Our Story

Most beauty brands are forced to use two different companies: an R&D lab to invent the formula and a separate factory to make it. That separation is where chemistry fails, emulsions break, and heat-sensitive actives are destroyed. Above Rinaldi Labs is a fully integrated powerhouse. We engineer breakthrough "white-space" formulas on the bench and then scale them flawlessly in our own Chatsworth facility. We do not adapt for scale; we build for it from day one.

ARL is led by two industry veterans who understand the physics of both chemistry and business. Chief Scientific Officer Fred Khoury leads advanced formulation, ensuring every product pushes the boundaries of clinical efficacy. President of Operations Kat Khoury oversees the manufacturing floor, ensuring that every drop of that chemistry is scaled with uncompromising quality control, speed-to-market, and flawless execution.

Most contract manufacturers are built to simply take orders. You hand them a list, and they mix a batch. At ARL, we partner with you strategically to map out the white space in the industry. Before our chemists even touch a beaker, our Innovation Brand Development Manager conducts a comprehensive gap analysis. We analyze current market trends, review your existing product library, and evaluate your direct competition. We come to your initial meeting with proprietary marketing concepts and fresh product innovations designed specifically to help your brand stand out.

A great formula is useless if it bankrupts your brand to produce it. At ARL, our product development and strategic partnership teams evaluate your project through the lens of unit economics, scalability, and real-world use. If the target cost structure does not align with your brand's market position, or if a product lacks a clear, defensible reason to exist in the market, we flag it immediately.

We partner with established indie brands building their next hero product, mid-market brands looking for innovation, and founders whose brands have simply outgrown their current lab's capabilities. If your current manufacturer cannot successfully scale your chemistry, or if you need a partner who treats your formula with "white-glove" precision, we are the right fit.

Yes. We specialize in complex, evidence-based chemistry. We guide brands through strict retail certifications like Sephora Clean, Credo Clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. More importantly, we know how to stabilize highly complex, heat-sensitive clinical actives, ensuring your product actually delivers on its marketing claims without separating on the shelf.

Yes, through our tech transfer process, but not blindly. We routinely inherit formulas that other labs failed to stabilize or scale. When evaluating a new formula, our R&D team conducts a rigorous architectural review. We analyze the emulsifier system, ensure the pH aligns with the active ingredients, and verify packaging compatibility. If a formula is fundamentally flawed, our team optimizes the chemistry to ensure it succeeds on the commercial market.

We conduct rigorous, industry-leading testing in-house. Before production, formulas undergo 3-month to 6-month stability testing at varying temperatures, 3-cycle freeze/thaw tests, compatibility reporting, and PET (Preservative Efficacy Testing). We also coordinate 50-subject HRIPT testing so you can confidently make "Dermatologist-Tested" claims.

Yes. The regulatory landscape is shifting rapidly, and compliance is non-negotiable. Our team ensures your products comply with the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA) in the United States, as well as strict EU and global standards. We provide the necessary documentation, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and regulatory declarations so you can expand into international retail with total confidence.

Our scientific capabilities and team are extremely adept and agile, allowing for an elimination of the friction of transferring formulas between separate R&D labs and outside factories. Whether it be a new formulation or you are tech transferring your formula to our manufacturing floor, our timelines are highly efficient and reliable. Our supply chain and regulatory teams sit just steps away from our chemists, allowing us to anticipate compliance requirements and raw material bottlenecks before the formula is even finalized

Our fully integrated R&D lab and manufacturing facility is located in Chatsworth, California, serving the greater Los Angeles area and partnering with global beauty brands. Our campus is cGMP compliant and FDA registered.

We handle the entire process under one roof. Our state-of-the-art facility features uniform equipment ranging from 150-liter pilot tanks to 3,000-liter production vessels. We utilize advanced digital weighing, real-time load cells, and jacketed thermal systems.

We treat our clients' formulas with the precision of a high-end culinary recipe. We are absolute perfectionists about temperature control, shear rates, and the exact sequence of ingredient addition to protect clinical efficacy. By using digital checkpoints at every single phase of the batching process, human error is completely eliminated. This means whether you are launching your first 10,000 units or scaling to 500,000+, the 100,000th unit will look, feel, and perform exactly like your first approved prototype.

Yes. We do not skip steps, and we do not gamble with your capital. Before your formula touches our production tank, we execute a dedicated pilot batch run in our 150-liter vessel. This intermediate phase allows our engineering and chemical teams to finalize the exact thermodynamic profiles, analyze the chemical shear rates, and guarantee your full commercial production run is absolutely flawless.

Yes. Through our decades of industry experience, we have built a deeply vetted global supply chain. We source high-quality raw materials, proprietary actives, and clinical-grade ingredients to meet your exact specifications. We also provide full documentation for every raw material, including Certificates of Analysis (COAs), composition breakdowns, and country of origin records.

While we build for massive scale, our standard MOQ for custom formulation starts at 10,000 units. We occasionally partner with strategic brands for smaller pilot runs. What's much more important is the need to properly scale the formula in the correct tank instead of focusing on a firm MOQ.

We fill a wide variety of custom packaging components to match your brand vision. More importantly, we do not just fill your packaging blindly. We conduct rigorous 3-month compatibility testing at varying temperatures to ensure your custom chemistry will not degrade, leak, or react with your chosen glass, plastic, or sustainable materials.