WPG0023: Truly worthy of a system reward: Too powerful!

The next day.

June 29th.

A little past seven in the morning, An Wuyang woke up early because he was also going to Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group today to see just how impressive the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel really were.

According to An Huchun, the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel would become Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's flagship products in the future.

An Wuyang had chosen marketing as his university major, so naturally he wanted to use his family's own products to craft a marketing plan and get a head start on learning.

Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's headquarters and R&D center were both located in the industrial hub of North Jade District's Zhaoyu Mountain, with the R&D center alone covering an area of five mu.

An Huchun brought Li Wenya and An Wuyang to Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's headquarters.

In a small meeting room at the headquarters, An Huchun handed the experimental reports to An Wuyang and Li Wenya respectively, then took out a small round jar of about 100 milliliters and passed it to Li Wenya.

Li Wenya complained, "That's all?"

"The current usable finished product is limited; the rest has to be kept for further research," An Huchun explained.

An Wuyang ignored his parents' exchange and picked up the experimental report to read.

This report on the Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil beauty and skincare products was recorded in great detail, including the extraction information for the essential oil and the effects of mixing it with Aloe Vera Gel.

From it, An Wuyang spotted a major problem—the extraction rate of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil was far too low!

According to the data in this report, 100 kilograms of bitter orange blossoms could only yield 80 grams of essential oil, and one mu of bitter orange trees during their full bloom period could only provide less than 200 kilograms of blossoms.

More critically, the report explicitly pointed out that only the bitter orange blossoms from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base had the desired effect of eliminating dullness and restoring a fair complexion.

Finished products made from bitter orange blossoms sourced elsewhere had effects that, while not entirely nonexistent, were barely more than a placebo for peace of mind.

However, the current planting area for bitter orange blossoms at the Tianjingyan base was only 2,000 mu.

Even assuming one mu of bitter orange trees produced 200 kilograms of blossoms during full bloom, the essential oil yield per mu would be just 160 grams, meaning the total from 2,000 mu would only be 320,000 grams.

Currently, producing one batch of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel beauty product consumed 10 grams of essential oil and 100 grams of Aloe Vera Gel, yielding roughly 100 milliliters of finished product.

Based on an annual yield of 320,000 grams, that meant only 32,000 bottles of finished product per year.

An ordinary person might think 32,000 bottles a year was a lot, but in reality, this quantity was so small that it made An Wuyang frown.

He continued reading about the effects of the Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel beauty product, hoping the results were strong enough. Otherwise, with such limited production, reversing Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's predicament through normal sales strategies would be a real headache.

Only if the effects of the Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel beauty product were sufficiently powerful could it turn around the group's difficulties.

An Wuyang had even already thought of a good approach.

He examined the effect evaluations in the report. Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group had conducted three rounds of comparative experiments on the beauty product made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel, with a total of 30 test subjects.

The final results were excellent!

The beauty product had very good effects on sun-induced freckles, sunspots, chloasma caused by endocrine disorders, pigmentation from drug use, and other pigment spots.

However, it wasn't very effective against freckles and café-au-lait spots caused by genetic factors.

Additionally, the product excelled at restoring a fair complexion, making the skin return to a fair, supple state and achieving an effect of reversing skin age.

For example, women whose skin had darkened from sun exposure could reverse that with the Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel beauty product.

'No wonder it's a system reward—the effects are truly impressive!' An Wuyang silently marveled.

To be fair, such effects completely outclassed all whitening products on the market and also surpassed almost all medical aesthetic whitening procedures.

But the only issue was the yield!

A theoretical annual output of just 32,000 bottles at 100 milliliters each—wasn't that a bit too little?

With such low production and such great effects, how should it be priced?

If the price was too low, wouldn't that be like charity?

But setting the price too high could also damage Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's reputation.

After finishing the report, An Wuyang placed it back on the conference table, and An Huchun's gaze shifted to him.

"Finished reading?" An Huchun asked casually.

An Wuyang confirmed, "Yeah."

"Any thoughts?" An Huchun inquired with a hint of pride, clearly wanting An Wuyang to praise the Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel beauty product.

"Two initial thoughts," An Wuyang replied.

"First, the yield is too low; second, the effects are too good!" An Wuyang added.

The experimental report included comparison photos of the test subjects. If he hadn't known it was his own group's comparative experiment report, An Wuyang would have suspected it was using some beauty app to create retouched images.

That's why he said the effects were too good—because they really were that impressive!

"Dad, do the bitter orange blossoms from other places not produce this effect?" An Wuyang asked for confirmation, though he had a guess in mind.

This was probably a limitation of the system reward?

An Huchun answered affirmatively, "Yes, and this is very strange. Because of this, we went down a lot of wrong paths before."

"We didn't know about this earlier, so we mixed the bitter orange blossoms from the Tianjingyan base with those purchased externally, and we kept running into unstable results," An Huchun said with a bitter tone.

"For example, in one experiment, we used essential oil extracted from externally purchased bitter orange blossoms to make the product, and the effect turned out to be negligible," An Huchun explained.

"For example, if a batch used a blend of bitter orange blossoms, the final result would depend on how much of it came from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base," An Huchun added.

"The research breakthrough this year was actually a complete accident. We were already planning to abandon the study of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil, so we stopped purchasing from outside sources and only used bitter oranges from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base. That's when we discovered that only the bitter oranges from that base produced the desired effect," An Huchun said with a note of relief.

"However, we still haven't been able to determine why this is the case," An Huchun added regretfully.

Li Wenya had also finished reading the experiment report. At thirty-nine, the years had left their marks on her face, but she was deeply intrigued by this skincare product made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel. She could hardly wait to try it out herself.

"Wuyang, if you were to set a price for this product, how much do you think it should sell for?" An Huchun asked, as if testing An Wuyang.