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While most chemicals in beauty products and cosmetics pose hardly any or zero risk, several dozen have been linked with serious medical problems, including cancer, and neurological harm. Chemicals in cosmetics get into a person's body through inhalation, ingestion, and the skin, and pose the same problems as food chemicals, per this site.

Chemicals linked to cancer are found in food, water, and lots of other everyday items. However, no type of consumer items is accountable to less government inspection than cosmetics, including Bath & Body Works Illuminating Fragrance Mist. Although many of the chemicals and contaminants in cosmetics very likely pose little risk, exposure to a few has been linked to worrying health disorders, such as cancer.