Beauty Mask: Market and Environment

Abstract

Beauty Masks represent a niche of the cosmetic market that has shown a booming growth in the last years. This category of cosmetics is formulated as a cream, gel, lotion, serum, sheet, etc, containing active ingredients useful to quickly improve the skin face appearance. In particular, the sheet masks are generally made by non-woven tissues imbibed of active ingredients with the main function of hydrate the skin, slowing down wrinkles, fine lines and aged spots. The consumer request is prevalently oriented vs. products made possibly by natural ingredients skin-friendly and environmentallyfriendly. This paper shows the possibility to realize non-woven tissues which, made by fibers, of natural oligosaccharides and chitoolisaccharides, such as chitin and lignin able to bind and release active ingredients, may be used as smart Beauty Masks. Differently from the actual in-commerce sheets, these innovative cosmetics, made by the use of waste materials, are free of preservatives, emulsifiers, colors, fragrances, chemicals and globally biodegradable.