{"id":440,"date":"2016-05-01T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturalcollection.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-05-03T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T11:33:44","slug":"do-you-know-the-dangers-of-microbeads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalcollection.com\/blog\/beauty\/do-you-know-the-dangers-of-microbeads\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know The Dangers Of Microbeads?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The numbers are staggering: there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. Of that mass, 269,000 tons float on the surface, while some four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometre litter the deep sea.”<\/em> – Laura Parker in National Geographic. Have you noticed that sometimes in your exfoliators, shower gels, facewashes, toothpastes, etc, contain little balls? These plastic balls are called microbeads, and they’re becoming a bit of a problem.<\/p>\n

When you wash the product off the mircobeads head down the drain. Will water filters and treatment plants pick them up? Unfortunately not\u00a0as they’re so small, so they’re ending up straight into the oceans and have been found\u00a0in\u00a0the stomachs of marine animals!\u00a0It could start to cause an even bigger problem if the issue with the microbeads starts to move further up the food chain.<\/p>\n

These beads will not naturally break down or vanish – they’re completely plastic and non-biodegradable. These microbeads are causing issues that could easily be avoided simply by replacing them with other natural ingredients which also act as an exfoliant and do the same job or even better. Some natural and more environmental alternatives are:<\/p>\n