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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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Contramuffin 53 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Plastic food containers. I mean, we already know it's pretty bad, but I would not be surprised if it ends up being way worse than we think. That, and most aerosols. Febreze, hairspray, spray tans, things of that nature

[–] snausagesinablanket 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Febreze is air pressure driven.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I think you're confusing volatile organic compounds like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and HFCFs with general aerosols. CFCs destroy the ozone layer, and are banned worldwide.

Aerosola are just droplets in a gas. Clouds are aerosols. They're perfectly safe to use in general, assuming the droplets and the gas are safe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I get where they're coming from! I was a kid when the aerosols were burning a hole in the ozone layer, and it taught me to distrust anything that can come out of a can too quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clean air act banned cfcs, not aerosols. Aerosols are just pressurized gases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well aerosols are tiny particles, but often created and propelled using pressurized glasses.

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