Keeping in view their toxicology, the estimation of toxic
metals in cosmetic products has prompted us to carry out this
study. Unfortunately there are no current international standards
for impurities like heavy metals in cosmetics except 20
for lead and 5 lg/g for cadmium (Al-Dayel et al., 2011). The
Canadian regularity limits for certain metals in cosmetics are
10 for Pb, 3 for As, Cd, Hg and 5 lg/g for Sb (Health Canada,
2011). Heavy metals are considered toxic above normal backgrounds
as shown in Table 3. These limits are based to provide
a high level of protection to susceptible consumer (Al-Dayel
et al., 2011).