Cosmetics and body care products
Providing insights into personal care products in research and during production
What makes a consumer prefer one shampoo, skin cream, or mascara from the many thousands on offer? What criteria can be used to assess a product’s properties? – and how does this impact product development and improvement? The answer to these and other questions may begin with looking at the properties of the raw materials used, the ratios required, and how the final product looks and behaves in the container, in storage, and during use. Measuring parameters such as density, refractive index, and concentration and characterizing the flow behavior delivers excellent values to be used in subsequent steps to evaluate, optimize, and modify products – as well as in their quality control.
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XRDynamic 500
SVM
DMA
Abbemat Essential 3001
Abbemat Essential 3101
Abbemat Essential 3201
Nova
Porometer 3G
Porometer 3G micro
Porometer 3G z
Porometer 3G zH
DMA 1001
DMA 501
L-Cor 8000
L-Cor 4000
Cosmetics Starter Kit
Cora 5001 Direct Pharma
Cora 5001 Direct Standard
Cora 5001 Fiber Pharma
Cora 5001 Fiber Process Monitoring
Cora 5001 Fiber Standard
Litesizer DIA
Litesizer DIA 100
Litesizer DIA 500
Litesizer DIA 700
Litesizer DLS
Litesizer DLS 101
Litesizer DLS 501
Litesizer DLS 701
DSR 502
MCR
Lyza
Lyza 3000
Lyza 7000
HTR 3000
Ultrapyc
Cora 100
Autosorb
Autosorb 6100
Autosorb 6200
Autosorb 6300
L-Cor 6000
L-Rix
Abbemat Advanced 5001
Abbemat Advanced 5101
Abbemat Advanced 5201
Litesizer DIF
Litesizer DIF 500
PoreMaster
PoreMaster 33
PoreMaster 60
PoreMaster 60GT
Multiwave
Monowave
Monowave 200
Monowave 400
Monowave 450
MCP 100
MCP 150
MCR 702e MultiDrive
MCR 702e Space MultiDrive
MCR 102e/302e/502e
MCP
NST³
Brabender AbsorptoMeter
RapidOxy 100
PMA 500
pH
Abbemat Pharma 7001
Abbemat Pharma 7201
TRB³
DMA 35 Standard
HTR
MCR Evolution & Cora 5001
RheolabQC
SAXSpoint 700
SAXSpace
UNHT³
Brabender MT-CA
Brabender ViscoQuick
FloVac
VSTAR 2 Station
VSTAR 2 Station Turbo
VSTAR 4 Station
VSTAR 4 Station Turbo
Versatile instruments for cosmetics development
A rheometer is a powerful instrument for investigating formulations. Whether you are optimizing the flow of a body lotion, the time required for a cream to be absorbed into the skin, how much foam a shampoo produces and for how long, or how to improve the way lipstick “feels” on the lips, Anton Paar’s renowned MCR rheometers have a test to give the right insights. Rheometers also help you assess and improve a product’s behavior in storage (sedimentation, discoloration) and a special Powder Cell allows you to optimize the flow of powders. The single-point rheometer, RheolabQC, is the lower price model for quality control and routine analysis.
Distinguishing between polymorphous substances
Accurately determining the type of polymorph is of critical importance for quality and process monitoring when producing, for example, titanium dioxide (E171) for use in the coatings of tablets, in sun block cream, or in toothpaste. The different crystal structures of titanium dioxide, such as rutile and anatase, can be identified using a Raman spectrometer from Anton Paar. The Cora 5X00 and Cora 7X00 Raman spectrometers provide a unique chemical fingerprint of a substance in less than a minute, including the structure of the crystals it contains.
The right spray formulation for ideal spraying behavior
The key to a user-friendly spray is fast regeneration of the structure of the spray after it has left the container. If the structural regeneration of the spray is too slow, the liquid may run down the skin after application, which would be unacceptable from the consumer’s point of view. Anton Paar’s MCR rheometer is used to investigate how applications through spray nozzles or other techniques employing high shear forces influence the viscosity of liquid drugs, skin and hair care products. Structural regeneration tests are used to evaluate and optimize the behavior sprays.
Efficient alternative to traditional stability test methods for personal care products
The rapid small-scale oxidation tester, RapidOxy, measures the induction period, which can be used as an indication of the oxidation and storage stability of cosmetic products. Unlike other oxidation and storage stability test methods, the RapidOxy procedure requires only a small sample quantity and delivers exact test results in a short period of time.
Monitoring the production of hydrogen peroxide
Reliable monitoring of the concentration of H2O2 during manufacturing of hair care products is provided by the inline density sensor L-Dens 7400. This sensor ensures continuous and highly reliable measurement of hydrogen peroxide in the concentration range from 0 % to 95 % and at temperatures up to 100 °C.
