Cosmetic Efficacy Testing & Product Validation

Validate and optimize your existing skin product formulations. By identifying new bioactivity and indications, we provide you with the scientific backing for novel marketing claims. You may find that your product has skincare benefits that you didn’t know existed.

Using our discovery platform Hexis Pro.X, we can help you validate and optimise your existing skin product formulations. By identifying new bioactivity and indications, we provide you with the scientific backing for novel marketing claims. You may find that your product has skincare benefits that you didn’t know existed.

GET VALUABLE NEW CLAIMS

Get Valuable New Claims for Your Skincare Product

Your existing skincare products may possess benefits that you don’t yet know about. If these benefits can be identified and validated, your skincare product will acquire new claims for marketing purposes, helping validate and expand your market share. Our proprietary technology provides new screening capabilities to assess the impact of product ingredients on the systems within skin. This method identifies skin benefits that standard research methods are likely to miss.

FIND HIDDEN VALUE

Find Hidden Value in Your Compound Database

Does your library of compounds contain potential active ingredients for skincare products? Our proprietary technology can identify them through screening. When a compound is found to have potentially beneficial interactions on skin, Hexis Lab validates this with appropriate laboratory assay testing.

NOVEL SKIN ASSAY SCREENING

Novel Skin Assay Screening Services for Your Products

We provide a number of bespoke screening services for your bioactive compounds and formulations:

  • Protection against UVA/UVB sun damage
  • Protection against pollutant toxicity
  • Free radical & oxidative stress
  • Protection against mitochondrial damage
  • Protection against irritative skin reaction
  • Melanin release
  • Fibroblast viability and metabolism

What you get from a Validation Programme

Client says: “I know the claim I want to make. I cannot prove it yet.” Hexis Lab sells: a Validation Programme. Testing is a scoped, priced programme, not an open-ended lab booking, and every project ends with a written technical report, not just a set of raw results.

Deliverables

  • Assay and screening results, generated independently of the ingredient source
  • Scientific interpretation of what the data shows, and what it does not
  • A technical report suitable for claims, retailer or regulatory review
  • A view on which new marketing claims the evidence supports

Good to know

  • Typical timeline: 8 to 16 weeks. Indie and emerging brands: usually the shorter end, one or two assays. Enterprise and global brands: multi-assay programmes run longer.
  • Investment is scoped to your specific ingredient or formulation, not a fixed rate card
  • Not sure this is the right starting point? The R&D Diagnostic is free and tells you before you commit to a paid programme

Book a free R&D diagnostic to scope a Validation Programme, or start a project if you already know what you need.

Choose your level of Validation

All three generate evidence in the same laboratory. The difference is scope: one claim or several, and how the final report needs to hold up.

Core Validation
Good for: proving one claim for internal decision making
  • One primary assay against your specific claim
  • An evidence summary for internal use
  • A clear go or no go read on the active
Most brands start here
Comparative Validation
Good for: benchmarking against a competitor or reference product
  • Multiple assays run in parallel
  • Benchmarked against a named competitor or reference product
  • A statistical comparison report
Claims-Ready Validation
Good for: claims, retailer or regulatory submission
  • A full assay panel appropriate to the claim
  • Independent cross validation where the claim requires it
  • A report formatted for regulatory, retailer or claims substantiation review

Not sure which level fits your claim? Book a free R&D diagnostic and we will tell you before you commit to a paid programme.

CLIENT

Leading fortune 500 skincare brand

CHALLENGE
Its next product range needed new ingredients and a formulation strategy to go with them, evidenced well enough to support a national launch.

PROGRAMME
Discovery Sprint, followed by a Validation Programme.

EVIDENCE
Dozens of novel ingredient combinations identified using our in silico discovery platform, HexisPro.X, then tested and validated in complex assays.

OUTCOME
New scientific data ready to carry sales, marketing and claim substantiation into launch.

CLIENT

High value
client

CHALLENGE
Replace ingredients with sustainable, 'green' alternatives without losing compatibility with formulations already on shelf.

PROGRAMME
Discovery Sprint, followed by a Validation Programme.

EVIDENCE
Over 30,000 materials screened using our HexisPro.X platform, narrowed to the 5 lead formulations tested and validated in bioassays.

OUTCOME
A performance matched green reformulation, and a new basis for patent applications.

CLIENT

Aspirational brand developer

CHALLENGE
Establish whether a natural, plant based ingredient was safe and had a genuine therapeutic benefit worth building a product around.

PROGRAMME
Validation Programme.

EVIDENCE
Critical active components identified and their biological activity mapped using our in silico platform, HexisPro.X.

OUTCOME
New claims and benefits the brand can put behind the product, with a sound evidential basis for clinical trials.

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