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While most chemicals in beauty products and cosmetics pose limited or zero threat, several dozen are associated with serious health conditions, including cancer, and neurological harm. Cosmetic chemicals gain entry to the body through the skin, inhalation, ingestion and internal use, and lead to the same dangers as food chemicals, per this site.

Chemicals and contaminants linked to cancer can be found in food and several other common items. But, no group of consumer items is accountable to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal products, including Neutra-Germ Fragrance Free Antibacterial Lotion Soap. While many of the chemicals in cosmetics almost certainly pose very little risk, being exposed to a few is linked to worrying health conditions, such as cancer.