Abstract

The vehicles to be applied on skin, hair or mucous membranes have the scope to load and carry selected active ingredients releasing them at the designed areas, dose and time. Regarding their use in the field of cosmetics (i.e, cosmeceuticals) and diet supplements (i.e., nutraceuticals),these carriers are generally made by emulsions and solutions containing not only active ingredients, but also preservatives emulsifiers and other chemicals necessary to maintain the product integrity and stability during their storage and use. Moreover, they are packed by containers 60% of which are made by non-biodegradable plastic material. The aim of the paper is to suggest the possibility to manufacture and use alternative novel smart and biodegradable carrier-tissues that made by natural polymers embedded by active micro nano block polymeric complexes are free of any kind of chemicals and globally biodegradable. The suggested carriertissues have been made by biopolymeric fibers bound to micro-nanocomplexes of chitin nanofibrilsnano chitin (CN-LG) encapsulating different active ingredients. The ingredients have been selected in advance to characterize effectiveness and safeness of the realized advanced medical devices, innovate cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals, packed by biodegradable containers. This proposal could be useful to make innovative products that able to improve human health and beauty, may contribute to safeguard the environmental conditions reducing the food and agro-forestry waste and slowing down the global Green House Gas (GHG) emissions invading our planet. At this purpose and to better understand the great problems caused by this increasing pollution. The paper will start giving a look on the land and ocean waste that continuously invaded by plastic and microplastic became dangerous for the health of humans animals and the environment. Moreover, some considerations will be reported regarding production and use of biopolymers which including chitin nanofibrils and Nanolignin have been utilized from our research group for making the proposed innovative biodegradable cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals. In conclusion its considered necessary to change the today way of producing and consuming not only reducing the actual food loss and waste, but also becoming to utilize innovative cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals and clothes made by biodegradable polymers finally adopting the circular economy.

Keywords:Waste; Microplastics; Cosmeceuticals; Nutraceuticals; Polymers; Chitin nanofibril; Lignin Tissues; Carriers