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Beauty Tips and Cancer: Nowadays people have started adopting many methods to look beautiful. Especially girls are very conscious about their looks, due to which they pay special attention to every small thing. Besides, she also adopts many beauty and skin care products or hacks to make herself beautiful.
Most of these people have incomplete knowledge about beauty. Due to which many types of beliefs and misconceptions spread among the people. Sometimes this can prove dangerous. There are many beauty and skin care hacks and tips that can unknowingly make you a victim of serious diseases like cancer.
Excessive use of chemical peels for clear skin
Peels are known to cleanse the skin by exfoliating, but according to research, excessive use of chemical peels can prove dangerous due to the trichloroacetic acid in the skin. Because it is a potentially carcinogenic substance. However, this has yet to be confirmed in humans.
Regular use of hair straightening products
Products used during hair straightening have been linked to cancers such as uterine, breast and ovarian cancers. Carcinogens like formaldehyde present in it enter the skin through hair follicles or its fragrance enters the body through the nose, increasing the risk of cancer. Therefore, there is a risk of cancer with their regular use.
Sunbathing to get Vitamin D
There is no doubt that sun rays supply Vitamin D. It is also important to understand that excessive exposure to direct sunlight without any filters increases the risk of cancer due to harmful UV rays.
Using Homemade Sunscreen
The increasing ubiquity of social media has invited many new problems. Nowadays people claim to make sunscreen at home which lacks the required SPF protection. This directly increases the risk of cancer.
