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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

My insulin.

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[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm so nervous I'm going to find out aquaphor is bad. I've been spreading it on my baby's diaper area since they were born. I know she's absorbing it right into her little body. There's been so many articles about how diapers and tampons and pads are all just awful for us and full of lead and who knows what else and we're putting them right against our mucus membranes and just poisoning ourselves.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

If you want to try something else, Burt's bees has a healing ointment for babies that is shea butter based instead of petroleum. Never actually used it on a baby myself lol but it worked wonders for me on my scalp (I have curly biracial hair and I'm picky about what goes in it) and scaly winter hands!

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Cosmetic products containing carbomer - it's literally microplastic acryllic and it's in EVERYTHING

[–] Letsdothis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Methadone

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

UHT milk.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been mad about UHT milk ever since I discovered I can't make clotted cream with the ultra high temperature stuff. I don't want unpastuerized milk but ffs, let me have some texture I can work with!

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You make clotted cream from milk? Doesn't that take like a week? Don't you usually start with some form of cream?

I mean, I made it once from double cream, but they don't sell that here in the Netherlands, and it's so not worth the time compared to just buying a jar of clotted cream.

More power to you though!

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

almond milk

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't expect shaving cream to do it; goo and foam and pretty normal

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