I plan to pay a lot closer attention to the ingredients in my skin moisturizers, hair treatments, and anti-aging products.  Not just to get better results, but to reduce my exposure to an easily absorbed impurity associated with cancer.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) study on skin care products details a disturbing finding that 1,4-dioxane, a carcinogenic chemical, is very common in our personal care products, including baby care products. 

EWG discovered that 1,4-dioxane was in 22 percent of 15,000 cosmetic and personal care products they examined.  This compound is so common because (according to the wikipedia definition of 1,4-dioxane) "the chemical is used as a foaming agents and appears as an accidental byproduct of the ethoxylation process in cosmetics manufacturing. It may contaminate cosmetics and personal care products such as deodorants, shampoos, toothpastes and mouthwashes."

1,4 dioxane may be found in vast majority of products you or your family members use.  The EWG analysis of ingredients shows contamination by product type ranging from 97 percent of all hair relaxers to 33 percent of eye creams:

97% - hair relaxers
82% - hair dyes and bleaching
66% - hair removers
57% - baby soap
45% - sunless tanning products
43% - body firming lotion
36% - hormonal creams
36% - facial moisturizers
35% - anti-aging products
34% - body lotion
33% - around-eye creams

Given its pervasive nature, how do we avoid exposure to 1,4-dioxane? 

According to the EWG, avoid 56 cosmetic ingredients that can contain the contaminant 1,4-dioxane including: "sodium laureth sulfate" and ingredients that include the clauses "PEG," "xynol,"  "ceteareth,"  "oleth."

I also really like the EWG skin deep tool that helps sort through the skin care and beauty product options.  When I looked at the top 10 anti-aging products that were filtered for "no known cancer hazard" I was relieved to see some favorites like cellex-c, Aubrey Organics, and Elizabeth Arden Ceramide.  Here are the top 10 results from this analysis tool for anti-aging products: 

1. Keys Soap Tortuga Intensive Therapy Serum
2. GratefulBody E.I. Line Facial Therapy
3. Aubrey Organics Sea Buckthorn Rejuvenating Antioxidant Serum
4. Cellex-C 2-Step Starter Kit and Cellex-C Enhancer
5. Colonial Dames Pure Vitamin E Oil
6. Cellex-C Skin Hydration Complex, Gel
7. Marie Veronique Serumdipity
8. Sundari Chamomile Eye Oil
9. University Medical Face Lift Collagen 5 Concentrated Treatment Patch
10. Sundari Essential Oil for Pitta (Sensitive & Combination) Skin