Lab Skills: How to Stability Test in Your Home Lab

Whether you are making products for yourself or to sell, you want your products to remain in good condition for the duration of their shelf-life. You want them to look good, work properly and remain stable. You certainly don’t want a customer to buy a body lotion from you only to return it several weeks later because it has separated!

Putting your products through stability testing gives you confidence that your products will maintain their quality over time, and helps you identify and correct any problems at the formulation stage. It will also determine the shelf-life of your product.

If you are selling cosmetic products then those products will need to undergo stability testing. This can be conducted in professional laboratories, at quite a high cost. The good news is that stability testing can also be carried out successfully in your home lab, with the right equipment.

In this class, we’ll take you step by step through how to conduct stability tests in your home lab. We’ll cover:

1. Equipment needed.
2. Testing parameters.
3. Testing types.
4. Testing different product types.
5. Test control.
6. Test documentation.

By the end of the class, you’ll be able to confidently carry out a range of tests including accelerated aging test, freeze-thaw cycles, centrifuge testing and UV/light stability test, to give you confidence your products are stable and determine their shelf-life.

Not a member of the Club? Join now and use your first month's credits to access the Lab Skills: How to Stability Test in Your Home Lab class, plus another 25-credit class of your choice.

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