Glitter is the ultimate supervillain of the craft and makeup world: Charming, but insidious. Use it once, and you’ll be vacuuming it out of the carpet and picking it from under your nails until ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. The confetti and glitter is ...

As a scientist, that worries me. Glitter is incorporated into consumer products without any real knowledge of its safety. In contrast, there are dozens of scientific papers on micro-bead scrubbers ...

Glitter's Sparkle Hides A Darker Side - It Can Change The Chemistry Of Our Oceans We tend to think of microplastics as tiny beads from face scrubs or fibres from clothes, but glitter is in its own ...

Mardi Gras may be over, but it will likely look like Mardi Gras for a while. All you have to do is look up. From Rio up to the King’s parade, year after year, Carnival season leaves its mark on ...

Glitter has long been a hot topic in the microplastics conversation, including the one happening in the United States. In 2015 the FDA banned the use of microplastic beads in cleansers ...