Beauty ingredient · Antiperspirant
Aluminum chlorohydrate
The active ingredient in most antiperspirants; it temporarily plugs sweat ducts.
- Expert review pending
Concern level
A minor or very limited concern, such as being an ultra-processing marker only. The concern level sets how many points aluminum chlorohydrate costs on a product’s receipt.
What the evidence says
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Low concernStrong evidence
The US National Cancer Institute says no scientific evidence links antiperspirant use to breast cancer. [1]
Evidence tiers say how sure the evidence is, separately from how much it matters. About evidence tiers.
Popular products that list aluminum chlorohydrate
4 of the 17,000 most-scanned products in the US with a GoodSwap page list aluminum chlorohydrate.
Names GoodSwap recognizes on labels (15)
- alum
- ammonium alum
- potassium alum
- aluminum chloride
- aluminum chlorohydrate
- aluminium chlorohydrate
- aluminum chlorohydrex pg
- aluminum sesquichlorohydrate
- aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex
- aluminum zirconium pentachlorohydrate
- aluminum zirconium trichlorohydrex gly
- aluminum zirconium octachlorohydrex gly
- aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly
- aluminium zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly
- aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly 15
Sources
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Antiperspirants/Deodorants and Breast Cancer
“However, no scientific evidence links the use of these products to the development of breast cancer.”
cancer.gov