Avoid Parabens in your skin care products. Natural skin care products are safer and more effective

Have you been to the supermarket lately and looked at some of the products on the shelves? Have you seen products advertised as “paraben free”? Today we want to talk about parabens in face skin care products and why you should avoid them.

You see there’s a bit of a controversy about the use of parabens in products which go on your skin. Products like soaps, shampoos, personal and beauty products, cosmetics and skin care products. Many of these products, if you look on the label, will have some form of paraben listed there.

The term Parabens refer to a class of chemicals which are used in many products, including even some foods, as a preservative. Using these chemicals as a preservative works extremely well and allows the companies which manufacture the products to extend the shelf life of the product.

However there is a serious debate about the safety the class of chemicals called parabens when used on the skin of human beings.

The major reason they are used in skin care products is that parabens are extremely cheap to manufacture. For the same reason many other questionable ingredients are found in skin care products and many others, such as mineral oil. There are safe and natural alternatives but these are usually much more expensive.

So why is there a controversy about the use of parabens in skin care products? It’s because there is research showing that parabens, when used on human beings, may well cause cancer. Here is a summary of studies linking parabens to breast cancer.

One study has tested women with breast cancer and found parabens in the cancer tissue of around 90 percent of those tested. Now of course this doesn’t mean that the chemical has caused the breast cancer, but it’s certainly something of some concern.

Studies also suggest that chemical preservatives what parabens can mimic some of the actions of a female hormone named oestrogen. Again it is not clearly proven, but is worrying.

If you look on the label of many products, including skin care products, you will see ingredients such as these in many cases. Methylparaben, Ethylparaben and Propylparaben are just some of the many used in so many of our personal products.

Here’s a link to the Cosmetic Safety Database concerning one particular chemical called Sodium Methylparaben, another paraben. This links it to a range of health concerns including neurotoxicity, or risks to the brain, endocrine disruption, risks of cancer and immunotoxicity and more.

Perhaps now you’re beginning to see why there is such a powerful move towards much more natural skin care products that do not contain preservatives such as parabens and which do not contain so many of the other chemical ingredients used in so many of the skin care products that you may well have in your bathroom cabinet right now.

And it explains why there are now products specifically advertising themselves as “paraben free”.

The good news is that there are small companies manufacturing extremely high quality natural skin care products that do not contain any parabens or any of the other chemical ingredients which have been linked to various health concerns.

These companies, one in particular, have a stated philosophy of using only ingredients which are known to be safe and effective for people to use on their skin.

And there are some excellent ingredients which are well known to produce high quality skin care outcomes, however they are rarely used by the major skin care companies because they are more expensive. Olive oil, macadamia nut oil and Shea butter are just a few examples, but there are many more.

This small skin care company produces highly effective and safe natural skin care products, but doesn’t advertise them because it doesn’t have the budget to compete with the big players, or if it did advertise the cost of it’s products would be too high. For that reason they offer a 90 day for money back guarantee on all their products so that anyone considering using them can try for themselves risk free.

So if you’ve been using big brand name anti aging skin care products have a look on the label and see what is listed there. Parabens may well be there, as well as many other potentially harmful ingredients. Read the rest of this entry

There are some health problems that are known to be caused by chemical fragrances.

Everybody wants to smell nice, and there is no problem with, unless smelling nice puts your health at risk.

Why in the world smelling nice put your health at risk?

Because, in most cases, people to seek to smell good by using products which contain chemicals fragrances. There is a wealth of products containing chemical fragrances including our skin care product, deodorants, shampoos, soaps and much more.

A fragrance is just a chemical that smells nice. Whilst it would be wonderful to think that those beautiful perfumes are just essence of roses that is far from the truth.

A perfume or a fragrance is something that has been produced by a chemist in a lab. It’s smells good but just like any other chemical it may not be good for your health.

And in fact it’s even more subtle and this, because fragrances are not listed on the label of your skin care products. Or if they are they are just listed under a generic terms such as “fragrance”.

This is because the personal products industry has been able to persuade the government that the “trade secrets” involved in producing chemicals should not be disclosed to protect the secret ingredients that are in those fragrances.

And even if you understand the risks involved in buying personal products with fragrance you can still trip over because there are products which are labeled as “unscented”, but which still contain what are called “masking fragrances” that are there to cover up smell of other chemicals.

There are some of the health problems that are known to be caused by chemical fragrances.

1. According to the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products in the EU one in somewhere around 50 people can be hypersensitive to chemical fragrances. This hypersensitivity can include allergic reactions including damage to the immune system.

2. Chemical fragrances are one of the top 5 causes allergic reactions in people including asthma.

3. The US National Academy of Sciences, as far back as 1986, identified chemical fragrances as a neurotoxin which can lead to brain damage.

Synthetic musks are very common chemical fragrance. Studies have demonstrated that people who use large amounts of personal products which contain fragrances often have very high levels of synthetic musks in their body.

And new studies are even finding that chemical fragrances can be found in the cord blood of newborn infants, indicating that these chemicals are getting into the bodies of our children before they are born.

The best natural face skin care products do not contain any fragrances. This is deliberate for the reasons outlined above.

If you want to smell good there’s a number of things you can do. One, for women, is to use perfume.

Perfume is also a chemical fragrance, however a little dab on a fingertip is usually enough. And if you’re smart that dab should go on your clothes rather than on your skin.

The problem with personal products such as skin care products is that they are often applied to large areas of the skin and the chemicals, when applied to the skin, can simply be absorbed through the skin. Studies have shown that substances applied to the skin can be found in the blood within a relatively short time.

And if there is a chemical fragrance in that skin care product it too is absorbed into the bloodstream.

So if you’re seriously concerned about high quality skin care, but worried about the effects of not only the chemical fragrances used in modern skin care products but also the other dangerous ingredients, including petrochemical ingredients, then use high quality natural skin care products that do not use any fragrances, artificial chemicals or dangerous ingredients.

It is entirely possible to find high quality skin care without risking your health. Read the rest of this entry

Be prepared to be shocked about your face skin care products

If this is the first time that you have heard about the risks of using modern big brand name skin care products you’re in for a shock.

Watch this video. Note that although it’s talking mainly about cosmetics all the same considerations apply to skin care products as well.

Read more of our website, we’re here to alert you, the skin care consumer, or the risks of modern big brand skin care products. And to show you where to buy safe and effective natural skin care products that work.

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