Seventy-six contract manufacturing plants in Malaysia hold JAKIM's cosmetics category. But that category also covers soap, shampoo and toothpaste.
When we read the product names actually certified, the group of plants that genuinely specialise in skincare and colour cosmetics narrows to 12. These are the top ten, ordered by how many distinct brands have been certified at their plant.
The ranking
| # | Factory | State | Brands certified | Certified products |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr Orizi (M) Sdn. Bhd. | ORIZI Group | Perak | 50 | 181 |
| 2 | Zelcos Laboratory Sdn. Bhd. | Pulau Pinang | 15 | 149 |
| 3 | Sirehemas Pharma Sdn. Bhd. | Selangor | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | Qemrich Sdn. Bhd. | Selangor | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Bodibasixs Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd. | Selangor | 3 | 17 |
| 6 | Sky Resources Sdn. Bhd. | Pulau Pinang | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | OTC Cosmetic Industries Sdn. Bhd. | Selangor | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | TCT Nutraceuticals Sdn. Bhd. | Selangor | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Vee-Man Manufacturer Sdn. Bhd. | Selangor | 2 | 12 |
| 10 | Senwill Cosmetic Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd. | Pulau Pinang | 2 | 9 |
Everyone else that passed the screen (2)
Alphabetical. These plants meet the same criteria; they carry fewer certified brands than the ten above.
| Factory | Town | State | JAKIM categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achima Skincare Sdn. Bhd. | Balakong | Selangor | KO, OEM |
| Ensu Lifesciences Sdn. Bhd. | Batu Arang | Selangor | KO, OEM, PR |
Why brands is the better measure
A product count tells you how many SKUs a factory has registered. A brand count tells you something different: how many separate brand owners have been through that process with them.
For a beauty brand assessing a production partner, the second number sits closer to the question you are actually asking — how many people like me have worked with them?
A small pool
Twelve factories for an entire country is a small number. It means a brand owner can realistically approach all of them before deciding — impossible in a food category with hundreds of options.
It also means limited capacity. The plants at the top support dozens of brands; that can be a strength or a constraint, depending on the size of your order.
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. A factory counts as a skincare or cosmetics plant when at least five of its certified products are skincare or colour cosmetics, and those make up at least 40% of its certified range.
- 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.