There are many examples of substances previously thought to be safe that are now considered deadly poison. Cigarettes were passed out to soldiers in World War II. I've seen 1950's footage of lineups of young women in swimsuits being sprayed with DDT and then the fumes being sprayed over a swimming pool of children in order to make a statement of the confidence in the chemical's safety. I even remember my 4th grade teacher telling us to ask our parents to break a thermometer at home so that we could play with the mercury, though I never did (and even now I have an internal struggle going on - that would have probably been really fun!).
I don't even know when mercury was declared unsafe. I think I was talking about buying my own thermometer to have some liquid-metal fun when Becca said, "Are you crazy? Mercury is poisonous! They don't even make thermometers with it anymore!"
Well, what else is out there that they're going to find is harmful? I thought of all the chemicals I regularly apply to my person: Is Listerine slowly dissolving my teeth? Is DCT going to give me lip cancer? (I don't care if it does, by the way; I'm a total addict) Will my deodorant do...something bad?!?
With uncountable potential dangers lurking out there, the only sane choice is to hope what's bad isn't what you're using, and thus continue to keep using what you're using. I'm not sure the lifetime of B.O. is worth the risk that maybe the deodorant isn't healthy.
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