Why Should Mice And Millions Of Women Consider Using A Natural Moisturiser?
Posted in Alternative Medicine on 12/02/2009 06:38 am by Peter AlbertonachThere’s very good reasons why mice should be using a natural moisturiser. And many of those reasons also apply to people, including the millions of women who use moisturisers in America.
A recent study was set up to investigate whether caffeine could cause skin cancer in mice. As a part of that study each mouse had moisturiser applied to it’s skin 5 times a day for 17 weeks. The study is reported in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
The scientists were very surprised when they came to a conclusion that was not what was expected. The conclusion was that applying these moisturisers to the skin of the mice “increased the total number of histologically characterized tumors by 69%”. Or in other words that applying moisturiser to the skin of mice very significantly increase the risk of skin cancer.
Lets look at this a little more and find out some more details, and in particular why the mice, and all those women in America who use moisturisers daily, should be using a natural moisturiser.
Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin, or Vanicream were the moisturisers applied to the skin of the mice. All of these moisturisers containing sodium lauryl sulphate (SLF) and mineral oil.
Mineral oil is a very common ingredient in many personal products that you may use every day including cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products. It is a petrochemical product which means that it comes from crude oil and it has been linked to various cancers as well as other health problems. The reason mineral oil is used extensively is because it is extremely cheap.
You also find sodium lauryl sulphate in a wide range of soaps and shampoos and many consumers are aware that there are health risks from using products that contain sodium lauryl sulphate. For these reasons there are now soaps and shampoos available which advertise that they do not contain sodium lauryl sulphate. Sodium lauryl sulphate has been linked to cancer and other health problems as well. But many consumers are completely unaware that it is also found in many modern moisturisers.
The mere fact that these moisturisers increased the risk of skin cancer in the mice by a very significant amount doesn’t prove that the mineral oil or the sodium lauryl sulphate caused the skin cancer. Much more serious investigations would need to be undertaken to establish the exact cause, however one more fact should lead you to worry about your moisturiser, and also suggest you that you should be seriously considering using a natural facial moisturiser in the future.
And this is it. The scientists were so concerned about the result that they decided to do the study again using a more natural moisturiser which didn’t contain either sodium lauryl sulphate or mineral oil. When they did the study a second time using this more natural moisturiser they found no increase in the rate of skin cancer in the mice at all.
So you can see that there are good reasons why millions of American women, as well as mice, should be using a much more natural moisturiser rather than a moisturiser that they may be using now, which may contain sodium lauryl sulphate and mineral oil.
There’s hundreds or even thousands of personal products such as skin care products that contain chemical and petrochemical ingredients, many of which are known to have health implications. Some of these ingredients have been shown to cause cancer and may well be found in the moisturiser, as well as well as other skin care products that you may have even used today
The good news is that it’s perfectly possible to buy excellent natural skin care products which don’t use sodium lauryl sulphate or mineral oil or any of the other chemical petrochemical ingredients which are commonly found in mainstream skin care products and which, in many cases, have been linked to various health problems. These natural skin care products use natural ingredients which are safe to use and which work extremely well.
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