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.