Study Design on the Presence of Metals in Moisturisers, and Compliance with Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, on Cosmetic Products

Metals are present in cosmetics due to deliberate addition by the manufacturers, contamination of raw materials, and/or during their manufacture or storage. The objective this work was explore metal content most-consumed moisturising creams on Spanish market, verify degree compliance with Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 European Parliament and Council Union, regarding presence metals cosmetics. moisturisers were digested (microwave-assisted acid digestion) analysed inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), for assessment. ICP-MS measurements successfully validated (RSDs lower than 5% analytical recoveries within 91–110% range). banned found at very low concentrations some moisturisers, as inevitable traces pollutants. This case beryllium (found only two samples, 0.10 µg g−1), cadmium 0.075 g−1 one sample), mercury four samples 0.10–0.18 range), lead (also from 0.03 0.44 g−1). Furthermore, nickel (0.16–0.56 g−1, six samples), chromium (0.09–0.30 three cobalt (lower 0.13 samples) also creams.