Parabens are chemicals that have for some time been used as preservatives in many personal products like moisturizers, shaving creams, shampoos and skin care products and cosmetics and more. Look on the labels of the bottles you have at home right now and see if you can find parabens listed.
They are extremely effective as anti bacterial and anti fungicidal agents, hence their use. They have been used as preservatives for many years.
But some people are now questioning the wisdom of using parabens in products that are applied directly to 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 like all of these things none of this is conclusively proven. It’s a tough question of when something is really proven. And the big companies argue tooth and nail that parabens are safe, and we needn’t worry.
Regardless many people now are worried and are looking for good paraben free skin care products and paraben free products in general, like cosmetics, shampoos and so on.
After all, if there is some doubt about something why use it?
Why use it? There’s other more natural and safer alternatives. But the rub is that parabens are cheap. It’s all about profit because parabens are much cheaper than a more natural alternative.
So although there is no conclusive studies proving that parabens are dangerous many people are looking for parabens free products. There really are excellent paraben free alternatives that are available right now. And they work well.
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