There are a lot of cool options out there. The problem at our shop is, we like to give the product to our clients at no charge. It creates a higher chance that they will use what we want them to use. Black Cat was, in our opinion, the best product, and cheap enough to give away. We recently decided to make our own healing ointment. We recruited a client of ours that happened to be a chemist whose job was to reverse formulate brand name products and recreate them for Target's 'UP' brand. He sat down with us and helped us create a formula that was close to what several products used but made it ours and it works AMAZINGLY! We put a couple hundred bucks up out of our pockets and bought all of the equipment, ingredients, and packaging materials and now we have our own brand of 'tattoo balm'. We do not sell it to avoid and regulation problems. We are still in trials and trying to hammer out the perfect formula but its going well and I dont see us doing it any other way.