Most of the high concentrations are in sprays, which makes some intuitive sense, as they sunscreen has to be suspended and propelled, which I imagine takes some fancy chemicals to do. Most neutrogena lotions are fine for example.
Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
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If anybody ever wondered, this is a concrete example of what it looks like when a company treats its negative externalities as a "cost of doing business".
this is interesting. Given the biodiversity of human beings, it should be safe to say that any product may have negative consequences at scale. Certainly the HN crowd can appreciate what it means to work at scale. The fact that J&J knows these consequences exist and plans for them makes them evil? If your company planned on extra engineering resources strictly to assist launch issues, is that evil? Evil comes from th…
There are benzene-free sunscreen products on the market and J&J could sell such products, but instead they decide not to in order to make more profit.
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#93How much compared to the amount you inhale or get on your skin at a gas station?
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#94What if skin cancer was actually caused by sun screen? Wouldn't that be ironic, don't ya think?
You can get throat cancer from simply drinking hot water daily for extended periods of time. In which case, water itself is the carcinogen with applied heat. Same with drinking way too hot of coffee for extended years. The dose makes the poison, and nearly everything (including water, a solvent itself) can become a carcinogen.
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#95My family recently went through the search for a decent sunscreen and settled on this link for useful info about which sunscreens have nasty chemicals: https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/ Our search was not exhaustive (and I can't really vouch for the link that was used) so if you have a better link, please don't keep it a secret.
Thanks. As amazing as the internet is for being such a wealth of information, at the same time simple questions like "which damn sunscreen should I buy" can end in hours of scrolling and wheel-spinning. Sites like this help a lot (as long as there's not a billion of them).
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Funny you say that because I specially like the smell of gasoline, kind of like smell of glue or diesel exhaust. I know, kind of weird but I know a lot of other people who are in the same boat.
I've heard but cannot verify that eating more potassium will make it smell bad again. That is, that a mineral deficiency may cause some things to smell good that otherwise wouldn't.
Funny how seemingly unrelated stuff tells you something as fundamental as this about someone. I wonder what other deep secrets about our lives we're exposing that we're completely unaware of by just being ourselves.
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No? There is nothing surprising about a cancer having more than 1 cause since more than 1 thing can cause damage to DNA.
There is something surprising about a cancer being caused by a treatment that is intended to prevent that same cancer for occurring though
Oh, I misinterpreted it as the sun not causing skin cancer for anyone, but rather sunscreens.
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#98Neutrogena is owned by Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders [1]. Combined with Neutrogena being more or less _very high_ in benezine content and J&J having a very deep suite of cancer treatment drugs [2]... This seems like a horrific story of a self-fulfilling product pipeline. I know they're a giant organization and suggesting conspiracy is a bit insane but I can'…
> Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders I asked this question in another post and did not get a reply. The US links sited state no evidence for talc causing cancer. A search of the NHS website also suggests no clear evidence [1]. Cancer Research (a respected UK charity) give a layman's summary (albeit focusing on ovarian cancer), stating no clear evidence and pointi…
Talc comes from the ground so sometimes there are veins of asbestos deposits interspersed. I think they screen out those sections with high asbestos contents but it might not be perfect enough so there might be trace contents.
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> Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders I asked this question in another post and did not get a reply. The US links sited state no evidence for talc causing cancer. A search of the NHS website also suggests no clear evidence [1]. Cancer Research (a respected UK charity) give a layman's summary (albeit focusing on ovarian cancer), stating no clear evidence and pointi…
I see people started downvoting this, if you do, please explain why.
You have got to give people more than 6 minutes to respond with a counter-argument, especially if you want a thoughtful answer.
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#100I don't understand why people are so eager to slather chemicals on their skin, when we evolved with the sun and it's not hard for most people to avoid sun burn. You just have get sun exposure on a somewhat regular basis (healthy to do anyway) and acclimate between seasons (ie, don't go abruptly from no sun to all the sun).
I mean, you ever been to a beach? You can't acclimate to being out at the beach all day.
Some people can. I am one. I will burn if I don't ramp up to it, but I eventually get very brown and can stay out all day without burning.