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Sample Management: Development, Retention and Stability Samples
When a complaint arrives in month nine, the only way to know whether the batch was made correctly is to test t…
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Articles in this category for beauty brand owners and cosmetics importers.
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Warehouse and Inventory Control at a Cosmetic Factory
A factory can have an excellent chemistry team and a weak warehouse, and the weakness will eventually surface …
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Line Changeover and Allergen Control in Cosmetic Manufacturing
Changeover is the point where two products meet. For most ranges it is an efficiency question. For anything ca…
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Powder Cosmetic Products: Blending, Filling and Dust Control
Powders are deceptively simple. There is no emulsion to break and no preservative system to fail, but segregat…
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Bulk Storage and Handling of Cosmetic Intermediates
The bulk stage is invisible to a brand until something goes wrong in it. Product that waits too long, in the w…
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From Pilot Batch to Production: Managing Cosmetic Scale-Up
A formula that behaves perfectly in a five kilogram bench batch can fail in a five hundred kilogram production…
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Nail Care Private Label: Polish, Gel and Treatments Have Different Rules
Nail care is one of the few cosmetic categories where the shipping classification is as important as the formu…
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Self-Tan and After-Sun Products: Formulation Notes for Private Label
One family relies on a reactive sugar that changes colour over hours, the other on soothing and rehydration. T…
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Beard Care Private Label: Oils, Balms and Wash Are Three Different Projects
Men's grooming is one of the easier categories for a new brand to enter, because the formulas are approachable…