The quality and safety of cosmetics have been drawing increasing public attention in recent years.Many cosmetic products of well-known brands have been detected to contain prohibited or restricted substances,which may cause harm to consumers rights and interests,and bring about significant economic losses to cosmetic enterprises.To avoid the occurrence of quality and safety accidents on cosmetics,researchers have been engaging in developing a series of analytical methods for the detection of hazardous chemical ingredients in cosmetics using a variety of testing techniques.In this paper,the advances in analytical techniques for the quality and safety of cosmetics in the past years were summarized,and some newly-developed techniques for the analysis of cosmetics were introduced,which may provide a theoretical support and a technical instruction for the researchers and inspectors in analysis of cosmetic products.