Ingredients Testing for Personal Care Products:

Ensuring that raw materials are of the highest quality is a fundamental issue in personal care product development. Intertek can offer a range of services to support the development or manufacturing process:

• Assay of materials
• Confirmatory analysis
• Comprehensive material characterization capability
• Impurity identification and measurement

Product Formulation and De-formulation:

Product De-formulation is key to understanding competitor strategy and the new chemical innovation and technologies employed prior to a product launch or after launch. Intertek provides de-formulation studies employing a range of chemical reverse engineering techniques which can address these needs but can also play an important role in detecting patent infringements, to refute competitor advertising claims and when reviewing company products or brands prior to business acquisition.

Services for Personal Care Products include:

• Raw materials analysis
• Allergen screening
• Product de-formulation
• Challenge testing
• Toxicology risk assessments
• Human testing
• Interaction and substrate analysis for hair, teeth and skin
• In vitro skin testing
• Microbiological analysis
• Chemical problem solving for manufacturing troubleshooting
• Packaging testing