Having a great cosmetic product is all well and good, but there’s not point if you’re not storing it correctly. Without safe storage, your cosmetics and samples will become unfit for use, so keeping their quality high means knowing how to store them safely.
You’re in luck, because at Fillcon we’ve got a handle on all things cosmetics. In this article, we’ll discuss everything that makes up a safe-to-use cosmetic sample – from ensuring safety before storage, to how you should store them and how long they’ll last.
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Ensuring Sample Safety Before Storage
Before you think about how to safely store your cosmetic samples, you need to make sure they’ve been made and assembled under appropriate conditions.
First, your product needs to have been verified that it’s safe for use in its intended application. To do this, you’ll have to get a cosmetics product safety report (CPSR) from a qualified safety assessor.
Once your product has been deemed safe, you’ll need to manufacture it. This has to be done in a carefully controlled environment, and samples from each batch should be tested to check:
- Viscosity
- Composition
- Flow
- pH level
- Stability under different temperatures and conditions
After making the product, next comes the container. For cosmetics sampling, you will usually be choosing between sachets and bottles, depending on the nature of the product you’re supplying. We have state-of-the-art facilities, ensuring your cosmetics are packaged in an ideal environment.
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Using Quality Sampling Solutions
While you may be able to find alternatives, using a quality sampling solution can greatly increase the safety and longevity of your cosmetics. We offer some of the best sampling options out there, fulfilling orders of 10,000 sachets or more!
Cut down on your environmental impact with our bulk shipments and recyclable sachets while supplying quality samples that meet your every need, manufactured and assembled for efficiency and stability.
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How Long do Cosmetic Samples Last?
In ideal conditions, unopened cosmetics can have a shelf life of up to three years – sometimes even longer. Once opened, however, their longevity will drop. Some can still last up to a year, although cosmetics lasting for three months or less is not unheard of.
The duration of a product might be difficult for cosmetics with different use cases, too. Eye makeup, for example, needs to be considered more than other cosmetics like skin creams due to the sensitive nature of the area of application.
You also need to consider the possibility of contamination which will lead to the samples being spoiled prematurely. Without the proper storage, cosmetic samples may not last long at all, so ensuring they’re safely stored is an unmissable step.
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What Temperature is Best for Storing Cosmetics?
When it comes to the actual storage conditions of your cosmetics samples and products, the most important factor is temperature. Keeping the temperature at a controlled level, from 10°C to 21°C (room temperature), is a common practice known as “cold storage” which can ensure the longevity of your goods.
Why is temperature so important? Well, there are a number of reasons to keep temperatures in a controlled range:
- Preventing ingredients from separating
- Ensuring the quality and consistency of samples
- Stopping products from spoiling, which could be a potential health hazard
- Extending the shelf life of your products
For cosmetics samples, which typically have thinner packaging, less insulation, and a small capacity, the storage temperature is even more important; this is because they can more easily be affected by temperatures outside the standard range.
The exact temperatures that you need to store your cosmetics at may vary depending on the specific composition of your product, so finding the ideal conditions for your own product is the best first step to storing them safely. The container you use can also play a role in the overall shelf life of your cosmetics.
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How to Organise Your Cosmetics Storage
Keeping your storage space well-organised is a great way to stay on top of your cosmetics. It helps you to know what is going out of date when, and to cut down on wastage by prioritising the shipment of certain batches over others.
There are a few different ways you could consider organising your products.
Size
A great visual differentiator between different products, size can be quite a simple way to organise your stock of cosmetics. A more technical reason to group things by size is it means you can more easily set the ideal conditions for the specific volume of goods.
Product Type
Another classic way to organise stock is through the product type. Unless you’re rebranding something or trialling new packaging, generally the packaging you use will be consistent from batch to batch. This means that any products of the same type should be good to group together. Some other things to consider here are:
- Usage / area of application
- Colour of product packaging
- Specific product in question
Expiration Date
Supermarkets often store products on shelves with the ones that are going out of date at the front and the newer products at the back. This helps to cut down on wastage while making it easier to find and dispose of products that have gone out of date.
This same technique can be applied to your cosmetics storage systems, allowing you to send off the appropriate products first.
Special Considerations
Alongside these general organisational tips, there may be a few things to consider in special circumstances. For example, if you’re running a time-sensitive promotion or event, you might want to send off products packaged with the promotional materials before shipping other stock, even if it doesn’t align with the product’s age.
Whatever your considerations, you’ll first need high-quality packaging to put your cosmetics products and samples in. That’s where we come in.
Cosmetic Sampling Solutions from Fillcon
Planning your cosmetic sampling solution through manufacturing, filling, packaging, and storage is the best way to ensure the safety of your products – and your consumers. Pay careful attention to things like storage temperature, and make sure to use quality sachets and containers filled in a well-maintained environment.
At Fillcon, we bring you the best service for your cosmetic samples, filling top-quality sachets in an ideal environment. Ensure your cosmetics’ longevity by getting in touch, or read on with some related articles.
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