About The Chemist
Every formula in this library has been shaped by over a decade of getting it wrong first, so you don't have to.
The Chemist Who's Already Made Every Mistake
Tanya has spent more than a decade working hands-on with emulsifiers. Batches that split. Creams that separated on the shelf a few weeks after they looked perfect in the lab. You don't learn to catch that from a textbook. You learn it by watching it go wrong enough times that you know where the problem is before it happens.
That's also how she picked up a real sense of which ingredients actually work together, not just what reads well on an ingredient deck. Plenty of combinations look fine on paper and still fall apart a few months into shelf life.
She's worked alongside many different manufacturers and formulators over the years, and runs her own manufacturing operation too, so she's seen a production run from every side, start to finish. That includes the manufacturers who meant well but didn't have the experience to get a formula right, and batches went out that never should have. That's the gap Next Labs is built around. Every formula comes with a method any contract manufacturer can actually follow, even the first time they make it.
Before formulation, Tanya ran her own retail brand for several years, handling print, design, and packaging along the way, and grew it to a six-figure business before moving into chemistry to help other founders do the same. She later built that chemistry knowledge into a manufacturing business of her own, also six figures, so the advice she gives isn't theoretical. Most chemists can tell you what makes a formula technically sound. Fewer can tell you what makes it sell, and fewer still have actually run the business that has to produce and ship it. Where to put the budget, which ingredients are actually worth featuring, and how to build something that works as hard on the shelf as it does on skin.