Cosmetics products stability guide

Abstract

The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), through the General Management of Cosmetics, coordinated a special working group made up of technicians from the General Management itself, from the General Management of Public Health Laboratories, from the academic community, from the sector and professionals in the field to prepare the guide, with the aim of providing subsidies and guidelines for carrying out studies on the stability of cosmetic products. The stability study provides indications about the behavior of the product, in a certain period of time, in view of the environmental conditions to which it may be subjected, from manufacture to the end of validity. The information contained in the work, without the intention of exhausting the proposed theme, aims to suggest to the professionals guidelines for the investigation of the procedures involved in quality, related to the stability studies of cosmetic products, according to the needs of each company.