STUDY ANALYSIS: Microplastics and Skin Aging

This is the first study linking microplastic exposure to skin damage. The implications of this study are considerable

A new study in the journal Environmental Pollution suggests that skin exposure to microplastics could have a role to play not only in skin aging, but also in skin cancer, rates of which have increased massively in recent decades.

As the researchers behind the study note, this is the first study to look at the effects of microplastics on skin cells in pa…