Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics

The newly established Pharmaceutical Laboratory of ITI offers a range of pharmaceutical testing facilities for the requirements of the manufacturing industry, exporters, marketers, researchers, etc. We are equipped with modern high-end analytical equipment that supports us in delivering reliable and accurate testing for the active pharmaceutical ingredient in pharmaceutical products. Our high-caliber staff is ready to fulfill your pharmaceutical testing requirement conforming to international regulatory standards and specifications such as BP and USP. We also provide comprehensive and innovative cosmetics, personnel care, and consumer product testing services in an extensive capacity. In Sri Lanka, cosmetic products are subjected to regulatory control for their composition and quality. Our laboratory is a well-equipped independent testing laboratory and is accredited for more than 70 cosmetic test parameters.

Pharmaceutical Testing Services Offered

• Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) testing by HPLC/GC/UV-Visible methods
• Dissolution test
• Identification by FTIR / Raman Spectroscopy
• Friability
• Hardness
• Weight Variation, Uniformity of Weight, and Content Uniformity*
• Deliverable Volume
• Acidity or Alkalinity by pH / Titrimetry
• Chemical assays

Cosmetic Testing Services Offered

Creams and Lotions

• Thermal stability
• pH
• Non-volatile matter
• Water content
• Peroxide value
• SPF value
• Coloring matter
• Spreadability

Creams and Lotions for babies

• Thermal stability
• pH
• Nonvolatile matter
• Water content
• Peroxide value
• SPF value
• Coloring matter
• Spreadability

Hair creams

• Thermal stability
• Water content
• pH
• Total Non aqueous content
• Peroxide value
• SPF value
• Coloring matter
• Spreadability

Shaving creams

• Non volatile matter
• Water content
• Lather volume
• Free caustic alkali
• Thermal Stability

Shampoo

• Active synthetic anionic ingredient content
• pH
• Inorganic salts
• Coloring matter

Baby Shampoo

• Active synthetic anionic ingredient
• content
• pH
• Inorganic salts
• Coloring matter

Perfume

• Stability of smell
• Cloudiness
• Ethanol content
• pH (neat)

Colognes/ Baby colognes/ After shave

• Ethanol content
• pH
• Cloudiness

Hair Oil

• Peroxide value
• Acid value
• Stability
• Coloring matter
• Test for mineral oils

Baby oil

• Peroxide value
• Acid value
• Sulphur and sulphides
• Stability
• Coloring matter
• Test for mineral oils

Skin Powder

• Matter insoluble in boiling water
• Fineness
• Moisture & volatile matter
• pH

Baby Powder

• Matter insoluble in boiling water
• Fineness
• Moisture & volatile matter
• pH

Toilet Soap

• Total fatty matter including rosin
• acids
• Rosin acids content percent by
• mass of the total fatty matter
• Matter insoluble in ethanol
• Free caustic alkali as NaOH
• Total free alkali as NaOH
• Chlorides as NaCl

Bathing Bars

• pH
• Free caustic alkali (as NaOH)
• Mush (loss in mass due to mashing)
• Total fatty matter
• Synthetic surface active agent

Liquid toilet soap

• Total fatty matter
• Matter insoluble in ethanol
• Total free alkali (as NaOH)
• pH

Baby Soap

• Total fatty matter
• Freedom from rosin
• Matter insoluble in ethanol
• Free caustic alkali (as NaOH)
• Total free alkali (as NaOH)
• Chlorides (as NaCl)
• pH

Soft Soap

• Total fatty matter
• Matter insoluble in ethanol
• Free caustic alkali (as NaOH )
• Total free alkali (as NaOH )

Laundry soap

• Total fatty matter including rosin acids
• Matter insoluble in ethanol
• Free caustic alkali (as Na2O)
• Total free alkali (as NaOH )
• Total unsaponified matter
• Chlorides calculated as NaCl
• Synthetic surface active agents
• pH

Laundry soap powders, Flakes and chips

• Total fatty matter including rosin acids
• Matter insoluble in ethanol
• Free caustic alkali (as Na2O)
• Chlorides calculated as NaCl
• Moisture and volatile matter
• Total unsaponified matter

Toothpaste

• Moisture and volatile matter
• pH
• Fineness
• Total fluoride
• Abrasion
• Stability
• Extrusive content, Consistency , Cohesiveness,
• Tube/Sachet inertness

Face Wash / Hand Wash / Body Wash

• pH

Body scrub / Face scrub

• pH

Hair Dye

• pH
• Dye ingredients
• Active matter as PPD content

Hair Colour

• pH
• Active matter as PPD content
• Dye ingredient

Hair color developer

• pH
• Assay (as H2O2)
• Dye ingredient

Hair straighteners

• Thioglycolic acid
• pH

Hair Gel

• Thermal stability
• Water content
• pH
• Total Non aqueous content
• Peroxide Value

Liquid detergents for household use

• Active ingredient content
• pH
• Solubility
• Rinsing properties
• Total Non – detergent organic
• matter

Scouring Powders

• Volatile matter
• Surface active ingredients
• Free alkali as NaOH
• Mineral matter insoluble in water #
• Available chlorine
• Sieve test

Synthetic Laundry Detergent Powder

• Active ingredient content
• Total phosphates expressed as Sodium tripolyphosphate
• pH solution
• Matter insoluble in water content
• Non detergent organic matter content
• Available O2 content as sodium perborate

Oils (which are not food grade/ use as a raw material for cosmetic formulations / other herbal oils)

• Colour
• Refractive index
• Relative density
• Moisture & other matter volatile
• Free fatty acids
• Iodine value
• Saponification value
• Unsaponifiable matter
• Peroxide value
• Mineral acidity
• Insoluble impurities
• Soap content
• Fatty acid profile
• Test for mineral oil
• Total fatty matter

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