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Benzene is in sunscreen... at least some of the spray stuff. Apparently it doesn't get on your skin but it's important to apply it in a well ventilated area to make sure you don't breathe any of it.




Benzene is in most personal care products in at least trace amounts

https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/CENODS/10001-feature2-benze...


According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, it is a big enough concern to recommend safety equipment in exposure at or above 0.1 ppm. So most of the activities / sources on that diagram don't warrant too much concern, other than cigarette smoking and fresh pain fumes.

Although benzene exposure from cosmetics probably depends highly on what you are using. As per another reply here, those spray on sunscreens are are pretty terrible (likely due to using butane, propane, etc as propellants). Exposure can get as high as 6 ppm in some cases.


May please provide another source rather than an image with the cutout of a house and showing the parts per million of benzene versus the actual personal care products you were talking about that contain benzene?


> Apparently it doesn't get on your skin

That’s wishful thinking.

Also, benzene is a common contaminant and breakdown product of chemical sunscreen (as opposed to mineral sunblock) ingredients. I.e. the older the tube of sunscreen is, the more benzene and other undesirable by products it’s likely to have.




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