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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to The Hidden Cost of Cleanliness and Beauty: How the Microbiome Impacts Our Health and the Planet and Solutions through Green Chemistry and the Circular Economy
ClearCosmetic Products and Their Implications for Human Health
This review examines how cosmetic ingredients including parabens, phthalates, triclosan, microplastics, and heavy metals enter the body through skin, inhalation, and ingestion, with potential for hormonal disruption and reproductive toxicity, while also contaminating aquatic ecosystems when cosmetic residues escape wastewater treatment.
Cosmetic Products and Their Implications for Human Health
This review examines how cosmetic ingredients including parabens, phthalates, triclosan, microplastics, and heavy metals enter the body through skin, inhalation, and ingestion, with potential for hormonal disruption and reproductive toxicity, while also contaminating aquatic ecosystems when cosmetic residues escape wastewater treatment.
Microplastics (MPs) in Cosmetics: A Review on Their Presence in Personal-Care, Cosmetic, and Cleaning Products (PCCPs) and Sustainable Alternatives from Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers
This review documents how microplastics are widely used in personal care products, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies as exfoliants, film formers, and texture enhancers. These products wash down the drain and contribute to environmental microplastic pollution, which can ultimately cycle back to humans through contaminated water and food.
Potential Health Risk of Microplastic Exposures from Skin-Cleansing Products
Researchers analyzed popular skin-cleansing products including liquid soap, micellar water, and cleansing oil, and found microplastics present in all of them. The particles varied in size and type, with potential exposure through skin absorption, accidental ingestion, and inhalation during use. This study identifies everyday personal care products as a source of microplastic exposure that most people would not suspect.
Interactions between gut microbiota and emerging contaminants exposure: new and profound implications for human health
This review explores how emerging contaminants like microplastics, antibiotics, and persistent organic pollutants interact with gut bacteria and what that means for human health. Researchers found that the gut microbiome is a key target of these pollutants and may play a role in organ damage, hormonal disruption, and other toxic effects through pathways like the gut-liver and gut-brain axes. The study underscores the importance of understanding the three-way relationship between environmental contaminants, gut bacteria, and overall health.
The role of emerging organic contaminants in the development of antimicrobial resistance
Researchers reviewed how emerging organic contaminants — including plastics, pharmaceuticals, and biocides found throughout the environment — can promote the development and spread of antibiotic resistance in microbes. The study argues that tackling antimicrobial resistance requires addressing not just antibiotic overuse but also the broader chemical pollution that shapes microbial communities.
Role of Microbes in Microplastic Removal and Its Effect on Human Health
This review examines the role of microbes in microplastic removal from environmental matrices and food systems, covering both degradation pathways and the health implications of microplastic-microbiome interactions for humans and other organisms.
Research Advances on the Impact of Environmental Pollutants on Gut Microbiota
This review synthesizes evidence from animal models, human studies, and mechanistic experiments showing how microplastics, pesticides, and heavy metals each disrupt gut microbiota composition, reduce beneficial bacteria, and compromise intestinal barrier integrity and host health.
Unlocking secrets of microbial ecotoxicology: recent achievements and future challenges
This review explores how microorganisms interact with environmental pollutants, including microplastics, covering how bacteria can break down pollutants but are also harmed by them. The authors highlight that microplastics create new surfaces in the environment where bacteria form communities, potentially spreading harmful species or antibiotic resistance. Understanding these microbial interactions is critical for developing nature-based solutions to reduce pollution and protect human health.
Chemical pollution and microbiomes responses
This paper reviewed how chemical pollution affects microbial community composition and function across different environments. Exposure to pollutants including plastics, heavy metals, and pesticides can disrupt microbial diversity and the ecosystem services microbes provide. The review calls for greater integration of microbiome science into environmental risk assessment.
Current research trends on cosmetic microplastic pollution and its impacts on the ecosystem: A review
This review examines the presence of microplastics in personal care, cosmetics, and cleaning products and their environmental impact. Researchers assessed the fate, degradation mechanisms, and routes through which cosmetic microplastics enter the environment. The study also discusses emerging technologies for removing cosmetic microplastics and highlights the need for sustainable alternatives to reduce this domestic source of pollution.
It’s a matter of microbes: a perspective on the microbiological aspects of micro- and nanoplastics in human health
Researchers highlighted an often-overlooked aspect of micro- and nanoplastic pollution: the microorganisms that colonize plastic particles and how they might affect human health. The study suggests that the microbial communities living on plastic surfaces, known as the plastisphere, could carry harmful bacteria into the human body through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact, representing an additional health risk beyond the plastics themselves.
Plastics and the microbiome: impacts and solutions
This review examines how plastics affect microbial communities in the environment and in living organisms, including the human gut. Microplastics can carry harmful bacteria, disrupt natural microbial balance, and affect immune responses in host organisms. While some microbes have been reported to degrade plastics, the evidence for breaking down common types like polypropylene, polystyrene, and PVC remains weak, meaning we cannot rely on natural biodegradation to solve the pollution problem.
Interactions between microplastics and microbiota in a One Health perspective
This review examines how microplastics interact with microbial communities across human, animal, and environmental settings using a One Health framework. Microplastics disrupt the normal balance of microbiota in the gut, soil, and water, and serve as surfaces where harmful bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes accumulate and spread. The authors argue that understanding these microplastic-microbe interactions across all domains of life is essential for protecting both ecosystem and human health.
Micro- and Nanoplastics as Emerging Environmental Materials: GreenChemistry Insights into Gut Microbiota Disruption and Chronic DiseasePathways
Researchers reviewed how micro- and nanoplastics accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract and disrupt gut microbiota composition, finding evidence linking these exposures to reduced microbial diversity, gut barrier dysfunction, systemic inflammation, and potential contributions to chronic diseases including metabolic disorders and neurodegeneration.
Nanopartículas y salud dermatológica: mecanismos biológicos que afectan la barrera cutánea
This bibliographic review investigated the long-term effects of nanoparticles used in cosmetics on the skin barrier, finding that nanoparticles can alter lipid composition, modify intercellular junction protein expression, trigger inflammatory responses, and negatively affect cutaneous microbiota — collectively compromising the skin's protective function.
Analysis of Civil Environments Cleaning Services—Microbiological and LCA Analysis after Traditional and Sustainable Procedures
This study compared traditional and sustainable cleaning procedures in civil environments, evaluating their microbiological effectiveness and environmental footprint, finding that green alternatives can match conventional methods without harmful chemical residues.
Uncovering the nexus of human health hazards of nanoplastics, gut-dysbiosis and antibiotic-resistance
This review provides the first comprehensive synthesis specifically linking nanoplastic exposure to gut dysbiosis and antibiotic resistance gene propagation, finding that nanoplastics suppress beneficial microbes while fostering pathogens and creating conditions that promote horizontal transfer of resistance genes.
Microplastics in cosmetics and their impact on human health
Researchers reviewed 14 studies on microplastics in cosmetics and personal care products, finding polyethylene is the most common microplastic in facial scrubs, body washes, and toothpaste, with exposure occurring mainly through skin contact and ingestion. Despite growing awareness, major gaps remain in understanding the long-term health effects and environmental persistence of these cosmetic microplastics.
Toxicological Evaluation of Effects of Some Environmental Pollutants on Intestinal Microbiota: Traditional Review
This review examines how various environmental pollutants affect the gut microbiome — the community of microorganisms in the intestinal tract. Microplastics are among the pollutants discussed, and their ability to alter gut microbiota composition is increasingly recognized as a mechanism by which plastic particles may harm human and animal health.
Relevance of gut microbiome research in food safety assessment
This review examines evidence that food additives and microplastics may disrupt the gut microbiome and, in turn, affect human health. The researchers discuss how these non-nutritive dietary compounds can alter gut bacterial communities through mechanisms that are often overlooked in food safety evaluations. They recommend integrating gut microbiome science into food risk assessment frameworks to better protect human health.
Impact of Cumulative Environmental and Dietary Xenobiotics on Human Microbiota: Risk Assessment for One Health
This review examines cumulative exposure to environmental and dietary xenobiotics including microplastics, pesticides, and food additives, assessing their combined impact on the human gut microbiome within a One Health risk framework.
Parabens as environmental contaminants of aquatic systems affecting water quality and microbial dynamics
Researchers reviewed the occurrence of parabens — common preservatives in cosmetics and food — in global water sources, finding concentrations above 100 µg/L in some wastewaters and raising concern about their effects on human health, aquatic organisms, and microbial communities including potential contributions to antibiotic resistance.
Health implications of microplastic exposure and sustainable solutions
This review explores the various pathways by which microplastics contaminate aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems through human activities, and how they accumulate in the food chain. Researchers summarize the health implications of microplastic exposure through mechanisms like oxidative stress, gut microbiome disruption, and inflammation. The study emphasizes the need for standardized detection methods and stronger regulatory frameworks to address microplastic contamination in the human food supply.