Beauty Without Microplastic: Consumer Expectations For Cosmetic Products May Have To Change

Kelly Dobos, a consultant, adjunct professor, and former president of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, discusses the challenges facing beauty businesses and formulators, and the changes to cosmetic products that could be coming consumers’ way, under developing bans on microplastic use.

Recent headlines have declared findings of microplastic in air, water, ice and sediment samples taken in one of the remotest parts of the planet, Antarctica, and more than 200,000 microplastic particles in a typical English roast dinner.

“Eating a roast dinner – or a similar meal – every day would equate to eating two plastic bags each...

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