Doctors say the #borax TikTok health trend is more dangerous than beneficial. Here’s what you need to know. Scroll through TikTok under #borax, and you’ll find users recommending the cleaning agent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Borax, also called sodium tetraborate, is a powdery white mineral that has been used as a cleaning product for several decades. It has many uses: It helps get rid of stains, mold, and mildew around ...

5:39 Going viral: Health misinformation spreading on social media such as TikTok Borax, a versatile household cleaner, finds its place as a laundry detergent, a pesticide for ants and cockroaches and ...

Every few months, a new wellness trend sweeps social media, while some of them are effective and harmless, others are questionable, and a few make the doctors genuinely concerned. The latest to enter ...