On Mice And Moisturisers, Or Why Mice (And Women) Need A Natural Moisturiser.
There’s very good reasons why mice should be using a natural moisturiser. And many of those reasons also apply to people, including the millions of women who use moisturisers in America.
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.
The scientists were very surprised when they came to a conclusion that was not what was expected. The conclusion was that applying these moisturisers to the skin of the mice “increased the total number of histologically characterized tumors by 69%”. Or in other words that applying moisturiser to the skin of mice very significantly increase the risk of skin cancer.
Lets look at this a little more and find out some more details, and in particular why the mice, and all those women in America who use moisturisers daily, should be 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 a petrochemical product that comes from crude oil. It is found extensively in a very wide range of personal products such as skin care and anti aging products, cosmetics and other personal products. It is used so widely because it is incredibly cheap. Mineral oil is also found in many moisturisers, and has been linked to cancer and other serious health issues.
Sodium lauryl sulphate is well known as a common ingredient in many soaps and shampoos and has also been linked to cancer and other health problems as well. For this reason many consumers specifically look for soaps and shampoos that do not contain sodium lauryl sulphate. But many consumers are unaware that other products, such as moisturisers, also contain sodium lauryl sulphate.
Of course the fact that the scientists concluded that applying the moisturisers, which contain mineral oil and sodium lauryl sulphate, to the skin of the mice increased the risk of skin cancer doesn’t prove that the sodium lauryl sulphate or the mineral oil caused the cancer. To prove that there would need to be more extensive studies. Nevertheless it is certainly of concern, and may have you sufficiently worried to question whether or not you should be considering using a more natural moisturiser in the future. However there is also one further fact that is worth knowing about the study.
And this is it. The scientists were so concerned about the result that they decided to do the study again using a more natural moisturiser which didn’t contain either sodium lauryl sulphate or mineral oil. When they did the study a second time using this more natural moisturiser they found no increase in the rate of skin cancer in the mice at all.
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 facial moisturiser rather than a moisturiser that they may be using now, which may contain sodium lauryl sulphate and mineral oil.
There’s hundreds or even thousands of personal products such as skin care products that contain chemical and petrochemical ingredients, many of which are known to have health implications. Some of these ingredients have been shown to cause cancer and may well be found in the moisturiser, as well as well as other skin care products that you may have even used today.
There are very good natural skin products available which do not use these chemical and petrochemical ingredients, and which use ingredients which are safe for mice, and women, to use and which work very well as a natural moisturiser.
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