Did you know that egyptian eyeliners were made of sheep’s fat and powdered lead? That would be illegal today. The fashionable white faces of European seventeenth-century were achieved by applying a powder made of white lead and vinegar. These agents were absorbed and accumulated in the body with each use. Over time, sickness, muscle paralysis and death were often the result.
We now understand that the skin is a living organ critical to our healthy existence. We appreciate that healthy skin requires vitamins and minerals. We also now know that the skin is permeable (permits substances to pass through it). So why would you knowingly use cosmetics and skin care that contain ingredients that may be slowly building up in your system?
This is the reason that Depskin have chosen to stock the Sense and O Cosmedics skin care ranges. Both these ranges are paraben free, and this is something that all the therpists at Depilation and Skincare all truly believe in. O Cosmedics is also free from petrochemicals, synthetic fragrance or colour, no SLS, chemical fragrances and they don’t test on animals!
For starters, Parabens can mimic the hormone estrogen, which is known to play a role in the development of breast cancers. In the July 2002 issue of the Archives of Toxicology , Dr. S. Oishi of the Department of Toxicology, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health reported that exposure of newborn male mammals to butylparaben “adversely affects the secretion of testosterone and the function of the male reproductive system.”
The jury is still out on how and why parabens might affect development and growth of both babies and adults. There is no harm being careful with this kind of stuff…remember, things that were deemed safe in the past then came back to bite us all when we were told that they actually caused all sorts of diseases. And when they are safe alternatives available, I would rather not take the chance.
We took some of information for this post from a website called “the good human“.