What is the link between cosmetics and breast cancer?
Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Personal care products such as cosmetics, shampoos, and styling aids that are widely used by African Americans contain several chemicals known to behave like estrogens. Many people think that products available at their drug stores have been tested and proven safe by the government; however, this is not true. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal department that studies product safety, is only able to regulate cosmetics after products are released to the marketplace. Neither cosmetic products nor cosmetic ingredients are reviewed or approved by FDA before they are sold to the public. (More information on the way the FDA operates is available at
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-206.html)
To date, there is no proof that any personal care product puts African-American women at a greater risk of breast cancer. However, there have been cases where the use of certain products has affected children like how hormones normally do during puberty...
While this research does not connect to cancer risk, it does raise some concerns. The known risk factors for breast cancer include age, genetics, family history or personal history of breast cancer, no children or late age at first childbirth, early menarche (the first menstrual cycle), radiation to the breast, and prolonged exposure to oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy. If these products are having a hormonal effect, the worry is that these products might increase risk in the same way that long-term use of hormonal drugs increase risk.
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What products have been found to contain hormones?
Dr. Chandra M. Tiwary's research lists the following placenta hair products as containing hormones (which contain placental extract):
• Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner. (Placental Enzymes)
• Placenta Revitalizing shampoo (contains placental extract)
• Perm Repair with placenta
• Proline Perm Repair with placenta
• Hask Placenta no rinse instant hair repair treatment
• Hask Placenta hair conditioner
• Mexican Spanish Super Gro Placenta
• Nu Skin body smoother (Human Placental Extract)
• Nu Skin NaPCA Moisturizer (Human Placental Extract)
• Nu Skin pH balance (Human Placental Extract)
• Nu Skin Enhancer (Human Placental Extract)
• Hormone hair food Jajoba oil
• Triple action Super Grow (contains hormones)
• Supreme Vita-Gro (contains Estrogen and allantoin)
• Luster's Sur Glo Hormone (contains hormone constituents)
• B&B super Gro (contains estrogenic hormone constituents)
• Lekair natural Super Glo (contains hormones)
• Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
• Isoplus Hormone hair treatment with Quinine (contains hormone constituents)
• Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner, no rinse
• Supreme VITA-GRO with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO
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. Then, there's the microwave, then the cellphone, then our ozone layer, then the smokers who stand outside your office building smoking up a storm -e v e r y single day-. The list goes on, my mom was recently diagnosed with lung cancer last year (09) summer- she'd never smoked a single cigarette a day in her life. Doctors say it's difficult to determine exactly what caused it. The doctors even said stress could have provoked it. How has she fought it so far? -with hope and medicine because, frankly in simple words cancer happens when your own body cells fights against you.
better be safe than sorry!
