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A Facile Acidic Digestion Method for Cosmetic Lead and Cadmium Determination by an Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer

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A method for determining lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) in cosmetic products by an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES) is described. The acid digestion approach using concentrated HNO3, HNO3–HClO4, and aqua regia is performed, and the results show that the digestion of HNO3 is the most suitable procedure for cosmetics. The proposed method is then validated and optimized for Pb and Cd determination in terms of accuracy, repeatability, and day-to-day reproducibility. For diluted cosmetic samples, the limits of detection for Pb and Cd are 0.07 and 0.001 μg/g, respectively. This developed method is then successfully applied to the analysis of different facial cosmetic products, showing the contents of Pb and Cd within the ranges ~(0.11–0.54) and ~(0.01–0.24) mg/kg, respectively. The determination recoveries for Pb and Cd are within 89.7–104.4%, and the relative standard deviations are less than 3.0% (n = 5), showing the good applicability of this proposed method for Pb and Cd quantification in cosmetic samples.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Western Mineral Resources and Geological Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Earth Sciences and Land Resources, Chang’an University, 126 Yanta Road, Xi’an, 710054, China

    Xijuan Tan & Zhuming Wang

  2. Motic (Xiamen) Electric Group Co. Ltd., Motic Electric Industrial Park, 808 Fangshan Road, Xiang’an, Xiamen, 361101, China

    Zhenliang Wang

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Published in Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 606–611, July–August, 2018.

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Tan, X., Wang, Z. & Wang, Z. A Facile Acidic Digestion Method for Cosmetic Lead and Cadmium Determination by an Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer. J Appl Spectrosc 85, 659–664 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10812-018-0701-x

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