Don’t Cover Yourself in Glitter and Run Into the Ocean

I am full on dragging a product I’ve never tried today, but for good reason. Look at what showed up as an ad for me:

Glitter sunscreen. If you don’t think about it, it sounds pretty great. Antioxidants! Paraben free! Cruelty free! Vegan! It even is somewhat ocean aware and is oxybenzone free. (Though it still contains octinoxate, making it toxic to marine life.)

But it has glitter. Some shimmers aren’t plastic, but polyethylene terephthalate and polymethyl methacrylate definitely are. Plastic in the ocean is a huge problem. This week a sperm whale washed up on a beach with 64 pounds of plastic in its stomach that led to its death. Microplastics are everywhere (in your food! bottled water!) and this company wants you to jump into the ocean covered in it. I don’t care how nice it smells or how fun it is, don’t run into the ocean covered in glitter.

Actually, don’t jump into any body of water covered in glitter. Remember the water cycle? All water goes back to the ocean.

Let’s all collectively quit glitter.

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