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Researchers have additionally reported that chemical substances like parabens could be absorbed by the pores and skin of pregnant girls after which adversely affect the event of male foetuses in the womb. The conclusions of the research were that though parabens are quite a bit much less potent than oestrogens produced within the body, they’re still ‘oestrogenic’ and their security should be reassessed due to this capacity that they should mimic the actions of oestrogen.

However, researchers within the United Kingdom have discovered traces of parabens in samples of breast tumours which have been removed and this demonstrates that they’ll accumulate in our bodies and have raised the flag that the risks of using them in skin …