Chapter 1830: Happy cooperation

Chuxue smiled and nodded. In her previous life, aside from loving to go on adventures with her best friends, she had often learned to tinker with these handicrafts online when she was alone.

Since she was cooperating with them and had a share of the profits, why not give them a boost: "Yes, this doesn't require machines; you just need to manually boil the ingredients. I see there's still idle factory space, and this doesn't require much heavy labor; you can just hire some women to start production."

Jiang Wenyue looked at the others: "What do you think?"

Bai Yaru spoke first: "I have no objections, but I don't know what raw materials are needed to make lipstick. Are they easy to get?"

Chuxue took out paper and pen from her bag, wrote down three recipes, and handed them over: "Look, the hardest thing to get here is pure beeswax, also known as yellow wax."

"Currently, beekeepers are scattered, and beeswax is a light industrial raw material, mostly allocated uniformly to candle factories and state-run daily chemical factories, so..."

So this relied on connections; she didn't continue, but they knew.

Zhang Yueyue and Bai Yaru looked at each other, and Zhang Yueyue said: "We can find people to allocate some."

Chuxue also gave her own suggestion: "Of course, with your capabilities, we can also find people to raise bees. Once a certain scale is formed, this problem will be solved."

Bai Yaru clapped her hands: "Right, that's what I was thinking just now, and this matter isn't hard to solve."

After saying that, they all looked at Chuxue, waiting for her to continue.

Chuxue continued: "Then there's the large amount of castor oil. Ordinary sesame oil and lard oxidize and smell easily, making lipstick sticky and prone to rancidity. If you want lipstick to be shiny and long-lasting, you must use refined castor oil. Ordinary people can't get this; it depends on whether you have the connections."

Zhang Yueyue pondered: "I'll keep this in mind and go ask around later."

Bai Yaru also said: "It doesn't matter. As long as we have the recipe, if we're missing something, we can just start from the source. It's just a matter of time."

Seeing them say this, Chuxue continued: "Finally, there's the main coloring ingredient. Ordinary gromwell is easy to find, but cinnabar contains mercury and shouldn't be used much. If you want to make true red or rose red, you can't do without high-quality natural color powder."

At this time, Bai Yaru said: "I do know someone in Anguo who is responsible for selling medicinal herbs. If we decide to make magenta, I'll make a trip myself. At worst, we can cooperate with the local government and let them help us grow it, and then we can purchase it in the name of the main factory."

Next, one person after another, the matter was decided at the dinner table.

Zhang Yueyue and Bai Yaru would first use their connections to get a batch of materials to the factory and try making it first. If the samples felt feasible, they would immediately start the next step of action.

Chuxue didn't hide anything and wrote down all three recipes she knew.

One was a home-style lard version, one was a classic gromwell and sesame oil version, and there was a higher-end, refined safflower rouge paste.

It had to be said that Zhang Yueyue's thinking was very advanced. She smiled and said: "Women's money is the easiest to earn. If we can make this lipstick well, the future development of our factory will definitely not be bad."

The food was served at this time, and Jian Feifan said: "Come, everyone, let's use drinks instead of wine. I wish us a happy cooperation and great success for the new factory."

A meal made Chuxue and the others more familiar with each other.

Next, Chuxue had nothing to do. Aside from Jian Feifan having to keep an eye on the factory, the remaining Zhang Yueyue, Bai Yaru, and Jiang Wenyue were busy as bees. ===== CHAPTER 1836 =====