Comments on: Should Placenta be in your shampoo? http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:15:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Melissa http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/comment-page-1/#comment-44418 Melissa Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:59:14 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/#comment-44418 Walmart's line of placenta shampoo and conditioner has been known to cause allergic reactions. I developed a bad rash everywhere my hair touched, as did my brother and daughter. I also had trouble breathing and had sinus problems. The same reaction I get when I come in contact with latex. My boyfriend broke out in hives, just from touching my hair. I don't know for sure what's in this La Bella placenta shampoo and conditioner, but it seems to be dangerous. Walmart’s line of placenta shampoo and conditioner has been known to cause allergic reactions. I developed a bad rash everywhere my hair touched, as did my brother and daughter. I also had trouble breathing and had sinus problems. The same reaction I get when I come in contact with latex. My boyfriend broke out in hives, just from touching my hair. I don’t know for sure what’s in this La Bella placenta shampoo and conditioner, but it seems to be dangerous.

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]]> By: thebeautybrains.com » Celebrate Mother’s Day with a Face Full of Placenta http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/comment-page-1/#comment-10060 thebeautybrains.com » Celebrate Mother’s Day with a Face Full of Placenta Sun, 13 May 2007 05:02:19 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/#comment-10060 [...] What about vegetable plancenta? We previously posted on a product that claims to contain vegetable placenta. I know what you’re thinking: “Wait, placenta is the tissue that nourishes a mammal fetus [...] [...] What about vegetable plancenta? We previously posted on a product that claims to contain vegetable placenta. I know what you’re thinking: “Wait, placenta is the tissue that nourishes a mammal fetus [...]

]]> By: thebeautybrains http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/comment-page-1/#comment-5116 thebeautybrains Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:25:57 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/#comment-5116 Jennifer, thanks for the additional information. I think this is a pretty good indication that consumers should avoid these kinds of products. Jennifer, thanks for the additional information. I think this is a pretty good indication that consumers should avoid these kinds of products.

]]> By: Jennifer http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/comment-page-1/#comment-5041 Jennifer Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:59:03 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/06/01/should-placenta-be-in-your-shampoo/#comment-5041 I'm a big science nerd majoring in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Kinesiology. Yesterday I was playing around on the NCBI/Pub Med website and found a couple of disturbing articles regarding hair care products containing hormones from placental extracts and chemicals known to behave like estrogens and their linkage to breast cancer. Although there is no "proof" to indicate that any hair product will increase the risk of breast cancer, it doesn't seem like a completely unmerited claim either. There has been documented research behind this claim, and though I would have to look more into the specifics of that research before I would take it to be the truth, the results of some of this research is pretty alarming. (Especially Chandra Tiwary's 1998 study of four girls--including a 14 MONTH OLD--who developed breasts and pubic hair months after beginning to use some of these products, some of which contained up to 4 milligrams of oestradiol per 100 grams...) I mean, breast cancer has been linked to premature sexual development and prolonged exposure to estrogen and other "female" hormones. Hell, birth control commercials explicitly say that among the risks involved in taking oral contraceptives is the increased risk for breast cancer. Anyways, I thought that these articles would be of some interest to the beauty brains. <a href="http://www.nobreastcyst.com/shampoo.html" rel="nofollow">Hormones in Shampoo</a> <a href="http://www.environmentaloncology.org/publications/careproducts.htm" rel="nofollow">Environmental Oncology</a> pubmed publications: "Personal care products that contain estrogens and xenoestrogens may increase breast cancer risk" (Medical Hypotheses, Volume 68, Issue 4, 2007.) "Premature sexual development in children following the use of estrogen or placenta containing hair products" (PMID: 9864648) The list could go on and on.... I’m a big science nerd majoring in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Kinesiology. Yesterday I was playing around on the NCBI/Pub Med website and found a couple of disturbing articles regarding hair care products containing hormones from placental extracts and chemicals known to behave like estrogens and their linkage to breast cancer. Although there is no “proof” to indicate that any hair product will increase the risk of breast cancer, it doesn’t seem like a completely unmerited claim either. There has been documented research behind this claim, and though I would have to look more into the specifics of that research before I would take it to be the truth, the results of some of this research is pretty alarming. (Especially Chandra Tiwary’s 1998 study of four girls–including a 14 MONTH OLD–who developed breasts and pubic hair months after beginning to use some of these products, some of which contained up to 4 milligrams of oestradiol per 100 grams…)

I mean, breast cancer has been linked to premature sexual development and prolonged exposure to estrogen and other “female” hormones. Hell, birth control commercials explicitly say that among the risks involved in taking oral contraceptives is the increased risk for breast cancer.
Anyways, I thought that these articles would be of some interest to the beauty brains.

Hormones in Shampoo

Environmental Oncology

pubmed publications:

“Personal care products that contain estrogens and xenoestrogens may increase breast cancer risk” (Medical Hypotheses, Volume 68, Issue 4, 2007.)

“Premature sexual development in children following the use of estrogen or placenta containing hair products” (PMID: 9864648)

The list could go on and on….

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