When we talk about beauty products, we often think about all the bottled products sitting on our vanity desk. However, we often overlooked the use of cotton pads which is an essential aspect of your beauty routine. Admittedly, each time I remove my makeup, I am guilty of using 3-4 pieces of cotton pads. On […]

Previously, we address the competing needs of plant crops as conventional food versus beauty products. Instead of it being a win-lose situation, what if both agricultural and beauty industries can be on the same page, enabling a win-win situation? While the ideal scenario will be the reduction of food waste in order to address the […]

The global population is expected to rise by 50% to over 9 billion in 2050 (United Nations, 2019). While on the other hand, agricultural land is projected to decrease over this period (Fitton et al., 2019). What we are seeing right now mirrors the Malthusian Theory of Population highlighting the theory of exponential population and […]

As someone who has suffered from acne when I was going through puberty as well as later on in my early 20’s, beauty has grown to become an area of interest for me. At this life stage, reasons such as genetics and hormonal changes are often attributed as the primary causes of acne. But perhaps, […]

The effects of air pollution being damaging to one’s health comes as no surprise. On top of that, our skin is a victim of air pollution as well. One source of air pollutants includes particulate matter (PM). PM is made up of particles of solids or liquids suspended in the air (Zhang et al., 2021). […]

Each spritz of your perfume contains volatile organic compounds (VOCs). As shared in the previous blog, not only are beauty products detrimental to air quality, they can be damaging to one’s health as well. VOCs can have minor side effects such as irritation and headaches, and in the long run, kidney, liver and nerve damage […]

The alarms go off and everyone starts their day bright and early in the morning. An impending rush hour as everyone is trying to get to their destination, be it children going to school, teenagers getting themselves home from the clubs, or the working class getting to their workplaces. With large amounts of people attempting […]

It is no secret that the beauty industry generates enormous amounts of packaging waste annually, with the industry being the leader in overly packaged products that are often difficult or unable to be recycled. This problem of packaging was also discussed in the earlier blog posts. However, to my surprise as well, one beauty trend […]

Previously, we touched on sunscreen. What about our weekly exfoliating beauty routine, often known to remove our dead and dull skin. These small pieces of plastic found in our beauty products, also known as microbeads, are approximately 0.5 to 500 micrometers in diameter (Dunning , 2020). While they may be small, this may not be […]

Previously, we touched on marine pollution during week 4. For many of us, the marine pollution that we are with is plastic pollution. We assume that marine pollution is only limited to the indirect environmental impacts of our actions. However, we can do so directly too. Unknowingly, a common way in which we pollute the […]