Beat the Microbead for Android

I like this app that informs people about micro plastics and the overall harm. However I wish that when I scan the product and it comes up with the micro plastics that are in the product that it says a detailed description of why it is bad. Like a hyper link on the name or something because I find myself just googling them all after seeing it and it would be more informative and helpful if you used reliable sources on the names that appear. But I overall enjoy bringing light to the problem of micro plastics.

I was feeling iffy about what’s in my products and going on my body. I was reading an older National Geographic article about micro plastics and they mentioned this app. I tested it in my son’s bath bubble foam by taking a pic; it recognized and verified the ingredients as safe. Since it wasn’t in the database I added the product name and category. I feel like this is a great concept they worked hard on and we should all do our part to use it to start cutting back on products that contribute to the microplastic problem. We should all try to scan and update products into the database. There’s millions of products out there, so it’s understandable we won’t see them all here preloaded, but at least it can read our labels with the scan feature. Let’s do this!!

I created a website called the AAEPS 5 years ago. I learned about micro beads and the harm they cause to they environment. I got this app right away and now I use it on a regular basis. BEAT THE BEAD!

I wish it worked. First, it instantly locks onto anything with one or more vertical lines, a corner of of the bar code or a border line and tells you the product is not recognized. Took six tries to get the whole bar code pictured. It reported not recognized on products that have microbeads. Never recognized anything even with a sharp, complete image taken.

The app is a great idea; that is if it actually worked. Was so excited downloading the app, but after scanning things at my home, mostly Bath & Body Works and Aveeno and Colgate and Clinique, all I kept getting was message "this product is still unknown"...deleting the app