Making Sense of Parabens

Making Sense of Parabens
Ideally, we should avoid parabens altogether, but with up to 90% of personal care products containing one type or another, managing our risk and avoiding the worst ones may be a good place to start. CandyBox Images/Shutterstock
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You don’t have to look far to realize there is a controversy surrounding the common group of skincare ingredients called “parabens.” Walk the aisles of your favorite drugstore and you will see “No Parabens” popping up on more and more labels; and just the other day a well-known Beauty Editor tweeted about a new product launch she was attending and commented, “I’m glad to see there are no parabens.”

But just when it was looking like the consensus is that parabens are bad and don’t belong in skincare products, I read an article citing conflicting information.

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