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Fragrance is everywhere / Government agency
Benzophenone-3 (oxybenzone) is used in fragrance formulations at concentrations up to 0.5%, and separately in lipstick (up to 0.5%, incidental ingestion) and bath soaps/detergents (up to 0.5%, mucous-membrane contact), per the cosmetics industry's own 2021 concentration-of-use data.
Strong evidence.
Caveats
Figures are from the industry's own use-concentration survey; the fragrance-formulation use is not separately broken out by product category in the public report beyond this single statement.
Source: CIR 2021 Benzophenones Industry-funded Link to this fact
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