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Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:31 am  |
I was dismayed to find out that cosmetics manufacturers are still using plastic microbeads and microparticles in their exfoliating products.
These particles - listed in ingredients as polyethylene, oxidized polyethylene, polypropylene - don't get filtered out of our waste water, they wind up in rivers, lakes and oceans. For more information, google '5 Gyres microbeads' or #banthebead.
Please don't buy these products if you want clean food and water in the future.
Other methods of exfoliating:
scrubs using sugar, salt or apricot kernels
dry brushing
glycolic acid or other AHAs |
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Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:39 pm |
This article was reported in the Los Angeles Times newspaper months ago.
I agree there is better methods of exfoliating. One you did not mention; an old fashioned wash cloth for sensitive skin. |
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Canadian with fair skin. 50+ years old sensitive and reactive. |
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Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:35 am |
Thankgod I never found them effective and stopped buying them before the new millennium. Same with microfiber, I always thought they were suspicious and I only once let myself fall for a hype (NCN cloth - too harsh) and now they also find tiny fragments used in microfiber textiles and such in water and animals, plus they absorb and emit all sorts of chemicals they come in contact with.
I generally think there is way too much plastic with unknown chemicals all around us. Is why I wonder why people protest against deodorants while they wear syntheric clothes, eat out of Tupperware and drink out of plastic bottles and whatelse not. But then again, there are many things I don't understand. |
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Do what all good pragmatists do. Compromise. |
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Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:20 am |
| I totally agree with the OP. These products are so harmful and not even effective. I definetely avoid these. |
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