Shaving creams - Cancer link?

blakeas · Post by **blakeas** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:40 pm

I was just about to order my taylor old bond sandalwood shaving cream from amazon - I looked at a review and saw someone talk about the ingredients there might have a cancer link? WTF?

Does GEO Trumpers have the same thing?

druphus · Post by **druphus** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:58 pm

Everything has a cancer link starting with the sugar you put in your coffee/tea!

Teiste · Post by **Teiste** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:08 pm

druphus wrote:Everything has a cancer link starting with the sugar you put in your coffee/tea!

Very true indeed.

ShadowsDad · Post by **ShadowsDad** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:16 pm

With that little tidbit of almost no information I'd do exactly nothing.

So much isn't said.

Who wrote it? A competitor or someone with an axe to grind? Does the writer actually know anything? Where is the documentation or somewhere that I can go to corroborate or debunk the info?

Try not to eat it and don't use it rectally and you should be good. If there's more info or if the reviewer actually knows something, then maybe consider it.

Or, If he named the ingredient, just plug it into Google and see what you find.

crackstar · Post by **crackstar** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:27 pm

Oh my goodness............

brothers · Post by **brothers** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:58 pm

blakeas wrote: Does GEO Trumpers have the same thing?

Exactly what same "thing" is that? Don't believe everything!

blakeas · Post by **blakeas** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:10 pm

Triethanolamine which is linked to cancer and a ingredient - I cant find the review now on amazon. Maybe they took it off? as long as it was just a stupid comment. need to get another cream. been using taylor old bond and now I want geo trumpers - Any other suggestions? been using the sandalwood

brothers · Post by **brothers** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:45 pm

I really like Taylor's Lemon Lime cream. It doesn't have any of the bad stuff, it's all good!

Nitrox · Post by **Nitrox** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:51 pm

I think the air we breathe and water we drink has more pollutants than that shaving cream.

slackskin · Post by **slackskin** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:16 pm

FDA web site http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/Productand ... 109655.htm says "there is no reason for consumers to be alarmed based on the use of these substances in cosmetics." TEA is listed among the substances that need not cause alarm. Please read the web page in full. The FDA is a credible source of information (unless, of course, one is a conspiracy theorist who believes "the government is out to get us.")

jww · Post by **jww** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:50 am

Nitrox wrote:I think the air we breathe and water we drink has more pollutants than that shaving cream.

Squire · Post by **Squire** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:27 am

so a guy sits down at his computer and thinks, humm, who can I scare today.

Exapno · Post by **Exapno** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:54 pm

druphus wrote:Everything has a cancer link starting with the sugar you put in your coffee/tea!

Indeed. I read William Duffy's 'Sugar Blues' on that subject. Quite an interesting read.

DavidB · Post by **DavidB** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:18 pm

brothers wrote:I really like Taylor's Lemon Lime cream. It doesn't have any of the bad stuff, it's all good!

Ditto. One of my absolute faves. Nice to know that the FDA sees no risk using it, though in my case, there is a risk: addiction!

Dave

Raag · Post by **Raag** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:20 pm

If there's no research or information indicating as such aside from one inflammatory Amazon review, I wouldn't be too concerned...

Teiste · Post by **Teiste** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:07 am

Exapno wrote:
druphus wrote:Everything has a cancer link starting with the sugar you put in your coffee/tea!
Indeed. I read William Duffy's 'Sugar Blues' on that subject. Quite an interesting read.

Great to know you have read that book too!It was my "introduction" to macrobiotics.

ATLpr8head · Post by **ATLpr8head** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:16 pm

I have three nipples now and crazy dreams about shaving my face and ear lobes. I think its due to carcinogens in the shave products I use. My armpits are sweating profusely from the simple scent of lavender. I assume the reason for my 3rd breast.

All seriousness....... No need for explanations. No harm from anything. I have literally bathed in kerosene and gasoline(not by choice) and still living a great life. Shaving products will not hurt you.

Bargepole · Post by **Bargepole** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:41 pm

Can't help feeling that if it were that easy to get cancer, it would be that easy to cure it, too.

An oncologist friend once told me there are two great popular myths about cancer:

(1) If you do <X> you will get cancer.

(2) If you don't do <X> you won't get cancer.

She also said that almost everything written in the popular/lay media about cancer is untrue.

My own feeling is: read "The Emperor of All Maladies" by Siddartha Mukerjee, then forget about cancer and enjoy your shave.

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:00 pm

I doubt greatly that there is any kind of risk of getting cancer from these shaving creams.

Gareth

slackskin · Post by **slackskin** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:38 pm

Looking back over the years, it appears that many things that our "brightest and best" thought were so -- were not so. The earth is round, not square. The sun is the center our universe, not the earth. Man will never get to Mars. Remember oat bran, which was supposed to be the super-food cure-all for everything that ails you? There are a zillion more examples, but the point is made. Be skeptical about all wide-eyed claims, both from scientists and from politicians.

SMF

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