It’s not just your skin’s moisture level that is sure to suffer thanks to the recent discovery at Rutgers of cancer causing agents in moisturizers. Scientists suspect the insidious ingredient at work here may be sodium lauryl sulfate.

Never heard of it?

Trust me, you use it.
 

Below is a list of 15 everyday items taken from the U.S Department of Health & Human Services that contain the chemical:

1. Old Spice Shave Cream
2. Ivory Hand Soap
3. Clearasil StayClear Acne Defense Cleanser
4. Suave Professionals Shampoo, Awapuhi
5. Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo – Fine/Limp Hair
6. Selsun Blue Dandruff shampoo – Balanced Treatment
7. Finesse Extra Moisturizing Shampoo – Dry
8. St. Ives Swiss Spa Clarifying Shampoo – Citrus & Ginseng for Normal/Oily Hair
9. Lever 2000 Moisturizing Body Wash, Morning Sky
10. Bath & Body Works Shower Gel-Flowering Herbs
11. Aquafresh All Tartar Control Toothpaste
12. Crest Whitening Toothpaste Plus Scope, Cool Peppermint
13. Colgate Total Toothpaste, Fresh Stripe
14. Revlon Age Defying Makeup SPF 8, Fair Blush
15. Cover Girl Clean Liquid Make-Up

Want to avoid cancer at all costs? Then say goodbye to many toothpastes, shampoos, body washes and makeups. I know college students like to get down and dirty, but things are about to get real dirty and not in that hot Christina Aguilera kind of way.
 

(For the complete list of household products which contain sodium laurel sulfate, click here.)