diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6242a061
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Babel>=1.3
+argparse
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index cf252069..06d97194 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,3 @@ coverage>=3.6
 discover
 testrepository>=0.0.17
 testtools>=0.9.32
-Babel>=1.3
-argparse
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 0faf31af..72da1184 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ install_command = pip install -U {opts} {packages}
 setenv = LANG=en_US.UTF-8
          LANGUAGE=en_US:en
          LC_ALL=C
-deps= -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
+deps= -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt
+      -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
 commands=
     python setup.py testr --slowest --testr-args='{posargs}'