Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Analytical Testing - Accelerate Innovation.  Ensure Quality. 

 To achieve growth and profitability goals in a fiercely competitive marketplace, cosmetics and personal care companies must continuously deliver innovative products within timelines that are extremely compressed – all while being challenged with growing regulatory requirements, analyzing highly complex samples, ensuring product safety and efficacy, and the ongoing threat of counterfeits.

 For years Waters Corporation has provided the top cosmetic and personal care companies in the world with an innovative suite of technologies designed to improve the effectiveness of raw material, formulation, safety and quality control testing.  Our continuous advancements in sample preparation & columns, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and data management software enable analytical laboratories to reduce analysis times, improve data quality, lower costs and meet compliance requirements in an ever changing regulatory environment.  

Featured Application Notes:

Raw Material Testing

• Characterizing of the Natural Product Goldenseal 
• Using the Elucidation Tool in UNIFI to Identify Unknown Compounds in Natural Products
• Isolating a Naturally Occurring Bioactive Compound using Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Preparative Supercritical Fluid  Chromatography

Formulation Testing

• Rapid Analysis of Complex Heterogeneous Mixtures for Components in Cosmetic Products
• Enantiomeric and Diastereomeric Separations of Fragrance and Essential oil Components
  
  

Quality Control Testing

• ACQUITY UPLC PDA Analysis of Biocides (Part 1)
• ACQUITY UPLC PDA Analysis of Biocides: Pass or Fail Custom Calculations (Part 2)
• ACQUITY UPLC/PDA Analysis of UV Filter Agents and Preservatives
  
  

 Safety and Regulatory Testing

• Identification of Skin Lightening/Whitening Agents in Cosmetics
• Fast Analysis of Cosmetic Allergens using UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography with MS Detection
• Fast Efficient Method to Determine the Presence of Nitrosamines in Cosmetics, Personal Care and Consumer Products
• Imroving the Speed and Quantitative Performance for the Analysis of Allergenic and Carcinogenic Dyes
• Non-Targeted Screening Analysis of Packaging Extracts Using the UNIFI Scientific Information System
• Analysis of Primary Aromatic Amines in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
• High Throughput Analysis of Phthalates and Parabens in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
• Analysis of Disperse Dyes using UV and Mass Detection
  
  

 Counterfeit Testing

• Application of Multivariate Analysis and LC-MS for Counterfeit Cosmetics Detection
  
  

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