Microbeads in Soap are Bad for Water Quality

Those tiny exfoliating beads found in face scrubs and other concoctions are made of plastic. Like all plastic, they don’t break down in the environment and now we’ve found that they are bad for the lake environment. Illinois has banned microbeads in soaps because they are getting into the food chain of the Great Lakes.

Learn more by reading:

• Why Those Little Plastic Microbeads In Your Soap Are So Bad
• Illinois Bans the Microbeads in Soap That are Ruining the Great Lakes