Safe & Sound
Our GLP accredited laboratory provides ground-breaking in vitro safety and efficacy tests for global cosmetics brands, chemical companies and ingredient manufacturers.
Animal Free In Vitro Testing Lab
Only XCellR8’s regulatory safety tests are entirely animal and animal-product free, allowing you to meet your regulatory requirements for establishing human safety whilst supporting growing consumer demand for vegan supply chains. With turnaround times from as little as 6 weeks, we are driven by a passionate commitment to rapid delivery and scientific excellence.
Our world class expertise and award-winning work has been recognised at a regulatory level by the OECD and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), and supported by top funding bodies such as Innovate UK and the European Horizon 2020 programme.
Get in touch today to find out how we are redefining testing.

VIEW OUR FULL PORTFOLIO
We’ve expanded the range of safety and efficacy tests we offer. See the full list and how we can help your 2022 testing programme in our brochure.
TRULY ANIMAL-FREE?
Many in vitro tests use animal components and so can’t be called truly animal-free. To provide more transparency on this issue, we’ve developed the Scale of Animal-free to help you assess the ethics of various test methods.
Latest news on animal-free testing

Ending Lethal Dose Animal Tests
Here at XCellR8, we are always looking for ways and campaigns to stop animal experiments – such as the Lethal Dose 50% test (LD50) – which are cruel, outdated and scientifically unreliable. Please support Animal Aid, in their quest to ask the government and industry...

United Nations Sustainability Development
This Throwback Thursday pic has got me thinking afresh about the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and I'm reflecting on progress - for me, for XCellR8, for our scientific community - since this was taken in New York in 2018, at an event at the UN...

Taking another look at mildness testing
At XCellR8, we’ve been on a mildness mission over the past few years, helping the industry understand the hows and whys of mildness testing. If you are new to the subject, or just need a refresher, we have pulled together the best of our mildness resources. ...


