Comments on: Cancer Alert: Protect Your Skin this Summer http://organicpassion.info/cancer-alert-protect-your-skin-this-summer/ lovin' all natural and organics Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: organicpassion http://organicpassion.info/cancer-alert-protect-your-skin-this-summer/#comment-1682 organicpassion Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:33:26 +0000 http://organicpassion.info/cancer-alert-protect-your-skin-this-summer/#comment-1682 Hi MenuCoach, Thank you for sharing your brother's experience with us. It is unfortunate that not everyone is unaware or perhaps not very well informed with the dangers of synthetic chemicals in skin care products. That is why it is utmost important that we need to spread the message around and create this awareness. Learning how to read the ingredient list is also crucial in protecting ourself and our loved ones. That is also why I have created this blog :) Hi MenuCoach,

Thank you for sharing your brother’s experience with us.

It is unfortunate that not everyone is unaware or perhaps not very well informed with the dangers of synthetic chemicals in skin care products.

That is why it is utmost important that we need to spread the message around and create this awareness. Learning how to read the ingredient list is also crucial in protecting ourself and our loved ones. That is also why I have created this blog :)

]]> By: TheMenuCoach http://organicpassion.info/cancer-alert-protect-your-skin-this-summer/#comment-1673 TheMenuCoach Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:08:00 +0000 http://organicpassion.info/cancer-alert-protect-your-skin-this-summer/#comment-1673 Hello, I just wanted to comment that my brother is a postman delivering mail and he kept getting skin cancer even though he slathered himself with sunscreen every day then we found out about benzophenone. I'll let you read about it here: Most chemical sunscreens contain from 2 to 5% of benzophenone or its derivatives (oxybenzone, benzophenone-3) as their active ingredient. Benzophenone is one of the most powerful free radical generators known to man. It is used in industrial processes to initiate chemical reactions and promote cross-linking(15). Benzophenone is activated by ultraviolet light. The absorbed energy breaks benzophenone's double bond to produce two free radical sites. The free radicals desperately look for a hydrogen atom to make them "feel whole again"(15). They may find this hydrogen atom among the other ingredients of the sunscreen, but it is conceivable that they could also find it on the surface of the skin and thereby initiate a chain reaction which could ultimately lead to melanoma and other skin cancers. Hello, I just wanted to comment that my brother is a postman delivering mail and he kept getting skin cancer even though he slathered himself with sunscreen every day then we found out about benzophenone. I’ll let you read about it here: Most chemical sunscreens contain from 2 to 5% of benzophenone or its derivatives (oxybenzone, benzophenone-3) as their active ingredient. Benzophenone is one of the most powerful free radical generators known to man. It is used in industrial processes to initiate chemical reactions and promote cross-linking(15). Benzophenone is activated by ultraviolet light. The absorbed energy breaks benzophenone’s double bond to produce two free radical sites. The free radicals desperately look for a hydrogen atom to make them “feel whole again”(15). They may find this hydrogen atom among the other ingredients of the sunscreen, but it is conceivable that they could also find it on the surface of the skin and thereby initiate a chain reaction which could ultimately lead to melanoma and other skin cancers.

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