Determination of mercury level in skin whitening creams

This study included the determination of mercury level intwelve samples of skin whitening cream available in local market inBaghdad by atomic absorption spectrophotometer ,all the samplesanalyzed was contained a detectable amount of mercury. Thelowest concentration of mercury in the sample C (Top Shirley) was0.482 μg/g, and the higher concentration was 29.54 μg/g in thesample J (Norseen) .It was also noted that the samples H(whitening speckle removing day cream) and K (whitening speckleremoving night cream) did not mention in the label significance thename of the country of origin and date of the validity of theproduct.