Tiny plastic particles are often used in your cosmetics and personal care products as a scrubbing agent, emulsifying agent or just as cheap fillers! Washing your face or brushing your teeth with the cosmetics containing microplastics can harm the ocean, yourself and your children. Beat the Microbead!
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The world of microplastics contains many confusing terms, so for this article, we decided to discuss two of the most commonly used microplastics: Polyethylene and Acrylates Copolymer. Microplastics have been intentionally added to cosmetic products since the 1960s and are now found everywhere, even in the …
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Every time you use the Olaz ‘anti-wrinkle Firm & Lift’ cream, you put about 90,000 plastic particles on your face! Some plastic particles in this facial cream are smaller than the average diameter of a human hair (60-80 μm). Can they enter our body and interfere …
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The Best of Beauty Awards are given every year by Allure Magazine to help readers choose the best products among the vast variety of makeup, skin-care, and hair-care products on the market. This year we decided to review the 2018 Beauty Winners and find out whether …
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BEAT THE MICROBEAD COALITION: “THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH!” Amsterdam, 30 January 2019 – The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) proposed today, on request of the European Commission, to ban intentionally added microplastics in cosmetics, detergents, paints, agricultural and industrial products. These …
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