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New Animal-Free Test for Skin Mildness

XCellR8’s test uses an adaptation of a regulatory skin irritation test.

XCellR8, a safety and efficacy testing lab that has made its tests entirely animal-product free, has unveiled its latest model for predicting mildness to skin. The new test uses cutting edge cell culture techniques to detect subtle differences in even the mildest of products or ingredients, providing a classification of Non-Irritant, Very Mild, Moderate to Mild, Moderate or Strong/Severe.   In a two-year project funded by Innovate UK, the new in vitromildness test was validated against human v...

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