The ingredient has been the subject of concern on cancer, because when mixed with Vitamin c, it turns into a carcinogenic substance called benzene, the Independent reported.

You can certainly speed up the process, infusing the substance for 24 hours at a temperature of 40 C, but this will worsen the result.

“We’re on eggshells here,” Gary Zurawski, a clinical social worker specializing in substance abuse, confessed to C.