Cancer-causing chemicals are in many beauty products women use, a study finds
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Cancer-causing chemicals are in many beauty products women use, a study finds
More than half of Black and Latina women in Los Angeles who participated in a new study regularly used personal-care products containing a known carcinogen.Study participants photographed the ingredient lists of all the products they used at home over the course of a week. The journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters published the study Wednesday.Of 64 women, researchers found that 53% reported using soap, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, skin lightener, eyeliner, eyelash glue and other beauty products that contained formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives — toxins found to cause cancer in humans. \n\"It's really concerning that we are intentionally putting chemicals that release ..