Some beauty products are used almost every day—shampoo, bodywash, skin creams—meaning that consumers go through large amounts of product: we could each use 800 bottles of shampoo in our lifetime.

National Geographic Explorer Lillygol Sedaghat investigates how and why we must make beauty products more sustainable across every stage of their six-stage lifecycle. National Geographic CreativeWorks ...

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From a favorite bodywash to occasional luxuries, the average American woman uses 12 personal care products a day—a man as many as six. But what’s the story behind these products? A growing ...

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A version of this story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... cycle old materials back into high-value products—with an emphasis on long-lasting design ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... A flowerpot, one of Polymateria’s experimental products, could take up to two years to dissolve if tossed ...