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ByGenevieve Alvarado
Last updated April 14, 2025
A good pedicure makes or breaks the experience in a spa, nail salon, or gift set. So, having the best products will give your business the upper hand with quality. This post will walk you through the three must-haves and products for the perfect pedicure. As well as how to scale the product to fit any retail niche.
3 Perfect Products For the Perfect Pedicure
The perfect pedicure involves 3 steps. Soak, exfoliate, and moisturize. Having those 3 elements will have your customer feeling their best.
- Soak: We offer a wide range of salts and soaks with soothing mineral composition that leave the skin feeling silky and refreshed. Foot soaks are perfect for priming the feet for a full pedicure.
- Exfoliate: Exfoliating the feet is essential for pedicures; it leaves the client feeling pampered and refreshed. We offer 6 types of body scrub bases that can be customized for a foot scrub to fit your niche.
- Moisturize: The final step in a pedicure is to moisturize. After a good soak and scrub, the skin will be stripped of the dead skin. Moisturizing the skin with a nourishing lotion afterwards leaves the skin feeling buttery smooth. We offer 18 different lotions and creams that make the perfect foot lotion.
Perfect Products for the Perfect Pedicure by Niche
- Soaks in the form of salts can be packed into small bags or bottles for retail. Or put into apothecary jars with scoops for salons and Spas.
- Scrubs are best packed into smaller containers for the retail side. The scrubs are sold in gallon buckets. So salons can easily serve a few ounces per client. Cutting packaging costs.
- Gallons of lotion are great for spas and salons. Attach a gallon pump and have a more sanitary approach for hassle-free applications.
- 8-ounce bottles of lotion with a press disk and other smaller containers are ideal for the retail side of the market.
How to scale a product.
Growth is one of the best and scariest things to happen to a business. Events, holidays, and not being able to keep product on the shelf usually indicate it’s time to move up a size. For example, you are used to buying gallons. Know that 5-gallon pails are the next step. The savings are better when you buy in bulk. –bringing your costs down and putting more profit in your pocket. Here is a breakdown of profit margin percentages on just the base alone.
Use our Cost and Profit Calculator to help you understand the true savings when you buy in bulk. This example is for selling an 8-ounce bottle of the A, C, and E (a popular choice for spas and salons) at the price point of 12.50 a unit.
8-ounce bottle for $12:50
- 1 gallon profit margin: 62.32% (makes 16 units)
- 4 gallon pack profit margin: 70.56% (makes 64 units)
- 1 Pail (40lb) profit margin: 71.12% (makes 80 units)
- 1 Drum (450lb) profit margin: 72.80% (makes 880 units)
Use Our Calculators
Take advantage of our free and easy-to-use calculators. These four calculators have no use limits, so they are always at your fingertips. Get limitless help with pricing, recipe weights to percentages, batch conversions, and topical infusions. This will help you perfect your pedicure products. These are great sources whether you’re a spa owner, a brand owner, or just starting your business. These tools help you make products for the perfect pedicure.
- Cost and Profit Calculator: helps you price your product. This calculator also gives you an idea of how many retail units you will get from a gallon, bucket, and drum.
- Recipe Percentage Calculator: Converting a weight into a percentage. This helps when creating products like body spray or bath bombs. For example, you’re adding fragrance to a bath bomb until it suits your vision. You’ll want to keep track of the percentage for duplication in the future.
- Batch Calculator: This calculator makes it easy to scale your batch sizes both up and down. You can adjust the amounts according to your needs into an easy to follow recipe.
- Topical Infusion Calculator: For those of you with a hemp or hemplike topical brand, this calculator will help you calculate how many milligrams of an extract are in a bottle.
In conclusion, find products for the perfect pedicure on our website. And follow our blog for recipes, ideas, and ingredient information.
