Everything you need to know about starting a beauty and wellness business in India

The glamorous Bollywood and international beauty pageants inspire customers who are ready to disburse a lot of money to attain such beauty ideals and thus giving a huge force to the beauty and wellness industry. This has opened the doors for a lot of entrepreneurs to join this industry.

Are you an aspiring wellness entrepreneur? Or want to have an own business?

Wondering how to start a beauty and wellness industry in India? Well, it’s not that easy but I am not discouraging you. Nothing in this world can be achieved easily.

But if you follow the right steps and guidelines you can expand your business throughout India within a short period. So let us know everything about opening a cosmetic business in India in detail.

To start a cosmetics business in India, you need to make a cosmetics business plan

• Make a survey which products the customers prefer to use.
• Perform research and make notes on which products are sold and which brands have flourished in the market.
• Decide a particular location where you should open a shop which can attract more buyers or where your competition will be less.
• Make a strategy on how to expand your business nationwide (you need to build a website where you can update the details of all your products and start e-commerce).
• Research about the beauty franchising companies and start recruiting cosmetics franchises for your business and grow your business.

You can promote your business online through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. But to start an online beauty business you need to build a strong and attractive website that contains details about your business’ services that can compel the users to visit your site and become your customer.

You can also opt for a beauty franchise. Well, I hope you know what is meant by a franchise, right? If no, well, then franchising a business somewhat means granting a party some rights and authorities to sell your beauty products under your brand name thus expanding the growth of your business nationwide.

If you care about the welfare of the population, you start a wellness business. You might think to start a wellness business you will need a lot of investment, but no, you are wrong, it will not require too much of your hard-earned money. You can start with minimum investment and less risk. First, make a sound wellness business plan.

Nowadays, from teenagers to adults, all are suffering from health and mental issues. Depression and frustration are the two words commonly heard among every human being. So you can start a health and wellness industry in India which can relieve their pain and help every individual to remain fit and healthy.

Here is a list of some of the wellness services you can provide to start your wellness business center-

• Consultancy on corporate wellness
• Provide counseling to individuals.
• Yoga instruction
• Nutrition consultation
• Coaching on maintaining weight
• Personal gym trainer
• Sell health and wellness industry products like supplements, organic food, proteinaceous foods, herbal cosmetics products, etc.

If you are tired of nine to five jobs then why don’t you open a business where you can be independent and earn more. Now you might say it requires huge investment, labor, and a lot of other things and in the end, if you suffer a loss then all your money will be gone.

But let me tell you, if you start your business in the right way with a little patience, you won’t suffer a loss. If you can’t afford to invest much then why don’t you start a beauty products business?

Starting a beauty salon will be a great business to start with. Everyone wants to look beautiful, and why wouldn’t they want to, there is nothing wrong with it, right? So first perform research on various beauty business opportunities.

Below is a list of some beauty business ideas that you can take into consideration-

• First, open a salon and give an attractive and unique name of your salon
• Become a makeup artist if you have relevant skills.
• Hire brow, nail, or eyelash technician
• Sell beauty or skincare products. Research more about skincare business opportunity and sell those products which will benefit customers.
• Provide hair cut services
• You can even train others and provide a certificate
• Provide body massage and spa (includes manicure, pedicure)  
• Don’t forget to start a beauty blog
• And also start a beauty salon franchise

Proselytize these makeup business ideas and start your business by franchising and publicize your brand nationwide.

Earn more with starting your own business and enhance the growth of your industry with a beauty products franchise. It will help you have a better-secured future with huge earnings and with worldwide name and fame.

Dhinal Baxi is a founder of franchise Insider. As a founder, he has served hundreds of clients. His experience from the financial sector has helped them to achieve great success in the franchise world.