Cosmetics & CPG

Same formula, different batch? See every condition behind it.

For formulators, stability and claims teams, and R&D leaders in skin care, hair care, color cosmetics, fragrance and home care. Keep ingredients, process conditions, stability and claims results on one record, so every reformulation starts from what your lab already knows.

Formula recordMC-118 Moisturizing cream
O/W emulsion
Restricted

Preservative P-12 is no longer allowed in a target market. The flag lands on the ingredient record, not in someone's inbox.

14 formulas across skin and sun care use P-12, each with its full stability and claims history.

MC-118SR-204BL-031FC-090+10 more

12 weeks at 40 °C, same packaging, same method.

P-7Stable
P-9Separated wk 6
P-3Stable
Approved

MC-118 now uses P-7 in place of P-12. Every result travels with it:

StabilityMicroClaimsRegulatory check
One record from flag to filling lineIllustrative example
Conditions on every result
temperature, light, packaging and time point recorded with stability data
Faster reformulation
find every formula affected when an ingredient is restricted or discontinued
One record from bench to filling line
formula, testing, QC and regulatory checks together

Deployed by 200+ enterprise product development teams

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Lohmann logo with green abstract cross and tagline The Bonding Engineers in black text.
Dow company logo with white text on a red diamond-shaped background
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Beiersdorf
Clariant
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St Jude Logo
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Deployed by Enterprise R&D and Innovation Teams

In cosmetics, the process matters as much as the formula

Order of addition, homogenizer speed, phase temperatures, cooling rate and packaging can turn a pass into a fail on the same formula. When those details sit in a notebook and the stability data sits in a spreadsheet, two batches look comparable when they aren't. Uncountable keeps them on the same record as the formula and its results, so you can see what actually changed.

Same formulaMC-118 Moisturizing cream · O/W emulsionViscosity spec 11,000–13,000 cP
Lab
2 kg batch
12,100 cPPass
Pilot
200 kg batch
— cPTesting
9,200 cPFail
Production
2 t batch · new cooling window
— cPNot started
12,050 cPPass
75604530015304560 Time (min)°C Structure sets: 45–35 °C 4 min 18 min
LabPilotProduction
The question

Same formula, same ingredients. Why is the pilot batch thin?

The answer, on the record

The temperature trace is stored with each batch. At 200 kg the cream took 18 minutes to cool through 45–35 °C, where its structure sets. In the lab it took 4.

The fixCooling of at least 2 °C/min through 45–35 °C is now part of the recipe, not a note that only one chemist knows about.
The formula never changed. The process did. Because the process data sits with the result, the team finds the cause on the record instead of in another round of trial batches.

Illustrative example with demo data.

The workflow behind the formula

See every storage condition side by side, so the one that fails stands out before the product reaches a shelf.

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Every condition in one view: 25 °C, 40 °C and light exposure, in each pack, with viscosity and pH checked against the release spec at every time point.

Out-of-spec results flagged: Each value is checked against the spec as it's entered, so a viscosity drop at 12 weeks doesn't wait for someone to compare spreadsheets.

Observations next to the numbers: Appearance, color, odor and sample photos sit beside the measured values, so syneresis or yellowing is recorded with the condition that caused it.

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The cream held up in the airless pump and failed in the jar. That's a packaging decision, not a reformulation.
Stability results for one day cream stored at 25 °C, 40 °C and under light, in a glass jar and an airless pump, with viscosity and pH checked against spec at 0 to 12 weeks, appearance notes and sample photos. The glass jar at 40 °C fails viscosity at 12 weeks.
When a preservative is restricted or a supplier changes it, see every formula that uses it, and how each one has performed.

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Every formula, at every stage: Search by ingredient to list each formula that contains it, from concepts to products approved for production.

Know where to start: See each formula's level of the ingredient, its project and its latest stability result, so you can prioritize released products and spot the ones already struggling.

Build on what's been tested: Formulas that passed stability show what works with the ingredient. Failures show what to avoid when you reformulate.

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Start the reformulation from the formulas you've already tested, not a blank spreadsheet.
Every formula that uses the preservative phenoxyethanol, from creams and lotions to sunscreen and conditioner, with each one's workflow stage, project, phenoxyethanol level and latest stability result.
Set the targets your lotion has to hit, and get the next experiments to run, with predicted results you can check before you mix.

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Targets you set: Viscosity, stability and sensory goals, each with its own range and priority.

Suggestions from your own data: Models trained on your past formulations suggest emulsifier, thickener and active levels to try next, within the ranges you allow.

Predictions with uncertainty: Each suggestion shows its predicted result and how confident the model is, so you can choose between safe bets and exploring new ground.

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Every trial should tell you something the last one didn't.
Five suggested moisturizing lotion formulations with emulsifier, thickener and niacinamide levels, and predicted viscosity, stability and sensory scores with uncertainty against each target.
Track every production lot against its own history, and catch the one that drifts before it ships.

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Control charts on your QC data: Viscosity for every lot, plotted with its mean and 3-sigma limits and updated as results come in.

Rule violations flagged: Standard SQC run rules mark an out-of-control lot and list it, so it gets investigated instead of missed.

Traced back to the recipe: Each lot links to the formula version and process it was made with, so the investigation starts from the full record, not a batch number.

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One lot out of thirty, caught on the chart, not by a customer.
Control chart of day cream viscosity across 30 production lots with the mean and 3-sigma limits, with one lot flagged in red as a run rule violation.
See exactly where your rollout stands: what's done, what's next and who's leading each step.

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A phased plan with clear owners: Kickoff, configuration, data migration, testing, go-live and hypercare, each led by Uncountable, your team or both.

Configured to your lab: Test methods, specs, units and stability protocols set up the way your team already runs them.

Your history comes with you: Historical formulas, stability results and instrument files are migrated, so past work is searchable from day one.

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Configured to your lab, not the other way round.
Implementation plan for a skin care R&D team: kickoff, configuration and data migration complete, testing in progress, then go-live and hypercare, with who leads each phase.

What changes when your formula data is connected

Without Uncountable

With Uncountable

Process, stability conditions and packaging kept separately from results
Conditions recorded with every result
An ingredient restriction means re-screening from scratch
Start from every formula and test already run
Trials repeated to hit texture, stability and cost targets
DOE and ML focus the next round
Formulas named by initials and dates
Search by active, emulsifier, preservative or claim
Test requests chased by email
Requests, queue and results in one place
Customer partnership · Beiersdorf

Predictive formulation that builds on your formulators' expertise

Beiersdorf's Future Lab Applied Digitalization team works with Uncountable to develop its predictive formulation capabilities, built around the way its formulators already work rather than a generic digital model.

“Uncountable has been a highly valuable partner for us in the development of our predictive formulation capabilities.”
Thomas Schornstein, Lab Manager, Future Lab Applied Digitalization, Beiersdorf
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Built around your chemistry

One platform for every product your team develops, configured to the tests and claims each category depends on:

Skin care

Emulsions, serums and actives tracked against stability, texture and efficacy.

Hair care

Shampoos, conditioners and treatments tracked against viscosity, foam and performance.

Color cosmetics

Pigment dispersion, shade and wear linked to the formula and the process.

Fragrance

Fragrance oils and how they hold up in the base: color, odor and stability over time.

Sun care

UV filter systems with SPF, photostability and water-resistance results.

Home care

Detergents and cleaners tracked against cleaning performance and stability.

Oral care

Toothpastes and mouthwashes with rheology, flavor and stability data.

Testing & characterization

Instrument data preserved, not retyped from a report.

Stop rebuilding a product's history every time someone asks

A regulator, a retailer or the plant asks about a product, and the answers are scattered: the formula version in one file, stability results in another, claims evidence in an email thread, and the process notes from scale-up in someone's notebook.

Watch how cosmetics and CPG teams keep the formula, process settings, stability and sensory results, and claims evidence together on one record in Uncountable, so a reformulation, a retailer question or a batch that won't scale starts from what the team already knows.

Your formulations stay yours

Formulas, process settings and stability data are the know-how your products are built on. Your data stays isolated per customer, with access you control.

Built for your most sensitive IP

Full documentation, including the SOC 2 report and penetration-test summary, is available on request.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
AES-256 encryption at rest
Single sign-on (SSO)
Role-based access
Data isolated per customer
Full audit trails
Customer data not used to train shared models

Record the conditions, so teams can compare batches against them.

Process, stability and test conditions stay on the record with the formula and its results, so teams can compare batches against recorded conditions, in the lab or at scale.

FAQs

What does Uncountable do for cosmetics and CPG R&D?

Uncountable connects R&D, QC and PLM on one platform, with ELN and LIMS built in. Formulas, process conditions, stability and claims results are kept as structured records, formulators and test teams work in the same system, and every result is traceable from the bench through scale-up and production.

How does it capture process and stability conditions?

Order of addition, phase temperatures, mixing speed, cooling, packaging and storage conditions are recorded as structured fields on the same record as the formula and each result, so batches and time points can be compared like for like.

Can it reduce the number of trials?

Design of experiments and predictive machine learning, built on your own historical formulations, suggest which formulas to make next against your viscosity, stability, sensory and cost targets.

Can we bring in years of legacy data?

Yes. Historical formulas, stability results and instrument files are migrated during implementation, so past work is searchable from day one.

How does it help when an ingredient is restricted or discontinued?

Find every formula that uses the ingredient, see how each one performed, and screen alternatives under the same stability and packaging conditions, with the history kept on each formula's record.

Bring us your toughest formula

Start with a 30-minute intro call. Tell us where your formulas, test results and process data live today, and we'll show you how Uncountable would connect them.