Phenolic environmental estrogen is one kind of the most common environmental estrogens.It had been concerned all over the world for its influences to human being,environment and ecosystem.On the basis of introducing different kinds of phenolic environmental estrogens and their toxicity,all kinds of sample pretreatment methods were discussed in detail,including solvent extraction,soxhlet extraction,solid phase extraction,matrix solid phase dispersion extraction,microwave-assisted extraction,accelerated solvent extraction,membrane extraction,solid phase microextraction,stir bar sorptive extraction,molecularly imprinted polymer extraction,ultrasonic assisted extraction,ionic liquid extraction,cloud point extraction and supercritical-fluid extraction.Finally,the trends of sample preparation for phenolic environmental estrogens were prospected.