What are parabens and how dangerous they are

Parabens are common ingredients found in cosmetics components that have become lately controversial topic.
Find out what is really parabens and whether to prefer cosmetics that do not contain parabens.Parabens are preservatives widely used in cosmetics personal care that prevents fungi, bacteria and other microbes, especially in warm, moist environment found in the bathroom.
Most often are used as parabens metilparabenii, etilparabenii, propilparabenii, butilparabenii and isobutilparabenii. On them you will find them listed on thousands of skin care products from shampoo and makeup to body lotion shower gels.

Information about parabens
Parabens are used a lot in personal care products because they are cheap and effective. Specialists opinion on how health affects parabens are divided.
In recent years, scientists have debated over whether these substances could be harmful to our health. Among the issues that have been circulated and the related increased incidence of breast cancer related largely to the fact that parabens have the ability to mimic estrogen were found in breast cancer tumors.
Also consider specific cases are more numerous in which it was found decreased sperm count and increase the likelihood of breast cancer and testicular could be that parabens can be absorbed into the skin and may disrupt endocrine function. However, researchers have not got much clear results in these directions.

However, a danish study has recently questioned: Parabens have been detected in blood and urine male young volunteers, several hours after a lotion containing parabens was applied to their skin. The authors concluded that because the chemicals in personal care product composition could be absorbed, metabolized and excretatate, they could have adverse health effects.
In other studies, scientists have evaluated the safety of cosmetic ingredients found parabens can be used safely, if not made excesses. At European level has confirmed that methyl and etilparabenii not a health risk.
Still other researchers and organizations bring to your attention that not only individual exposure to the product should be taken into account but also exposure of the many products that contain parabens, which have been used for many years.
Currently there are no alternatives to fully parabens to preserve quality care products. It is a challenge for manufacturers to make products that do not contain parabens as preservatives. The situation is problematic especially for creams and lotions.
Some natural products are able to naturally preserve some types of cosmetics include oregano, thyme, rosemary, gentian root, grapefruit seed extract, oil of lavender. All these organic cosmetics should be kept in the refrigerator.