Enter the Jack Black Charcoal Body Bar Massaging Soap ($15, Amazon), a product that looks like a basic bar of soap but is actually so much more.It contains charcoal and jojoba beads, both of which ...

Congress has approved legislation banning plastic microbeads used in soaps, body washes and other personal-care products after complaints that the tiny beads were harming fish and wildlife.

The beads are also common in toothpastes and body washes. The microbeads are, as their name promises, small—as small as 0.355 millimeters across in some cases.

The bill would ban the tiny plastic beads. The House will consider a bipartisan bill banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics after it passed out of committee with unanimous support Wednesday.

Soy-based beads are safe for the environment, unlike the plastic beads that can damage the environment and harm animals. Samuel Lewis, Steve Ferris and Alison Switzer, all third-year students in ...

Let’s fight about soap. What’s there to discuss, you ask? Plenty, if new consumer research is to be believed. Apparently, there is a serious ideological divide when it comes to bar soap and ...

Why Those Tiny Microbeads In Soap May Pose Problem For Great Lakes The plastic beads in some face soaps look a lot like fish food when they end up in the water. Two states are close to banning the ...

If you use exfoliating soaps, you might not know those little beads may be made of plastic – or think about what happens to them when they go down the drain. CNN values your feedback 1.