Personal Care Products and Human Health
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2023
- Editor: Philippa D. Darbre
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 6 8 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 6 8 5 - 3
Personal Care Products and Human Health provides background, historical context and the latest research results on personal care products (PCPs) and their impact on human health an… Read more
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Request a sales quotePersonal Care Products and Human Health provides background, historical context and the latest research results on personal care products (PCPs) and their impact on human health and the environment. Sections provide an overview of the functions and mechanisms of action of components of personal care products, discuss environmental toxicology, outline the problems of contamination of water systems from increasing use of personal care products and the resulting toxicities to aquatic wildlife, and offer chapters written by specialists on different aspects of concern for the effects of excessive personal care product usage on human health.
This is a comprehensive reference for toxicologists, environment scientists and those interested in learning about the science behind personal care products and current concerns for environmental and human health.
- Provides an overview of the mechanisms of action of components used in personal care products
- Reviews environmental contamination arising from increasing use of personal care products
- Examines concerns for human health arising from increasing use of personal care products
Toxicologists, Environment Scientists, and those interested in learning about the science behind personal care products and current evidence justifying concerns for environmental and human health, Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the life sciences and medical disciplines, regulators, non-government organizations (NGOs), poison control centers, and industry professionals
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1. Introduction to the constituents of PCPs and their functions
- Chapter 1. Introduction to personal care products
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Historical background
- 1.3. Sites of exposure of the human body to personal care products
- 1.4. Functional components of personal care products
- 1.5. Cosmeceuticals
- 1.6. Age- and gender-targeted products
- 1.7. Product format and packaging
- 1.8. Benefits, adverse effects, and arising concerns
- 1.9. Concluding comments
- Chapter 2. Overview of constituent compounds with concerns for adverse effects on human health
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Widely used constituent chemicals with arising human health concerns
- 2.3. Nanomaterials
- 2.4. Natural versus synthetic compounds
- 2.5. Long-term low-dose mixtures
- 2.6. Early life exposures
- 2.7. Concluding comments
- Chapter 3. Nanomaterials
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Inorganic nanoparticles in sunscreens
- 3.3. Use of gold and silver nanoparticles
- 3.4. Other inorganic nanoparticles
- 3.5. Organic nanoparticles
- 3.6. Concluding comments
- Chapter 4. Cosmeceuticals
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Antiaging cosmeceuticals
- 4.3. Skin whitening and depigmentation
- 4.4. Hair care cosmeceuticals
- 4.5. Wound healing and antiinflammatory cosmeceuticals
- 4.6. Antimicrobial and personal pest control cosmeceuticals
- 4.7. Disorder-related cosmeceuticals
- 4.8. Aromatherapy
- 4.9. Concluding comments
- Chapter 5. Plant-based ingredients in personal care products
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Essential oils
- 5.3. Phytoestrogens
- 5.4. Plant-based colorants
- 5.5. Plant-based sun protection
- 5.6. Plant-based oils, fats, and waxes
- 5.7. Plant-based preservatives
- 5.8. Plant-based detergents
- 5.9. Plant-based wound healing
- 5.10. Plant-based skin lightening
- 5.11. Plant cell culture for sustainable production of plant extracts
- 5.12. Concluding comments
- Section 2. Environmental monitoring and human exposure
- Chapter 6. Water pollution by personal care products
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Occurrence of PCP in water bodies
- 6.3. Main classes of compounds and materials contained in personal care products
- 6.4. Sustainable cosmetics production
- Chapter 7. Human exposure and uptake into human tissues
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Parabens
- 7.3. Triclosan and triclocarban
- 7.4. UV filters
- 7.5. Synthetic musks
- 7.6. Phthalates
- 7.7. Aluminium
- 7.8. Cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes
- 7.9. Concluding comments
- Section 3. Human health concerns
- Chapter 8. Contact dermatitis
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Global burden and increasing prevalence of PCP-related contact dermatitis
- 8.3. Anatomical sites of PCP-related contact dermatitis
- 8.4. Causative PCP components
- 8.5. Concluding comments
- Chapter 9. Respiratory irritation and sensitization
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. The respiratory tract as a target for inhaled ingredients of personal care products
- 9.3. Components of personal care products as pollutants of indoor air
- 9.4. Occupational asthma in beauty salon workers
- 9.5. Fragrance and asthma
- 9.6. Talcum powder
- 9.7. Nanoparticles
- 9.8. Early life exposures and adult lung function
- 9.9. Concluding comments
- Chapter 10. Endocrine disruption
- 10.1. Introduction: What are endocrine-disrupting chemicals and where are they found in personal care products?
- 10.2. Evidence that endocrine-disrupting chemicals are absorbed from dermal application of personal care products
- 10.3. Evidence that chemical constituents of personal care products possess endocrine-disrupting properties
- 10.4. Evidence that endocrine-disrupting chemicals contained in personal care products can affect human health
- 10.5. Concluding comments
- Chapter 11. Early life exposure and developmental consequences
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Evidence for placental transfer of chemicals in personal care products
- 11.3. Evidence for transfer of chemicals in personal care products during breast feeding
- 11.4. Early life exposures and disruption of endocrine-regulated developmental pathways
- 11.5. Early life exposures and susceptibility to dermatitis
- 11.6. Early life exposures and susceptibility to respiratory disease
- 11.7. Early life exposures and susceptibility to cancer development
- 11.8. Concluding comments
- Chapter 12. Development of cancer
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Chemical ingredients in personal care products and the hallmarks of cancer
- 12.3. Individual susceptibility and lifestyle choices
- 12.4. Lifestyle choices and the tumor microenvironment
- 12.5. Personal care products and breast cancer
- 12.6. Personal care products and cancers in other endocrine-sensitive tissues
- 12.7. Personal care products and endocrine therapy of cancer
- 12.8. Talcum powder and ovarian cancer
- 12.9. Sun care products and skin cancer
- 12.10. Concluding comments
- Chapter 13. Aluminum and its carcinogenic traits
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Carcinogens and carcinogenic metals
- 13.3. Aluminum
- 13.4. Conclusions
- Section 4. Regulatory considerations
- Chapter 14. Regulatory considerations and public education
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. How is regulation brought about in different countries?
- 14.3. Challenges for risk assessment of personal care products
- 14.4. Role of nongovernmental organizations and the mass media
- 14.5. Use of the precautionary principle
- 14.6. Need for public education
- 14.7. Concluding comments
- Index
- No. of pages: 408
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323996846
- eBook ISBN: 9780323996853
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Philippa D. Darbre
Professor Philippa Darbre is Professor Emeritus in Oncology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading in the UK. She is an academic scientist who has been carrying out research into estrogen action in breast cancer for over 40 years and has been investigating the role of estrogen-mimicking chemicals since before the term “endocrine disruption” came into being in the early 1990s. She trained as a biochemist and holds the degrees of BScHons from the University of Birmingham, UK (1973) and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK (1977). Her postdoctoral research began at the Molecular Medicine Institute at the University of Oxford where she held the first Nuffield Medical Research Fellowship of the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Hugh’s College. In 1981, she moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund laboratories in central London (now Cancer Research UK) where she became Head of the Cellular Endocrinology Laboratory. In 1991, she moved to the University of Reading and retired to Emeritus status in 2017. From retirement, she continues research into the role of endocrine disrupting chemicals in breast cancer together with some teaching of undergraduates in endocrinology and cancer. She continues to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Toxicology, is patron of the charity “Canceractive” and is a member of the science panel of the charity, BreastCancer UK. She has written two books on molecular biology methods, has guest-edited a previous journal volume on endocrine disrupters, has published 150 peer-reviewed research papers, and served as founding editor of the first edition of the book, Endocrine Disruption and Human Health.
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Professor Emeritus of Oncology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UKRead Personal Care Products and Human Health on ScienceDirect