The German chemical maker Evonik Industries is launching two new silica products that it says can replace polyethylene microbeads in personal care products. The beads are added to shower gels and face ...
Remember microbeads? Tiny plastic spheres, you might have had in your face wash or toothpaste a few years ago. You won’t have seen them recently though, thanks to a UK ban on microbeads in products ...
West Lafayette, IN, July 31, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recent graduates from Purdue University have started a company to further develop and bring to market their SoyFoliate innovation, a soy microbead ...
In 1976, a Norwegian chemical engineer by the name of John Ugelstad sat down in his laboratory and achieved something that had only been accomplished in the controlled, low-gravity environs of space.
Plastic microbeads, those tiny troublemakers found in the personal care products of the early 1990s to the late 2010s, wreak havoc on the environment. These minuscule bits, smaller than a sesame seed, ...
Imagine a perfectly round, plastic ball smaller than a pinhead. That’s what a microbead is. They’ve been included in facial scrubs, toothpaste, household cleaners and other products that exfoliate for ...
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