Cosmetics
Are used for personal hygiene and beauty care. Certain substances clean, stabilise, vitalise or perfume your skin, nails or hair.
Five major market segments are differentiated here:
- Cleaning, protection and hygiene: soaps, shower gels, crèmes, shaving products, suntan lotions
- Dental and oral hygiene: toothpaste, mouthwashes or denture fixatives
- Hair care: shampoos, hairsprays, tints and dyes
- Decorative cosmetics: make-up, eyeshadow, lipsticks or nail polish
- Odour-active substances: antiperspirants, perfume, eau de toilette
For this we can assist you in a wide variety of investigations:
- Ingredients (e.g. vitamin C, vitamin E)
- Preservatives
- Heavy metals
- Organic contaminants (e.g. pesticides, plasticisers, solvents)
- Microbiological investigations and storage life tests -
Overall organic status of aerobic and anaerobic organisms, yeasts and moulds,
Pathogenic organisms