Good to know, I didn't know about the microbeads either. I used to make body products and I bought something similar to microbeads to add to my soap & lotions, but these were essentially little balls of hard oil that would dissolve in hot water or with lots of friction - I had to be careful not to add them to the raw soap when it was still too hot or they turned into smears. Seems like a simple alternative to plastic microbeads, I didn't even know they were plastic! That seems like just a bad idea right from the start.