QUALITY ANALYSIS OF SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

Abstract

Cosmetic products are very popular and are designed to protect, cleanse and change the look of external parts of your body. The key ingredients used in preparation of most cosmetics include : preservatives, water, emulsifier, thickeners, colors, moisturizers and fragrances. Quality of the product plays a very important role for consumer as well as for the company. Quality does not only mean of the goodness of a final/finished product. However, in order to gain the desired quality of product, it is very important that the whole plan, starting from the purchase of the raw materials to the period where the final product reaches to the consumers.

In any company or organization, the quality function involves all departments and all groups of personnel. Basically Quality Control is a tool which allow to maintain the quality of the product at required level.

Following various features are taken into consideration before the launching of any cosmetic product such as : need of consumer, formulation research include: selection of good quality of raw materials and packaging components, to control packaging and manufacturing procedures, development of analysis procedures of finished product, methods for testing and safety studies knowledge is also required.

Quality analysis is an ongoing process. It is a comparison with a standard whether a cosmetic product comply to a given criteria like : operating standards, standards for packaging material, raw material specifications, production line check, etc.

Hence, in this report discuss about raw material used in skin care products and there chemical and packaging testing analysis of these products for quality assurance of these products.