Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

Waters technologies help cosmetic and personal care companies improve effectiveness of raw material, formulation, safety, and quality control testing. With Waters consumables, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and software, you can reduce analysis time, lower costs, improve data quality, and ensure compliance to thrive in the dynamic regulatory environment.

Waters technologies help cosmetic and personal care companies improve effectiveness of raw material, formulation, safety, and quality control testing. With Waters consumables, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and software, you can reduce analysis time, lower costs, improve data quality, and ensure compliance to thrive in the dynamic regulatory environment.

Closeup of lipsticks
Closeup of lipsticks

Overview

Cosmetics and personal care companies face fierce competition, requiring constant innovation in product development within tight deadlines. They struggle with expanding regulatory requirements, highly complex samples, and the ongoing threat of counterfeits.

Waters has always been a trusted partner offering innovative technologies designed to improve the effectiveness of raw material, formulation, safety, and quality control testing. Our industry-leading advancements in chromatography, mass spectrometry, and sample preparation products, columns, and software enable analysts to reduce analysis times, improve data quality, lower costs, and meet compliance requirements in an ever-changing regulatory environment. With Waters, your lab can drive product quality and innovation while protecting revenue, consumer health, and brand integrity.


Applications

Characterize every ingredient of your cosmetic and personal care products and ensure their safety with Waters wide range of technologies for screening, isolating, and quantifying raw materials and active ingredients, including complex botanicals and other naturally occurring compounds.

Characterize every ingredient of your cosmetic and personal care products and ensure their safety with Waters wide range of technologies for screening, isolating, and quantifying raw materials and active ingredients, including complex botanicals and other naturally occurring compounds.


Application Notes

Application Notes
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White Paper: Ensuring the Safety and Quality of Consumer Products with Advanced Analytical Technologies

This white paper highlights five different compound types commonly used in consumer products—biocides, disperse dyes, flame retardants, phthalates, and primary aromatic amines—and some of the analytical and regulatory challenges related to each. For each type of compound, a related application describes the use of novel liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry technologies to solve complex analyses.

This white paper highlights five different compound types commonly used in consumer products—biocides, disperse dyes, flame retardants, phthalates, and primary aromatic amines—and some of the analytical and regulatory challenges related to each. For each type of compound, a related application describes the use of novel liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry technologies to solve complex analyses.


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Solutions


With Waters systems, characterize complex cosmetic and personal care product samples in less time and with greater confidence.

With Waters systems, characterize complex cosmetic and personal care product samples in less time and with greater confidence.

The ease of reversed-phase meets the power of normal-phase

The ease of reversed-phase meets the power of normal-phase

Address routine and complex separations while varying mobile phase strength, pressure, and temperature for better control over analyte retention with the ACQUITY UPC2 System, and analyze structural analogs, isomers, and other challenging compound mixtures with ease.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing

Complex chromatography challenges, solved

Complex chromatography challenges, solved

Maximize the resolution and sensitivity of your methods and enhance the characterization of your samples with the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS System that lets you obtain narrow, ultra-efficient peaks and improve productivity to advance the science of your laboratory.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing
  • Quality Control
  • Safety and Regulatory Testing
  • Counterfeit Testing

Complete coverage for confident characterization

Complete coverage for confident characterization

Maximize sample information for your analytes from detailed characterization to accurate quantitation with the Xevo G3 QTof, which enables complete confidence in your cosmetics and personal care products analysis results.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing
  • Quality Control
  • Safety and Regulatory Testing
  • Counterfeit Testing

Separate beyond question with the power of mass detection

Separate beyond question with the power of mass detection

Easily generate robust, reliable and information-rich mass spectral data with the ACQUITY QDa II Mass Detector. A compact, stackable, and energy efficient mass detector that is complementary to optical detection.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing
  • Quality Control
  • Safety and Regulatory Testing
  • Counterfeit Testing

No compromise GC-MS

No compromise GC-MS

Whether you need to reach ultra-trace levels in complex samples for cosmetics and personal care products testing or perform a complete UPLC, UPC2 and GC screen, Waters APGC offers a softer ionization technique facilitating higher sensitivity MRM analysis than traditional GC-MS/MS.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing
  • Quality Control
  • Safety and Regulatory Testing
  • Counterfeit Testing

Designed for automated UV and/or MS-triggered purification

Designed for automated UV and/or MS-triggered purification

Automate sample handling, column switching, fraction collection, and tracking with Waters SFC Prep 150 AP System, our easy-to-use, open bed format preparative SFC system.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing
  • Quality Control
  • Safety and Regulatory Testing
  • Counterfeit Testing

Highly reliable, low complexity, accurate routine analysis for all

Highly reliable, low complexity, accurate routine analysis for all

Easily replicate and improve performance of existing LC methods without compromising data quality. Rugged and dependable, Arc HPLC System delivers performance and value for right-the-first-time analysis.

  • Raw Material Testing
  • Formulation Testing
  • Quality Control


The data speaks for itself

The data speaks for itself
Identification of UV peaks in the liquid sample of Goldenseal by m/z value Identification of UV peaks in the liquid sample of Goldenseal by m/z value.
Thermal desorption chromatograms for the target analyte list using MS/MS data. Each thermal chromatogram was processed using a simple smoothing function to provide consistent data over the acquisition range Thermal desorption chromatograms for the target analyte list using MS/MS data. Each thermal chromatogram was processed using a simple smoothing function to provide consistent data over the acquisition range.
TIC chromatograms of new and aged lipstick formulation samples and an MRM transition chromatogram of N-nitrosodibutylamine showing its  absence in the aged sample TIC chromatograms of new and aged lipstick formulation samples and an MRM transition chromatogram of N-nitrosodibutylamine showing its absence in the aged sample.
S-plot for counterfeit and authentic serum samples in ESI- mode. Markers selected in red have the greatest contribution to the variance between the fake serum and the authentic one S-plot for counterfeit and authentic serum samples in ESI- mode. Markers selected in red have the greatest contribution to the variance between the fake serum and the authentic one.

Webinars and Resources



  • Brochure

Analytical Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care

Analytical Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care
  • Brochure

Chromatography Data System Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

Chromatography Data System Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
  • Blog

Good Scent. Bad Reaction?

Good Scent. Bad Reaction?
  • Blog

Skin Lightening Products: Are They Cosmetics or Drugs?

Skin Lightening Products: Are They Cosmetics or Drugs?

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Enable accurate, rapid, and cost-effective identification and quantification ​of extractables, leachables, and NIAS contaminants with Waters E&L analytical solutions.

Learn more about Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Solutions.

Learn more about Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Solutions.

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