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silver as a safe cosmetic preservative?
  • I've seen a few skincare products lately containing silver (1% or less) as a preservative. Is silver effective, and moreso, is it safe in that amount? I know there have been some cases of people who injested colloidal silver in excessive amounts developing a condition called argyria... so if you used products daily containing up to 1% of silver, is there a risk of this topical use of silver resulting in argyria?