Cosmetics & Personal Care | Monthly bulletin | May 2022

Designing the next generation of packaging 

Recent innovative packaging developments have predominantly revolved around different aspects of sustainability, such as recyclability, biodegradability, compostability, refillability, reusability and the use of biosourced materials or raw materials derived from renewable resources. Eurofins’ network of companies supports clients’ quality control and risk assessment management procedures in the design, reuse, and valourisation of packaging, from the resin stage to the final packaging and during the entire life cycle of the product:

• Regulatory and Safety Assessment: review documentation, check conformities, evaluate container-content interaction, develop a suitable analytical testing plan
• Analytical Testing:
  • Ensure performance: physical, stability and mechanical testing
  • Guarantee safety: analyses for toxic substances, food contact testing
  • Design for sustainability: plastics content measurement, end of life recovery, compostability
• Audit & Consulting: Evaluation of the supply chain: packaging manufacturers, packaging materials suppliers, support to identify and assess both recycling solutions and suppliers of recycled materials

Our experts and network of internationally accredited laboratories support beauty brands and packaging suppliers to help achieve and exceed their sustainability commitments and goals, such as improved recyclability and use of recycled materials.

Is your sunscreen free from benzene? 

One of the major challenges involved in launching a cosmetics product on the market is ensuring that your product meets regulations and is safe for the end user.

Eurofins Cosmetics & Personal Care offers the full suite of testing necessary to ensure that your product is compliant, high quality, safe and performant. With our extensive experience, Eurofins is pleased to offer benzene testing for your sunscreen products and can develop specific protocols to meet your needs at very low LOQ.

Please contact us today for all of your testing requirements.

A study to evaluate the impact of a cross-linked HA hydrogel injection on skin quality attributes

Eurofins Dermscan co-authored an article with La Jouvence and Allergan Aesthetics on the impact of a cross-linked HA hydrogel injection on skin quality attributes in healthy volunteers. The study was recently published in “Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology” (2022;15:411–426).

The cross-linked HA hydrogel was designed to correct superficial cutaneous depressions, such as fine lines, and for additional improvement in skin quality attributes such as hydration.

The goal of this exploratory study was to explore in a long-term clinical model the post-treatment changes to skin quality attributes, as well as histologic and gene expression changes.

The team at Eurofins Dermscan Poland performed participant recruitment, skin quality measurements, and biopsies.  Audrey Natalizio (Eurofins Dermscan Pharmascan) participated in clinical study management and data analysis. The findings of this study help to explain long-lasting skin quality changes following treatment. That is, the specific cross-linked HA hydrogel improves not only skin smoothness, but can also produce changes at the histologic and genomic levels (through interaction with the dermal/subdermal cells and tissues) that do not require the product to remain directly in the dermis over time.

Eurofins can help you get the most accurate and useful results thanks to a highly specialised team and dedicated laboratories fully equipped with high-tech instruments.