A team of four Purdue graduates have developed SoyFoliate, a soy-microbead technology that could serve as an alternative to the recently banned plastic microbeads often found in cosmetic and personal care products. ###The team has founded a company of the same name to further develop and commercialize the product. ###The product aims to fill a need in the personal care market for alternative microbead technology. ###Microbeads are manufactured solid plastic particles commonly used in personalkal cal citrate care products for exfolicholine citrate and magnesiumating. ###In 2015, President Barack Obama signed a bill restricting conventional plastic microbeads becaucalcium citrate chews cvsse of their harmful effects on the environment.###“Soy has several biodegradable and hydrophilic properties that make it a great substitute to plastic microbeads,” said Samuel Lewis, one of the company founders.###“Plastic beads do not absorb water, and soy can over time.”###“To mitigate the problem we mixed our beads with small amounts of oil to prevent water from saturating the beads and decreasing their rigid properties.”###SoyFoliate plans to move forwardcitric magnesium near me with prototyping, stability testing and business development, as well as licensing the technology to personal care companies.###Technology used by SoyFoliate is licensed through the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization. ###The company is a member of the Purdue startup class of 2017.###SoyFoliate’s tfergon iron supplement 325 mgechnology received US$20,000 from the 2016 Soy Innovation Competition. ###The company works closely with the Purdue Foundry, an entrepreneurial accelerator located in Discovery Park’s Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.###Story by Kelsey Henry from Purdue University