What skin care manufacturers don’t tell you

Here’s a great article by Dr. Lorne Brandes from Toronto’s CTV news station writing on the hidden ingredients manufacturers won’t tell you about. Results found that a lot of the rejuvenating creams have  contained significant amounts (up to 0.61%) of estriol or estrone, two potent forms of estrogen!

Skin care products and cancer: What manufacturers don’t tell you

by Dr. Lorne Brandes

On a recent visit to a department store cosmetics counter, I was amazed at the number and variety of “rejuvenating” skin creams and lotions for sale — and not just for women!

“How much did all that cost?” I asked warily as the smiling clerk handed the Visa card back to my wife.

“If they help my skin look younger, it’s worth it,” was all she would say.

It now appears that her faith in the products she bought may have been misplaced: a new report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) warns that an ingredient in some skin creams may have serious long-term health consequences for women with, or at risk for, breast and uterine cancer. The offending substance? Estrogen!

The story began with an alert by an oncologist. He observed that… Read on.

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Breast cancer reality check: Toxic chemicals in cosmetics may be the biggest cause

by Mark Rubi

It’s time for a breast cancer reality check: Despite all the hype about obesity, toxic chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products may be the biggest cause. As everyone in America seems to know, even the National Football League, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Even if an average guy had not noticed the hundreds, if not thousands, of articles devoted to breast cancer in the last week or so, watching NFL football this past weekend would surely have cured him of his ignorance. Football fields all across the nation were adorned not only with “pink ribbon” logos, but players and officials were wearing a variety of pink wrist bands, shoes, and gloves to show the NFL’s support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The reason that a reality check is needed is that many of the articles seem to place the blame for breast cancer primarily on obesity, as if a major new discovery had been made. In fact, no such new discovery has been made about obesity alone being a causing agent for breast cancer, particularly breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.

Those studying breast cancer have long tried to place the blame for this unfortunate disease at the door of obesity. By doing so, they can blame the victims, even though the causes for obesity, at least to the extreme currently plaguing America, are neither well known nor understood. The most commonly repeated mantra in the health care community is that obesity is nearly completely self-imposed, despite growing evidence to the contrary. Environmental factors such as food and water toxins, cellular level food hypersensitivites, and even a virus are all routinely dismissed because it easier to blame the victims for the pollution which now makes it necessary for millions of Americans to choose to drink bottled water.

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