Expert Cosmetic Safety Assessor
Qualified cosmetic safety assessor, based in the UK and working for clients throughout Europe
Background
The Cosmetic Safety Assessor for Garrs Cosmetic Safety (GCS) is Geraldine Garrs. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 15 years before moving to the cosmetics industry in 2012.
Geraldine worked as a regulatory and laboratory scientist in a number of pharmaceutical companies before she began working as a regulatory scientist and technical support in the cosmetic and personal care regulatory sector.
Geraldine gained the additional knowledge and experience to become a qualified safety assessor for cosmetic products in the EU.
Garrs Cosmetic Safety provides Cosmetic Product Safety Reports to brand owners and cosmetic business owners throughout the UK and the EU.
Qualifications, Training and Experience of the Cosmetic Safety Assessor
Geraldine Garrs has experience assessing all kinds of ingredients including: botanical extracts, essential oils and perfumes, as well as all the standard and well-known cosmetic ingredients.
She has the required qualifications to enable her to provide compliant Cosmetic Product Safety Reports in both the UK and the EU. For instance, she became a Chartered Chemist with the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Pharmaceutical Scientist in 2005 and re-chartered in 2015 after working in the cosmetics sector. Further relevant training and qualifications include:
- Advanced course: ‘Safety Assessment of Cosmetics in the EU’ under Professor Vera Rogiers at VUB Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
- Masters Degree: MSc Chemical Technology and Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (equivalence with qualification in an EU-member country confirmed)
- First Degree: BSc (Hons) Chemistry, University of Nottingham (equivalence with qualification in an EU-member country confirmed)
- Course: Introduction to Microbiology
- Course: ‘Intermediate Toxicology – For Non Toxicologists’
- Regular training and assessment on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
Geraldine Garrs (centre) receiving Chartered Chemist certificate from Helen Pain, CEO of the RSC (left) and Professor Sabine Flitsch (right).
