Solutions / Cosmetics and personal care
COA checks for cosmetic and personal care brands
Keep raw material and finished batch COAs apart and checked against your own limits: microbial, lead and mercury, with a named decision you can add to your safety file.
Check One Cosmetic COA FreeStart With the Cosmetic Preset
Runs this preset on one COA. No account, and the file is deleted after 24 hours.
For Cosmetic Brands: Raw Material and Batch COAs, Kept Straight
1 / 5Records you must keep
- Raw material COAsOne shared driveScattered
- Finished batch COAsA tester’s email threadScattered
- MoCRA safety recordsYours to keepYour file
Records you must keep
Three document traps, and what the preset does
A micro panel that leaves one off
What goes wrongThe report shows aerobic count and E. coli and says nothing about P. aeruginosa.
What the preset doesEach named organism is required, and a missing one is a finding, not an assumed pass.
REQUIRED_TEST_MISSINGLead “not detected” at a high LOQ
What goes wrongLead reads not detected, with an LOQ of 25 ppm against a limit of 10 ppm.
What the preset doesThe finding is inconclusive and the lot goes to a person.
LOQ_NOT_SUFFICIENTA raw material COA on a finished batch
What goes wrongThe supplier’s certificate for an ingredient gets filed against a finished batch with a different lot number.
What the preset doesKeep them as separate products. When the claimed lot and the COA’s lot differ, the check says so.
LOT_MISMATCH
The preset: Cosmetic Microbial and Heavy Metal Starter
- ISO 17516 total aerobic count
- At most 1,000 CFU/g, or 100 CFU/g for the eye area, mucous membranes and children under 3. Yeast and mold are held to the same number when printed.
- ISO 17516 named organisms
- E. coli, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus and C. albicans must be reported absent.
- FDA recommended maximum
- Lead at most 10 ppm, the FDA guidance level for lip products and externally applied cosmetics.
- 21 CFR 700.13
- Mercury at most 1 ppm. Edit it if an eye-area product uses a mercury preservative under that rule.
- Your limits
- A starting point: no US rule sets these microbial numbers. Every value is editable, and each change is a new spec version.
What it does not do
- MoCRA asks the responsible person to hold records backing product safety. COA Proof does not substantiate safety and does not build that record for you; it keeps COAs, findings and named decisions you can add to your own file.
- Raw materials and finished batches are separate products you set up. COA Proof does not link an ingredient lot to the batches that used it.
- The microbial levels follow ISO 17516 as a starting point. Check them against your copy of the standard and your own risk assessment.
Check One Cosmetic COA FreeStart With the Cosmetic Preset
COA Proof checks documents against the limits you set. It never tests, certifies or approves a product, and it is not affiliated with FDA or Amazon. Examples on this page are fictional and are not customer results. This is not legal advice.