in the company's business success, resulting in Church & Dwight acquiring Hero Cosmetics for $630 million.

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Dots for Spots

• Dots for Spots: The most loved acne patch brand in the UK
• Dots for Spots' patch, which is produced by a Korean pimple patch manufacturer and supplied through ODM, is the UK's best-selling pimple patch that has consistently ranked in the top 3 on Amazon's beauty rankings. Dots for Spots, which showed steady sales with pimple patches made in Korea, was acquired by Thrasio, a unicorn company that generates greater profits by acquiring the business of promising Amazon sellers, resulting in further growth.

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PanOxyl

• PanOxyl: Acne care specialist brand in the USA
• PanOxyl is a famous skincare brand used by dermatologists in the United States. PanOxyl's hydrocolloid patch, developed and manufactured by a Korean acne patch manufacturer, utilized various ingredients to relieve dark spots and conducted clinical trials to prove its effectiveness. As a result, it was proven that acne marks were improved in 10 days when using PanOxyl's Blemish Aftercare Brightening Patch.

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Kylie Skin

• Clarifying Patches by Kylie Skin
• Kylie Skin is a skincare brand by Kylie Jenner. The brand was launched by separating color cosmetics and skincare makeup lines, and the Kylie Skin line shows strategic alignment with trends by applying vegan beauty and cruelty-free principles. Kylie Skin also manufactured patches from a Korean hydrocolloid patch manufacturer. Keeping up with the flashy patch trend, Kylie Jenner developed heart-shaped light pink patches with a Korean manufacturer, selecting active ingredients known for calming skin improvements. This development led to patches that combine trendiness with the effectiveness of hydrocolloid acne patches.

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Dior

• Dior's Eye Reviver Patch Eye Mask
• Dior has launched an eye patch engraved with Dior's iconic logo. This patch, featuring the logo pattern chosen by Dior Beauty, which began in 1949, was produced by a Korean patch manufacturer. Dior's Eye Reviver Patch Eye Mask instantly hydrates the skin, enhancing the radiance around the eyes even with just 10 minutes of use. Like Dior, Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty has also manufactured Hydrating Under Eye Patches with a Korean eye patch manufacturer.

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MOQ of Acne Patch Manufacturing

• The MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity) is determined not by the number of patches but by the sheet they are attached to. The MOQ starts at 200,000 sheets for small sizes and 500,000 sheets for biodegradable patches. Larger sheet sizes have a smaller MOQ compared to smaller ones. It's necessary to decide on the sheet size and how many patches of what size will be placed on a single sheet. The MOQ also varies depending on whether the manufacturer will use an existing formula or develop a new one. To quickly know the exact MOQ, it is recommended to consider in advance the patch size, how many patches per sheet, and how many sheets per box.

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Customizable Elements of The Patch Manufacturing Process

Key active ingredients, patch color, patch shape, size, and patch formulation can be customized. In addition, there are clinical trials for manufacturing handles and microneedles.

Key active ingredients list

It is necessary to decide how many concept active ingredients to add. You can make a patch by putting several ingredients together, but you must be careful because if the concentration of each ingredient exceeds a certain level, it turns into an OTC product.

1. Salicylic acid: It causes the epidermis to fall off and acts to dissolve sebum, thus dissolving the stratum corneum.
2. Tea Tree: It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects against bacteria that damage cell membranes, preventing the growth of acne bacteria and providing a soothing effect.
3. Niacinamide: Reduces pigmentation of acne marks.
4. Madecassoside: Ingredients derived from Centella asiatica regenerate damaged skin cells.
5. Glutathione: It has an excellent antioxidant effect and prevents melanin production in the skin, providing a whitening effect.
6. Retinol: Pure vitamins help improve dull skin tone and improve pores.
7. Bakuchiol: It has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial effects, noticeably improving skin discoloration caused by UV rays and external environmental stimuli, and providing a distinct soothing effect on the skin.

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Colorful patches

There are various options to select the color and shape of the pimple patch you want to manufacture and what pattern you want to print.

• Shapes such as hearts, stars, etc.

• Patch with printed pattern

• Various colors

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Handle

In Korea, a ‘handle’ was developed that allows the patch to be used more hygienically without touching it directly.

Needle care

The hydrocolloid patch with hypoallergenic microneedles provides 'needle care' that delivers active ingredients to the skin more effectively, and the microneedle dots naturally dissolve through the successful delivery process.

Formulation of the patch

• Hydrocolloid: This is a representative formulation of a patch.
• Plaster:
  1. Hydrocolloid patches are well known, but plaster patches are also useful.
  2. It is thinner and more invisible than hydrocolloid, making it suitable for use during the day and good for use before makeup.
  3. Suitable for initial soothing of acne that appears before squeezing.
• Presence or absence of beveling: This is a technology that increases the adhesive strength of the patch by pressing the border of the patch. It is applied to hydrocolloid patches.

• Sustainable Acne Patch: box packaging, PCR plastic, biodegradable patch
  The trend of pursuing sustainable beauty products has even been applied to patches. Korean manufacturers can manufacture environmentally friendly patches, including paper packaging, PCR plastic, and biodegradable patches like Peace Out's patches.

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Conclusion

As mentioned above, the reason why Korean hydrocolloid patch manufacturers were chosen among the world's most popular brands is because of the various customizations and technology to effectively insert Key Active Increments into patches. In addition to the products introduced, most of the patches ranked high on Amazon are manufactured in Korea.

This content contains only very basic information about patch development, and the price of patch development and manufacturing varies depending on how the patch will be customized and how many copies will be ordered. If you have any questions about more important information and prices, please contact Crescent Seoul at any time.