Experience
Star Colour Laboratories has an experienced work force who are working in a safe working environment. Many of the key staff have well over 10 years cosmetic manufacturing experience.
Wide scope of manufacturing
UK based development and manufacturing of innovative colour cosmetics, toiletries and skincare/personal care that are tailored to our customers specific requirements and safety/regulatory guidelines including the cosmetic safety directive.
Accredited
Star Colour Laboratories are proud to be working to the ISO 9001:2000 and UN22716, GMP standards, giving our customer confidence in the company as a whole.
Star Colour Laboratories is a Sedex member.
Customer service
An experienced team with exceptional knowledge of the industry, being customer oriented and willing to help to enable us to fulfil our customers needs and requirements. We offer step by step guidance on any development you require.
What we can offer
New Product Development Manufacturing of bulk products Flexible tailored filling and packing Flexible volumes Advice on sourcing of packaging Compliance with European legislation requirements. We can manufacture to natural, organic, vegan and Halal standards using responsibly sourced raw materials. Quality Control to GMP standards. Star Colour Laboratories do not test and are against testing on animals.
Some of types of products we can offer
Colour Cosmetic
Mascaras
Liquid eye liners
Lip Sticks
Lip glosses
Lip balms
Concealer
BB & CC Creams
Foundations
Primers
Pressed powders
Loose powders
Bronzing products
Skin Care & Toiletries
Day Creams
Night Creams
Serums
Eye Cream/Serums
Cleansing Balms
Face Masks
Hair styling
Tanning and bronzing
Shave products
Post shave products
Mother & Baby Products
Bath & Body
Body scrub
Body lotions
Body butters
Body washes
Spa products
Shower gels
Bath foam
Liquid soaps
Fragrances
EDP
EDT
Body sprays
Colognes
Body Sprays
Solid Scents
We can customise our countless off the shelf formulas to your requirments.
What we can do for you
We have a wide scope of services to make sure your project is delivered on time an within your budget.
Manufacturing
Experienced efficient manufacturing team work in a specially designed environment, manufacturing to the highest quality, with a professional eye for detail. Investment has been made in a range of vessel sizes and water system which enables the manufacturing team to manufacture various formulation types to exact formulation specification, and is of consistently high quality with full traceability across the manufacturing process.
Filling Capability
Our wide filling capability enables us to offer our customers
Hot Filling
Cold Filling
Powder Pressing
Pressure Filling
Lip Stick Filling
Tube Filling
We also offer labelling and batch coding, our skilled work force has experience in filling, assembling, pack-off off a vast variety of componentry, bottles, tubes, jars, airless pumps and various colour cosmetic components, giving quality and flexibility in both short and long runs.
Personalised Pack-off
Our close attention to detail ensures a professional and efficient packing service to the highest of standards. Contract packing services can be offered independently for any skin care manufacturing requirements.
Material Sourcing
All the raw materials we use are sourced with great care and consideration to ensure that the products we manufacture are of a consistently high standard. Taking care to source materials that are not damaging the environment.
Product Development
We aim to work with you to understand your particular requirements and specifications to ensure that the formulations are innovative and effective, creating cutting edge formulations even to the most demanding of specifications.
Here are some of the products we can develop for you.
• Skincare
• Colour Cosmetic’s
• Bath & Body Toiletries
• Haircare & Styling
• Men’s Grooming
• Sun care
• Fragrance
Development is forever evolving being kept up to date with new innovation in the raw materials, global trends side is paramount in producing inspiring ‘blue sky’ formulations.
Colour cosmetics ‘blue sky’ or matching trends is very trend lead, and is something that we are happy to advise on. Star Colour Laboratories is proactive at researching and developing with new raw materials.
Star Colour Laboratories has the expertise to develop formulations or product lines specific to your requirement.
Our passion is to deliver quality products from concept to shelf.
Other services
Testing
Microbiological testing/challenge testing and safety assessments are conducted by third party accredited testing facilities to ensure independent certification of the final product. Stability and compatibility testing is conducted in house over a twelve week period.
Quality Control
We closely control, monitor and inspect all incoming and outgoing materials including raw materials, components and finished goods.
In addition, our experienced in-house Quality Assurance team ensure that all products during manufacture, while being run on the lines and during pack off meet the relevant specifications and customer requirements before leaving our site. Working to GMP guidelines ensures every stage meets the high quality standard required.
Regulatory Technical Support
We ensure compliance with all the relevant regulatory requirements such as the European Directive and REACH. Our services include advice on labelling/packaging requirements (e.g Ingredients Listings & Period After Opening). Compilation of the Product Information File (PIF). Coordination of all microbiologocal testing, challenge testing and safety assessments.
Our Accreditation
We are proud to announce that we are now certified as ISO 9001:2008 compliant, the most widely used and internationally -recognised framework for good business management covering the key area of ‘Quality Management’. This ISO 9001:2008 compliancy demonstrates that Star Colour Laboratories has policies, processes and procedures in place to better meet ‘Quality Management and Customer’ requirements.
To become certified as ISO 9001:2008 compliant, Star Colour Laboratories underwent an extensive process of review and improvement to establish our procedures document and quality manual. This process included setting measurable objectives and incorporating corrective and preventative actions and methods of monitoring customer satisfaction. All members of staff where trained on the new or updated procedures and key staff are part of the review and improvements steps. Finally, an extensive audit was carried out to enable our certification.
Compliance with ISO 9001:2008 recognises that Star Colour Laboratories policies, practices and procedures are of a consistent quality in the services we provide to our customers. With this certification, our customers can be confident that Star Colour Laboratories is dedicated to maintaining the highest efficiency and responsiveness in achieving our ultimate goal – guaranteed customer satisfaction.
To maintain our certification, Star Colour Laboratories will have an annual AJA Registrars Audit to ensure our policies and practices continue to meet the standard. As a result, customers can be confident that Star Colour Laboratories will provide them with the same high quality services well into the future.
Kirsty Simmons, Senior Manager at Star Colour laboratories explains, “We believe that our decision to seek ISO 9001 Certification shows our commitment to providing customers with a service that they can be assured is of the highest quality.


What our customers are saying
Don’t just take it from us, let our customers do the talking.
They have provided us with reliable service and great pricing. I would highly recommend them”.
Company Structure
It always hard knowing who to talk to at a new company so hopefully this will help. We pride ourselves on being approachable and knowledgeable of our customers needs.

Kirsty Simmons
Senior Manager/Product Development

José Abreu
Company Manager/Customer Services/Sales Administrator

Claire Taverner
Accounts/HR/Customer Services

Adrian Mellor
Technical advisor