Review on analysis of interesting whitening agents in cosmetics products

Abstract

Abstract The skin whitening as known as skin lightening or skin bleaching is the most commonly used skincare treatment that helps to achieve a lighter and healthier skin complexion by reducing the melanin concentration in the skin in the practice of using chemical products. Several chemicals are effective in skin whitening, while some of them are toxic or have problematic safety profiles. The products requiring to contain either kind of whiting agents were seen to display labeling issues. Such an elevated number of differences suggested concerns of whether such differences between stated and revealed content of whiting agents. The Analytical chemical measurements of these objects look necessary, no reliable analytical methods have been recorded to determine most of these chemicals. Just the measurement of hydroquinone and some of its ethers is treated by a method registered by the European Commission.