Most skincare does not fail in the lab. It fails in a delivery van in July, on a bathroom shelf in month three, at a retailer's compliance desk, or in a review that says "it arrived as soup". Fixed GFE fee online; any external lab fee is quoted and approved by you before it is booked.
WHAT BREAKS SKINCARE
PACKAGES
Our fee covers the work in our lab, the study design, the booking, the samples and courier, and the report. Where a test runs at an external laboratory or clinical research organisation, you see its fee and approve it before anything is booked.
Will it survive shipping and the shelf?
Your whole brand, tested the way a retailer, a regulator and a competitor would.
External lab tests in the plan are quoted at the lab's price and booked only when you approve them.
Earn the claim before you print it.
Lab, panel and dermatologist fees are quoted separately and approved by you before booking.
INDIVIDUAL TESTS
Heat cycles to 50 °C and back, the way a parcel sits in a van or a mailbox. Grain, bloom, separation and leaks recorded with photos. Done in our lab, no lab fee.
Your product in your pack at 40 °C, room temperature and 4 °C for 12 weeks: weight loss, leaks, staining, odour and liner swelling. Done in our lab, no lab fee.
USP <51> or ISO 11930, five organisms over 28 days, for any product that contains water. Lab fee quoted before booking.
Repeat insult patch test on a volunteer panel under dermatologist supervision: the evidence behind a dermatologist-tested claim. Panel fee quoted before booking.
In vitro screening first, then in vivo SPF (ISO 24444) and the broad-spectrum test, plus water resistance if you want that claim. Lab fee quoted before booking.
A 2 to 4 week in-use study with a questionnaire, for claims like 'skin felt softer'. Panel fee quoted before booking.
Total aerobic count, yeast and mould and the specified pathogens on a finished batch. Lab fee quoted before booking.
Lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium on the finished product, the panel retailers ask for. Lab fee quoted before booking.
Typical timing: shipping simulation and microbial limits one to two weeks, a challenge test at least 28 days, HRIPT about six weeks, in vivo SPF six weeks or more, real-time stability 12 weeks. We confirm dates when the samples are booked.
CLAIMS
A claim on a label is a promise the FTC expects you to prove. Here is the evidence each one needs. "Dermatologist approved" is not on the list of things you can earn: no one approves cosmetics. "Dermatologist-tested" is, and it is the claim shoppers look for.
HOW IT WORKS
Pay the fixed fee online and answer a short brief: the product, the pack, the claims you want.
We send the test plan, how many units to ship (usually 6 to 12) and any lab fee for your approval.
Your samples go through our bench tests and, where approved, the partner labs. You get an update when each result lands.
Pass, watch or fail on each check, what it means, what to change, and the claim wording the evidence supports.
ADD-ONS
Same brand, same tests, 40% off each additional product.
Your samples go into the next test run and the report is written within 3 business days of the last result.
All results, COAs, the SDS and the label in one indexed PDF, the way a retailer's compliance team asks for it.
QUESTIONS
Yes. Most of our testing clients make their product themselves or with another manufacturer. We need the product in its final pack and the ingredient list; the full formula helps but is not required, and it stays confidential.
Internationally accredited cosmetics laboratories and clinical research organisations. HRIPT and consumer studies run with informed consent and the ethics approval the study needs.
Because it depends on your product: a water-free balm needs a different microbial plan from a cream, and an SPF study depends on the SPF you are aiming for. You see the exact lab fee and approve it before anything is booked; our fee does not change.
No. HRIPT supports "dermatologist-tested". No board or agency approves cosmetics, so "approved" is a claim you cannot prove. We give you the exact wording your report supports.
No. The FDA does not approve cosmetics. Testing is the evidence behind your safety and your claims, which MoCRA and the FTC expect you to have.
It depends on the retailer and the marketplace. Our guide to what Target, Whole Foods, Ulta, Amazon and Walmart ask tallow brands for lists the documents and tests buyers request.
Then it did its job before your customers did. The report says why and what to change; if we made the formula, we fix it. If you are a formulation client, the fix is part of your revisions.
NOT SURE WHICH TEST
We reply within one business day with the tests it needs and the lab fees.
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