If you see “Paraben” in your skin care lotions don’t use them.

I’ve talked about the dangerous chemical in skin care products on my page about natural skin care.

Lets have a more in depth look at one of the chemicals you don’t want to find listed in the list of ingredients on the side of the bottle of your skin care cream, or skin care lotion.

Here’s where Wikipedia says you’re likely to find Paraben. “They can be found in shampoos, commercial moisturizers, shaving gels, cleansing gels, personal lubricants, topical/parenteral pharmaceuticals, spray tanning solution and toothpaste”.

Now let me be clear here, Parabens have not been proven to be unsafe. However that’s part of the problem. There is doubt either way, and personally I’d prefer to know that a product has been shown clearly to be safe before I used it, whereas because the cosmetics and skin care and anti aging companies don’t need to convince any government body of the safety of their products they can go ahead and use anything regardless, even if it’s suspect.

This is actually a recognised principle, called the Precautionary Principle. Basically it say, paraphrasing, that where something could be harmful to people the burden of proof should lie on those promoting it’s use to show that it’s safe, not the other way round.

And Parabens have not been shown to be safe, and some studies have suggested a link to cancer. Here’s an aticle talking about Parabens in deodorants. It recognises that although they aren’t shown to cause cancer conclusively, there is some doubt about it. More on Parabens. Toxins In Skin Care Products Reviewed.

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(And make sure you read our page about Natural Skin Care, it's quite an eye opener about modern skin care products.)