Heat or cold packs can make a great addition to your business, therapy or medical practice. Finding the right heat pack manufacturer or ice pack supplier can mean the difference in a medical product and an organic consumer product for sale.

You typical ice pack and hot pack come in a variety of styles. From area specific to organic vs. synthetic inner materials, you have a wide variety of ice packs and hot wrap products to choose from.

To find the right heat or cold packs:

1. Determine if are looking to fill a medical need with your heat or cold packs purchase.

2. Figure out if you are looking for an organic or synthetic product.

3. Determine which body part or parts you are looking to target with your purchase.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Look for best hot pack or heat shield items

Finding the right hot pack product for you depends on you or your client's need for mobility as well as cost factors.

I recommend: Try ReHeater Heat Packs. They portable, reusable, nonelectric and nontoxic. Check out videos on how the Thermo-Pad works. Take a look at the Arthritis Pad Thermophore by Battle Creek Equipment. Look at the instant and reusable heating packs from Concentric.

Find the right cold pack product

Locate a cold pack product that fits you or your client's need. For example, are you looking to stock a simple, standard blue ice pack, or are you a therapist looking to supply post injury or post surgery wraps and packs?

I recommend: Uline carries cold packs as one of their 15,000 items. Try the Elite-Kold Adult Athletic Shoulder Ice Wrap and more from IceWraps. Click on the part of the body you are trying to find cold relief for from PainReliever.com. Polar Products offers Kool Max cooling packs, vests and more.

Buy heat or cold packs in combination

Consider hot pack / cold pack combo products.

I recommend: Find hot and cold therapy products with a Five Year Satisfaction Guaranteed Warranty from Medical Products Online. Check out the reusable hot/cold packs from First-Aid-Industrial.com. Look into the Bed Buddy Moist Heat, Hot/Cold Pack from drugstore.com. Lab Safety Supply also sells heat/cold packs.

Find an organic hot pack

Look for hot pack products that include the use of organic compounds as opposed to synthetic insides.

I recommend: When looking for corn and rice moist heat packs, try Heavenly Heat. Heat Makes Sense sells herbal heat packs. Try the herbal heat products from Ultimate Water Massage. Relief-Mart sells a wide variety of herbal heat products.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Disposable hot pack products are a great addition to any drug store or smaller chain in the fall and winters. They would also be applicable to car and/or tractor supply stores in the winter as well.