Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, introduced a bill in California in February that would have required microbead products to be off shelves by Jan. 1, 2016, but it fell one vote short of ...

Microbead-less beautyNow that manufacturers are being banned from adding microbeads to their beauty products, these are the alternative scrubs that you should be using instead. Microbeads have ...

If the microbead ban has filled you with dread at the prospect of having to source new beauty products for your daily self-care regime, have no fear. There are a number of microbead-free products ...

Politics & Government Environmentalists pan microbead ban pushed by beauty industry By Melissa Santos - Staff writer January 28, 2015 7:57 PM ...

Just ask this person who got a microbead stuck in their pore while washing their face. Luckily, they did what any person would do in an emergency — go straight to the internet to find out how to ...

Though legislators agree there should be a microbead ban in the Great Lakes State — and even the Washington-based Personal Care Products Council concurs — there is disagreement over whether ...

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The Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 ensures “any solid plastic particle” less than 5 millimeters in size will no longer be used as an exfoliant in soaps, face washes and, yes, even toothpaste.

But the New York State Assembly, last week, approved legislation by a 108-0 vote that would ban the tiny beads as a handful of other states also are in the process of considering outlawing the beads.

If you were to get a microbead stuck in your skin, you can pretty much follow the Redditor’s advice. ‘Avoid fingers or fingernails as this is likely to damage the surrounding tissue and ...

The UK now has one of world’s toughest microbead bans By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN 2 minute read Published 11:12 AM EST, Tue January 9, 2018 ...