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Cosmetics and personal care products analysis instruments
Delivering quality cosmetic and personal care products quickly and consistently can be tough. The right testing and analysis tools can help you do it well on a daily basis.
Thermo Scientific solutions for extrusion, compounding, and mixing, material testing, fermentation analysis, product formulation and testing in the lab and on the floor, and product inspection help ensure manufacturers deliver quality products to consumers.
Color cosmetics are a growing market, and rapid development of new, innovative products offers a distinctive advantage. That’s where tools for continuous processing can make a big difference.
The right colors and textures
A continuously operating twin-screw extruder helps to dramatically reduce development time for mascaras, eyeliners, and eyeshadows in both powder and semi-solid forms. Once ready to manufacture, a continuously operating instrument also eliminates the risk of batch-to-batch variations.
Continuously operating twin-screw extruders provide excellent mixing and compounding capabilities for many applications including loose powders and compressed products. They facilitate homogeneous mixtures from different powder and liquid raw materials in just one process step. Processing temperature can be controlled along a wide range and in different zones, which helps control the viscosity of an entire mixture during processing.
Trusted by regulatory agencies
Our twin-screw extruders are fully GMP compliant, helping you meet regulatory demands around the globe. All processing parameters are electronically recorded and available for documentation and submission to regulatory agencies. Benchtop and production size instrumentation is available to fulfill all requirements in the development and manufacturing process.
Thermo Scientific TruScan products help ensure GMP compliance in the cosmetics industry by providing rapid, on-the-spot material identity and verification through Raman spectroscopy.
Non-Destructive Testing
These handheld analyzers enable manufacturers to perform non-destructive testing through packaging, helping to ensure fast and accurate identification of raw materials and formulations at various stages of the manufacturing process. This helps maintain high standards of quality and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Maintain high standards of quality and GMP compliance for liquid or powder materials
Online composition analysis of fermenter sparge and vent gas streams allows continuous adjustments to maintain the optimal environment for cells to flourish. Accurate measurement of oxygen & carbon dioxide delivered in just a few seconds per stream provides a close insight into cell respiration. Online monitoring of both sparge and outlet gases are used to calculate the respiratory quotient (RQ)—the rate of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide evolution. Knowing the RQ is essential to understand the health of the culture, indicating both the metabolic efficiency and the type of nutrients being consumed. This powerful mass spectrometer is also able to report the concentrations of many other volatiles in the vent gas streams such as ethanol, methanol and many more in concentrations from 10 parts to million to percent levels.
Monitoring and controlling fermentation processes in real-time
No compromise on sterile environments
Precise evaluation of the concentrations of a fermenter’s inlet and outlet gases provides an ideal approach to accurately track a culture’s growth kinetics and substrate consumption in a non-invasive manner, without compromising the sterility of the environment.
The proper lab equipment utilizing the latest technologies is essential for creating and manufacturing safe and effective products by helping to ensure the correct proportions of ingredients, maintaining hygiene, and accurately testing the final formulation, all while adhering to regulatory standards.
Cosmetics and personal care product formulation and manufacturing
Quickly and reliably move from feasibility studies to production
Thermo Scientific product formulation and manufacturing solutions help perform analysis from routine testing help ensure product efficacy to safety over its shelf life. Our lab analysis equipment is crucial to a robust quality control (QC) system to test raw materials, in-process samples, and finished products.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates cosmetics under a law passed by Congress: the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. On the FDA website it states that cosmetics “must be safe when consumers use them following directions on the label, or in the customary or expected way.” Consumers have concerns about "heavy metals" and "toxic metals" in cosmetics. There have been reports of harmful lead in lipsticks, glosses, eyeliners, and other beauty products, mercury in whitening cream, and lead, and mercury in color additives.
Screening for heavy metals in raw materials is critical for helping to ensure harmful material doesn’t end up in consumers’ hands. Achieve peace of mind in performing due diligence testing to make certain your products are free of heavy metals and during their manufacturing process and before bringing the products to the market. Our accurate and reliable solutions provide high sensitivity so you can quickly analyze materials -- at the receiving dock, in the lab or warehouse, or even on store shelves.
Safe cosmetics and skin care for consumers
Trusted by regulatory agencies
Our portable XRF analyzers can quickly detect harmful heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and mercury, preventing harmful cosmetics from reaching the shelves and thus helping to ensure product safety. XRF is a non-destructive method, meaning the cosmetic product remains intact and usable after testing. These analyzers are even used by the US Consumer Product Safety Division to inspect consumer goods at the borders.
Products should be monitored throughout the manufacturing process, especially at the end of the line before they go out the door, in order to help ensure quality and safety. Physical contaminants can be introduced at any time during the manufacturing process. Cosmetics and skin care products are made from a variety of organic and inorganic compounds, including grown ingredients like rose, vanilla, almonds, and orange rind. It is not uncommon for raw materials to contain glass, bones, and rocks from the ground from which they were farmed. Manufacturing equipment tends to vibrate while operating, causing screws to become loose, and metal and plastic pieces can break off unexpectedly, potentially ending up in the finished product or package and end up in the finished product or package.
In addition, there are regulations, and customer expectations, about the weight on the label matching the actual fill, and that all elements of a packaged set be included in the box.
Consumers deserve to receive the safe products they expect
Inspection throughout the manufacturing line
Our product inspection systems encompass all stages of the cosmetics and personal care product manufacturing process, both before and after final packaging. From the sensitivity of our metal detectors. To the detection performance of our X-ray systems, and the consistent accuracy of our checkweighers, we are committed to helping manufacturers, processors and packagers eliminate errors to help ensure the highest quality and safety standards of their products.
Our portfolio of products and services deliver accuracy, reliability, and performance that can help you improve the bottom line and protect the reputation of your brand.
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