Does Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration have benzene?

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asked Jul 20, 2022 in Body/Skin by Icarkus (1,300 points)
Does Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration have benzene?

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answered Jul 29, 2022 by Wendell (41,840 points)
Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration does not have benzene.

A list of sunscreens that do not contain benzene include Neutrogena, Equate, La Roche-Posay, Up & Up, Revlon, Banana Boat, CVS Health, Hawaiian Tropic, Coppertone, Sun Bum, and Australian Gold.

Aloe Vera Gel that you buy in stores does contain some benzene.

Aloe Vera Gels have been found to contain between 4.55 and 4.71 ppm of benzene.

There was benzene in Neutrogena face sunscreen until it was recalled in 2021.

If you have Neutrogena face sunscreen prior to the 2021 recall or have some of the sunscreen and haven't taken it back then yes the Neutrogena face sunscreen contains benzene.

In July 2021, Johnson & Johnson issued a voluntary recall of several sunscreens from Aveeno and Neutrogena contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen.

Common household items that contain benzene are furniture wax, detergents, glues, adhesives, cleaning products, paint strippers, tobacco smoke and gasoline.

Benzene is also used to make some types of lubricants, dyes, detergents, drugs, and pesticides.

The cancers that benzene causes from long term exposure include cancers of blood forming organs and leukemia.

EPA estimates that 10 ppb benzene in drinking water that is consumed regularly or exposure to 0.4 ppb in air over a lifetime could cause a risk of one additional cancer case for every 100,000 exposed persons.

Benzene stays in your body for as long as 48 hours.

The benzene is then converted to products, medically known as metabolites, in the liver and bone marrow.

The four known health effects of benzene exposure are.

Headaches.

Rapid or Irregular Heartbeat.

Dizziness.

Drowsiness.

Acute (short-term) inhalation exposure of humans to benzene may cause drowsiness, dizziness, headaches, as well as eye, skin, and respiratory tract irritation, and, at high levels, unconsciousness.

Benzene has a gasoline like smell that is also both aromatic and sweet smelling.

Acute (short-term) inhalation exposure of humans to benzene may cause drowsiness, dizziness, headaches, as well as eye, skin, and respiratory tract irritation, and, at high levels, unconsciousness.

Benzene is not the same as oxybenzone.

Oxybenzone is actually a completely separate, incredibly common active ingredient found in chemical sunscreens, which are different, from zinc or titanium-based mineral sunscreens.

Oxybenzone is also currently under evaluation by the FDA for its safety.

Benzene prior to the 1920s was originally used for an industrial solvent, especially for degreasing metal.

As its toxicity became obvious, benzene was supplanted by other solvents, especially toluene (methylbenzene), which has similar physical properties but is not as carcinogenic.

Benzene is a colorless or light-yellow liquid chemical at room temperature.

It is used primarily as a solvent in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, as a starting material and an intermediate in the synthesis of numerous chemicals, and in gasoline.

Benzene is produced by both natural and man-made processes.

Historically, benzene has been used as a component of inks in the printing industry, as a solvent for organic materials, as starting material and intermediate in the chemical and drug industries (e.g. to manufacture rubbers, lubricants, dyes, detergents, pesticides), and as an additive to unleaded gasoline.

BENZENE is a special six carbon ring compound with three alternating double bonds.

This structure imparts unique properties to benzene which are different from other ring compounds.

Because many fragrant oils contain a benzene ring, these compounds became known as AROMATIC.

Benzene poisoning can be lethal because it causes the cells in the body to work incorrectly.

Benzene exposure can cause bone marrow cells to not produce red blood cells or it can can cause the white blood cells of your immune system to fail.

Benzene has a sweet, aromatic, gasoline-like odor.

Most individuals can begin to smell benzene in air at 1.5 to 4.7 ppm.

The odor threshold generally provides adequate warning for acutely hazardous exposure concentrations but is inadequate for more chronic exposures.

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that benzene causes cancer in humans.

Long-term exposure to high levels of benzene in the air can cause leukemia, cancer of the blood-forming organs.

Benzene has been shown to cause chromosome changes in bone marrow cells in the lab.

(The bone marrow is where new blood cells are made.)

Such changes are commonly found in human leukemia cells.

Since it is a lipid solvent, benzene degreases the skin, especially after long-term or frequent contact with the liquid.

It can also cause erythema, a burning sensation, and in more serious cases, edema and even blistering.

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