Stop guessing what your cosmetics cost to make.Finally know your numbers.
Craftybase tracks your oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, and active ingredients — then calculates your exact cost per product, manages your inventory, and keeps your COGS ready for tax time. Built for cosmetic and skincare makers who manufacture in small batches.
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Every cosmetic formula has dozens of ingredients — oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, active ingredients, fragrance — and each one affects your cost per unit. Craftybase calculates the exact material cost of every product you make, using your real purchase prices.
Now you can price your serums, lotions, and skincare products confidently, track your profit margins in real time, and stop guessing whether you're actually making money on each product.
See how formula costing works →Craftybase has been irreplaceable in its ability to accurately calculate the cost to make each of our products. This allows us to make organic handmade skincare for our customers at a fair price.
Every batch of lotion, serum, or balm you manufacture automatically builds your COGS tally. Craftybase assigns a material usage cost to every order based on your complete inventory history — so instead of wrangling spreadsheets at year-end, your numbers are ready when you are.
Our calculations are GAAP compliant and use IRS-approved methods, making Craftybase COGS tracking ideal for U.S.-based cosmetic manufacturers filing Schedule C.
Track my COGS automatically →Having a business that manufactures products with countless raw materials, Craftybase keeps us organized and helps us have a clear picture of the health of our business.
If you're manufacturing cosmetics, compliance isn't optional. Whether you need to meet FDA MoCRA requirements, CPSC regulations, or GMP standards, Craftybase gives you purchase-to-sale traceability without managing it separately from your inventory.
Log material purchases with lot numbers and associate those lots with your manufacture records. Craftybase creates a complete batch traceability chain — so if you ever need to recall a product or trace a faulty ingredient, you can generate a full report in seconds showing exactly which batches and orders were affected.
See batch traceability →Selling your cosmetics on Etsy, Shopify, and Amazon? Craftybase automatically imports your orders and products from all your sales channels, so you can see detailed profit breakdowns for every order — including material costs and expenses.
Plus, our inventory adjustments handle anything: cancellations, damaged stock, product samples, and loss. One dashboard, every channel, always current.
See order tracking →It's super important that we can record and trace ingredient lots and production batches. Craftybase has made this process streamlined and easy to stay organized.
Specialty ingredients like hyaluronic acid, retinol, and botanical extracts can vary wildly in cost from supplier to supplier. Craftybase tracks both direct and indirect expenses, so your unit pricing and inventory asset value reflect actual landed costs — not estimates.
Associate expenses with specific products or orders, and see your true, exact profit margins for every serum, cream, and balm you sell.
Track my ingredient costs →Being able to categorize expenses and see where each project is costing me has helped me to understand my business and pinpoint areas of high value or expense.
Keep sortable, searchable lists of every raw material — carrier oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, actives, packaging — with photos and full purchase histories. Your inventory is always accessible online, wherever you are.
Craftybase auto-calculates your rolling average unit prices, even for ingredients measured in tiny quantities (down to the ml or gram). Plus, create formulas for your cosmetic products with recommended pricing and detailed profit margin calculations for each recipe.
See inventory tracking →I'm impressed with the ability to track minute quantities of essential oils and other materials used in multiple products. I love the conversion from purchase to tracking units, and love the ability to make components and recipes.
Be your bookkeeper's new favorite client. Craftybase generates traditional, bookkeeper-friendly reports that slice and dice your data into useful insights — including Profit and Loss, Expenditure & Revenue, Inventory Valuation, and Schedule C (COGS).
Plus, our Popular Product and High Revenue Customer reports show you which formulas are driving your cosmetics business forward. See a full profit breakdown of any product or order with Instant Profitability Guidance.
See reports and analytics →Craftybase, overall, has helped me streamline my inventory expenses, keep consistent unit costs and allowed me to see through the Reports section, my business grow each year.
Cosmetics makers tell us these are their favorite features
Everything in one place
Daily imports from Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, and more
Pricing Guidance
Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
Reports and Charts
Low Stock Alerts
Craftybase has been irreplaceable in it's ability to accurately calculate the cost to make each of our products. This allows us to make organic handmade skincare for our customers at a fair price.
ElainaElaina
It's super important that we can record and trace ingredient lots and production batches. Craftybase has made this process streamlined and easy to stay organized.
Angie FlickingerAngie Flickinger
Dear cosmetics maker...
Hi there! I'm Nicole, and I started Craftybase in 2011 as a way to help small-batch manufacturers get more insight into (and control over) the business side of their craft.
I know how complex cosmetic manufacturing can be — dozens of ingredients per formula, compliance requirements, and the constant challenge of knowing whether your products are actually profitable. That's exactly the kind of problem Craftybase was built to solve.
Today, more than 3,000 makers worldwide use Craftybase to manage their inventory, track costs, and run their businesses with confidence. I'd love for you to give it a try. You can start your free, full-featured 14-day trial by clicking here — no credit card or commitment required.
Craftybase is inventory and manufacturing software built specifically for small-batch cosmetic and skincare makers who manufacture products from raw materials.
It's designed for:
Craftybase is not designed for retail-only resellers, beauty salons, service businesses, or large-scale manufacturers with complex ERP needs. If you make cosmetics from raw materials, it's built for you.
Cosmetic inventory software should track raw materials like carrier oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, active ingredients, and packaging alongside your finished skincare and beauty products. Key features include formula management with exact material quantities per product, automatic stock deductions when you log a production batch, cost-per-unit calculations, lot and batch traceability for FDA MoCRA and GMP compliance, and integration with sales channels like Etsy and Shopify. Craftybase includes all of these and is used by thousands of cosmetic makers worldwide.
In Craftybase, you add each ingredient as a separate inventory item with its own unit of measurement — grams for powders, milliliters for oils and liquids, individual count for containers and labels. When you create a cosmetic formula, you specify exact quantities of each ingredient per product. Each time you log a production batch, Craftybase automatically deducts the right quantities from your material stock and adds finished products to your inventory.
Yes. Craftybase calculates your cost per product automatically based on the actual prices you paid for ingredients. When you set up a formula with quantities for oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, and packaging, Craftybase uses your real purchase history to determine material cost per unit. It even factors in labor time and overhead. Your per-unit cost updates automatically when supplier prices change, so your pricing guidance always reflects reality.
Craftybase provides the batch-level traceability that FDA MoCRA, CPSC, and GMP standards require for cosmetic manufacturers. Log supplier lot numbers on material purchases and associate those lots with your production batches. If a supplier issues a recall or a customer reports an adverse event, you can generate a traceability report in seconds showing exactly which batches used that ingredient and which customers received affected products.
A spreadsheet requires you to manually update every stock level, recalculate costs when ingredient prices change, and build your own formulas for COGS. With dedicated cosmetic inventory software like Craftybase, stock levels update automatically when you log purchases, production batches, and sales. Your cost per product recalculates in real time. Orders import automatically from Etsy, Shopify, and other channels. And you get lot traceability, low-stock alerts, and financial reports without building anything from scratch.
Yes. Craftybase connects directly with Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Square, Squarespace, Wix, Faire, and PayPal. Your cosmetic product orders import automatically each day. When an order comes in, Craftybase deducts the raw materials used based on your formulas, updates your finished goods stock, and for Shopify and Etsy, pushes updated stock quantities back to your listings.
