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A July 18 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows a TikTok video where a woman touts the supposed health benefits of ingesting borax, a household cleaner. "I've been using it for probably ...

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 ...

TikTokers are ingesting borax in a new trend viewers are calling "insane," and experts are calling "patently dangerous." The trend recently gained viral attention when TikTok user @chem.thug, a PhD ...

Meet your new secret weapon. When it comes to laundry boosters, borax has been a trusted household staple for generations. A ...

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 ...

People on TikTok are claiming that consuming borax can help treat different things, ranging from joint pain to eye swelling to mouth swelling to menstrual cramps to even cancer. (AP Photo/Matt York, ...

WTF?! Remember back in 2018 when people were posting TikTok (and YouTube) videos of themselves eating Tide Pods? What about the Kiki challenge of the same year when people would exit their moving car ...