Any chance soon your products will be free of parabens?

If I see some clear evidence that parabens are dangerous, we will remove them. But I see no such evidence. Blueberries are very high in parabens and considered one of the healthiest of foods.

Infection deaths are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA.
While cosmetics are relatively safe, the emergence of antibiotic
resistant strains of bacteria makes keeping product sterile more
important.

I am often told that "There are successful natural and organic skin care companies that have been able to preserve their products in a natural way. " I know
people who test products for safety and the "natural and organic skin
care companies" always have the highest levels of skin irritations and
problems. They say their products are safe but there is zero evidence
to support this. They never do or fund any serious research that
reaches the scientific community. We have tried a number of these
"natural preservative" approaches and they did don't effectively keep
products sterile. I have met many of the heads of many "natural"
companies. The common thread among this group is a very minimal level
of education and culture but a high level of promotional skills. A
significant percentage have very checked background (swindles, tax
evasion, fraud). There are more hustlers selling skin products that
stock market schemes.

Carcinogenicity is not cancer. Carcinogens break DNA but rarely cause
cancer. Common foods are the major source of carcinogens. Look at
http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s214.html. Bruce Ames ("Ames Test for
carcinogenicity, UC Berkeley) virtually created the EPA from his work
on carcinogens but later said most carcinogens are harmless.

Parabens.........

Parabens are not linked to cancer.

Parabens are molecules from plants, such as blueberries and soybeans,
that are used as preservatives in foods and cosmetics. Parabens have
some estrogenic activity and there have been concerns as to their
safety with respect to cancer.

The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products for the European Union
wrote an Extended opinion on: the Safety Evaluation of Parabens
covering in addition isopropyl paraben.
<http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_risk/committees/04_sccp/docs/sccp_o_019.pdf>

Adopted by written procedure on 28 January 2005. In summary, they said
there was no link between parabens and breast cancer and criticized
the data used in previous studies.

While parabens appear to be safe, this may not be true for other
estrogenic materials such as sunscreen chemical oils and the thousands
of alien chemicals that the cosmetic industry adds to products.

So why the difference? Normal foods contain most of the carcinogens to
which our bodies are exposed. But our metabolic systems have long been
adapting to these molecules and have methods to detoxify them. So
parabens, being nothing new to the body, can be detoxified by our
bodies. In contrast, estrogenic chemicals such as sunscreen chemicals,
PCBs, and DDT are alien chemicals to our body. There is nothing in our
genetic heritage to tell the body how to detoxify and remove them
molecules. This is the danger of alien, unnatural chemicals.

Preservatives

The preservative that we use are all on the FDA's GRAS (Generally
Recognized As Safe) list. They have a long history of safe use. Our
creams kill most dangerous pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus
aureus, Streptococcus, and pseudomonas.

thank you, Doctor, for sharing your views and knowledge!