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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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[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Probably my asbestos fake snow.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

But your snow is, at least, fireproof!

Not all snow can make that promise. Some is quite flammable.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't even know such a thing existed!

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was pretty common, even after the dangers of asbestos were well-known. The most famous example is probably the Wizard of Oz, but it was used all over the place.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

The skin paints weren't so great either.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'll stick to my anthrax lip balm.