Beauty Alert :: Moisturizers Linked To Skin Cancer.
Submitted by Organic Beauty View Blog
I wrote about this last year when the news first broke and since then, there’s been a storm of response from the manufacturers of the brands we listed - all fiercely defending their million dollar investements, as you’d expect them to. According to Cosmetics Design - Europe, tests were conducted by scientists at Rutgers State University of New Jersey, with the study concluding that applying a number of commercially available moisturising creams (Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin or Vanicream), to the skin of mice pre-treated with UVB (to make them high risk for skin cancer), increased the rate of tumor formation.
Led by Dr Yao-Ping Lu, the team radiated populations of approximately 30 mice with UVB (30mJcm-2) twice a week for 20 weeks in order to predispose them to tumor formation. After the end of the radiation period the mice were treated with 100mg of the creams, once daily, 5 days a week for 17 weeks. The formation and size of tumors were measured throughout the study period before histological characterization of the mouse skin was performed at week 18. At the end of the study, there was a significant increase in both the rate of tumour formation and the total number of tumours. (more…)
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