Skincatchcolor: Cutting-edge chemical equipment

Véronique Montero, head of the ICAP Cosmetics Engineering master's program in the Department of Chemistry at the Montpellier Faculty of Science, warmly thanks all her industrial partners.

Thanks to their trust and contributions, the company has been able to acquire devices for evaluating the effectiveness of cosmetic products, such as the Skincatchcolor from Delfin (world leader in portable skin research instruments).

This high-tech handheld probe can be used for a wide variety of applications, guaranteeing measurement quality and accuracy.

In this way, acollaborative educational project, using Delfin evaluation probeswas set up between students from the Master 1 ICAP Cosmétique program, Ms Manon BARRA, Director of the WAFE Care startup in Lansargues (Master ICAP graduate in 2015) and the HBF3M club chaired by Céline Allègre.

Collaboration on this project was a matter of course, thanks to the involvement of the M1 students and Laurène Baiget, an ICAP Master's student who is also a National 1 player for HBF3M, who mobilized her classmates, her coaches Manuela Ilie and Tiphaine Mennesson and the whole team!

The students were given the task of designing cosmetics for athletes and evaluating their effectiveness using Delfin probes. The students set up the test protocols, and thanks to the ease of use of the probes, measurements could be taken directly with the sportswomen at their training sites.

This project enabled the students to develop essential skills in the research and development of cosmetic products, and to become more competitive when entering the socio-economic world. The ICAP Cosmetics Engineering Chemistry Master's program regularly seeks collaborative projects and work placements with industrialists, to enable students to enhance their skills.