Evaluation / Inspection / Laboratory Equipment ： Research & Development ： NIHON KOLMAR CO., LTD.

Equipment used in evaluation tests

Skin measuring equipment: When developing a cosmetic product, it is also important to find out what effect the cosmetic product has on the skin. With this device, you can measure water content, elasticity, sebum content, pH, melanin content, shine, friction, etc. of skin.

Facial skin image analysis counseling system: This device can clearly capture the whole face and makes it possible to evaluate the skin conditions such as “skin brightness”, “spots / wrinkles”, “potential spots”, “pores”, etc. by analyzing the captured image.

Spectrophotometer: This device is to measure the color tone and shine of the skin. In skin care category, you can evaluate the skin brightness, and in makeup category, you can evaluate the familiarity with the skin and the shine of the skin over time.

3D skin analyzer: You can evaluate improvement on sagging and lift-up effect.

Ultrasound dermis visualizer: Condition of collagen, which is important for the skin elasticity, can be visualized.

High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC): We use a wide range of materials, and this HPLC greatly assists us to analyze, identify and fractionate active ingredients or functional ingredients contained in the materials. This device provides superior performance in various cases.

Thermal cycler for PCR: Thermal cycler for PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is useful for the cases when it is needed to specifically increase intravital gene sequences in minute amounts for genetic evaluations.

Biological safety cabinet: As we pursuit of truly-effective basic ingredients from various types of raw materials, we develop high-functional materials derived from microorganisms and research possibilities of materializing microbial-derived ingredients by operating in the aseptically-controlled safety cabinet.

Jar fermenter: Jar farmenter enables stable microbial culture by creating appropriate culture conditions.

Clean bench: While making various raw materials, it is becoming very important to evaluate the effectiveness and functionality of the raw materials. Under such circumstances, we have established an evaluation system using cultured cells and have confirmed various efficacy and functionality within a completely aseptic operation.

CO₂ incubator: Cultured cells used for efficacy evaluations require a culture environment as close to body environment as possible. The incubator creates an environment with increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and grows the cells on special culture media.

SPF analyzer: The device is for simplified measurement of ultraviolet protection effect.

Freeze dryer: Freeze dry technology has been widely used in the food industry for vegetables, fruits and health foods. This technique enables us to maintain the characteristics and conditions like color and odor of unstable ingredients such as vitamin C by drying them while they are frozen. By adding water, dried products return to its original state or the solubility can be improved. By exploiting the freeze dry technology, we can make an offer of a freshly-made essence simply mixed with the matching lotion just before use.

Particle counter: This device is to measure the particle size of emulsion/powder and their distribution pattern.

All-in-one fluorescence microscope: Various methods such as bright field, fluorescence or phase difference are available with this device. We use this device for evaluation and observation at a cellular level.

Multifunctional microplate reader: Measurement by light absorption, fluorescence, and luminescence are possible and it corresponds to the evaluation test that requires high accuracy and sensitivity.

Differential scanning calorimeter: It is possible to quickly determine the stability related to temperature by measuring the endothermic reaction or exothermic reaction due to the change of product condition while giving a constant amount of heat.