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ClearActionable avenues for dermatologists to reduce their environmental impact
This commentary outlines actionable steps dermatologists can take to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare delivery, including minimizing single-use plastics, reducing regulated medical waste, and implementing green procurement policies. Researchers highlighted opportunities for reassessing procedure kits, minimizing medication waste, and promoting environmentally conscious practices. The study underscores that healthcare settings are significant contributors to plastic waste and offers practical strategies for reducing that footprint.
Towards Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging
Not directly relevant to microplastics — this review examines the broader sustainability challenges of cosmetics packaging, including environmental, social, and economic trade-offs, without a specific focus on microplastic pollution.
Sustainable Assessment of the Environmental Activities of Major Cosmetics and Personal Care Companies
This paper is not directly about microplastics; it assesses the environmental sustainability activities of major cosmetics and personal care companies, including OEM/ODM manufacturers and retailers, covering broad issues like climate change, waste, and water use.
Sustentabilidade no processo produtivo da indústria cosmética: uma revisão da literatura
This systematic literature review examined sustainability practices in the cosmetics industry, including the growing concern over microplastic ingredients in cosmetic products. The review identified trends toward greener formulations, sustainable packaging, and consumer-driven pressure for environmental responsibility. The cosmetics sector is increasingly recognizing its environmental impact and exploring alternatives to synthetic microplastics.
Towards Sustainable Color Cosmetics Packaging
This paper is not directly about microplastics — it reviews the challenges and strategies for developing sustainable packaging for color cosmetics, focusing on environmental, economic, and consumer behavior factors rather than plastic particle pollution.
Plastics in dermatology: A review and solutions
This review examines the widespread use of plastics in dermatology products and medical devices, highlighting health risks at every stage of the plastic life cycle. The authors note that microplastics and their chemical additives can be absorbed through the skin and recommend that dermatologists reduce plastic use and advocate for safer alternatives to protect both patient and environmental health.
Mikroplastik und dermatologische Versorgung
This brief commentary highlighted the relevance of microplastic pollution to dermatological care, noting that plastics are ubiquitous in medical settings and arguing that physicians have a professional responsibility to promote more sustainable practices. The precautionary principle was invoked to justify action ahead of complete evidence on health impacts.
Sustainability in the Cosmetics Industry: Environmental Impacts, Statistics, and Solutions
This literature review examined the environmental impacts of the cosmetics industry, focusing on chemical pollutants released during production, microplastic ingredients, and packaging waste. The study found that the cosmetics sector contributes substantially to environmental contamination and called for stronger sustainability standards.
The future of baby cosmetics packaging and sustainable development: A look at sustainable materials and packaging innovations – A systematic review
This systematic review summarizes research on sustainable packaging alternatives for baby cosmetics, aiming to reduce plastic waste and pollution. The findings are relevant to families concerned about microplastics because conventional plastic packaging contributes to the microplastic contamination found in household dust and the broader environment.
Innovative Approaches to an Eco-Friendly Cosmetic Industry: A Review of Sustainable Ingredients
This review examines sustainable alternatives to conventional cosmetic ingredients, including plant-based, microbial, and recycled materials that could replace synthetic and potentially harmful components. While not directly about microplastics, cosmetic microbeads have been a significant source of microplastic pollution, and the push for eco-friendly ingredients helps reduce plastic particles entering waterways. The shift toward sustainable cosmetics is part of broader efforts to decrease human exposure to synthetic microparticles.
Identification, Quantification, and Characterization of Microplastics in Skincare and Treatment Creams: A Potential Health Concern Related to the Exposure Pathway
Researchers analyzed 21 skincare and treatment cream products for microplastic contamination and found 109 microplastic particles of various sizes, shapes, and chemical compositions, including polyethylene and polyester. They surveyed over 354 consumers in Romania about cosmetic usage habits to estimate annual exposure levels. The study assessed potential health risks from dermal contact with microplastics in cosmetic products, raising concerns about this often-overlooked exposure pathway.
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.
Research on the Performance of Cosmetics Packaging Materials under the Background of Green Transformation
Researchers systematically analyzed cosmetics packaging materials from three dimensions — material properties, production processes, and recycling pathways — in the context of the global green transformation push. The study identified performance optimization strategies for sustainable cosmetic packaging, highlighting trade-offs between sensory appeal and environmental responsibility.
Microplastics in Cosmetics: Open Questions and Sustainable Opportunities
This review examines the role of microplastics in cosmetic products and the industry's transition toward sustainable alternatives as regulations tighten worldwide. Researchers surveyed the properties that make plastic particles useful in cosmetics, such as texture and appearance enhancement, alongside their environmental drawbacks. The study provides an overview of emerging bio-based and biodegradable replacement materials that could help the personal care industry eliminate microplastics from formulations.
Clean, but not green: Emission assessment, forecast modelling and policy solutions for plastic microbeads from personal care products in India
Researchers analyzed 45 personal care products sold in India and found that plastic microbeads were present in face washes, scrubs, shower gels, and body scrubs. They estimated current and future microbead emissions based on product usage patterns and population growth, projecting a significant increase in microplastic pollution from these sources. The study calls for regulatory action to ban intentionally added microbeads in personal care products in India.
Sustainable Innovation Practices in the Green Cosmetic Sector: A Brand Perspective
This study examined sustainability innovation practices in the green cosmetics sector from a brand perspective, focusing on how companies integrate sustainable packaging, ingredient sourcing, and microplastic-free formulations. The analysis found that leading green cosmetic brands are adopting holistic sustainability strategies beyond just product formulation changes.
Circular Economy Implemented in a Cosmetic Company: a Case Study
This case study examined the implementation of circular economy principles in a cosmetic company, analyzing how reducing waste and maximizing material reuse can benefit both environmental and business performance. The cosmetics industry is a significant user of plastic packaging and a source of primary microplastics through products like microbeads.
The role of sustainable packaging in reducing environmental pollution
This review examines how sustainable packaging — using biodegradable materials, reducing excess packaging, and improving recyclability — can reduce environmental pollution. The paper evaluates different sustainable packaging strategies and their effectiveness at reducing plastic waste, which is the primary source of microplastic pollution.
Polymers and the eco-design transformation. A cosmetic perspective
This review examines the role of polymers in cosmetic products and strategies for eco-design transformation, analyzing the development of environmentally friendly polymer alternatives that maintain cosmetic performance and safety while reducing microplastic pollution, with attention to biodegradability, renewable sourcing, and regulatory requirements across the product lifecycle.
An integrated approach to address the biodegradability of cosmetic formulations as part of a corporate sustainability strategy
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper describes a corporate sustainability framework for evaluating and improving the biodegradability of cosmetic product portfolios, helping companies prioritize reformulation of high-impact products and ingredients.
Problems of environmental pollution with microplastic waste and ways to solve them
This review examines the widespread presence of microplastics in the environment and their impacts on ecosystems and human health. Researchers highlight the limitations of conventional plastic food packaging and propose sustainable alternatives including bioplastics, edible packaging, and traditional materials like palm leaves. The study provides practical guidelines for transitioning away from conventional plastics to reduce microplastic contamination.
Plastics and Microplastic in the Cosmetic Industry: Aggregating Sustainable Actions Aimed at Alignment and Interaction with UN Sustainable Development Goals
This review examined how the cosmetics industry uses microplastics and petroleum-derived polymers in product formulations and packaging, and assessed industry efforts to align with UN Sustainable Development Goals. Regulatory pressure and bioeconomy policies are accelerating substitution of synthetic microplastics with bio-based alternatives.
Microplastics in cosmetics: Environmental issues and needs for global bans
This review examined the environmental impact of microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products, noting that products can contain up to 50,391 microbeads per gram and contribute 229,000 microbeads per use to domestic sewage, with many countries now implementing or planning bans. The authors argue that voluntary industry commitments are insufficient and that global bans are needed to prevent further environmental contamination.
Sustainability Schemes in the Cosmetic Industry: Scope, Credibility, and Value Chain Coverage
Despite its title referencing sustainability schemes in cosmetics, this paper studies the credibility and coverage of 24 eco-certification labels used in the cosmetics industry — not microplastic pollution. It examines gaps in lifecycle coverage and greenwashing risks within certification schemes and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.