Parabens: Your skin care can be dangerous

You’re concerned about aging, so you use anti-aging products, but did you know that your skin care regime can be dangerous?

The article Is your make-up killing you? notes that: “Cosmetics contain many different kinds of chemicals, but of particular concern are a group of preservatives called parabens, which by some estimates are found in 99 per cent of all ‘leave on’ cosmetics, and 77 per cent of ‘rinse off’ cosmetics.

“These are known hormone disruptors: evidence suggests they can mimic the female hormone oestrogen, and a lifetime of increased exposure to oestrogen is linked to a heightened risk of breast cancer.

One study found parabens present in 18 out of 20 breast cancer tissue samples (though it is important to note that the study did not prove they’d actually caused the breast cancer).”

[tags]skin care, cosmetics, anti aging, parabens[/tags]