Controversy Over The Use Of Beauty Products

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Beauty is pain, in today’s society the main goal of everyone is to be considered beautiful by the masses. Women and men use dozens of products daily to create their desired looks. Not many people spend their time reading the ingredients before they purchase a product because we live in a time, where ironically we don’t have time. We use products everyday to make us more beautiful, but what’s in those products isn’t so appealing.
In today’s time, we face more people with cancer than past years. 38.5 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at any point in their lifetime. What if cancer was directly connected to the beauty products we use? In source A, many of the ingredients in products cause severe damages to the human

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