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Does Nuxe Use Microplastics?

The short answer

Roughly half of the Nuxe products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of the 14 Nuxe products on Open Beauty Facts with a readable ingredient list, 8 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer — 57%. The one that came up most was Acrylates Crosspolymer, in 6 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 14 of the 55 Nuxe 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 Nuxe ingredient lists

IngredientProductsWhy it's flagged
Acrylates Crosspolymer6 of 14Acrylate / vinyl polymer
PEG (Polyethylene Glycol)2 of 14PEG / glycol
Dimethicone2 of 14Silicone
Hydrogenated Polyisobutene1 of 14Microplastic polymer
BHT / BHA1 of 14Plasticiser / chemical of concern
Dimethicone Crosspolymer1 of 14Silicone
Methicone1 of 14Silicone

Example products

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

Nuxe Prodigieux - huile de douche packaging

Prodigieux - huile de douche

2 flagged ingredients

NUXE RÊVE DE MIEL GEL LAVANT packaging

NUXE RÊVE DE MIEL GEL LAVANT

2 flagged ingredients

Nuxe crème fraîche de beauté packaging

crème fraîche de beauté

2 flagged ingredients

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Nuxe use microplastics?

Roughly half of the Nuxe products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of 14 Nuxe products with a readable ingredient list on Open Beauty Facts, 8 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer (57%). This is label data, not lab testing, and a flagged ingredient is not automatically harmful.

Which ingredients are flagged in Nuxe products?

Most frequently: Acrylates Crosspolymer (6 of 14), PEG (Polyethylene Glycol) (2 of 14), Dimethicone (2 of 14), Hydrogenated Polyisobutene (1 of 14), BHT / BHA (1 of 14). Each has its own page explaining what it is and how concerned to be.

Is Nuxe 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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