Homemade Tooth Powder and Facial Scrub Recipes, Sans Plastic Microbeads
Are you still rubbing plastic all over your face?
Since I first reported on microbeads–those tiny bits of plastic added to facial scrubs, toothpaste, and other personal care products–in 2007 and then again in 2013, the NY Times has reported on them, several U.S. states have passed legislation to ban them, Canada is on the verge of banning them, and the Story of Stuff Project has created a video and campaign to get other states and countries to follow suit. (Please follow that link, if you haven’t already, to take action and ask your representatives to ban microbeads where you live.)
But the trouble with some of the proposed legislation is that it allows companies to switch to “biodegradable” plastic microbeads. That’s a problem because most “biodegradable” plastics will not actually biodegrade in the cold waters of the ocean, making them just as much of a problem as the original… Read the rest
