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Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field

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204 points XzetaU8 | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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giantg2 ◴[29 Jun 25 18:25 UTC] No.44415200[source]▶
With how bad for us the common fragrances are in regards to things like cancer risk, endocrine disruption, etc, its surprising that nothing has changed. Most products have fragrance free alternatives.
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rowanG077 ◴[29 Jun 25 18:35 UTC] No.44415279[source]▶
This is the first time I'm hearing they are bad. Could you share some research about this?
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amarcheschi ◴[29 Jun 25 19:15 UTC] No.44415537[source]▶
At least in the eu there are quite strict rules regulating cosmetics. Hell, lilial in perfumes was banned just to stay safe because they couldn't determine an "average exposure" and went on by banning it in perfumes to reduce what would have been the real exposure, even if it wouldn't have caused issues by being used in perfumes standalone (so not how it's used in cleaning products)

They might not be perfect, of course, and they're always improving

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1. rowanG077 ◴[29 Jun 25 19:18 UTC] No.44415557[source]▶
Yes of course, there are a ton of bad substances. But I as not aware of something that is. Ubiquitously used, known bad and not banned in the EU.
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2. giantg2 ◴[29 Jun 25 20:32 UTC] No.44416192[source]▶
EU is much better than the US for ingredient safety. I'm not sure of the EU stuff specifically, but it looks like there's still some concerns over some perfume ingredients, if not the fragrance itself. You'll probably have to do more research yourself.

https://taenk.dk/system/files/2022-01/Whats-that-smell-repor...