Looking your best requires a skincare ritual that effectively helps encourage healthy skin cell turnover. As we age, facial scrubs are a must in our weekly regimen. However, many options that buff your skin to youthful perfection often include plastic microbeads.

These tiny balls of plastic are in all sorts of beauty products, though they are often touted as the physical exfoliant that help you slough away dead skin cells on the surface. While they work, they are hugely problematic – they soak up all the toxins in the water, then get washed down the drain.

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