Tingkat Pengetahuan dan Sikap Mahasiswa terhadap Keamanan dan Kehalalan Kosmetik

Abstract

Background: Total of 113 cosmetic items containing dangerous and prohibited ingredients were revealed by
BPOM through the public warning. In the halal aspect, the director of LPPOM-MUI estimates that only 10% of
cosmetics have the halal label on the packaging.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to know the representastion of knowledge and attitudes and the
relationship between characteristics of respondents to knowledge and attitude.
Method: This research is an observational research using cross sectional design with accidental sampling
techniques in 105 samples of students. The statistical analysis was done using Chi-Square correlation test to
know the relationship between respondent characteristics with the level of knowledge and attitudes using
cosmetics
Result: However, the sources of information obtained by respondents came from beauty vloggers
advertisements. The results showed knowledge and attitude of respondents is in the good and positive category
with a percentage both of 51.42%. Characteristics of respondents who have a relationship is between the grade
of semester and knowledge (p=0.016).
Conclusion: Students who have good knowledge and a positive attitude towards safety and halal cosmetics have
a larger number. Further intervention is needed to get a significant impact on the use of safe and halal
cosmetics.
Keywords: cosmetic, knowledge, attitude, safety, halal.