Cosmetics
Cosmetics
Specialists in the regulatory compliance and microbiological testing of cosmetics and personal care products, we serve a customer base spanning five continents that includes raw material suppliers, finished product manufacturers, and brand owners.
As the UK’s largest 3rd party Responsible Person and offering ISO 9001 and insurance backed regulatory services, we are ideally placed to support your cosmetics testing and compliance needs. We offer a seamless, integrated approach, resulting in products and services getting to market quickly, compliantly, and cost effectively, whilst still ensuring the highest standards of testing.
Our UKAS accredited laboratory (lab reference 4045) provides a range of microbiological and stability testing services including:
Microbiological Testing
• Challenge / Preservative Efficacy Testing (ISO 11930).
• VeganSure, a pioneering testing solution that replaces all animal-derived ingredients with plant based or synthetic alternatives, to assure the safety of a cosmetic product without compromising vegan ethics. Registered with The Vegan Society’s Trademark, it is performed in an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited testing laboratory with separate workflows to avoid cross-contamination.
• We also supply VeganSure dehydrated culture media (DCM) to companies that have in-house laboratories or microbiological testing laboratories. All VeganSure DCM products are validated against traditional media to ensure quality of results and meet the requirements of the UK and EU Cosmetic Regulations.
• Quality Control Testing (Microbial Limits).
Stability testing
• Factory Hygiene Audits.
• Claim Support Testing.
• User Trials.
Cosmetics Services
Quality Control (inc PAO)
According to the UK Cosmetic Regulation, the EU Cosmetic Regulation 1223/2009, GMP, and the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS), .....
Stability Testing
Every product placed on the UK or EU market must be stability tested under “reasonably foreseeable storage conditions” to establish .....
Preservative Efficacy Testing
The ‘Preservative Efficacy Test’ or ‘Challenge Test’ is a cornerstone of product safety and is a requirement for most products .....
Regulatory Services
As the UK’s largest 3rd party Responsible Person and offering ISO 9001 and insurance backed regulatory services, we are ideally .....
OurRelated Services
Biocides
At MSL Solution Providers, we offer an integrated regulatory and laboratory testing service.
VeganSure
Our innovative VeganSure® solution was a world first when it launched in 2019. This pioneering microbiological testing replaces standard culture media with plant-based or synthetic alternatives to assure the safety of a cosmetic product without compromising vegan ethics.
Textiles
In recent years, an increasing number of products in the textile industry have been developed with protective effects for health and hygiene. These antiviral textile products are fabrics, which can reduce the number of infective virus particles that can survive on its surface.
Cleanroom Validation
The FDA Guidance for Industry* and the United States Pharmacopeia** requires cleanroom operators to ensure that the disinfection regimen followed is validated. The test method ASTM E2614-15 “Evaluation of Cleanroom Disinfectants” describes a suite of tests and acceptance criteria which a disinfectant should meet.
Auditing
Auditing is essential for any environment where it is critical to maintain hygiene, for example, medical, pharmaceutical, veterinary, or catering settings and is a requirement for regulatory compliance.