Hidden Microplastics In Tea, Shampoo & Everyday Products | Josephine Musco
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
4.8 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Beyoncé, Madonna, and Kendall Jenner trust her research and she says the tea industry is one of the most diabolical when it comes to plastic and lead exposure.
Josephine Musco, environmental health researcher, Vogue and Forbes contributor, and founder of Olyxir, has spent years studying how toxins infiltrate the body. Today, she's exposing the microplastics hiding in your tea, the skincare you're overpaying for, and the hormonal disruption happening every time you think you're taking care of yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | What should people who love to drink tea know? |
| 0:03.2 | There are no safe tea bags as far as I know. |
| 0:06.2 | These big tea companies that are making billions of dollars on the back of the consumers. |
| 0:10.5 | They know what's in their tea bags. |
| 0:11.9 | They know that when this tea bag is hitting the hot boiling water, what is releasing, all these microplastics. |
| 0:17.6 | And they just don't care. |
| 0:18.4 | Alexer is a legacy that I would like to leave behind me |
| 0:22.6 | and make the world a better place. |
| 0:24.6 | Nobody else was thinking to do this. |
| 0:26.6 | Nobody else was tackling this tea problem. |
| 0:28.6 | Did people think you were nuts? |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, and that's when I knew I was doing the right thing. |
| 0:31.6 | ... Your Clean Girl routine is lying to you. |
| 0:59.6 | The tea you love to drink, the skincare that's expensive, the designer clothes, and underneath |
| 1:04.8 | all of it, plastic. |
| 1:06.7 | Today we're exposing the invisible layer of modern wellness, how microplastics are impacting |
| 1:11.4 | fertility, hormones, and aging, the everyday exposures that you're not thinking about and why |
| 1:15.9 | you might be paying a premium for plastic. |
| 1:18.5 | Joining me is Josephine Musco, founder of Elixir, a completely plastic-free tea, and environmental |
| 1:24.7 | health researcher whose work on toxins, inflammation, and cellular aging has been featured in Vogue and Forbes, |
| 1:29.3 | entrusted by names like Beyonce, Madonna, Kendall Jenner, and Anastasia Beverly Hills. |
| 1:33.6 | Watch this episode on the Real Alex Clark YouTube channel or Culture Apothecary on Spotify. |
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