Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kwhitefoot 1932 days ago
> Regulate it out of common frivolous sources like e.g. "exfoliating microspheres"

Already done in the UK and US.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/skin/the-best-face-and-bo...

See also https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/reel.12269 https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/mic...

1 comments

It's far from done, and some would say not done at all, depending on the definition of microplastic. Microplastic in cosmetics is absolutely not even close to solved.

https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/2020/03/battle-on-t...