About

Mary Berry has developed over 1,000 beauty products, including popular Native deodorants, and wants to develop thousands more. She founded Texas Beauty Labs, a copacker she sold in 2019. She returned to beauty manufacturing in 2022 with Cosmos Labs. They specialize in premium skincare, body care, haircare and deodorants.

Experience

Industry Icon 2023 Beacon Award | Nominee

The drive for entrepreneurship empowers individuals in the beauty industry, whether they operate independently or within a large corporate entity. While their achievements are remarkable, it is their ability to inspire others and their generous nature that elevates them to the status of icons.

Links from Mary

Limited Supply Podcast | S3 E6 | The Founder Who Built Her Manufacturing Business On Spite

"Nik and Moiz are joined by their good friend, Mary Berry, CEO and Founder of The Cosmos Labs. Mary was in on the ground floor of manufacturing Moiz’ deodorant brand and has a natural gift for choosing products that are going to fly. She’s also an avid collector of Chanel handbags. Nik and Moiz get into conversation with Mary about why building the right working culture is essential for employee loyalty, how to successfully audit materials and reduce waste, plus why clients who know exactly what they need are her favorites. You’ll also hear why facial care manufacturing provides the best margins and why knowing the price of glycerin is way more important than knowing how much milk costs."

Beauty Independent | Texas Beauty Labs Founder Mary Berry Returns To Manufacturing With New Copacker Cosmos Labs

"Mary Berry has developed over 1,000 beauty products, including popular Native deodorants, and wants to develop thousands more. The founder of Texas Beauty Labs, a copacker she sold in 2019 that’s since been renamed, has returned to beauty manufacturing with Cosmos Labs, which currently has a 12,000-square-foot facility in Austin, Texas, but plans to move to a 21,000-square-foot facility by the end of the year. It specializes in premium skincare, body care, haircare and deodorants. “I didn’t think I was going to come back at all to manufacturing in beauty, but I realized in my time away how much I loved it,” says Berry. “I missed working with clients. I missed problem solving and trying to figure things out for them.” Already, Cosmos Labs has picked up a dozen clients. In its first year of business, Berry projects the bootstrapped company could reach $5 million in revenue. By seven years out, her goal is for it to surpass $50 million in revenue."

Skincare Anarchy Podcast | E529 | Understanding Manufacturing of Beauty Ft. Mary Berry of Cosmos Labs

"Mary Berry is the CEO and Founder of Cosmos Labs - one of the industry’s leading (and only!!) female-owned skincare labs. After selling her business Texas Beauty Labs back in 2019 - she has recently returned to beauty manufacturing with Cosmos Labs, which specializes in premium skincare, body care, haircare and deodorants. Notably, Mary was the formulator behind Native’s cult-favorite aluminum-free deodorants and helped to scale the brand from 500 bars a week to 24,000 a day. And most recently, she partnered up with Vanessa Hudgens to help formulate her revamped Know Beautyproduct line which just launched. As a contract manufacturer and skincare formulator with over a decade of experience, Mary can translate product labels, decode manufacturing processes, and answer controversial questions for consumers and beauty brand founders."

Beauty Independent | How Private Equity Is Remaking Beauty Manufacturing

"Mary Berry, founder of contract manufacturer Cosmos Labs, recounts, "China was supper locked down, so beauty brands started wanting to make sure that their supply chain wasn't going to be interrupted just like every other industry. That led to a spike in interest in beauty manufacturing domestically."

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Ben B

I had an absolutely great session with Mary. Mary is a wealth of knowledge for all things manufacturing, operations and ingredient sourcing. She is also extremely helpful and easy to talk to. I'll be booking a second session very soon!