microbeads!
I thought they were using natural materials like ground coffee. Did some of them actually use plastic beads?
I didn’t realize America has banned them. Good. I just figured they were a fad.
Hey we’re actually ahead of the EU in something!
I want to see more regulations around plastics. We have the ability to make biodegradable plastics and we can research better ones. Plastic is a bane to the environment.
Shit we can’t allow that. I’m gonna go to the Euro Parliament to lobby for banning 10 random things.
I’ve been wondering what happened to that fad. Amazing that they were banned! Let’s do more
Some used pumice (I think Lava Soap or something along those lines) but it’s more harsh than the plastic microbeads OP is referring to.
I know St Ives uses crushed up walnut shells and apricot pits for theirs.
I have been using that stuff for years and I’m very satisfied!
Can confirm as I am allergic to walnuts.
Yes, most used micro plastics for a long time, charcoal and coffee grounds are a fairly new advent in the last few years.
That’s really a shower thought…
A shower memory.
As opposed to metaphorical microplastics?
Figurative micro plastics.
Micro surgeries
I remember ads claiming it was cutting edge nanotechnology! And I thought oh cool, you mean like there are tiny robots running around in the shampoo? But no, it was microplastics.
Damn is that what they were? I thought it was sand
Exfoliating plastics!
I thought Axe Snakepeel was so cool. I thought it had titanium beads. Turns out, the beads were plastic and titanium (dioxide) was normal soap stuff (though I think just to artificially make the soap opaque). It disappeared before I was aware