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ClearSustentabilidade 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 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.
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.
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.
The Beast of Beauty: Environmental and Health Concerns of Toxic Components in Cosmetics
This review examined the environmental and health concerns associated with toxic chemical components in cosmetic products, including microplastic ingredients. Researchers found that active residues from cosmetics are continuously introduced into the environment and many of these bioactive chemicals have potential toxic properties, raising concerns about the cumulative impact of widespread cosmetic use on both ecosystems and human health.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trends in the Manufacture and Design of Sustainable Cosmetics
This review examines emerging trends in sustainable cosmetics manufacturing, covering the adoption of natural ingredients, eco-friendly packaging, reduced environmental footprints, and pro-environmental consumer behavior driving the shift toward sustainable beauty product design.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microplastics and cosmetics: Problems and solutions
This review examines the role of microplastics in cosmetics — including microbeads, glitter, and synthetic polymer thickeners — discussing the scale of environmental release from rinse-off products and the regulatory responses across different countries. The authors survey alternative natural ingredients and call for comprehensive bans on intentionally added microplastics in personal care.
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.
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.
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.
Characterization of Inhalable Aerosols from Cosmetic Powders and Sustainability in Cosmetic Products
This study quantified consumer aerosol exposure when applying cosmetic powder products like foundation and eyeshadow, finding that particles in the respirable size range are released during application. Cosmetic powders contain various ingredients including potential microplastic particles and other inhalable substances that can accumulate in the lungs with repeated use.
Microplastics: From Pollution to Solutions - Understanding Impacts, Detection Methods, and Remediation Strategies
This review surveys microplastic pollution -- plastic particles smaller than 5 mm -- across industries including cosmetics and cleaning products, covering impacts, detection methods, and remediation strategies. The authors provide an integrated assessment of primary (microbead) and secondary (environmentally fragmented) microplastic sources and evaluate the current state of technical solutions.
Microplastics: Applications in the Cosmetic Industry and Impacts on the Aquatic Environment
This review examines how microplastics are used in cosmetics as microbeads in products like exfoliating cleansers, and how these particles enter waterways through drain disposal and harm aquatic life. The authors summarize the main problems caused by cosmetic microplastics and discuss regulatory efforts to phase them out.
Exploration of microplastics from personal care and cosmetic products and its estimated emissions to marine environment: An evidence from Malaysia
Microplastics including microbeads were quantified in personal care and cosmetic products sold in Malaysia, with scrubs and toothpastes as the top contributors, and estimated emissions to marine environments were calculated. The findings support the case for regulations banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics as a pollution prevention measure.
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.