What We Do
We are consultants with 40 years experience in manufacturing for the personal care industry.
This is how we can help you:
- Research and Development
- Piloting and Scale-up
- Process Improvement
- Equipment Specification and Installation
- Quality Assurance and Regulatory
- Auditing Services
Services
We have the talent, insight, discipline, and global connections needed to tackle—and simplify—even the most complex engineering challenges. Not only do we help you bring innovative products to market rapidly and reliably, but we also help you maximize profitability at every stage of your project.
Projects
Our product design, analysis, engineering, and manufacturing expertise are woven into hundreds of award-winning products. From proof of concept to the factory floor, we’re ready to work with you at any stage of your project.
Clientele
The Founder
We embrace collaboration, simplify complex engineering challenges, establish supply chains, and plan for manufacturing and delivery. Our proven expertise, relationships, and processes help our clients bring innovative, reliable, and cost-effective products to market quickly while maintaining profitability throughout their life cycles.
George Mclarty | Founder
George McLarty has extensive experience across the cosmetics and personal care industry, including all aspects of the research, development and manufacturing process. Through nearly four decades in the business, he has overseen R&D, quality assurance and manufacturing for skin, hair and body care products for some of the leading companies in the world, including brands distributed across all retail platforms: mass, masstige, specialty and prestige. In addition to contract manufacturing, he has held staff R&D positions with Elizabeth Arden, Revlon and Procter & Gamble.
George has a long and stellar career and is truly a leader in the field. Having led R&D, Compounding, Operations, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance, he has a first-hand view of the entire lifecycle of a product, and everything it takes to get a new product from concept phase all the way into the hands of a consumer.
George McLarty has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and an MBA with concentration in Management from the State University of New York. He is a Member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.
Nathalie Schlemer
Product Innovation|Development Beauty and Wellness
Nathalie brings in-depth experience driving high performance products from initial concept stage to final launch for some of the biggest brands in beauty and wellness. An expert in product innovation, lifecycle and launch mapping, she leads start-ups into double digit growth with award winning launches.
She has a proven track record in building fast-track portfolios in line with brand’s DNA, budget and timeline.
CONTACT
n a t h a l i e s c h l emer@gmail . com
www.l ink e d in. c o m / in/ n a t h a l i e s c h l e m e r
Contact Us
McLarty Product Development
6628 Sylvan Brook Rd
Roanoke Va 24018