SNI can measure qualitative and quantitative parameters relating to aging, focusing on areas like: Skin firmness & elasticity, hyperpigmentation, wrinkles & fine lines and dark circles & eye puffiness.
Studies can help provide substantiation for a variety of cosmetic claims, including:
- Anti-wrinkle
- Reduces fine lines and/or wrinkles by X% over a period of X weeks
- Firming of the skin
- Anti-sebum / sebum control
- Improves skin elasticity
- Provides skin repair and protection
- Anti-dark spots / anti-aging spots
Efficacy Testing
Testing that is customizable yet based on established industry procedures in product research and development! Substantiate your label claims, ensuring your packaging and advertisements are compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Skin firmness / elasticity
- Hyperpigmentation
- Wrinkles / fine lines
- Dark circles / eye puffiness
Moisturization studies
Designs:
- Short-Term Moisturization (STM)
- Moisturization Efficacy Technique (customizable)
- Proves that your product provides moisturization and other benefits to the skin.
Claim substantiation for:
Instant or Deep Moisturizing, combats dehydration, moisturizes for up to ‘x’ hours, soothes and softens skin, improves skin’s natural barrier and much more
Instrumentation types:
Skicon (conductance), Corneometer (capacitance), Trans-epidermal Water Loss (TEWL), Tewameter® TM Hex, Sebumeter® SM 815, Cutometer®, Skin-pH-Meter PH 905 and more!
Skin Microbiome / Skin Barrier Disruption Studies
An in vivo method for evaluating the antibacterial substantivity or residual effectiveness of bar soaps and other personal cleansing products.
Skin Sampling Methods:
Cup Scrub and Buffer Technique, Tape Stripping (D-Squame, Leukoflex, Sellotape, and more), Swabbing, and much more!
Instrumentation Types:
Corneometer, Trans-epidermal Water Loss (TEWL), Tewameter® TM Hex and more!
Claim substantiation for:
Deep Moisturization, microbiome-friendly and more!
Safety and Sensitivity Testing
Provide consumers with confidence that your product is safe to use, while building brand recognition as a high-quality product in the marketplace.
Irritation Testing
- Acute Irritation (24-hour/ 48-hour patch local tolerance test to assess Primary Irritation)
- Cumulative Irritation (7-/14- and 21-Days)
Testing that is customizable yet based on established industry procedures in product research and development! Substantiate your label claims, ensuring your packaging and advertisements are compliant with regulatory requirements.
Safety Assessments for Cosmetics
Comedogenicity
Photosensitization and phototoxicity
Prove that your ingredients are safe for use in an in vivo situation when the product is exposed to UV light and allows you to make safety claims.
Claim Substantiation for: Non-Phototoxic, Non-Photosensitive
UVA, UVB and SPF testing for sunscreen products
SPF & UVB testing: Examine your ingredients within the regulatory measures for SPF in an in vivo situation allowing you to make an SPF claim on the packaging and in advertisements!
- Methods: COLIPA Method / ISO: 24444 Method – International, FDA Approved Method – USA / Canada, or Australian / New Zealand Approved Method
- Claim: SPF Rating
UVA testing: Examine your ingredients within the regulatory measures for UVA in an in vivo situation allowing you to make an UVA claim on the packaging and in advertisements!
- Method: COLIPA Method / ISO: 24443 Method – International
- Claim: UVA protection
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