Cosmetic Packaging to Save the Environment: Future Perspectives

Cinelli, Patrizia; Coltelli, Maria Beatrice; Signori, Francesca; Morganti, Pierfrancesco; Lazzeri, Andrea

doi:10.3390/cosmetics6020026

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“…The cosmetics industry is searching for sustainable solutions in order to increase bio-efficiency and keep the circular economy basics. Their research mainly focuses on naturally and biologically degrading polymers [56]. Increasing environmental awareness in society serves as an incentive for consumers to use green cosmetic products.…”

Section: Green Aspects Of Consumer Behavior Related To Cosmetics Purcmentioning

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Green Consumer Behavior in the Cosmetics Market

2019

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Consumers and producers are becoming more open to the usage of natural cosmetics. This can be seen in them using a variety of natural cosmetic resources and materials. This fact is further supported by the trend of environmental and health awareness. These phenomena can be found within both the producers’ and the consumers’ behavior. Our research supports that green or natural products’ role in the cosmetics industry is getting more and more pronounced. The role of science is to determine the variables suggesting the consumer to change to natural cosmetics. The primary aim of our research is to find out to what extent the characteristics of the consumption of organic foods and natural cosmetics differ. We would like to know what factors influence consumer groups when buying green products. The novelty of the analyses is mainly that consumers were ordered into clusters, based on consuming bio-foodstuffs and preferring natural cosmetics. The cluster analysis has multiple variables, namely: Consumer behavior in light of bio-product, new natural cosmetics brand, or health- and environmental awareness preferences. The data was collected using online questionnaire, exclusively in Hungary during April–May of 2018. 197 participants answered our questions. The results of descriptive statistics and the cluster analysis show that there are consumers who prefer natural cosmetics, whereas some of them buy traditional ones. A third group use both natural and ordinary cosmetics. The results suggest that on the market of cosmetic products, health and environmental awareness will be a significant trend for both producer and consumer behavior, even in the future. However, it will not necessarily follow the trends of the foodstuffs industry, as the health effect spectrum of cosmetics is far shorter. In the future, the palette of natural cosmetics will become much wider. The main reason for this will be the appearance of green cosmetics materials and environmentally friendly production methods (mostly for packaging). The consumers will also have the possibility to choose the ones that suit them the most.

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Section: Green Aspects Of Consumer Behavior Related To Cosmetics Purcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Consumer Behavior in the Cosmetics Market

2019

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“…The global food packaging market is estimated to increase from US$ 16.1 billion in 2018 to US$ 19.6 billion in 2023, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.9%, which is expected to increase the demand for biopolymers [4]. Recently, various packaging containers and durable products using bioplastics have been actively developed [5][6][7].…”

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Fabrication of Functional Bioelastomer for Food Packaging from Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa) Juice Processing By-Products

Lee

Chun

Jang

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Carbon-neutral and eco-friendly biomass-based processes are recognized as a frontier technology for sustainable development. In particular, biopolymers are expected to replace petrochemical-based films that are widely used in food packaging. In this study, the fabrication conditions of functional (antioxidant and antibacterial) bioelastomers were investigated using by-products from the juice processing (experimental group) and freeze-dried whole fruit (control group). Bioelastomer was fabricated by a casting method in which polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was mixed with 25 or 50 wt% aronia powder (juice processing by-products and freeze-dried whole fruit). The mechanical properties of the bioelastomers were measured based on tensile strength and Young’s modulus. When the mixture contained 50 wt% aronia powder, the strength was not appropriate for the intended purpose. Next, the surface and chemical properties of the bioelastomer were analyzed; the addition of aronia powder did not significantly change these properties when compared to PDMS film (no aronia powder). However, the addition of aronia powder had a significant effect on antioxidant and antimicrobial activities and showed higher activity with 50 wt% than with 25 wt%. In particular, bioelastomers fabricated from aronia juice processing by-products exhibited approximately 1.4-fold lower and 1.5-fold higher antioxidant and antimicrobial activities, respectively, than the control group (bioelastomers fabricated from freeze-dried aronia powder).

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“…Oftentimes, product stability or shelf-life is correlated with aroma, oil, water vapor, and oxygen barrier, as these properties directly influence the esthetics and longevity of food ( Helanto et al., 2019 ; Dilkes-Hoffman et al., 2018 ; Vähä-Nissi et al., 2015 , 2012 ; Emblem, 2012 ). There is a myriad of reviews on packaging stability for the food industry ( Fabra et al., 2014 ; Cha and Chinnan, 2004 ), but no such stability studies are available for biopolymers used in cosmetic or personal care product packaging ( Cinelli et al., 2019 ). The lack of stability studies is likely attributed to stability tests being developed internally according to formulation-specific requirements.…”

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“…The lack of stability studies is likely attributed to stability tests being developed internally according to formulation-specific requirements. The results of these tests are typically proprietary, and subsequently, are not well documented in the literature ( Postles, 2019 ; Cinelli et al., 2019 ). However, moisture barrier evaluations have been routinely published and can provide important insights into the stability of cosmetics and personal care products.…”

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Commercial Marine-Degradable Polymers for Flexible Packaging

Barron

Sparks

2020

iScience

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Summary Plastic pollution is entering the world's oceans at alarming rates and is expected to outweigh fish populations by 2050. This plastic waste originates from land-based applications, like consumer product packaging, and is composed of high-durability polyolefins. These conventional plastics possess desirable properties, including high chemical stability, moisture barrier, and thermoplastic characteristics. Unfortunately, if these materials reach marine environments, they fragment into microplastics that cannot be biologically assimilated. The aim of this review is to investigate commercial polymers that are biodegradable in marine environments but have comparable product stability and moisture barrier properties to polyolefins. Among commercially available biopolymers, thermoplastic starches (TPS) and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have been shown to biodegrade in marine environments. Moreover, these biopolymers are thermoplastics and possess similar thermoforming properties to polyolefins. At present, TPS and PHAs have limitations, including chemical instability, limited moisture barrier properties, and high production costs. To replace conventional polymers with PHAs and TPS, these properties must be improved.

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Cosmetic Packaging to Save the Environment: Future Perspectives

Cited by 70 publications

References 63 publications

Green Consumer Behavior in the Cosmetics Market

Green Consumer Behavior in the Cosmetics Market

Fabrication of Functional Bioelastomer for Food Packaging from Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa) Juice Processing By-Products

Commercial Marine-Degradable Polymers for Flexible Packaging

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