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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Plastics and Microplastic in the Cosmetic Industry: Aggregating Sustainable Actions Aimed at Alignment and Interaction with UN Sustainable Development Goals
ClearMicroplastics 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Challenges with microplastic pollution in the regime of UN sustainable development goals
Researchers reviewed the global challenge of microplastic pollution through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how microplastics enter aquatic, terrestrial, and human health systems and how current international frameworks fall short of managing them. The review emphasizes that microplastics can carry and concentrate harmful chemicals like persistent organic pollutants, amplifying their risks throughout the food chain.
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.
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.
Algae-Driven Transition from Oil to Renewable Alternatives: Policy for Scale and Sustainability
This paper is not directly about microplastics; it is a policy report evaluating algae cultivation as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels for producing plastics and chemicals, focused on scaling algae-based biorefineries to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Plastics Are Paving the Way for a Greener Future and Accelerating Decarbonization
This review examines how fossil fuel-based polymers contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goals by enabling applications in solar energy, energy storage, low-carbon transportation, and plastic waste-to-biofuel conversion via thermochemical processes including pyrolysis. The authors argue that a dual strategy combining bio-based polymer development with advanced recycling is necessary to decarbonize the plastics sector.
Convergence of tissue engineering and sustainable development goals
This review explores how tissue engineering is aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, covering biomaterials and technologies like bioprinting and electrospinning. While not focused on microplastics, the review discusses the use of synthetic polymers in medical implants and devices, which raises questions about whether these materials could release micro or nanoplastics inside the body over time. The push for more sustainable, biodegradable biomaterials could help reduce this potential source of internal microplastic exposure.
An Approach towards Ecological Sustainability in the Beauty Industry
This review classifies approaches to ecological sustainability in the beauty industry into four categories -- biotech beauty, bioremediation, bioeconomy/circular bioeconomy, and biomimicry -- and evaluates leading technologies being investigated as alternatives to conventional chemical-based cosmetics. Researchers discuss the industry's environmental impact including microplastic pollution and identify critical drivers prompting the sector's transition toward sustainable practices.
Biodegradable Polymers: The Future of Sustainable Plastic Alternatives
This review examines biodegradable polymers as sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, evaluating their potential to reduce microplastic pollution and ecological degradation. The authors assess the performance, environmental fate, and scalability of current biodegradable materials, identifying key challenges for widespread adoption across packaging and consumer product applications.
Advancement of Materials to Sustainable & Green World
Not relevant to microplastics — this is an editorial commentary from the International Association for Advanced Materials on sustainable materials science and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Circular economy, bioeconomy, and sustainable development goals: a systematic literature review
Researchers conducted a systematic review of 649 studies examining how circular economy and bioeconomy concepts contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. They found that while these approaches show promise for addressing environmental challenges including plastic waste, most research has focused on a limited set of goals and lacks empirical data. The study identifies key research gaps, including the need for more studies on economic and social impacts in developing countries.
Emerging threat of microplastics across environmental matrices encompassing sources ecotoxicological effects and management strategies within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic sources, environmental distribution, and ecotoxicological impacts across various environmental matrices, framed within the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The study highlights how microplastics accumulate across ecosystems and affect organisms at all trophic levels through ingestion and chemical exposure, while identifying management strategies aligned with global sustainability targets.
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.
Sustainable Development Goals and microplastics in seafood: a theoretical-reflective study
This theoretical review examined the relationship between microplastic contamination of seafood and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, arguing that strengthening water pollution policies and educating health professionals about microplastic risks are necessary to achieve SDG targets.
Assessing Provisions and Requirements for the Sustainable Production of Plastics: Towards Achieving SDG 12 from the Consumers’ Perspective
This paper reviews consumer-facing sustainability requirements for plastic production, examining how policies and consumer choices can drive progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goal of responsible consumption and production.
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.
Microplastics in Cosmetics: Emerging Risks for Skin Health and the Environment
This review examines microplastics in cosmetics and personal care products and their potential effects on skin health. Evidence suggests that microplastics can penetrate the skin barrier and trigger oxidative stress, inflammation, and premature aging. Despite growing regulatory efforts to ban microplastics in cosmetics, global inconsistencies in these rules mean many products still contain them.