Case Study: Photostability of Household Detergent Cleaner

With a Q-SUN Xe-3 xenon test chamber and outdoor behind-glass testing at Q-Lab Florida,a global leader in the consumer products industry conducted a set of tests on UV-inhibited and uninhibited detergent cleaners, to look for color changes. 

From their testing and analysis, the company was able to

• Determine that their uninhibited product’s color had unacceptably pronounced changes after only 2 days behind-glass outdoor exposure in Florida and only 3 days in Mexico
• Correlate this to an accelerated test of only 9.9 hours in the Q-SUN chamber
• Show that the inhibited products exhibited nearly three times this resistance to color change.

As a result of the testing, the customer was able to implement with confidence an accelerated test in their Q-SUN chamber, to improve both test turnaround time and repeatability.