In recent years, many have pointed the finger at parabens: preservatives commonly used for beauty products. Let’s see together what are the possible risks involved in using cosmetics with parabens.
This time the alarm is raised by a team of toxicologists from the Silent Spring Institute, Research Institute on Breast Cancer and the Environment, which together with researchers from the University of California at Berkeley wanted to investigate the effect of parabens on cancerous cells breast.
The study showed like these chemical compounds are able to to accelerate the multiplication of a type of cancer cells (HER2) even at low concentrations.
The risks of parabens
“I paraben they could act in minimal doses, binding with other substances and thus influencing the proliferation from the diseased cells”Stated the authors of the research published on Environmental Healt Perspectives carried out thanks to funds from the California breast cancer research program.
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“They could therefore be more dangerous than you think and our discovery should lead scientists and regulators to rethink the potential impact of these compounds in the development of breast cancer. The safety tests carried out to date have underestimated the risk, ”added the scholars.
For once, Europe dictates a law: the American scientific community has urged the American FDA (the body that deals with the safety and regulation of products) to create legislation that takes as an example the European laws that prohibit the use of “branched chain” parabens, considered very dangerous.
