The invention relates to the field of analytical chemistry and food safety, and provides a high performance liquid chromatography detection method for residual quantity of multiple ultraviolet absorbents in cosmetics. A cosmetic sample of 0.4g is weighed and placed in a plastic centrifuge tube of 50 ml, sample extraction liquid of 20ml is added, after the cosmetic sample of 0.4g and the sample extraction liquid of 20ml are mixed for 2 minutes in a vortex mode, sonic oscillation extraction is carried out for 20 minutes, 8000 revolutions per minute centrifugation is carried out for 10 minutes and, and supernate is to be purified; and after test solutions sequentially pass through microfiltration membranes of 0.45 micrometer and 0.20 micrometer, a high performance liquid chromatograph is adopted to carry out qualitative determination and quantitative assay. The detection method has the advantages of being simple, fast, accurate, efficient, and the like, and can detect 12 ultraviolet absorbents at the same time. Technical indexes of detection minimum, the recovery rate, the degree of precision, and the like all meet relevant demands for ultraviolet absorbent detection in sun block cosmetics at home and abroad. The method is suitable for detection and monitoring of the ultraviolet absorbents in the sun block cosmetics, and has great significance on promoting of import and export trade of cosmetics of our country, ensuring of safety of the cosmetics, and guarantee of human body health.