I agree with the other poster. Motels, restaurants, any place with paying customers is going to provide these items. I'm not sure the items you mentioned for the offices would work either. You would need many, many, many employees to go through enough product to make it profitable.

I have another idea for you. I attended a wedding a couple of years ago and they had stocked the counters in the restrooms with sample size lipsticks, safety pins, hair pins, bandaids, clear nail polish, hyienge items, nail file, and a lot more. There was a little note next to each basket thanking guests for coming and use anything in the basket they might need.

This strikes me as similar enough to your original idea that you might be interested in it. You could market directly to brides or to wedding planners,etc.

Rachel