Cosmoprof 2025 March 20 - 22, 2025
Cosmetics like lipstick, nail polish, foundation, and eyeshadow are made from a variety of textured and wet surfaces, including measuring powders, creams, and liquids, that offer various levels of reflection. This creates a challenge for manufacturers who must measure and control cosmetic products and packaging for color consistency.
Measure and control the color of liquid, cream, powder cosmetics and packaging
Evaluating cosmetic color is challenging, especially for products that stay wet for hours, cause permanent stains, or change color as they dry. Lipsticks retain moisture, risking contamination, while powder foundations can stain devices. Pigment changes and glass slides cause flawed measurements and waste.
How Can X-Rite Pantone Help Cosmetic Manufacturers?
An X-Rite digital color management ecosystem enables cosmetic manufacturers to:
- Measure powder cosmetics without contact, preventing contamination and allowing for precise color specifications across all products.
- Leverage actionable data to implement critical process enhancements, minimizing human error and reducing waste from rejects and rework.
- Digitally communicate accurate global tolerances to achieve color harmony among locations and suppliers, fostering consistent quality control across production sites.
- Formulate precise colorant recipes while delivering accurate readings for both wet and dry textures, maximizing your production investments.
Also, ensuring accurate color in packaging is crucial for brand trust and product value, especially in the cosmetic industry where color precision can be challenging. By digitizing and optimizing color management, X-Rite Pantone enables printers to maintain color accuracy across materials.
Through advanced software solutions, X-Rite Pantone enhances operational efficiency, streamlines workflows, and increases productivity. Manufacturers and printers can achieve their sustainability goals in every stage of the product lifecycle, from design to production, as we lead the way in creating more efficient and eco-friendly packaging and content.
Featured Solutions for Color Formulation:
- Ci7800 Benchtop Spectrophotometer: Seamlessly communicate and coordinate color-critical values and specifications to ensure color integrity.
- Color iMatch Software: Provide optimal initial color matches and reduce wasteful formulation attempts.
Featured Solutions for Quality Control:
- MetaVue VS3200 Non-Contact Benchtop Spectrophotometer: Measure wet and dry creams, liquids, and lotions against a standard with this non-contact benchtop to ensure a color quality audit trail.
- MA-5 QC Multi-Angle Handheld Spectrophotometer: Precisely measure metallic colors and special effect pigments found in lipstick and nail polish.
- Color iQC Software: Align expectations and monitor color accuracy throughout production processes to provide an audit trail for continuous improvement.
- Ci64 Handheld Spectrophotometer: Collect accurate color data and control color quality across the development and manufacturing process.
- MA-T12 Multi-Angle Handheld Spectrophotometer: With 12 angles of measurement, enable complete characterization of today's extreme effect materials.
Featured solution for Color Evaluation:
- Judge LED Light Booth: fast, reliable color evaluation with 7 customizable light sources, stable chromaticity, and convenient accessories.
Featured Solutions for Cosmetic Products Packaging:
- PantoneLIVE Design: Specify and communicate color standards and know what is achievable on a given substrate before going to print to ensure accurate and repeatable color.
- eXact 2: Measure the color of ink and paper before, during, and after print production to ensure health and beauty packaging color stays on target.
- Autura™ Ink Software: Accelerate your ink development with Autura Ink, a comprehensive ink formulation and quality control solution for ink suppliers, printers, and converters.
- ColorCert Scorecard Server: Bring brands and packaging converters together to share and analyze color and print quality consistency.
Learn more about our industry solutions for the cosmetics industry.
Discover more resources for your cosmetics color management:
- How to measure cosmetics with the MetaVue VS3200
- What Spectrophotometer Type Is Best For Your cosmetic color workflow?
- Why Use Daylight in Your Light Booth
Book a demo session with one of our color experts at Cosmoprof 2025!
