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Is it true that ingredients from antiperspirants can penetrate the skin and accumulate in the breast tissue, potentially damaging DNA and leading to breast cancer?

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Is it true that ingredients from antiperspirants can penetrate the skin and accumulate in the breast tissue, potentially damaging DNA and leading to breast cancer?

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The suggestion that ingredients such as Aluminum and Zirconium salts might damage cell DNA is sometimes raised in newspaper articles, but there is no evidence that they accumulate in the breast tissue, or that they can affect human DNA. In fact, aluminum is one of the most common elements on earth, and one that humans come into contact with everyday. It is estimated that exposure to aluminum from antiperspirant use is about 2.5 per cent of the amount of aluminum present in a typical diet, which doesn’t take into account additional exposure from airborne particles.

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