The next day.
June 29.
A little after seven in the morning, An Wuyang woke up early because he was going with them to Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group today to see just how effective the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel were.
According to An Huchun, the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel would become the flagship products of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group in the future.
An Wuyang had chosen marketing as his university major, so he naturally wanted to use his family's products to develop a marketing plan and gain experience in advance.
The headquarters and research center of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group were both located in the industrial center of Zhaoyu Mountain in North Jade District. The research center alone occupied an area of five mu.
An Huchun brought Li Wenya and An Wuyang to the headquarters of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group.
Inside a small meeting room at the headquarters of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group, An Huchun handed the experimental reports to An Wuyang and Li Wenya. He then took out a small, round container holding roughly 100 milliliters and handed it to Li Wenya.
Li Wenya complained, "That's all?"
"The amount of effective finished product is currently limited. The rest has to be kept for further research," An Huchun explained.
An Wuyang ignored his parents' exchange and began reading the experimental report.
The experimental report on the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil was extremely detailed. It included information on extracting Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil, as well as the effects of mixing it with Aloe Vera Gel.
An Wuyang discovered a major problem in the report—the extraction rate of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil was far too low!
According to the data provided in the report, only 80 grams of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil could currently be extracted from 100 kilograms of Bitter Orange Flowers. Moreover, a mu of Bitter Orange Trees could provide less than 200 kilograms of Bitter Orange Flowers throughout the entire blooming period.
More importantly, the report clearly pointed out that only Bitter Orange Flowers from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base possessed excellent effects in eliminating dullness and restoring fair skin.
Although finished products made from Bitter Orange Flowers obtained from other growing areas could not be said to be completely ineffective, their final results were little more than psychological comfort.
However, the current planting area of Bitter Orange Trees at the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base was only 2,000 mu.
Even assuming that each mu of Bitter Orange Trees produced 200 kilograms of Bitter Orange Flowers during the blooming period, each mu would yield only 160 grams of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil. In the end, the 2,000 mu of Bitter Orange Trees could produce only 320,000 grams.
At present, making one beauty and skincare product from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel consumed 10 grams of Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and 100 grams of Aloe Vera Gel, which were mixed into roughly 100 milliliters of finished product.
Based on an annual output of 320,000 grams, that meant the final output would be only 32,000 bottles.
Perhaps ordinary people would think that an annual output of 32,000 bottles was quite large, but in reality, this number was extremely small—so small that it made An Wuyang frown.
An Wuyang continued reading about the effects of the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel. He only hoped that the products were effective enough. Otherwise, with such a low output, trying to turn around Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's predicament through a conventional sales strategy would truly be troublesome.
Only if the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel were effective enough could they turn around Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's predicament.
An Wuyang had even thought of a good solution.
An Wuyang examined the evaluation of the products' effects in the experimental report. Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group had conducted three rounds of comparative experiments on the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel, with a total of 30 subjects.
The final results were extremely good!
The beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel had excellent effects on freckles and sunspots caused by sunlight, melasma caused by endocrine disorders, and pigmentation caused by pigment deposits or medication.
However, they did not have particularly good effects on freckles and café-au-lait spots caused by hereditary factors.
In addition, the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel performed extremely well in restoring skin fairness. They could restore skin to a fair, smooth, and supple state, achieving the effect of reversing the skin's age.
For example, if a woman's skin had darkened after exposure to sunlight, she could use beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel to reverse the damage.
As expected of a system reward. The effects really are incredible! An Wuyang marveled inwardly.
Strictly speaking, these effects completely crushed every whitening product on the market, as well as nearly all whitening aesthetic medical treatments.
But the only problem was the output!
The theoretical annual output was only 32,000 100-milliliter bottles. Wasn't that a little too low?
With such a small output and such excellent results, how should they set the price?
If the price was too low, wouldn't they just be doing charity?
But if the price was too high, it could easily damage Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group's reputation.
After reading the experimental report, An Wuyang placed it back on the meeting table, and An Huchun looked over.
"Finished reading?" An Huchun asked casually.
An Wuyang nodded. "Mm."
"What do you think?" An Huchun asked with a hint of pride, clearly hoping that An Wuyang would praise the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel.
"I have two initial impressions," An Wuyang replied.
"First, the output is too low. Second, the effects are too good!" An Wuyang added.
The experimental report contained comparison photos of the subjects. If he had not known that they were comparative experiment results from his family's group, An Wuyang would have suspected that some photo-editing software had been used to beautify the pictures.
That was why An Wuyang said the effects were too good, because they really were that good!
"Dad, do Bitter Orange Flowers from other places not produce the same effects?" An Wuyang asked for confirmation. He actually had a guess in mind.
Was this probably a limitation of the system reward?
An Huchun answered firmly, "Yes. This is very strange. Because of this, we took a lot of wrong turns before."
"We didn't know about this before, so we mixed Bitter Orange Flowers from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base with Bitter Orange Flowers purchased from outside suppliers. As a result, we repeatedly encountered unstable effects," An Huchun said bitterly.
"For example, during one experiment, we used essential oil extracted from Bitter Orange Flowers purchased from outside suppliers to make the finished product, only to find that the results were negligible," An Huchun explained.
"On another occasion, we used a mixture of Bitter Orange Flowers, and the final results depended on how many Bitter Orange Flowers from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base had been mixed in," An Huchun added.
"Our research progress this year was actually a complete accident. We had originally been preparing to abandon our research on Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil, so we stopped purchasing Bitter Orange Flowers from outside suppliers. We used only Bitter Orange Flowers from the Tianjingyan Medicinal Herb Planting Base, and then discovered that only those Bitter Orange Flowers were effective," An Huchun said, feeling fortunate.
"However, we still haven't determined why this happens," An Huchun said regretfully.
Li Wenya had also finished reading the experimental report. She was already thirty-nine years old, and the marks of time had appeared on her face. She was extremely interested in the beauty and skincare products made from Bitter Orange Blossom Essential Oil and Aloe Vera Gel, and was even eager to try them out.
"Wuyang, if you were responsible for pricing this product, how much do you think it should sell for?" An Huchun asked, as if he were testing An Wuyang.
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