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Old 10-18-2018, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Newbomb Turk
Does anyone remember the old Phisoderm? In the big green bottles? We seemed to always have that around.
When I was a kid, my neighbor was a dentist, and had Phisohex bottles at all the sinks in his house. When he switched to Phisoderm, I asked him why, and he explained that Phisohex had been linked to cancer*, IIRC (45 years ago).

How ironic that the soap that's supposed to prevent disease was causing it.

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*Wiki says "brain damage caused by hexachlorophene".


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