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While most chemicals in beauty products and cosmetics present minimal or no risk, several dozen are associated with considerable medical problems, including cancer, and neurological harm. Chemicals in cosmetics can enter your body through inhalation, ingestion, and the skin, and cause the same problems as food chemicals, per this site.

Contaminants and chemicals linked to cancer can be found in food and various other common goods. But, no category of consumer goods is subject to less government management than cosmetics and other personal products, including OHANA MAHAALO Ceayon de parfum [Koloa kamali'i] (Soild Perfume). Though most of the contaminants and chemicals in cosmetics almost certainly pose little risk, your exposure to a few has been linked to serious health problems, such as cancer.