According to surprising results of a new study, some common moisturizers may quicken the development of skin cancer at least in mice.
However, you need not to throw away your creams and lotions just yet as senior investigator of the study Allan Conney, PhD has said that further research is needed to find its impact on human moisturizer users. The study has been published in Journal of Investigative Dermatology. For some people, moisturizers are medically needed and some animal study doesn’t directly identify the human risk of skin cancer.
Conney, the director of cancer research at the Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, N.J, says that this new study shows there may be a problem with these moisturizers.
The findings of the study
In this study, hairless mice were exposed to ultraviolet light twice a week for 20 weeks that increased their risk of having skin cancer. The researcher applied either water, nothing or one out of four of these different creams known as Dermovan, Dermabase, Vanicream and Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream on mice’ skin. For an additional 17 weeks, this went on 5 days a week.
