# Does aluminum chlorohydrate in deoderant cause cancer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642 "2002-04-14T23:46:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/1 "2002-04-14T23:46:22Z")
The title is the question. ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/2 "2002-04-14T23:47:40Z")
…or Alzheimer’s, or brain damage. ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/3 "2002-04-15T00:02:09Z")
[No](http://www.deltachemical.com/msdsdelpac.htm) The MSDS says nothing about cancer. Given that these things warn you if it might make your skin teleport to Mars on the third Wedensday of the month, I’d say it’s pretty safe… ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/4 "2002-04-15T00:04:47Z")
[Also, a somewhat related Snopes link](http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/breast.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/5 "2002-04-15T00:12:38Z")
And if you don’t want to believe them, you can read what the [American Cancer Society](http://www.cancer.org/eprise/main/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Email_Rumors) has to say. (Again, the answer is NO.) ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/6 "2002-04-15T01:17:34Z")
Ok, I’ve gotten plenty of responses regarding cancer, but could someone please answer whether it causes Alzheimer’s or brain damage? Thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/7 "2002-04-15T02:50:18Z")
Except in dialysis patients, aluminum is NOT thought to be related to dementia (ie. Alzheimer’s). [Here is a free full-text review article](http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-162/issue-1/0065.htm#role2) on the causes of dementia which includes a section debunking the aluminum connection. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/8 "2002-04-15T03:02:31Z")
> **[Does exposure to aluminum cause Alzheimer’s disease?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341358/does-exposure-to-aluminum-cause-alzheimer-s-disease)** > > Dear Cecil: > What's the straight dope on the aluminum-senility link? Is it true that deodorants and/or antiperspirants cause brain damage if they get in your bloodstream? > Very Nervous, Baltimore > > C... [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971219.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971219.html) [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000303.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000303.html) Sheesh, folks. Check the archives here, too. Jill ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/9 "2002-04-15T04:30:13Z")
Well I tried searching for “deodorant”, cause I thought I remembered a column, but got no hits. Of course, I could have spelling it wrong… ---
**Author:** ![mok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mok)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-aluminum-chlorohydrate-in-deoderant-cause-cancer/103642/10 "2002-04-15T14:47:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Except in dialysis patients An important amplification just in case the point is not clear there… Consider that during hemodialysis, your entire blood supply is passed out of your body and into a machine over and over, for a few hours at a time, a few times a week, for months or years. Even the tiniest bit of any toxic substance that may be present in the dialysate is going to make its way into your blood and brain eventually, at that rate.\* I make this point so that people won’t make the leap from “aluminum can cause brain damage in dialysis patients” to “therefore, there must be some way that Al in deodarant can cause brain damage too.” The amount of exposure is different by many orders of magnitude. \*This dialysis information comes from personal experience, in case you need a cite.