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Are Deodorants Bad For You?

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Gabriel Weston from Brit Lab looks at how deodorants and antiperspirants work and whether or not the rumors that they can be harmful are true or false.


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Maider Kortajarena
Deodorants cause cancer
I heard that antiperspirants culd cause cancer because they close the vias that sweat goes away from the body. Does anybody hear about that?
02/09/2017 • 
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Charles Bovary
IS DEODORANT APPLIED TO MALE INGUINAL CANAL (NOT GENITALS) AND BELOW SCROTUM DANGEROUS IN ANY WAY?
A SCENT-FREE STICK DEODORANT. IS WIPING WITH 3% PEROXIDE OK DOWN THERE? THNX
02/27/2017 • 
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Neith Reidel
Deorderants
There are very few deodorants with Aluminum, while a lot others have Aluminum which can harm are bodies, like for example it could give you memory loss.
05/11/2017 • 
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