Determination of Heavy Metals in 16 Bleaching Creams and 3 Mixtures of Bleaching Creams from Local Market of Jeddah

Abstract

EAVY metals on bleaching cream products easy cased many ……..types of skin problems and deleterious effects to the human health. Many consumers are using mixture of bleaching creams simultaneously to get a double activity (shiny and faster) on their skins. They are at risk of toxicity and adverse interactions due to their multiplicative contamination with heavy metals and uncertain mixing of different components. 16 bleaching creams and 3 mixtures of bleaching creams were digested with high pressure microwave technique followed by injection on Inductive Coupled PlasmaOptical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) for determining (Hg, Cd, Ti, Bi, Pd, As and Tl) elements. The obtained results showed that, the highest concentration for (Hg, Bi, Ti and Pb) on samples were 5739. 16, 7013.53, 21407.73, 456.70 ppm, respectively, other metals less than 28.99 ppm. One of the mixtures sample has high concentrations of Hg and Bi were 13338.50, 619.23 ppm, respectively, so creams and its mixtures which contain heavy metals above the permissible limit must be blind. Detection limits are achieved at the level of 2.5-50 µg/g, RSD were less than 14.72%, the recoveries for cosmetics were in the range of 88.52% to 99.62%. Good results show that the method is quick, accurate and convenient.