Only 29 Halal Factories in Malaysia Can Make Both Your Supplement and Your Skincare

Beauty and wellness brands often want the same thing: one factory for everything — creams, serums and supplements in a single relationship, one audit, one point of contact.

JAKIM's records show how rare that is. Only 29 contract manufacturing plants in Malaysia hold capability on both sides.

The full list

Why the split exists

Supplement production and cosmetics production use different equipment, different plant conditions and different regulatory frameworks. Supplements in Malaysia fall under NPRA; cosmetics are notified separately. Running both on one site means maintaining two quality systems.

Most factories pick one and become good at it. That is not a weakness — it is focus.

Is one factory actually better?

Not necessarily. Two specialist plants often produce a better result than one plant doing both moderately well. The administrative convenience is a genuine benefit, but it is an administrative benefit — not a product one.

If your range is small and you want a single audit, these 29 are your starting point. If product quality is the priority, assess factories by category separately.

How this list was built

Every factory here was taken from JAKIM's own Halal Directory, captured on 5 August 2026. Nothing was added by invitation, payment or submission.

• Contract manufacturing only. The factory must hold JAKIM's OEM (pengilangan kontrak) category. Plants that only make their own products are out of scope.
• Classified by what they actually make. Taken straight from JAKIM's own category codes, so nothing here is inferred.
• Ranked on published records, not on our judgement of quality.

We classify by certified product names rather than by JAKIM's category code on purpose. The code is broad: filtering on "cosmetics & personal care" alone returns an edible-oils plant whose certified list is margarine and antibacterial soap. Reading the product names avoids that.

What this list cannot tell you

• Factories producing only under a client's certificate are invisible here. 221 of Malaysia's halal contract plants hold the OEM category and no product certificates of their own. They may be excellent; they simply have nothing for this method to count.
• "Brands certified" includes a factory's own brands. For a contract manufacturer most of those names are clients. For a large consumer-goods company, many will be its own labels. Read the number as certification breadth, not as a client list.
• Certification is not capability. JAKIM records say a product met the halal standard. They say nothing about capacity, minimum order quantity, lead time, price or quality systems.