Engineering of cosmetic formulation

Study of the entire development of a cosmetic product

• Definition of a cosmetic product
• Launch of the development, interactions of the development department with the marketing, industry and regulatory departments: needs, expectations, operation and procedures
• Study of all possible tests: sensory analysis, physicochemical stability, safety and sanitary security, efficiency.
• Study of the industrial transposition
• Study of the interactions with the packaging and the associated tests
• Description of the product information file or legal cosmetic file

Study of emulsions, definitions, characteristics and formulation

Study of the instability phenomena of emulsions and stabilization solutions

Practical part:

Formulation of water-in-oil, oil-in-water and gel-cream emulsions

Study of ingredients, chemical nature, physical behavior and formulation

Study of the formulation material

Implementation of sensory, physicochemical and stability tests.

Development of a formula in several steps with imposed constraints.

Critical analysis of the results obtained.

For the introduction to chemical engineering applied to the field of cosmetics, students will have to work on a case study that describes the laboratory scale production of a cosmetic product, and then find a way to produce it at a larger scale.

Hourly volumes* :

 CM :15

TP : 25

To position oneself as an executive in the cosmetics industry, acquire the scientific and technical fundamentals for formulation and introduce students to chemical engineering applied to the field of cosmetics.

The objectives are on the one hand:

Acquire the theoretical knowledge

• Cosmetic emulsion
• Development of a cosmetic product
• Tests associated with the development
• Enterprise services connected to formula development
• The industrial transposition

Acquire practical knowledge

• Techniques for formulating simple emulsions
• Formulation methods
• Respect for safety rules
• The development of emulsion with imposed technical constraints
• The autonomy of simple emulsion formulation
• The constraints of scaling up

And on the other hand :

• Scaling up a process from laboratory to pilot scale.
• Evaluate the influence of process conditions on process performance.
• Understand the physical meaning of a process parameter.
• Determine the parameters of a model from experimental data.
• Use a simple model to predict the rate of progress of a reaction, taking into account thermal effects.

Chemistry undergraduate level

Integral Continuous Control

The courses are taught by industrialists and teacher-researchers specialized in the field concerned.

Administrative contact(s):

Secretariat Master Chemistry

https://master-chimie.edu.umontpellier.fr/