Parabens. What are they and why are so many consumers of cosmetics, personal care and beauty products and skin care products looking for paraben free products?
Parabens are a class of chemicals that are used as preservatives of a wide range of personal products like shaving creams, moisturizers, cosmetics, shampoos and skin care products. If you have some of those to hand at home look on the label and see if parabens are listed there.
They work very well as anti fungicidal agents and anti bacterials and so they are good preservatives, and have been used as such for a long time.
But there is now some questioning of the safety of using parabens in our personal products that are applied right onto our skin. Why?
When you apply parabens to your skin they enter the skin almost immediately and can be found in your blood soon after wards. This of itself doesn’t make them dangerous, but is pretty scary.
Studies have suggested that parabens can disrupt the endocrine system, cause cancer and have a hormonal effect on the body, as well as cause skin rashes.
But of course none of those is fully proven and it’s a tough question to ask when something is fully proven. And of course the big companies defend their use of parabens telling us it’s all a storm in a teacup.
But there are still many people who are looking for paraben free skin care products and others on the premise that it’s better not to apply something to the skin when it’s under a cloud.
There’s no need to use anything that may cause health problems.
Why use it indeed. There are other more natural preservatives available that work well, so why do the big companies still use parabens? It’s all about profit. Parabens are much cheaper than the more natural alternatives.
There are excellent safe natural skin care products and cosmetics that are available right now that don’t have dangerous parabens in them. There really are excellent paraben free skin care products and cosmetics available, right now.
Find out on my website where to source safer alternatives to modern skin care products that actually work better.
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