Not all that glitters....

This is just a quick heads up.

The topic is: 

Which we have adapted into EVERYTHING lately. Cups, shoes, plates, bowls, makeup, hair gels, body paint, toys, even we started eating it - its on cakes, in drinks, on top of muffins and cupcakes...

But despite the label "safe to eat" it isn't really. It is supposed to pass through our digestive system without any harm, however it is only passed the FSA test if it says "food contact glitter" - this product is usually just coloured sugar. The actual glitter that are on top of food can be "non-toxic" which is literally just won't kill you nor harm you in any serious way, however is not advised that you eat vast amounts of it, and can be "for removable decorations" which you should avoid eating for the reason that it is just for decorating purposes - you won't eat the candles either.

It is probably just my discomfort with this topic, because I am a kind of person who is baffled by the idea of eating anything that doesn't look like food - including the food that has been overdosed with food colouring. 

Meanwhile they look extremely pretty, I just don't think we should eat anything that resembles Christmas decorations... that is obviously just my personal opinion and while I would probably still be opposed, here is something you should know: Fish mistake it for food, and eat it, and they can't really read a label that says if it is safe to eat or not. While scientists say the ban on glitter is now premature due to the lack of research, I believe all plastics that aren't biodegradable are a possible threat and we should probably start doing and not wait around until it ends up being a much bigger problem. That is what we have done with normal plastic, waited and waited until we now have the GGP - and we still fail to make an effort to change the way we live. Glitter is a type of micro plastic that I have mentioned on the previous post before, and we have already known that it is a no no to produce and release micro plastics because they are dangerous to our oceans habitats. In the UK, they are already planning to ban micro beads - the type that we use to exfoliate our skin and can be found in tooth paste.  ( In the US they are already partially banned).

Glitter is very similar to these exfoliating micro beads, if not even worse. We make them in even smaller particles, just think about a shimmery eyeshadow or shower gel. 

We have realized that plastic is bad, and micro beads are bad, and cutting down the rainforests is bad, and dying coral reefs are also bad..... we are keep adding things to the bad list, not the banned list or the to do list. 

Why is it more important whose capital is Jerusalem than we might not have a habitable environment in a couple of decades? We focus so much on our mundane problems and politics that we forget that we are causing a great deal of harm even to ourselves. 

Please try to stay away from non biodegradable glitter products in the future.

If you are a die-hard glitter lover, there are obviously eco-friendly glitter options that you could check out, which decompose in the matter of months in contrast of normal glitter that could take up to hundreds of years to do just that. Lush got you covered if you have the need to still bathe in glitter.

In an ideal world, we wouldn't make such idiotic ideas as glitter - however pretty it is - into a hype, encouraging companies to produce tons of it to include in their products. But since it is not an ideal world, we are stuck with the option that those of us who are trying to warn and educate must try to convince the rest of the world to at least be more considerate of the products they are buying and don't just walk around the world as mindless consumers. 

If everyone would decide to at least research 50% of the products they spend money on, they could probably do some good to the environment... especially when in comes to things like products containing harmful ingredients. 

So just remember that all that glitters is not gold.