Determination of organic colorants in cosmetic products by high-performance liquid chromatography

Summary High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV-vis detection was used for the determination of organic colorants in cosmetic products. 126 colorants were characterized by their retention times in an ion-pair reversed-phase HPLC system with gradient elution, and by their UV-vis spectra, recorded with a diode array detector (DAD). The method is rapid and efficient, as is demonstrated by the analysis of 45 cosmetic samples.     

Solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry determination of fragrance allergens in baby bathwater

A method based on solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been optimized for the determination of fragrance allergens in water samples. This is the first study devoted to this family of cosmetic ingredients performed by SPME. The influence of parameters such as fibre coating, extraction and desorption temperatures, salting-out effect and sampling mode on the extraction efficiency has been studied by means of a mixed-level factorial design, which allowed the study of the main effects as well as two-factor interactions. Excluding desorption temperature, the other parameters were, in general, very important for the achievement of high response. The final procedure was based on headspace sampling at 100 °C, using polydimethylsiloxane/divinylbenzene fibres. The method showed good linearity and precision for all compounds, with detection limits ranging from 0.001 to 0.3 ng mL⁻¹. Reliability was demonstrated through the evaluation of the recoveries in different real water samples, including baby bathwater and swimming pool water. The absence of matrix effects allowed the use of external standard calibration to quantify the target compounds in the samples. The proposed procedure was applied to the determination of allergens in several real samples. All the target compounds were found in the samples, and, in some cases, at quite high concentrations. The presence and the levels of these chemicals in baby bathwater should be a matter of concern. Baby exposure to fragrance allergens and other cosmetic ingredients through the daily bath     

国内化妆品中铅的检测方法

对化妆品中微量元素铅的含量的检测方法进行综合评述。     

化妆品中乙醇胺类的GC-MS分析

乙醇胺类物质主要作为化妆品中的保湿剂或与月桂酸等反应作为化妆品中的乳化剂和分散剂使用,主要包括一乙醇胺、二乙醇胺、三乙醇胺等.     

氢化物发生-原子荧光光谱法测定化妆品中的铅

本文介绍了氢化物发生－原子荧光光谱法对化妆品中铅含量的定量分析方法,并研究拟定了原子荧光光谱法测定铅的分析条件,本方法回收率为96.0%－101.5%,检出限为0.18ng/mL,精密度（RSD）为0.90%-0.94%,准确性好,可用于测定化妆品中铅的含量。     

Fast screening of terpenes in fragrance-free cosmetics by fluorescence quenching on a fluorescein–bovine serum albumin probe confined in a drop

A headspace single drop microextraction procedure is proposed for terpene screening in fragrance-free cosmetics. The drop is composed by an aqueous solution of a fluorescence probe formed by bovine serum albumin and fluorescein. Extracted volatile terpenes produce a fluorescence quenching that can be monitored by microvolume-fluorospectrometry. This quenching is observed on the fluorescein fluorescence only when it is linked to bovine serum albumin. A mechanism of contact quenching is proposed. Variables related to the terpene microextraction procedure were carefully studied, namely drop composition and volume, microextraction time, sample volume and temperature, stirring rate and salt addition. The only sample treatment is the dilution of cosmetic with 40% (v/v) ethanol. Citronellol was selected as a representative terpene for calibration purposes. According to the European legislation, the probability-concentration graph of the screening system was established using 0.001% (w/w) as the cut-off level. Low limits of detection with simple instrumentation, absence of matrix effects and high sample throughput can be emphasized.     

原子荧光光谱法同时测定化妆品中砷和汞

研究了原子荧光光度法同时测定化妆品中的砷和汞，并试验了硼氢化钠浓度、共存离子的影响，优化了仪器条件。方法回收率分别在：As88．7％-101．0％、Hg97．0％-107．2％之间，砷和汞的检出限分别为0．026μg／L和0．020μg／L；线性范围为As0．5—100μg／L、Hg0.5—70μg／L；RSD(n=6)As1．4％、Hg2．5％。方法具有操作简便、快速、灵敏度高等优点，可用于化妆品中As、Hg的测定。     

Separation and determination of polyethylene glycol fatty acid esters in cosmetics by a reversed-phase HPLC/ELSD

A comprehensive analytical method was established for the separation of polyethylene glycol (PEG) stearates according to the distribution of ethylene oxide (EO) and subsequent determination of the surfactants in cosmetic samples by using a high-performance liquid chromatography–evaporative light scattering detection. Separation of the PEG stearates comprising approximately up to 82 EO adducts was performed on a reversed-phase YMC-Pack C₈ column using water–acetonitrile gradient elution. The PEG oligomers were separated in order of the increasing number of EO adducts. Quantitation of the PEG fatty acid esters, which was separated as single peak per each component, was performed by chromatography on a reversed-phase Wakosil 10 C₁₈ column using water–methanol gradient elution. The standard curve to quantify the PEG stearates was constructed by the log–log plot, which showed good linearity with the correlation coefficients (R²) 0.998 and more. Working range, repeatability, limit of detection and recovery were acceptable for analysis of the surfactants in cosmetic products. The analytical methods were applied to characterize the PEG stearates according to the EO distributions, then to quantify the surfactants in cosmetic products.     

Ecotoxicological modelling of cosmetics for aquatic organisms: A QSTR approach

In this study, externally validated quantitative structure–toxicity relationship (QSTR) models were developed for toxicity of cosmetic ingredients on three different ecotoxicologically relevant organisms, namely Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, Daphnia magna and Pimephales promelas following the OECD guidelines. The final models were developed by partial least squares (PLS) regression technique, which is more robust than multiple linear regression. The obtained model for P. subcapitata shows that molecular size and complexity have significant impacts on the toxicity of cosmetics. In case of P. promelas and D. magna, we found that the largest contribution to the toxicity was shown by hydrophobicity and van der Waals surface area, respectively. All models were validated using both internal and test compounds employing multiple strategies. For each QSTR model, applicability domain studies were also performed using the “Distance to Model in X-space” method. A comparison was made with the ECOSAR predictions in order to prove the good predictive performances of our developed models. Finally, individual models were applied to predict toxicity for an external set of 596 personal care products having no experimental data for at least one of the endpoints, and the compounds were ranked based on a decreasing order of toxicity using a scaling approach.     

气相色谱-质谱法测定化妆品中10种防腐剂

采用气相色谱-质谱法(GC-MS)同时测定化妆品中10种防腐剂含量。样品经甲醇超声提取,无水硫酸钠脱水后过滤进样检测。采用Agilent HP-5MS毛细管色谱柱(30m×0.25mm,0.25μm)分离,程序升温,分流进样进行测定。结果表明:17min内即可完成10种防腐剂的测定,各防腐剂的质量浓度均在5.00~100mg·L-1范围内与峰面积呈线性关系,方法的检出限(3S/N)为0.30~0.70ng。方法用于化妆品测定,加标回收率在96.5%~105%之间,测定值的相对标准偏差(n=6)在0.66%~3.2%之间。