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Quality Control

Quality First, Customers First

Colame prioritizes production of the products that meet the needs of the market, and ensures that the produced products achieve the consistent goal of safety.
Safe cosmetics is a very common and important issue. The production factory of Colame Cosmetics Co., Ltd. thoroughly implements qualitative and quantitative management of products. From selection and procurement of each raw material (including the supplies of customers) to batch production, each detail of the entire process must implement strict inspection. All the colleagues of Colame wholeheartedly put efforts on producing safe and reassuring products, and controlg the quality and quantity of products.

Quality First, Customers First

A Complete Quality System

A Complete Quality System

3-Stage Strict Guard of Quality Management

3-Stage Strict Guard of Quality Management
01Incoming Material Management 02Production Management 03Product Management

01Incoming Material Management

Raw Material Test

  • 1.JSCI Raw Material
  • 2.Chinese Herbs
  • 3.Criteria of Cosmetics' Raw Materials
  • 4.Specifications of manufacturers' Raw Materials
  • 5.Additionally Increased Test Items of the Factory

Test of Supplies

  • 1.Labeling Standard
  • 2.Tests of trial assembling and airtightness
  • 3.Special Physiochemical Condition Tolerance Test
  • 4.Special Chemical Residue Test

Upon receipt of a new kind of supplies and materials, Colame will formulate inspection procedure for each kind of supplies and materials according to the requirements of Maintenance Office or the criterion of the original manufacturer. Subsequently, strict sampling inspection and analysis are made according to Raw Material Specifications. Besides, raw materials are stored according to the suggested storage ways of the original manufacturer, making the active ingredients of raw materials achieve the safest and most effective control.

Incoming Material Management

Inspection and Test Equipment

  1. Moisture Meter

    Moisture meter is an instrument that can test the moisture content of different kinds of organic and inorganic solid and liquid samples.
    It helps us read the moisture content of solid raw material, and makes sure that the concentration of special raw material meet the requirements.

  2. Melting Point Apparatus

    Melting point apparatus is an instrument used to analyze the melting point of chemical substances.
    With the concept that the melting point of a pure substance is fixed, the apparatus is used to identify the condition of a raw material.

  3. pH Meter

    pH meter is an electronic instrument that measures the pH value of liquids and confirms the acidity and alkalinity of substances.
    After testing the acidity and alkalinity of a raw material or product, we can know the conition of the raw material or product.

  4. Abbe Refractometer

    Refractive index is one of the important physical constants of liquid substances. Through refractive index, we can know the purity, concentration and structure of substances. Abbe refractometer is most commonly used to test greasy raw materials since it can confirm the status of grease.
    Abbe refractometer is also one of the ways of identificatiion.

  5. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

    High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) can make stability and quantitative analysis of specific ingredients in any cosmeceuticals. Due to high accurracy of its test,
    HPLC or gas chromatography (GC) is currently is a necessary analysis equipment to be used in examining the applications of cosmeceuticals.

  6. High-temperature combustor

    High-temperature combustor is mainlty used to test the contents of moisture, ash and volatile matter in organic substances that contain carbon.
    Infrared furnace, a new combustor made by ceramic fiber material, has fast speed of temperature rise, and can reach a high temperature up to 1000°C maximum.

  7. Spectrophotometer

    Spectrophotometer can be used to identify and fix the amount of specific chemical compound that a pure or impure solution contains.
    It is a good helper in controlling the concentration of materials in the course of color cosmetics formulation.

  8. Conductivity Meter

    Conductivity meter can test the specific conductance of electrolytic solutions with different concentrations.
    To special raw materials or products, conductivity meter can be used to monitor their ion concentration.

  9. Vaccum Drying Chamber

    Vaccum drying chamber is especially designed for substances that are dry, sensitive to heat, can be decomposed easily and oxidized easily.
    It can be kept at a certain degree of vacuum, enabling the objects with complicated ingredients to be dried quickly, or the water content of raw materials be tested. It can also be applied to airtightness test of packaging material.

02Production Management

Production Management Operation(ERP System)

  • Manufacturing scheduling / Packaging Plan →
  • Issue of Batch Production Record

Production Operation

  • Manufacturing / Subpackaging / Packaging →
  • According to Batch Production Record, production technicians record and carry out inspection in the process .
  • On-line Quality Inspectors carry out sampling according to the requirements.

Colame draws up Formulation Operation Standard for each of the products, and carries out material feeding, manufacturing and production in the production process according to standardized parameters. According to the issued Batch Production Record, production technicians carry out inspection in the process. On-line Quality Inspectors carry out sampling of the semi-finished products and finished products so as to test and compare their qualities.

Product Management

Inspection and Test Equipment

  1. Hipot Tester

    How can we know whether the end of a tube is concealed well? Hipot tester is a critical tool.
    Hipot test, also called dielectric withstanding voltage (DWV) test, is a way to inspect whether there are flaws in tube products. This machine of our company has slow rise function, relatively giving protection to the inspectors.

  2. Electronic Scale

    4-Decimal-place analytical balance is a great helper to precise inspection and test by HPLC, etc.

  3. Torsion Test Machine

    Simply by personal feeling, it is not enough to check whether a cap is locked tightly, whether a tightly locked cap can be loosened, or whether a cap is too tightly locked for consumers to open. Torsion test machine has to be used to monitor the torsion. Each procedure is closely watched and ensured. This is how we expect for high quality.

03Product Management

Sampling, Inspection and Judgment

  • • O-line Quality Inspector
  • - Carry out sampling according to Sampling Operation Standard.
  • • Laboratory Quality Inspector
  • - Inspect according to various Operation Standards and Product Specifications.
  • • Quality Assurance Staff
  • - Determination of Final Release

Inspection Result

  • • Inspection Passed
  • - Product Labeling Passed
  • - Inspection Report Attached(COA)
  • • When abnormality is found in inspection
  • - Hold OOS survey.
  • - Fill out Non-Conforming Product Handling Form
  • - Product labeling is not passed.
  • - Start abnormality investigation
  • - Focusing on the reasons of abnormality,
    carry out corrective and preventive measures.

Colame cares about your product quality. Quality Inspectors carry out sampling of the produced semi-finished products and finished products so as to inspect and compare their qualities. They also carry out sampling of microorganisms of finished products to ensure safety of final products. As to cosmeceutical, according to the requirements indicated in laws, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is used to monitor the contents of medical ingredients. After production of finished products is completed, Quality Inspectors will examine, check and approve the Batch Production Record and Inspection Report, which are referential to final control before release of finished products.

Inspection and Test Equipment

  1. Magnetic Bearing Viscometer

    Adopt the advanced "non-contact magnetic bearing" and "torsion wire" techniques, without the traditional one's defects like sharp needle / erosion, wear and tear, tremendously enhancing accuracy. After fluid products have taken this test, the viscosity of products of each batch can be effectively monitored.

  2. Penetrometer

    Products with worse fluidity, or with higher viscosity and thicker nature have always been puzzling the cosmetics manufacturers when they are testing these products. Product quality can never rely on personal feelings. Penetrometer is the only key to solve the problem of viscosity test for this kind of products.

  3. pH Meter

    pH meter is a kind of electronic instrument that measures the pH value of liquids and confirming the acidity and alkalinity of substances.
    After testing the acidity and alkalinity of a raw material or product, we can know the conition of the raw material or product.

  4. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

    High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) can make stability and quantitative analysis of specific ingredients in any cosmeceuticals. Due to high accurracy of its test,
    HPLC or gas chromatography (GC) is currently is a necessary analysis equipment to be used in examining the applications of cosmeceuticals.

  5. Biosafety Cabinet (Sterile Console)

    To ensure the effectiveness of microorganism inspection,
    biosafety cabinet (sterile console) is especially installed. Our company will take samples of our produced products for testing in this biosafety cabinet (sterile console), ensuring safety for consumers.

  6. Constant Temperature Incubator

    Constant Temperature Incubator can create an environment that is suitable for growth of microorganisms, bacteria and cells.
    The last stage of microorganism inspection is cultivation, which can confirm whether there is any fear of microbial contamination. Since we care about this, much more time is required to ensure for you the safety of products.

  7. Retort Sterilizer

    Retort Sterilizer is a commonly seen microbial cultivation equipment in general laboratories. It is mainly used to carry out sterilization of the instruments that need to be sterilized in the laboratory. The greatest fear to cosmetics is microbial contamination. To detect microorganism,
    the first thing to do is to apply retort sterilizer to detect if there is any microorganism in the instrument, and then carry out sterilization.

  8. Conductivity Meter

    Conductivity meter can test the specific conductance of electrolytic solutions with different concentrations.
    To special raw materials or products, conductivity meter can be used to monitor their ion concentration.

6 Items of Close Inspection, Identification and Traceability

Staff
Staff
Supervisors regularly check the abilities and qualifications of the staff of each department so as to offer continuous internal education and training to improve the workforce quality.
Machines
Machines
Before use of testing instruments, the instruments have to be checked whether they are within the calibration period. They should take appropriateness test according to Machine Operation Standard so as to ensure the effectiveness of the detected values.
Materials
Materials
After each material is delivered to the factory, we will carry out sampling, inspection and determination, ensuring that its quality is acceptable and the material can be accepted. The company has 1,500~2,000 kinds of raw materials available for blending to make products exclusively for you.
Supplies
Supplies
Random sampling of raw materials is made for inspection of their appearance, product name, suitability of assembling, airtightness, etc. so as to test and determine the applicability of raw materials.
Semi-Finished Products
Semi-Finished Products
For the manufactured semi-finished products, On-line Quality Inspectors will carry out sampling and inspection according to the requirements. After manufacturing of the first batch of new products, special responsible staff will be appointed to regularly observe the samples and keep records so as to identify the stability of manufacturing quality.
Finished Products
Finished Products
On-line sampling of semi-finished products and finished products is not just followed by testing only. The samples will be sealed and kept as a reference for identification and tracing of the quality of final products.

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