Beauty & Personal Care

Intertek provides a comprehensive range of services for beauty and personal care products to ensure quality, safety, efficacy and regulatory compliance.

Whether you are a global manufacturer, an international brand, a retailer or an importer selling beauty and personal care products, product safety and quality are vital.

The beauty and personal care industry is driven by a constantly evolving regulatory landscape, the development of new technologies and consumer trends. Innovation is crucial to the successful development of new cosmetics products. However, with the use of new ingredients and materials, the industry is continually challenged to develop safe, effective and compliant products that meet the requirements of both legislation and consumers.

How can beauty and personal care brands ensure product quality, safety, and compliance with regulatory requirements?

As a personal care and beauty brands, you will need to ensure product quality, safety and compliance with regional and international regulations through data and insights from laboratory testing, safety assessments, efficacy studies, and regulatory reviews throughout the product lifecycle, from ingredient selection to finished product release.

Comprehensive test programmes help identify contaminants, determine ingredient safety and quality, and provide science-led data to demonstrate compliance with cosmetic regulations or Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.

By partnering with experienced scientists and regulatory experts, brands can accelerate product development, support marketing claims, reduce compliance risks, and bring high-quality beauty and personal care products to market with confidence.

How can Intertek help you to accelerate beauty and personal care product development?

Partnering with Intertek helps brands and producers to optimise the quality and safety of their products. Our scientists have more than 30 years of knowledge and experience supporting the beauty and personal care industry from research and development to new product notification, manufacturing and ongoing support.

How does Intertek support personal care product research and development?

We provide analytical support for formulators, quality control, and substrate/product interaction from our analytical laboratories. We also provide toxicological assessment from our network of toxicologists in the UK, France and North America. We can also support the due diligence of materials used in primary packaging.

How can Intertek support beauty product manufacturing and quality control?

We provide quality control testing and comprehensive GMP services to production sites to be ready for the implementation of the Cosmetic GMP and the EU Cosmetic Regulation. This includes gap analysis, training, consultancy, eLearning tools and self-evaluation. In addition, our scientific support services help with contamination investigations and product scale-up questions and challenges.

How does Intertek help boost quality and transparency across your supply chains?

Our global network of GMP auditors can perform third-party audits of the raw material and packaging suppliers with local experts. Inspection and testing of materials are performed on the spot before shipment to reduce risks and unnecessary costs.

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*Intertek does not provide consulting services for certification. Any consulting activities provided by Intertek are separate and independent from certification activities.