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While many chemicals in beauty products and cosmetics present minimal or zero risk, several dozen are associated with severe medical problems, including developmental delays and cancer. Chemicals in cosmetics enter a person's body through internal use, the skin, and inhalation, and lead to the same problems as food chemicals, per this site.

Chemicals linked to cancer are found in water, food, and many other everyday products. Yet, no type of consumer products is accountable to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal products, including Marc Jacobs Shimmer Body Powder. Though many of the contaminants and chemicals in cosmetics in all likelihood present very little risk, your exposure to some is linked to critical health issues, such as cancer.