Beauty & Cosmetics
Applications
Innovative Fiber Optic Solutions for Beauty & Cosmetics
Photonics has many applications in the beauty and cosmetics industry. By harnessing the power of light, photonics can provide safer, more effective, and non-invasive treatments for a range of beauty and skincare concerns.
Here are some topics in which our photonics expertise can help: skin analysis, caracterization of cosmetic products, fragrance, colour-measuring instrumentation, treatment efficiency, laser treatment, UV aging, retail control…
What sets us apart?
Non-invasive multi-photon microscopy can be used to analyse natural and synthetic skin’s structures (color, texture, pigmentation…).
Color rendering, color matching, formulation, reproducibility can all be measured by photonics-based spectroscopy solutions. Non-invasive spectroscopy makes it possible to do all measurements through a container.
Photonics and the use of optical microscopy and imaging can ensure colour consistency of a wide range of cosmetic products: lipstick, nail varnish, eye shadow, foundation, hair dyes, and packaging.
Raman spectroscopy, NIR reflectance and multimodal coupling custom fiber optic probes make it possible to caracterize fragrance’s raw materials.
Photonics-based spectroscopy systems can be used to analyze the effectiveness of a treatment. For moisturizing creams, it is possible to measure the skin hydratation by NIR reflectance. For sun creams, it is possible to measure the sun index or the effectiveness of the cream by absorbance measurements.
Tools to characterize the light used for different treatment (to brighten teeth, to kill bacteria, for hair removal, to stimulate collagen production, to improve skin texture… ) ensure the respect of light dose in conformity with regulations.
Light interaction (solar cabin for example) with hair, skin, cosmetics products can lead to UV aging. UV aging can be measured thanks to various spectroscopy techniques such as colorimetry, irradiance, absorbance, solar simulator, photoexcitation tunable source.
Adapt lighting in a retail control or a point of sale with colorimetry and irradiance measurements make it possible to better showcase products and save energy.
