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Does Klorane Use Microplastics?

The short answer

Most Klorane products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of the 33 Klorane products on Open Beauty Facts with a readable ingredient list, 24 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer — 73%. The one that came up most was Polyquaternium-10, in 7 of them.

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What this is. Ingredient-label data from Open Beauty Facts (snapshot 2026-07-31), not laboratory testing. Coverage is crowdsourced, partial and Europe-weighted, so this is 33 of the 70 Klorane entries in that database, and US formulations often differ. A flagged ingredient is not automatically harmful — a gel thickener and a solid microbead are both synthetic polymers and are not the same risk.

What comes up most in Klorane ingredient lists

IngredientProductsWhy it's flagged
Polyquaternium-107 of 33Acrylate / vinyl polymer
PEG (Polyethylene Glycol)7 of 33PEG / glycol
PEG-100 Stearate4 of 33PEG / glycol
BHT / BHA4 of 33Plasticiser / chemical of concern
Polyacrylate3 of 33Acrylate / vinyl polymer
Hydrogenated Polyisobutene3 of 33Microplastic polymer
Dimethicone3 of 33Silicone
PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil2 of 33PEG / glycol

Example products

Real entries from Open Beauty Facts, showing what the label lists.

Product images from Open Beauty Facts contributors, licensed CC BY-SA. Ingredient data under ODbL.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Klorane use microplastics?

Most Klorane products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of 33 Klorane products with a readable ingredient list on Open Beauty Facts, 24 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer (73%). This is label data, not lab testing, and a flagged ingredient is not automatically harmful.

Which ingredients are flagged in Klorane products?

Most frequently: Polyquaternium-10 (7 of 33), PEG (Polyethylene Glycol) (7 of 33), PEG-100 Stearate (4 of 33), BHT / BHA (4 of 33), Polyacrylate (3 of 33). Each has its own page explaining what it is and how concerned to be.

Is Klorane safe to use?

That is not a question label data can answer, and we will not pretend otherwise. This page reports which synthetic polymers appear in ingredient lists. Whether a given product suits you depends on the ingredient, its concentration, the product type, and your own skin and priorities. Use the per-ingredient pages to judge severity rather than treating any flag as a verdict.

How was this measured?

Products were pulled from the Open Beauty Facts API, filtered to those with a usable ingredient list, and every INCI token matched against our flagged ingredient database. Matching is token-level: an ingredient list is split on commas and each token yields at most one ingredient, so "dimethicone" is never also counted as "methicone". Snapshot 2026-07-31.

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