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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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My insulin.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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