'Fake tan causes fertility problems': Users warned the lotions could harm unborn babies and trigger cancer

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 08:26 GMT, 22 July 2012 | UPDATED: 08:46 GMT, 22 July 2012

Fake tan users have been warned harsh chemicals in the lotions could cause serious health risks.

A cocktail of ingredients in the creams include poisonous substances like cancer-causing formaldehyde and nitrosamines.

While pregnant women have also been warned the lotions cause a higher risk of birth defects.

Experts have also said the creams could also cause fertility problems.

Some which will be worrying for millions of women who lather themselves with the creams on a weekly basis.

Ingredients such as MSG and tartrazine are also found in the lotions and can cause concern for allergy sufferers if the product is used on a long-term basis.

Other chemicals found in the creams include Sulphur Dioxide and Benzophenone-3, a gender-bending chemical which mimics the effect of oestrogen, among others.

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