COSMETICS AND SKINCARE

The cosmetics industry continuously seeks to transform the way in which the sector performs, in order to produce safer, healthier products with enhanced performance through formulation modification and process optimisation.

Companies within the industry formulate, design, manufacture, and package an ever-increasing range of products.

At the same time, new ingredient restrictions and legislation present new challenges to be addressed through innovative solutions.

The below example list is not exhaustive. It provides a summarised representative sample of qualifying activities.

Examples of activities within the sector and its supply chains which present R&D Tax Credit opportunities include;

• Formulation modification for enhanced performance
• Ingredient restriction, substitution or design and development of new formulation constituent to achieve legislative compliance
• Formulation upscaling for commercial manufacture
• Formulation modifications to manipulate:
  • Fragrance
  • Absorption rates / Emollient properties
  • Application methodology
• Process modification to achieve manufacturing efficiencies
• Develop new or improved chemical product formulations
• Develop and test new or improved packaging and packaging equipment
• Generate prototypes and samples of new products for testing and validation
• Develop new or improved distribution methods
• Develop or upgrade technology and software used within the R&D process

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