Some deodorants could cause breast cancer:
https://www.thelocal.ch/20160926/deodorants-could-cause-cancer-swiss-study-warns
For now, aluminium salts were a "suspect, not yet convicted", said the professor, who drew an analogy with asbestos, the use of which is banned in Switzerland and the European Union.
“Asbestos is cheap, has very attractive industrial potential, and it took 50 years to ban it. We hope it doesn’t take so long to ban aluminium salts,” said Sappino.
Like asbestos, aluminium is not detectably mutagenic in bacteria, but subcutaneous injections of aluminium salts in mice resulted in “very aggressive tumours”.
https://www.thelocal.ch/20160926/deodorants-could-cause-cancer-swiss-study-warns
For now, aluminium salts were a "suspect, not yet convicted", said the professor, who drew an analogy with asbestos, the use of which is banned in Switzerland and the European Union.
“Asbestos is cheap, has very attractive industrial potential, and it took 50 years to ban it. We hope it doesn’t take so long to ban aluminium salts,” said Sappino.
Like asbestos, aluminium is not detectably mutagenic in bacteria, but subcutaneous injections of aluminium salts in mice resulted in “very aggressive tumours”.