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Borax, a white, powdery substance, has long been a staple in many households as a cleaning agent and laundry detergent booster. Now, the substance is making the rounds on social media with some people ...

The recent posts are not the first time it’s been claimed borax can serve as a natural remedy. This YouTube video, posted in 2018, says, “borax is a popular and effective natural remedy for over 100 ...

Another day, another slew of social media posts promoting dangerous activities in the name of health. In a callback to the TidePod-eating trend from a few years ago, the latest TikTok trend has people ...

In the latest health fad to alarm and exasperate medical experts, people on TikTok have cheerily “hopped on the borax train” and are drinking and soaking in the toxic cleaning product based on false ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — Yet another new, unsafe trend is ...

Also known by its chemical name sodium borate decahydrate, borax is a salt typically used to kill ants and boost laundry detergent, among other household cleaning needs. It is also found in some kinds ...