Manufacturing is the core of our business, and accordingly our facility is equipped with modern manufacturing equipment capable of handling your small, medium or large-scale manufacturing requirements. Biocare's purpose-built, modern office, laboratory and manufacturing complex is located in the semi-rural Melbourne suburb of Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia.

Manufacturing capability Being a boutique manufacturer, we are highly versatile and have expanded into many diverse areas of cosmetic manufacturing including;

• Product formulation
• Manufacturing
• Filling Bulk, Tubes, Jars, Bottles, Pumps Packs including labelling & boxing
• Analysis and testing (physical and chemical)

• Our manufacturing facilities utilise state of the art, high-speed liquid filling equipment.
• These production lines were engineered and are maintained to maximise productivity, whilst maintaining outstanding quality and safety.
• Dedicated blending and compounding systems support these production lines.

• We can manufacture batches of product with full mixing capabilities.
• The minimum run size for filling jars, bottles or tubes is 2500 units.

• Biocare utilises the latest in scientific technology and the finest in natural source ingredients.
• Anti-oxidants, aromatic, herbal and marine extracts, plant derivatives, alpha hydroxy acids, are just a few of the ingredients we use to ensure fine quality and high performance.

• The filling capabilities at Biocare are diverse.
• We have the ability to fill your product into a wide variety of packaging, ranging from 2ml vials to 1 Tonne containers.
• Biocare's facilities include full range high speed to moderate speed custom filling and packaging equipment.
• We use modern stainless steel filling equipment in all of our filling operations to ensure consistent, high quality, reliable production of your product. Our company's human resources are skilled in supporting all volume ranges as well as unique packaging requirements.

• Due to their durability, ease of handling, simplicity and hygienic aspects, tubes have become a preferred packaging choice of many suppliers and consumers of cosmetics and personal care products.
• Biocare offers you reliable, high quality tube filling facilitated by our state-of-the-art automated tube filling system.
• We guarantee you rapid production with a first-class finish.
• We can fill tubes ranging in volume from 5mL to 250mL, with flip-top or screw top caps or heads.
• As part of the filling process, each tube can have a batch number and use-by date applied into the tube's seal for clear reference.
• The tubes may be low, medium or high-density plastic or laminates, which is often determined by the type of product that the tube is to be filled with.

• We are well equipped to fill and package all forms of containers, such as glass, aluminium or plastic in sizes ranging from 5mL to 1000mL with creams, lotions, balms, scrubs, gels and liquids.
• The product can be packed either hot or cold and containers can be labelled and have an ink-jet use-by date and batch code applied as required.
• We have an automated filling line for accurate, rapid processing of orders.
• Once filled and sealed, the containers are carefully packed into shipping cartons ready for delivery.

The public has the very reasonable expectation that cosmetics should be safe to use as directed on the label and as people would normally expect to use such products.

For many years the cosmetic companies and the suppliers of ingredients to the cosmetic industry had tested their products on animals and human volunteers to ensure that they were safe to use. However, campaigns by various animal rights groups have made it increasingly difficult for companies to conduct their own safety tests using laboratory animals.

Considerable sums of money have been spent by the cosmetic industry as a whole, and by individual cosmetic companies, in an attempt to establish alternative safety evaluation methods. However these have not been sufficiently reliable and accurate to entirely replace the use of animals and human volunteers. In particular Government agencies have not found them to be sufficient.

A more fruitful approach has been for the companies to collectively organise the testing of the individual ingredients and to publish the results for the benefit of all. The main testing programmes are the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) and the EEC Cosmetic Directives.