Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I totally thought those were some kind of thing that would dissolve at first. I thankfully just didn’t like those body washes anyway, but I was super disappointed when I found out those ‘exfoliating beads’ were just micro plastic. What evil fuck ok’d that decision?
It would have been a chemist right? At some point some chemist who knew they don’t dissolve pitched the idea that their company could use microplastics.
A search engine that could pull up meetings in company minutes would be so much fun. A mini wikileaks that acted as a repository for internal emails would be so much fun. Something like www.climatefiles.com/collection-index/
Somebody somewhere figured out that you can sell grit to women if you refer to it as “exfoliant.” Because that terrycloth towel you’re going to dry yourself with isn’t nearly rough enough to remove dead skin cells, right girls?
Meanwhile washing a man is mostly a matter of degreasing which is why a man’s shower has one bottle of mostly sodium laurel sulfate in it labeled “everything wash.”
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It didn’t have to be an evil fuck. Could have just been an ignorant fuck. “Do not attribute to malice what can easily be explained by ignorance”.
Disregarding what we know now: it would be great to have an exfoliating bead that didn’t break down or decay. I used it, sometimes, and it worked well for its intended purpose. We just didn’t think anything about it, and they probably didn’t, either.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hanlon’s Razor should be required curriculum in all schools