Abstract A spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of hexachlorophene (HCP) and zinc phenolsulfonate (ZPS) in aerosol deodorants. An ethanolie solution containing hexachlorophene and zinc phenolsulfonate was partitioned between water and chloroform, and the zinc phenolsulfonate was determined in the water phase at 270 mμ. The chloroform phase, containing hexachlorophene, was extracted with 0.1N KOH, and the hexachlorophene was determined in the KOH phase at 320 mμ. The method has been applied successfully to commercial samples of aerosol deodorants. The relative standard deviation at the 2 sigma level is ± 3.5% for hexachlorophene and ± 2.6% for zinc phenolsulfonate.