Insights to Improve Cosmetic Formulation, Processing, and Quality Control
Streamline product development from candidate selection to measuring sensory perception
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Optimize processing and storage conditions with key performance metrics

Measuring the viscosity and viscoelastic properties of your materials will help deliver insight to answer questions such as:

  • Is there enough elasticity so that the product does not separate, and the active ingredients remain suspended?
  • Is my active ingredient sufficiently and uniformly distributed throughout my product?
  • What is the best container or dispensing mechanism for my product?


Predict consumer perception and product behavior in relevant environments

Our wide range of environmental systems and accessories allows you to characterize solution stability and material behavior with simultaneous visual techniques (i.e. microscopy, Rheo-Raman, and SALS) or under extreme conditions, such as humidity and pressure environments.

Cosmetic labs frequently use the HR tribology accessory to measure the coefficient of friction, which correlates with tactile and sensory perception. The powder accessory is uniquely able to measure powder flowability and shear properties all in one accessory, providing a complete picture of powder behavior.


Differential Scanning Calorimeters (DSC) measure temperatures and heat flows associated with thermal transitions in a material. Common usage includes investigation, selection, comparison and end-use performance evaluation of materials in research, quality control and production applications. Properties measured by TA Instruments’ DSC techniques include glass transitions, “cold” crystallization, phase changes, melting, crystallization, product stability, cure / cure kinetics, and oxidative stability.

Temperature Range: -180°C to 725°C

Detectable Information: Glass transitions, melting, crystallization, phase changes, heat capacity, cure kinetics, oxidative induction time

The HR 20 is an exceptional multi-purpose rheometer that can handle everything from cutting-edge research and development laboratories to continuous deployment in production control environments. With optional linear Dynamic Mechanical Analysis and the widest range of easy-to-use accessories, the HR 20 is ready to handle any set of challenges, from complementing shear rheology to testing solids under tension, compression or bending.


Hybrid Rheometer accessories for cosmetic testing:

  • Advanced Peltier Plate
  • Concentric Cylinder
  • Tribology
  • Powder Accessory
  • Interfacial Rheology
  • Orthogonal Superposition (OSP)
  • Microscope (MMA)
  • Rheo-Raman

Detectable Information: viscosity, yield stress, thixotropy, curing, modulus (G’, G” G*), damping factor (tan delta), glass transitions, sub-ambient transitions, stress relaxation, creep-recovery




Technology

Save Time and Money by Expediting Candidate Selection


Define the relationship between formulation changes and their effect on product stability, sensory perception, and customer acceptance criteria with conclusive rheology and DSC measurements. Quantifying these properties allows you to build internal metrics, identify key performance criteria for successful products, and filter undesirable products early in the formulation stage before moving to expensive sensory panels.

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