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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can promise you it's not nearly as bad as not taking your insulin.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, defiantly. Wife said, maybe it ends up like chemo, the benefits, out weigh the bad, but you still don't want to use it as a hair removal drug.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I definitely don’t like the creosote based preservatives that give it that weird smell.

I have type 1 though, so it’s indisputable that it’s healthier for me than no insulin - without external insulin, I’d be in DKA, a coma and then dead probably in less than a week.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Type 2 here, just diagnosed on Nov 19th after a minor stroke. I was trying to identify the smell, was making me think of a dentist office. It's not a pleasant smell for sure.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

They are also used in bandage packages, also some medical soaps, sanitizer and anesthetic - metacresol and phenol.