Why Buying More Means Paying Less: The Real Cost Behind a Single Skincare Product

At first glance, it might seem like skincare brands are charging a hefty premium for tiny bottles. A simple serum or face cream that costs ₹500, ₹700, or even ₹1000 may leave customers wondering, “Is this tiny product really worth that much?” But what most people don’t see is the massive cost structure that goes into getting just one skincare product into your hands. From digital ads to delivery vans, from bottles to boxes, the journey of a single skincare product is far more expensive than it looks.

At Factory Price Shop, we believe in being transparent about the real reasons why skincare feels expensive, and more importantly, why buying more can be the smartest way to pay less without compromising on quality.

The ₹500–₹700 Cost of Getting Your Attention

Let’s begin with a surprising truth: getting a new customer to click on a product, add it to cart, and finally buy it online can cost a brand anywhere between ₹500 and ₹700. Yes, just to acquire one customer. This is because of online advertising platforms like Google, Facebook, Instagram, and others that charge per click, view, or conversion.

Imagine this: if you buy only one ₹300 product and the brand spends ₹600 to get your attention the math simply doesn’t work. Either the brand makes a loss or it has to inflate prices to survive. This is why brands like Factory Price Shop encourage smart, multi-product buying not to sell more, but to offer you better value while balancing real marketing costs.

The Silent Costs That Add Up: Packaging, Shipping & Fees

It’s easy to think that the product is the only thing you're paying for. But behind every bottle or jar, there’s a chain of invisible expenses that don’t disappear just because the order is small. Here’s what typically goes into each delivery:

• Primary Packaging: the jar, bottle, pump, cap
• Secondary Packaging: cartons, labels, safety seals, boxes
• Shipping Charges: courier pickup, distance-based delivery
• Payment Gateway Fees: transaction charges deducted by payment processors
• Warehouse Handling: order picking, packing, and dispatching
  
  

These are flat costs. Whether you buy one item or five, the brand still pays for packing, shipping, and handling. When you buy just one unit, all these costs stack up on a single product. But when you buy more, say, a combo of 3 or 4, these costs get spread across items, reducing the per-product price drastically. This is how Factory Prices Shop is able to offer bundled skincare deals at almost 30–50% lower rates than typical retail pricing,  it’s not a marketing gimmick, it’s real math.

Bulk Orders Help Beat the System, Here’s How

Let’s break it down with a simple example. Suppose you want to buy one lip balm worth ₹199.

Single Product Order:

• Ad cost to acquire you: ₹600
• Packaging & shipping: ₹80
• Payment gateway fee: ₹15
• Product cost: ₹60

Total real cost for brand: ₹755
That’s a ₹556 loss for the brand, unless they price the balm at ₹799 (which you’d never buy).

Now let’s say you order a combo of 4 products worth ₹899.

Combo Order:

• Same ad cost: ₹600 (now split across 4 products = ₹150 per item)
• Packaging & shipping: ₹100 total (₹25 per item)
• Payment fee: ₹30
• Product costs: ₹240 (for all 4) 

Total cost: ₹1020
You paid ₹899, brand barely breaks even, or makes a small margin. But you saved nearly ₹500 compared to buying those 4 products individually.

That’s the power of bulk logic,  it benefits you and the brand both.

No Compromise on Ingredients, Only Smart Economics

There’s a dangerous myth floating around: “If something is cheaper, it must be lower quality.” Not true. What drives cost down is scale and order size, not ingredient quality. At Factory Prices Shop, we use the same shampoos, cleansers, serums, sunscreen, soaps, hair oil, and much more whether you're buying one unit or ten.

What changes is how much you buy, and how much the brand has to spend to process your order. Bulk buying lets us invest more in the product and less in marketing, packing, and re-shipping. You’re not buying a watered-down version, you’re simply bypassing the system that adds artificial layers of cost to single-unit orders.

Smart Shoppers Know the Combo Advantage

Ever noticed why skincare experts and bloggers often suggest buying skincare in combos, a face wash + toner + serum, or a day cream + sunscreen bundle? Besides the product synergy, there’s another big reason: combo pricing saves money. Instead of buying individual products with separate packaging and delivery costs, you're streamlining the purchase, reducing waste, and increasing value.

At Factory Price Shop, we ask you to pick any 6 at 50% off , any 9 at 55 % off, any 12 and above at 63% off not just for convenience but to give you real savings on high-quality, small-batch skincare. You get more product, more results, and better deals, all by making one smart buying decision.

Why Factory Price Shop Encourages Multiples, And You Should Too

We’re not trying to “upsell” for the sake of it. We encourage buying in multiples because it’s the only honest way to reduce price without reducing quality. When you buy:

• 6 daily use products like a face wash, face serum or face oil, hair shampoo, hair serum, body wash, body lotion, body mist instead of 1 product
• A face scrub combo with face wash, serum, oil  instead of a single jar
• A skin + hair combo instead of two separate orders, you’re letting us cut back on: Duplicate shipping charges
• Multiple packaging runs
• Excess handling costs
• And repeated ad spend to bring you back again and again

This is how Factory Price Shop passes the real cost savings directly to you.

It’s Not About Buying More, It’s About Buying Smart

You don’t have to overspend. You don’t need to stockpile. But next time you’re buying skincare, think about what makes economic sense. Are you buying one unit and paying all the hidden costs behind it, or are you buying a little more and getting real value?

Factory Price Shop was created to make high-quality skincare affordable, not by cutting corners, but by being smarter about how products are priced and shipped. The entire model is designed around value through volume, transparency, and making natural skincare more accessible for everyone.

Final Thought

If you’ve ever wondered why your ₹199 face cream feels like it costs ₹999 by the time it hits your cart, you’re not alone. It’s not a scam. It’s just how the system works when you're buying one item at a time. But now that you know how fixed costs, ads, packaging, and logistics affect pricing, you can beat the system.

The next time you shop at Factory Price Shop, look for bundles, combos, or simply buy 6 of your favourites instead of one. Not only will your skincare routine thank you,  your wallet will too.