If mecury is bad in barometers and energy saving lightbulbs ,why is it ok in deoderants ??

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any science bods out there know the answer ? I can understand that if barometers /lightbulbs shatter there is a risk of inhaling mecury particles ,but isnt it as bad if applied to your skin every day or isnt it absorbed this way ?

I thought it was aluminium in deodorants? - still bad though

There isn't mercury in deoderants

It was ok in baby vaccinations until 2004 as well

Did anyone else used to play with it in school science lessons?

The aluminium in deodorants is a concern.....

THis from the cancer reserch website of aluminium and deoderants

'An e-mail hoax
Concerns about deodorants and cancer were started by an e-mail hoax. The e-mail claimed that antiperspirants stop your body from sweating out poisons. It suggested that these toxins build up in the lymph glands under the arm and cause breast cancer. But the details of this are wrong. Breast cancers start in the breast and only later spread to lymph glands. Your body also has several ways of getting rid of toxins, and while sweating is one of them, it is a different system to the lymph glands.

A large study in 2002 looked for links between antiperspirant use and breast cancer in 1,500 women. The researchers found that neither antiperspirants nor deodorants increased breast cancer risk.'

I'm sure that's right Martianbishop.
Unfortunately most of these studies tend to be paid for by interested parties which clouds their results for me.
I use Tom's of Maine deoderant, I think blocking up the sweat glands seems wrong to me. I'm not a scientist but I trust my instincts on this one.

If you are still worried though, you can always use a salt one

aaah aluminium ,oops sorry folks, my mistake .

Well, the cancer reserach organisation is set up to help to prevent and treat cancers. I don't think that they would be producing information to help to cover up a carcinogen? Seems unlikely IMHO.

But obviously everyone is free to do what they like.

there is also aluminium in sunblocks
As far as I understand, the issue is that aluminium blocks the pores in the skin, preventing toxins from being sweated out

www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=9602

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Almost everytime i switch a light on in my livingroom, a bulb pops. occasionally when my dd is in the room. does that mean mercury particles could be breathed in? by my dd?