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.
Anton Paar Products
Automated Multipurpose Powder X-Ray Diffractometer:
XRDynamic 500
Automated tapped density analyzers:
Autotap
Automatic kinematic viscometer:
SVM
Benchtop density meter:
DMA
Capillary flow porometers for through-pores:
Porometer 3G
Capillary flow porometers for through-pores:
Porometer 3G micro
Capillary flow porometers for through-pores:
Porometer 3G z
Capillary flow porometers for through-pores:
Porometer 3G zH
Compact digital density meter:
DMA 1001
Compact digital density meter:
DMA 501
Compact digital refractometer:
Abbemat
Compact Raman spectrometers:
Cora 5001
Digital heavy duty refractometer:
Abbemat
Digital performance refractometer:
Abbemat
Dynamic Image Analyzer:
Litesizer DIA 500
Dynamic Light Scattering Instrument:
Litesizer DLS
Dynamic shear rheometer measuring head:
DSR 502
Five-station gas pycnometers for true density:
PentaPyc and PentaFoam 5200e
Five-station gas pycnometers for true density:
PentaPyc and PentaFoam 5200e Foam
FTIR Spectrometer:
Lyza 7000
Fully automated benchtop rheometer:
HTR 3000
Fully customizable laboratory automation solution:
HTX
Gas Pycnometer for Semi-Solid and Solid Density:
Ultrapyc
Gas sorption analyzer:
QUADRASORB evo
Handheld Raman spectrometer:
Cora 100
High Vacuum Physisorption Analyzer:
Autosorb 6100
High vacuum physisorption/chemisorption analyzers:
autosorb iQ
High vacuum physisorption/chemisorption analyzers:
autosorb iQ C-AG
High vacuum physisorption/chemisorption analyzers:
autosorb iQ C-MP
High vacuum physisorption/chemisorption analyzers:
autosorb iQ C-XR
Inline refractometer:
L-Rix
Inline viscometer:
L-Vis 510
Mercury intrusion pore size analyzers:
PoreMaster
Mercury intrusion pore size analyzers:
PoreMaster 33
Mercury intrusion pore size analyzers:
PoreMaster 33GT
Mercury intrusion pore size analyzers:
PoreMaster 60
Mercury intrusion pore size analyzers:
PoreMaster 60GT
Microwave digestion platform:
Multiwave 5000
Microwave reactor:
Monowave
Microwave reactor:
Monowave 200
Microwave reactor:
Monowave 400
Microwave reactor:
Monowave 450
Modular compact polarimeter:
MCP 100
Modular compact polarimeter:
MCP 150
Modular Compact Rheometer:
MCR 702e MultiDrive
Modular Compact Rheometer:
MCR 702e Space MultiDrive
Modular Compact Rheometer:
MCR 72/92
Modular Compact Rheometer:
MCR 102e/302e/502e
Modular polarimeter:
MCP
Multiparameter Analyzing System:
Modulyzer Oil
Nano scratch tester:
NST³
Oxidation Stability Tester:
RapidOxy 100 Standard
Pensky-Martens Flash Point Tester:
PMA 500
pH measuring module:
pH 3101 / pH 3201
Pin-on-disk tribometer:
TRB³
Portable density meter:
DMA 35 Standard
Rheometer automation for high sample throughput and complex sample handling:
HTR
Rolling-ball viscometer:
Lovis 2000 M/ME
Rotational Rheometer:
RheolabQC
SAXS/WAXS/BioSAXS system:
SAXSpace
SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS/USAXS/RheoSAXS laboratory beamline:
SAXSpoint 5.0
Surface area and pore size analyzers:
Nova
Ultra nanoindentation tester:
UNHT³
Vacuum and Flow Degasser:
FloVac
Vacuum Degasser:
XeriPrep
Vapor sorption volumetric gas sorption analyzer:
VSTAR
Vapor sorption volumetric gas sorption analyzer:
VSTAR 2 Station
Vapor sorption volumetric gas sorption analyzer:
VSTAR 2 Station Turbo
Vapor sorption volumetric gas sorption analyzer:
VSTAR 4 Station
Vapor sorption volumetric gas sorption analyzer:
VSTAR 4 Station Turbo
Benefits
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.
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