How Kiehl's Creme de Corps Is Made | How Stuff Is Made

Let’s face it.
We want skin that looks and feels healthy
at the same time and we’re willing to do
whatever it takes to make it so.
Scrubs, lotions, and masks galore,
here’s how to make Kiehl’s Creme de Corps.
Kiehl’s Since 1851 was founded in the year—
you guessed it—1851.
What started as a single pharmacy store
in Manhattan has become one of the most highly
coveted skincare companies in the world.
If you’re heading to a Kiehl’s store,
you’re bound to run into Mr. Bones,
the store’s mascot, and a motorcycle.
Yup.
There’s a motorcycle in every Kiehl’s storefront.
Initially this was a way to draw men in
while women shopped for products also a clever way
to introduce the exclusive line to men.
Everything needed to make Kiehl’s iconic
Creme de Corps is delivered directly to their
facility in Piscataway, New Jersey,
where the plant is powered by
100% renewable electricity.
Here the product is made with a wide array
of ingredients guaranteed to moisturize your skin.
One of the key ingredients is cocoa butter,
which gives the cream its delicious scent.
The cocoa butter is broken apart and weighed
with other dry ingredients to the exact amount
necessary for a 10 ton batch of Creme de Corps.
That’s a lot of butter!
The materials are then sorted into the amount
necessary for a single batch.
Then they’re taken to the mixing room.
In the mixing room, all of the ingredients
are poured into the 10 ton mixing vessel.
First step: glycerine, sesame oil, and
apricot oil go through a machine that works like a straw.
Pulling in the material from the bottom of
the barrel and adding it to the vessel.
Aloe juice, sweet almond oil, cocoa butter,
and shea butter are poured directly into the
top of the mixing vessel.
In between adding each ingredient,
it is important to follow specific instructions since the
mixtures alternate between being heated
and cooled,
kind of like baking a cake.
In the beginning stages,
what is mixing inside the vessel
doesn’t look like lotion at all.
It takes four hours of mixing, heating,
and then cooling for the batch to begin looking
like the yellow cream you get in your bottle.
Now it’s ready to be tested.
Chemists test the viscosity, or thickness,
of the product to make sure its consistency meets
all the necessary standards.
Once the lotion has been approved,
it is sent to the packaging and filling department.
Here an assembly line fills bottles
with Creme de Corps.
Then the iconic Kiehl’s label is
then added to the bottles and they
are packed into shipping cases.
But wait!
There’s one more step before you’re
able to purchase this little guy.
Ever had one of your beauty products
burst in your suitcase?
This could happen if pressure drops too low
in the cargo area underneath a plane.
Kiehl’s employees perform a vacuum test
so you can rest easy knowing your bottle of
Kiehl’s Creme de Corps is safe and sound.
The test is conducted by pumping pressure
into the device to see if the bottle will
withstand negative pressures up to negative
25 inches of mercury.
Once they pass the vacuum test,
they’re ready to be shipped.
Finally, your Creme de Corps is on its way home.
Last year, Kiehl’s produced over one million ounces
of Creme de Corps.
That’s equivalent to filing a tower of
one gallon milk containers stacked to the height
of the Empire State Building three times over.
So if you aren’t on the bandwagon,
Kiehl’s will provide the moisture
and the vintage Harley Davidson
to set you on the road towards
happy and healthy skin.
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