Personal care products (PCP) are substances used for health, beauty and hygiene purposes, and are classified as emerging contaminants. Parabens (alkyl-p-hydroxybenzoates), included among the PCPs, are considered endocrine disrupters and found in river waters and effluents from wastewater treatment plants, at concentrations ranging from ng L -1 to μg L -1 . The presence of these compounds in environmental matrices reinforces the importance of alternative effluent treatments, such as membrane bioreactors (MBR) and advanced oxidation processes (AOP) based on activated persulfate (PS). The MBR combines a biological reactor and membrane separation membranes, standing out as an alternative to obtain good quality effluents, with contaminants removed by sorption, biodegradation and/or physical retention. In contrast, the AOP based on activated persulfate uses sulfate radicals as oxidizing species for the degradation of pollutants. This work aimed to evaluate the removal of methylparaben (MeP) and propylparaben (PrP) by the MBR process, as well as to investigate the degradation of these compounds by using persulfate activated with UVA radiation (UVA/PS) or zero valence iron (Fe 0 /PS). The results showed that the MBR process achieved 95.9% MeP and PrP removals ([parabens]0 = 0.5 mg L -1 ), and 85% PrP removal ([PrP]0 = 10 mg L -1 ). However, the degradation of MeP and PrP in the mixture (50-500 μg L -1 , each) by the UVA/PS process exhibited the interference of one paraben over the other. It was therefore decided to investigate the degradation of only PrP (1 mg L -1 ) via UVA/PS and Fe 0 /PS. For the UVA/PS process (120 min), the higher the irradiance and the initial PS concentration, the shorter the PrP half-life time, with a minimum t1/2 of 37.9 min and maximum removal of 77.3%. For Fe 0 /PS (15 min), a minimum t1/2 equal to 0.65 min was achieved for [PS]0 = 5.38 mmol L -1 and [Fe 0 ]0 = 51.6 mg L -1 , with percent removals higher than 97% for all the experiments performed. In these cases, the identification of PrP degradation intermediates for the UVA/PS and Fe 0 /PS processes allowed to prove the formation of propyl benzoate, methyl benzoate, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and MeP. Finally, regarding the post-treatment of the MBR permeate, lower PrP removals of 24.5% for the UVA/PS process (120 min), and 61.2% for Fe 0 /PS (90 min) were obtained, which are due to the effect of the complex aqueous matrix.