Last summer, a Korean skincare brand sent us an urgent request. Their retinol serum, packaged in standard PET bottles, was arriving at distributors in Southeast Asia with visible discoloration. The warehouse temperatures had exceeded 40 degrees Celsius for days, and the packaging offered no thermal barrier. The formulation itself was fine in testing, but the […]
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Last year, a U.S.-based indie skincare brand shipped a full production run of retinol cream to Amazon’s U.S. fulfillment centers. Customs and Border Protection flagged the entire shipment. The reason was not the formula. The packaging labels listed ingredients in alphabetical order instead of descending predominance, and the responsible person’s contact information was missing. The
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Last year, a French skincare brand sent us their full formulation list and asked a question we hear regularly: “Can you confirm your airless bottles contain no SVHCs above the threshold?” They had been working with a supplier who could not produce a single test report. Two months before their EU market launch, they had
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