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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Warfarin blood thinners.

Wouldn't be surprised if we find later that after decades of use that someone's body can gain resistance to it. I'd be fucked since I'm on the blood thinner train for life*.

*or until we can start printing human cells to recreate human parts

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm so nervous I'm going to find out aquaphor is bad. I've been spreading it on my baby's diaper area since they were born. I know she's absorbing it right into her little body. There's been so many articles about how diapers and tampons and pads are all just awful for us and full of lead and who knows what else and we're putting them right against our mucus membranes and just poisoning ourselves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If you want to try something else, Burt's bees has a healing ointment for babies that is shea butter based instead of petroleum. Never actually used it on a baby myself lol but it worked wonders for me on my scalp (I have curly biracial hair and I'm picky about what goes in it) and scaly winter hands!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Cosmetic products containing carbomer - it's literally microplastic acryllic and it's in EVERYTHING

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been mad about UHT milk ever since I discovered I can't make clotted cream with the ultra high temperature stuff. I don't want unpastuerized milk but ffs, let me have some texture I can work with!

[โ€“] Tar_alcaran 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You make clotted cream from milk? Doesn't that take like a week? Don't you usually start with some form of cream?

I mean, I made it once from double cream, but they don't sell that here in the Netherlands, and it's so not worth the time compared to just buying a jar of clotted cream.

More power to you though!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can make it from milk and butter if I remember. You can make it from double cream (heavy whipping cream in the US).

And I would love to just buy a jar but I can't find them anywhere except online!! It's such a shame because I grew up enjoying it, and went a few years too busy to have anything with it, and then when I went to buy it... nowhere.

Eta: If someone has a solution for me in the US thst doesn't involve paying a fortune online, I am all ears! More ears than anything really.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

almond milk

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't expect shaving cream to do it; goo and foam and pretty normal

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