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China Surfactant Detergent & Cosmetics ›› 2020, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (7): 504-508.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-1803.2020.07.012

• Analytical methods and testing • Previous Articles    

Determination of four synthetic phenolic antioxidants in cosmetics by cloud point extraction-high performance liquid chromatography

CHEN Miao1(),LI Li-xian1,KONG Xiang-ye1,GAO Ying1(),YANG Ya-ling2()   

  1. 1. Technology Research Center, Health Product Division, Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd., Kunming, Yunnan 650217, China
    2. Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China
  • Received:2020-05-12 Revised:2020-06-22 Online:2020-07-22 Published:2020-07-23
  • Contact: Ying GAO,Ya-ling YANG E-mail:530611671@qq.com;gaoying16@126.com;yilyil8@163.com

Abstract:

A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 4 synthetic phenolic antioxidants (SPAs) in cosmetics, including propyl gallate, tertiary butyl hydroquinone, butylated hydroxyanisole, and butylated hydroxytoluene. The samples were extracted by ultrasound-assisted cloud point extraction (CPE) with PEG-12 dimethylsiloxane (DC-193) as the extraction solvent. Fatty acid was added to decrease the cloud point of DC-193. When the volume fraction of nonanoic acid was 10%, it was the best in terms of cloud point, phase separation speed and extraction rate. Then multi-response surface method was used to optimize CPE. The optimum conditions of CPE were: φ (DC-193) of 2.5%, ultrasound time of 30 min, equilibrium temperature at 67 ℃, and equilibrium time of 57 min. The external standard method was used for quantification. The results show that the linear correlation coefficients of the 4 SPAs were all greater than 0.99. The average recoveries at three spiked levels were in the range of 84%-91% with RSDs of 1.2%-2.3%.

Key words: cloud point extraction, high performance liquid chromatography, cosmetics, synthetic phenolic antioxidants

CLC Number: 

  • TQ658