ONE single report showed parabens in breast tumours, and there has yet to be any other report to back it up. That doesn’t mean they cause or contribute to cancer, there’s also a WHOLE LOT of other things found in tumours as well, such as anti-perspirant deodorants (which use chemicals to stop a naturally occurring body function: to sweat).

They are excellent, natural anti-microbials that plants themselves have used for millenia to protect their fruit. Synthetics such as methyl and propyl parabens are identical to the molecular structure that the parabens found in nature have. The only reason why companies do not derive them straight from carrots, blueberries, ect., is because it wouldn’t be cost-effective, and it would diminish the amount of carrots and blueberries for sale on the food market. For an already starving world, that’s not awesome.

Methyl and propyl parabens also have a very safe track record, having the most research done on them and their notoriety of being safe to use in cosmetics and in food preservation for over 70 years.

I agree that the overuse of synthetics isn’t the way to go, but to use them to the lowest level in as little products as possible.. I think you’re safe. The only way you’d really suffer from parabens is if you’d fill up your bathtub to the brim with the stuff, sat in it for years and years, and started spooning it into your body and ingesting it.

In fact, you should all be more concerned about mineral oil. It’s derived from toxic oil fields. Fancy putting that on your face? It’s also the number one ingredient in the cosmetics industry that is tested on animals, and that causes allergic reactions, from acne, all the way to eczema.

Cheers.