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.
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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.

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Develop formulations that consistently deliver the desired efficacy, performance, safety, texture, fragrance, appearance, and stability with Waters high-performance workflows. With the ability to ensure that the packaging protects the product’s attributes over time and under a broad range of environmental conditions, you enhance the effectiveness of your formulations laboratory.

Develop formulations that consistently deliver the desired efficacy, performance, safety, texture, fragrance, appearance, and stability with Waters high-performance workflows. With the ability to ensure that the packaging protects the product’s attributes over time and under a broad range of environmental conditions, you enhance the effectiveness of your formulations laboratory.

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Monitor your production quality with confidence and substantiate product quality using the appropriate reports with Waters user-friendly systems and software. With technologies robust enough to handle high-volume production at all of your facilities, from in-process monitoring to final product QC, you can ensure rigorous process controls to support accurate product claims.

Monitor your production quality with confidence and substantiate product quality using the appropriate reports with Waters user-friendly systems and software. With technologies robust enough to handle high-volume production at all of your facilities, from in-process monitoring to final product QC, you can ensure rigorous process controls to support accurate product claims.

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Protect your reputation as a quality brand by fulfilling ever-changing regulatory requirements with Waters comprehensive LC-MS workflows. With more stringent regulations requiring more testing, you increase in laboratory throughput, obtain vital data to support label claims, and detect a diverse range of compounds to keep you compliant.

Protect your reputation as a quality brand by fulfilling ever-changing regulatory requirements with Waters comprehensive LC-MS workflows. With more stringent regulations requiring more testing, you increase in laboratory throughput, obtain vital data to support label claims, and detect a diverse range of compounds to keep you compliant.

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Protect consumers by identifying counterfeit products quickly and confidently with Waters chromatography and mass spec systems, software, and chemistries. Overcome difficulties in comparing suspect samples to the authentic product and quickly provide a detailed analysis when necessary to compare components and determine if differences exist.

Protect consumers by identifying counterfeit products quickly and confidently with Waters chromatography and mass spec systems, software, and chemistries. Overcome difficulties in comparing suspect samples to the authentic product and quickly provide a detailed analysis when necessary to compare components and determine if differences exist.

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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
ACQUITY UPC2 System

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
ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS System

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
Xevo G3 QTof

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
ACQUITY QDa II Mass Detector

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
Waters Atmospheric Pressure Gas Chromatography (APGC)

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
SFC Prep 150 AP System

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
Arc HPLC System

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

Waters software streamlines data acquisition, processing, and reporting cosmetics and personal care products analysis results.

Waters software streamlines data acquisition, processing, and reporting cosmetics and personal care products analysis results.

Simplify data acquisition, processing, and reporting

Simplify data acquisition, processing, and reporting
Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS)

Capture, analyze, manage and report your analytical data with Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) and gain advanced laboratory data management to handle increasingly large volumes of data from a broad range of liquid and gas chromatography analytical techniques.

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

Delivering connected science for your lab evolution

Delivering connected science for your lab evolution
waters_connect Software Solutions

waters_connect is an informatics platform that helps analytical laboratories, their scientists, and extended teams to explore, discover, and push the boundaries of how laboratories use information, producing faster, and richer scientific and business outcomes.

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

Find the column you need for any separation

Find the column you need for any separation
Waters Chromatography Columns

With a wide range of selectivities to meet any separation challenge and strict manufacturing control, Waters columns can provide the assurance that the separation you develop today will perform the same in the years to come.

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

The solid-phase extraction solutions you need

The solid-phase extraction solutions you need
Oasis Sample Extraction Products

For solid-phase extraction sample preparation, Oasis HLB is a go-to generic SPE sorbent for cleanup of acidic, basic, and neutral analytes and removes many common interferences that cause ion suppression during LC-MS, like phospholipids, fats, salts, and proteins. For more specificity in clean up, try Oasis mixed-mode ion exchangers with Oasis MCX, MAX, WCX, and WAX in the 2x4 method development kit containing all four sorbents.

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

Optimize productivity in your laboratory

Optimize productivity in your laboratory
Instrument Services

Maintain peak instrument performance, minimize downtime, address your cosmetics and personal care application challenges, and ensure your instruments are up to date with the Waters suite of instrument services.

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

Make science more accessible with Waters Capital

Make science more accessible with Waters Capital
Payment Solutions

Maximize your lab resources and minimize risk with payment options from Waters Capital, which includes innovative solutions to upgrade aging instruments, customized support, and flexible options to bundle your complete laboratory solution in one easy monthly payment – everything you need to advance your science.

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

Refresh outdated lab instruments and software

Refresh outdated lab instruments and software
FlexUP Technology Trade-In Program

With the Waters FlexUP Technology Trade-In Program, you can cost-effectively refresh your aging instruments from Waters or another manufacturer — so your lab can work with the latest technology for optimum productivity and security.

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

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

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Analytical Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care

Analytical Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care
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Chromatography Data System Solutions for Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

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

Good Scent. Bad Reaction?

Good Scent. Bad Reaction?
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Skin Lightening Products: Are They Cosmetics or Drugs?

Skin Lightening Products: Are They Cosmetics or Drugs?
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