Quality control (QC) is essential in the cosmetics industry to ensure the safety and standard of your products. By detecting microbial contamination, quality control protects the health of your consumers and maintains your product integrity. Because consistent quality not only creates trust, but also strengthens the reputation of your brand in a highly competitive market.

Conventional methods for determining the germ count take at least 4 days. With the CyStain™ VitalCount Cosmetics Kit, the result of a flow cytometric measurement is available after just one day. Recommended methods for the detection and counting of microorganisms in cosmetics are colony counting after direct plating or after filtration in combination with plating. Alternatively, microbial enrichment is carried out by means of a 24-hour pre-incubation with subsequent plate counting after a further incubation of several days. Instead of the second incubation on agar plates, the Sysmex Partec method can be used directly after the 24-hour pre-enrichment, flow cytometry, an established method for counting microorganisms, can be applied.