Analytical Methods for Quality Control of Cosmetics

Dear Colleagues,

Health authorities in the different countries are fully aware of the need to offer excellent quality, generally in consumer products and particularly in cosmetic products. This quality encompasses the expected efficacy of the product and unquestionable safety.
Therefore, there are legislations in different countries, states or international communities that regulate all aspects of the manufacture and marketing of cosmetic products. These regulations include lists of banned substances in cosmetic products, and substances whose use is restricted to a certain level of concentration and/or may be present only in certain products for application on certain areas of the body.
While there are official or consistent methods of analysis for their use in countries, states or communities, they do not fully cover the cosmetic sector’s needs due to the high number of possible ingredients and contaminants and the diverse cosmetic forms. Moreover, some of the existing methods need to be modernized in accordance with scientific advances in analytical chemistry.
Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to provide a collection of articles regarding development and validation of new accurate analytical methods with state of the art characteristics for quality control of cosmetic products.
As quality control in a cosmetic company requires a high number of analyses per year, simple, rapid, low cost and low toxicity methods are especially encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Amparo Salvador-Carreño
Prof. Dr. Alberto Chisvert Sanía
Guest Editors

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