Chances are very good that every day you use a moisturizer on your skin. It’s important to take care of your skin and there’s lots of anti aging skin care products available to help you do that. However it may come as a shock to you to know that many modern skin care products contain chemical ingredients such as sodium lauryl sulphate and this includes big brand-name moisturizers. This may risk your health and you may well be better buying a natural moisturizer.

Sodium lauryl sulphate works very well as a degreaser. Mechanics use it to degrease engines and because of its properties it is used in many well known brands of soaps and shampoos, and consumers are becoming more and more aware that finding sodium lauryl sulphate in your shampoos and soaps is not good.

But it’s not nearly so well known that so many big name moisturizers also contain sodium lauryl sulphate, (as well as many of the chemical ingredients) and using these products regularly may cause skin cancer.

A study reported in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology about the effects of using a moisturizer on mice is deeply interesting. The study was originally intended to study the effect of caffeine on mice, however as part of the study a moisturizer was applied to the skin of the mice 5 times a day for 17 weeks. The mice were also given doses of UV radiation to simulate sunlight.

The moisturizers used in the study all contained sodium lauryl sulphate as well as other chemical and petrochemical ingredients such as mineral oil.

In a surprising result, given that this was not what was being studied, the researchers discovered that the risk of skin cancer in mice who received an application of moisturizer was increased by 69 percent.

The scientists were interested in this result and decided to rerun the study using a different moisturizer with no sodium lauryl sulphate or mineral oil. And when they did this they discovered that there was no increase in the risk of skin cancer to the mice.

So perhaps now you’re starting to see why I’m suggesting that moisturizers with sodium lauryl sulphate can put you at risk of skin cancer and maybe you’re beginning to consider buying a natural moisturizer next time you’re looking for skin care products.

Or perhaps your even wondering about whether you should throw out the moisturizer that you may have used today.

Unfortunately there is a wide range of chemical ingredients such as sodium lauryl sulphate in so many skin care products including moisturizers. And there are also many petrochemical ingredients such as mineral oil. There are natural ingredients such as the oils from fruits and nuts which are known to be safe and which are also known to be effective at moisturizing the skin but these are rarely used because ingredients such as mineral oil and sodium lauryl sulphate are dramatically cheaper.

There are excellent natural moisturizers available for you to buy. They use natural ingredients which are known to be safe and highly effective at promoting optimum skin health and which will not put your risk of skin cancer. One company in particular, which you’ve probably never heard of, makes an outstanding range of natural skin care products which work as excellent natural facial moisturizers, none of which contain sodium lauryl sulphate or any other known dangerous ingredients.

It’s time to junk those big name anti aging skin care products which use cheap chemical ingredients that put your health at risk. And it’s time to look for natural alternatives such as high quality natural moisturizers which work well and do not put you at risk of skin cancer.

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Visit Peter’s website Restore My Skin to find out more about natural Anti Aging Skin Care Products or more about the best Natural Facial Moisturizers.

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