[smokingfrog]

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[rawhide]

This is a needed law, imho. Should go national.

[a fool in paradise]

Use Lava instead.

[Cicero]

It says they’re in some toothpastes, too, but nothing further in the article.

What toothpastes?

[Black Agnes]

Brown sugar is a great facial scrub. Rinses away cleanly too w/o the slimy after effects the other packaged scrubs leave behind.

[Ray76]

Tiny particles of silver are used in oder resistant insoles and socks. These particles lodge in fish gills causing problems.

[right way right]

I love the ground glass in Crest pro health toothpaste.
Nothing better.

[Ramius]

Coated with toxins like PCBs, the beads are often eaten by fish and other marine life.

Uh... Why are they coated with PCBs? And why are fish eating them?

[Roses0508]

Salt and sugar scrubs are easy, inexpensive to make and work better.

[Organic Panic]

Progressives will ALWAYS find a reason to ban anything.

I could invent a car that drives 1000 miles per gallon of raw sewage at 500 HP and they would try to ban the technology. Heck, even if my car ran on unicorn farts the EPA would find a fish that ONLY lives on unicorn farts and must be protected at all costs.