[Determination of trichlosan in cosmeticy by high-performance liquid chromatography]

A method was developed for the determination of an antiseptic-trichlosan in cosmeticy by HPLC followed by diode-array detection. The chromatographic separation was performed on C18 column with a mobile phase of acetonitrile-water(60: 40, V/V) which was adjusted to pH3.0 by glacialacetic acid. The UV wavelength was 280 nm. Retention time as well as UV spectrum were used for the qualitation of trichlosan, and peak area or peak height for quantitation. The method showed good accuracy and precision average recovery of trichlosan from different cosmetics was between 91.86% and 98.83%. Relative standard deviation was between 0.72% and 2.75%.