Today the thing I'm choosing to be overspecifically annoyed by is people who are obsessing about benzene in sunscreen but don't wear hazmat gear when fueling their car (gas is full of it). Benzene is pretty benign. Choose a career where you don't breathe it daily and chill out.
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A good way to tell what carcinogens to be afraid of is to look at how they're stored in chem labs. Benzene sits in a big bottle on the shelf. It's the stuff that's inside a bottle within a bottle and with the red tag locking out the fume hood you don't want in your sunscreen.
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Benzene is quite nasty as a long term accumulative carcinogen: it's incredibly stable but also rips up other molecules. The stuff that stays locked in the lab closet is the stuff that'll kill you quick, not slow.
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Also chem labs, as least the ones around institutions I've been part of, tend to use toluene instead when an aromatic solvent is called for, because AIUI it's less carcinogenic.
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Absolutely true. But there's a difference between not working with a bulk organic solvent day to day and freaking out because detectable amounts of it are in something you apply to your skin outdoors.
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