Anxieties beauty products contain paraben

 

Normal concentrations of compounds in cosmetics today range from 0.01 to 0.3%. The suspicion paraben cause breast cancer in women emerged from the 1990s and to date still caused much controversy. Also that each country has its own regulations controlling the compounds in cosmetics.

If the site of the pharmaceutical Management Bureau and the U.s. FDA food, paraben is one of the substances used in cosmetics made many people concerned. However according to u.s. laws, the right to control the quality of the products made by the manufacturers themselves guarantee, the FDA only has the responsibility to give warning of the use of banned substances. To date, the Agency has not put forward recommendations of parabens in cosmetics.

In Europe, the use of parabens are more cautious management, the Danish Government has completely banned the use of paraben derivatives 4 in cosmetics for children under 3 years.

In may, the EU also had to squeeze this issue further. Previously, paraben content allowed in cosmetics is about 0.8%, then since May this year, this limit is reduced by 1/5.

Yet there is clear scientific evidence on the harmful effects of paraben, however the anxieties of cosmetics users are real. 2014, before a proposal signed by 100,000 people, famous cosmetics firm Revlon decided to stop using 2 long-chain parabens derivatives in its products. Johnson Johnson has also committed & removes all components of its cosmetics in front of paraben in 2015.=

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