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Home FAQAre manufacturers phasing out microplastic ingredients from cosmetics?

If a restriction on intentionally added microplastics would be in place, the cosmetics industry would get four years to remove microplastics from ‘rinse-off’ products and six years to remove them from ‘leave-on’ products. However, the definition of microplastics used in the restriction proposal by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) is only limited to solid particles. Most plastics used in cosmetics are liquid, soluble and “biodegradable” plastics, according to German research up to 25 times more. As these plastics have not been included in the microplastic definition by ECHA, they will escape this restriction.