Your toothbrush bristles may not be the only plastic you put in your mouth this morning — what you probably assume are flavor crystals in your toothpaste may actually be plastic microbeads. And soon, ...

A popular ingredient in beauty products could be creating a new environmental threat. The potentially dangerous contaminants are known as "microbeads," and are no bigger than a grain of salt. The tiny ...

Microbeads are tiny balls of plastic, less than a millimetre in diameter. They supply a gentle but abrasive texture to many different products that we use to cleanse ourselves—facial exfoliants, body ...

Without synthetic, plasticky fabrics, we’d have no yoga pants for yoga-ing, no stretchy socks, no water-wicking sweatshirts. We may wear these plastic-infused clothes once, throw them in the washing ...

The dangers of using health and beauty products with microbeads have been explored in a paper published this week in at the ACS. With the American Chemical Society, researchers have (once again) ...

The United States is poised to ban microbeads, minuscule pieces of plastic found in personal care products like face and body washes, toothpastes, and soap, after studies showed they cause significant ...

ON JULY 30th Canada’s Conservative government announced it intends to ban the use of microbeads in personal-care products. The Netherlands has already imposed an unofficial ban on them, which should ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fish are eating plastic microbeads, which are capable of attracting and releasing toxic chemicals, scientists say. Australian and ...

Face washes and exfoliants containing microbeads—those tiny beads that scrub off dirt, impurities, and dead skin cells—are no longer. President Obama signed a bill on December 30 that bans the use of ...