Cosmetic Products – Quality and safety for your packaging materials
Packaging materials are primarily intended to protect cosmetic products. They have to be produced in a way to ensure that there is no migration of substances from the packaging material into the product, or the packaging has no negative influence on the product, respectively. The right choice of packaging materials for cosmetic products plays an important role when developing a new product, or changing the packaging material of an existing one.
Safety Report in Compliance with EU Cosmetic Regulation 1223/2009
With regards to safety reports required for EU Cosmetic Regulation 1223/2009, Annex I, explicitly calls for assessing packaging materials. The characteristics relevant for packaging materials, particularly purity and stability, as well as potential contaminations or traces of prohibited substances, need to be considered during the assessment. As there are no consistent and comprehensive standards for particular limit values, or groups of substances, etc., regulations from food packaging are often used for evaluation.
Quality Assurance – Neutral and Independent
Our WESSLING experts will advise you competently and in a targeted way on choosing the test parameters and perform the required analyses for your cosmetic product’s packaging material. In addition, we will support you in evaluating the test results. Needless to say that we can also supply you with the entire safety report needed for placing your product on the market.
WESSLING provides you with a network of efficient laboratories with a wide range of analyses. State-of-the-art measurement technology and efficient procedures ensure fast, on-schedule and economical delivery of results.
Our Range of Services:
→ Specific migration analyses, for instance on formaldehyde, bisphenol A, phthalates, heavy metals, BHT, acrylonitrile
→ Tests on olfactory/optical impairments of the cosmetic product induced by the packaging material (sensory test)
→ Tests on contaminants in packaging materials:
- Plasticisers, such as phthalates
- Bisphenol A
- Nonylphenols and nonylphenol ethoxylates
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
- Heavy metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium, antimony, nickel, mercury, etc.
→ Plastics-identification via infrared spectroscopy or pyrolysis GC/MS
→ Analyses of packaging materials made of paper and cardboard, , for instance on formaldehyde
→ Analyses of packaging materials made from recycled materials
→ Overall migration analyses
→ Extensive further specialised analyses on request
→ Consulting on choosing the relevant parameters for your cosmetic product’s individual characteristics (test plan development)
Your contact to our cosmetics experts
- Winfried Rämisch
- +49 6227 82 09-42
- cosmetics@wessling.de
„Our consulting and analytics are entirely orientated towards your needs. Based on our results, it is possible for you to make the optimal choice for the ideal packaging material for each of your cosmetic products.“
