How to detect mercury in skin care
- how to test for mercury in cosmetics
- how to check mercury in cosmetics
- how to test mercury in cosmetic
- how to detect mercury in skin care
Heavy metals in cosmetics pdf...
How to test for mercury in water
Mercury is highly toxic: too much can cause irritability, depression, memory problems, and other neurological effects. While mercury poisoning is often linked to eating seafood, dangerous mercury levels have also been found in some cosmetics and skin care products.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates that the legal limit on mercury in cosmetics is no more than 1 part per million (ppm).
Yet, cosmetics are not regulated in all parts of the world.
This poses a risk: mercury-containing cosmetics manufactured abroad can be purchased during travel or ordered through online retailers. Clean beauty products, which are made without any known or potentially toxic ingredients, are becoming popular but aren’t well regulated globally.
To help make peoples’ lives safer and healthier, we worked with various government regulatory departments around the world to identify the element mercury (Hg) in cosmetics using our portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers.
In this post, we share ways to identify mercury in cosmetics using XRF and other techniques.