Skin mildness webinar: we answer your questions
In September, we were delighted to partner with Personal Care magazine and our testing colleagues at Cutest, to share the results of our 2 year R&D project looking at a new, more accurate in vitro test for skin mildness. In the webinar broadcast, we explained: Why...
The essentials of essential oil testing
Essential oils are complex mixtures, often containing over 100 components including saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, alcohol, aldehydes, esters, ethers, ketones, oxides phenols and terpenes. This can make them a real headache in terms of safety assessment. Some...
Budgeting for 2020?
The schools have gone back, some people are already booking Christmas parties and for many of our clients in the cosmetics and chemicals industries, that can mean only one thing. You’ve been asked to pull together your budget for 2020. Don’t worry, the...
Should vegan makeup be vegan tested?
Is veganism just a passing fad? We’ve all heard about shoppers clamouring for Greggs’ vegan sausage rolls, whether they’re one of the UK’s estimated 600,000 vegans or not. There are plenty of signs that the trend is crossing over into cosmetics, but will it...
How to assure the ethical sourcing of human reagents
Altex thought starter paper on the ethics of using human reagents in OECD Test Guidelines for in vitro testing.