/oss/taxonomy/term/778/all en /oss/article/health-you-asked/there-any-risk-using-antiperspirants-or-deodorants <p>Just looking at the list of ingredients on an antiperspirant or deodorant makes some people sweat. That’s because they’ve heard about how some of the components have been linked with breast cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. But there’s no need to sweat, the allegations are baseless. The accusers usually are even confused about what antiperspirants and deodorants are, and lump them together as if these were identical products. They are not. Antiperspirants are drugs, deodorants are cosmetics. What’s the difference?</p> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:38:27 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1819 at /oss