EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
A woman who recently went down a rabbit hole about the insane Victorian-era beauty regimes is blissfully unaware that her skincare products have pretty harmful stuff in them too, concluding that she’s ‘so glad standards are higher now.’
Speaking to our reporter, Chelsea Rhodes, 31, says she can’t believe how stupid people were back in the day, stating that she had no idea such dangerous products were used in everyday items.
“Oh, they were so hardcore back then,” Chelsea remarked to a local reporter, taking a swig from her reusable coffee cup “Arsenic in lipstick, lead in foundation. I mean, can you imagine? Just slathering lead on your face every day for the sake of beauty! I don’t think women today would ever put up with something like that.”
Unbeknownst to Chelsea, her preferred exfoliating face scrub is packed with microbeads—a key culprit in the growing microplastics crisis that threatens oceans, marine life, and, ironically, the drinking water she refuses to sip unless filtered through activated charcoal.
“Lead was used in everything – makeup, medicine, house paint. It was the ‘miracle metal.’
“Just like asbestos was the ‘miracle mineral’”
Ironically enough, microplastics are just her generation’s version of both these things, with plastic regularly referred to as a ‘miracle material.’
“They even coated baby’s toys in it”, she says, unaware that plastic toys regularly release harmful chemicals, “I’m glad everything’s so much safer now.”
More to come.
