The invention relates to a method for measuring seven functional components of liquorice in
cosmetics. The method comprises the following steps: adding 60 to 80 percent of methyl
alcohol into a sample to be tested, performing repeated ultrasonic extraction and
centrifugation, combining centrifugal supernate, adding the supernate into a rotary evaporating flask, performing rotary
evaporation till constant volume is not exceeded, transferring the methyl
alcohol and the sample into a graduated tube, metering the volume through methyl
alcohol, filtering through a filter membrane, performing liquid
chromatography measurement on filtrates, adopting a
diode array
detector, using octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica as a filler column, detecting at 190 to 400 nm, using an
acetonitrile-
phosphoric acid solution as a flowing phase, performing
gradient elution, and collecting seven functional components which are
liquiritin, isoliquiritin,
glycyrrhizin,
dipotassium glycyrrhizinate (glycyrrhizic acid),
licochalcone A,
glabridin and glycyrrhetinic acid. The method is high in resolution ratio and sensitivity, good in selectivity, short in time, simple in sample treatment method, and suitable for the
micro analysis of seven functional components of liquorice in the
cosmetics, and fills a gap of the measurement of seven functional components of liquorice in the
cosmetics.