Business Acquisition Opportunity — Skincare and Makeup Brand
Pretoria, South Africa | Asking Price: R 300,000
This is a proudly South African skincare and makeup brand with a proven, market-ready product range and a complete small-lab manufacturing setup — available as a turnkey acquisition package.
What's on offer is the full intellectual and physical backbone of the business: proprietary formulations for 9 core peptide-based anti-ageing products, a 19-shade foundation range developed specifically for South African women across every skin tone, and all manufacturing equipment needed to produce the full range from day one. Raw materials and finished goods stock are included at no additional cost.
The formulation portfolio is built on modern, clinically-inspired actives — Argireline, GHK-Cu, Hyaclear, niacinamide, and African shea butter — with UV filters integrated into the day creams and fully documented batch recipes that require no formulation expertise to reproduce. The foundation range, spanning shades B2 through B19, was developed with inclusivity at its core and uses Matmarine technology for pore refinement and high coverage.
The manufacturing equipment included in the sale comprises two homogenisers, two induction heating tops, one overhead stirrer, one colour meter, and one cream dispensing machine — everything required to manufacture the full product range with no additional capital outlay.
The asking price of R 300,000 represents exceptional value against an estimated replacement cost of R 1,050,000 to develop and equip an equivalent operation from scratch, based on current South African industry rates for formulation development, stability testing, regulatory compliance, and equipment.
Growth pathways are clear: the brand is currently online-only, with pharmacy chains, salons, retail outlets, the broader SADC market, and white-label manufacturing all representing untapped opportunity. An existing agent network provides a ready direct-selling channel.
