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Although most chemicals in cosmetics pose hardly any or zero threat, several dozen are linked to significant medical problems, such as developmental delays and cancer. Cosmetic chemicals invade a person's body through the skin, inhalation, ingestion and internal use, and cause the same dangers as food chemicals, per this site.

Contaminants and chemicals associated with cancer are found in food and many other everyday items. But, no classification of consumer items is accountable to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal care products, including Vaseline Total Moisture Aloe Fresh Lotion. While most of the chemicals and contaminants in cosmetics and personal care products in all likelihood pose very little risk, your exposure to a few is associated with critical health disorders, such as cancer.