On Mice And Moisturisers, Or Why Mice (And Women) Need A Natural Moisturiser.
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Peter Albertonach in Women's Health
There are excellent reasons why mice and millions of American women should be using natural moisturisers.
Recently a study was published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. In this study scientists were interested to find out if caffeine could cause cancer in mice. As a part of the study each mouse had a moisturiser applied to it’s skin 5 times a day for 17 weeks.
Although this was not being studied, the researchers were surprised to find that the application of these moisturisers on the skin of the mice “increased the total number of histologically characterized tumors by 69%”. In other words the mice that received the moisturiser had a very significant increase in their rate of skin cancer.
Lets examine this a little more closely and find out why mice, and millions of women in the US who use moisturisers everyday, should be much more seriously considering using a natural moisturiser.
The moisturisers that were applied to the skin of the mice were Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream (Eucerin), or Vanicream. Each of these moisturisers contains sodium lauryl sulphate and mineral oil.
Mineral oil is found in a wide range of personal products such as skin care and anti aging products and cosmetics and it is also found in moisturisers. Mineral oil is used so extensively because it is incredibly cheap. Mineral oil is a petrochemical product, which means that comes from crude oil. And mineral oil, when applied to the skin, has been linked to cancer and other health problems.
Sodium lauryl sulphate is more well known as an ingredient in many soaps and shampoos, and many people avoid soaps and shampoos containing sodium lauryl sulphate because there is significant evidence that it is bad for your health and can even lead to cancer. But what is less well known is that sodium lauryl sulphate can also be found in many 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.
This is the fact. The conclusion from the study, namely that the rate of skin cancer in the mice was significantly increased, surprised the scientists, so much so that they decided to do the experiment again using a more natural moisturiser that didn’t contain either sodium lauryl sulphate or mineral oil. And when they redid the study using a more natural moisturiser they found no increase in the rate of skin cancer in the mice.
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.
Hundreds of our personal products contain chemical and petrochemical ingredients, many of which have been shown to cause cancer and other health problems. This extends to a wide range of moisturisers currently available and which you may use right now.
There are excellent natural skin care products available, including natural face moisturisers, which do not contain any of these chemical and petrochemical ingredients and which work extremely well.
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