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If you like talc or body powder where are you getting it from?

59 replies

imabitjealousandembarassed · 19/01/2026 16:42

I love talc after a bath and I know due to the health problems it's been pulled so I've been using baby powder but even that is becoming hard to find.
Where are you dusty ladies still getting it from?

OP posts:
Jk987 · 19/01/2026 22:02

Don’t use it, there’s a reason it’s been pulled and it’s serious.

SemmaLina · 19/01/2026 22:05

Like other posters , I like M & S powder , nice and fine and a good choice of floral scents

Whatwouldnanado · 19/01/2026 22:05

Wouldn’t have it in the house after listening to a Radio 4 programme about it being found in cancer specimens. Travels in the body and causes all sorts of bother.

Itsrainingloadshere · 19/01/2026 22:18

Jk987 · 19/01/2026 22:02

Don’t use it, there’s a reason it’s been pulled and it’s serious.

It’s not actual talc any more though, usually cornstarch

WhereYouLeftIt · 19/01/2026 22:20

I buy Johnson's Baby Natural Cornstarch Powder from Sainsbury's. Occasionally eye up the nice Yardley dusting powders at my local chemist.

Lucinda7 · 19/01/2026 22:49

I buy Yardley scented talc and Cuticura mildly medicated talc from Amazon. I had 2 medicated ones arrive today. I don't check the contents. I've used it since I was a teenager and I'm 73 now. Not saying everyone should, just my personal choice.

MsGinaLinetti · 20/01/2026 06:40

Fenjal powder from my local pharmacy sells hardly. Smells divine

benten54 · 20/01/2026 07:22

Lush Silky Underwear is gorgeous. Femfresh otherwise (usually next to the tampons in the supermarket/Boots)

GallonHat · 20/01/2026 07:33

Amazon. And it's worth checking local pharmacies when you travel: you might even find the good stuff, made of actual talc. It helps to be old and cynical when deciding whether to panic about potential (unproven) carcinogens.

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