Korean skincare manufacturing for German brands
Private label serums, creams, masks and cleansers, made in an ISO 22716 (GMP) certified factory in Korea. We prepare the EU CPNP notification file and German label text for your EU Responsible Person.
Korean cosmetics exports to Germany were about $90 million in 2025, up 43.3% (MFDS, provisional).
What Germany requires
Germany applies the EU Cosmetics Regulation, plus its own rules for label language and packaging. Here is who does what.
An EU Responsible Person
Each product needs a Responsible Person established in the EU. For imported products that is the importer, unless it appoints another EU person in writing.
Safety report and product file
A safety assessor signs the cosmetic product safety report, and the Responsible Person keeps the product information file. The full INCI list and the tests planned into your project feed both.
CPNP notification
Before sale the Responsible Person notifies each product on the EU's CPNP, and one notification covers every EU country. We prepare the file.
German on the label
The contents, the best before date or period after opening, the precautions and the function must be in German. Ingredients keep their INCI names.
LUCID packaging register
Packaging placed on the German market is registered in the LUCID register, licensed with a take-back system and reported. Since 12 August 2026 the EU PPWR and the German VerpackDG set who must do it.
Duty and import VAT
Skincare under CN code 3304 99 00 pays 0% EU customs duty, from Korea as from any country. German import VAT is 19%.
What we prepare and ship
Selling in more EU countries? The same CPNP file covers them; only the label language changes.
Documents
- CPNP notification file
- Full INCI list
- Stability, challenge and patch tests, planned in
- Your custom formula stays yours
Your German label
- German text for contents, dates, precautions and function
- EU Responsible Person's name and address
- Made in Korea
- Batch number and INCI list
Shipping
- Air: about 5 to 10 days
- Sea: about 4 to 6 weeks
- We quote freight with your order
- Deposit at order, balance before shipment
Products to start with
Starting prices per unit with a library formula, a stock container and a one-color label. Larger runs cost less.
Serum$2.96 at 1,000 · $3.70 at 500
Toner$1.68 at 1,000 · $2.10 at 500
Cream$2.48 at 1,000 · $3.10 at 500
Sheet mask$0.55 at 1,000 units
Planning an SPF for Germany?
Sunscreen is a cosmetic in the EU. The Commission recommends UVA protection of at least a third of the SPF, the SPF shown with a category from low to very high, and no claims such as sunblock or 100% protection. See private label sunscreen.
Germany questions, answered
Straight answers for brands selling in Germany.
Do cosmetic labels need to be in German?
Do I need an EU Responsible Person?
Does one CPNP notification cover the whole EU?
What is the LUCID packaging register?
What duty and VAT apply to skincare from Korea?
Read more
Official sources
- EUR-Lex: Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products
- European Commission: Cosmetic product notification portal
- Gesetze im Internet: KosmetikV, section 4 (language)
- ZSVR: PPWR and VerpackDG, what changed on 12 August 2026
- EU TARIC: measures for 3304 99 00 from Korea
- Gesetze im Internet: UStG, section 12 (VAT rates)
- EUR-Lex: Commission Recommendation 2006/647/EC on sunscreen products
Rules as of September 2026. Check the official pages before you launch.
Other markets
Plan your German launch
No commitment until you approve a sample.