The best microbead-free scrubs | Sali Hughes

The plastic pollutants have finally been outlawed. Good riddance: there are many cruelty-free, vegan exfoliants On 9 January, the use of plastic microbeads in rinse-off beauty products and toiletries was finally outlawed, after years of campaigning by environmental groups and more responsible sections of the beauty industry. Good riddance, I say, since microbeads – those tiny, coloured, plastic spheres suspended in scrubs and shower gels, ostensibly to “exfoliate” dead ski