TikTok has long been the home of questionable health trends, and the latest one involves people eating and drinking scoops of laundry detergent because it contains borax. Borax is a salt that contains ...

Social media is home to plenty of questionable health trends. The latest has people ingesting borax, a laundry detergent booster, in hopes of treating a variety of ailments. MORE HEALTH Dahlia flower ...

Maybe you remember the “life-threatening” Tide Pod challenge of 2018, in which people were dared to eat the laundry detergent, leading to several deaths. Now there’s an “insane” new online trend that ...

This old-fashioned, all-natural detergent booster can be safe for some applications. Fact checked by Marcus Reeves Decades ...

Borax is a naturally occurring mineral with industrial and household uses. It is a soft, white, many-sided crystal powder that dissolves readily in water. Borax can be a laundry detergent booster, ...