Likewise, you drop Mono Skincare‘s tablet into the reusable bottle, fill it with water at home, and your new skincare serum magically appears before your eyes.
Like the powdered beauty products that came before it, a ‘paper’ moisturiser or shampoo would dramatically reduce both its carbon footprint. Unlike liquids, it doesn’t require as much fuel to transport it as it’s not as heavy. “98 per cent of the water in products like moisturiser, sun-cream, shampoo and conditioner can be removed,” Professor Qi adds.
Paper moisturisers also don’t need to be housed in plastic packaging to prevent leakages – an added bonus, given 120 billion units of packaging are produced every year by the global cosmetics industry. There’s also no need for preservatives – in fact, this technology improves a product’s shelf life.
But crucially where paper beauty products differ from their powdered predecessors is that they don’t use heat for drying. “Most of the industrial processes for creating a dry powdered product, like powdered soap, dry through processes like spray-drying, which uses quite a lot of energy and heat,” says Professor Qi. “And if you have expensive and delicate ingredients, like peptides and proteins, they are very sensitive to heat. So if you dry them at a high temperature, you will lose quite a significant percentage of their activity, which could be quite costly for producers.”
In other words, paper beauty products are taking the waterless conversation up a notch. While the first paper moisturiser, sun cream or shampoo is yet to launch, these game-changers may soon be just a click of the mouse away.
For more from Fiona Embleton, GLAMOUR’s Acting Associate Beauty Director, follow her on @fiembleton.
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